To celebrate the imminent marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the Royal Collection will release an Android an iOS app that chronicles the last seven royal marriages, including Queen Victoria’s marriage to Prince Albert in 1840. Ironically, the app won’t actually feature anything to do with William and Kate’s marriage — rather, it will focus on the “tradition, splendor and romance” that are intrinsic to British royal marriages. “[The app] will share the stories [...]

Bots — like the kind which automate IRC rooms and Google Wave — are a good thing to know about. There are plenty of useful bots worth knowing about, too, including the Google Talk Guru. Just add guru@googlelabs.com to your GTalk buddies, and you can start firing off questions. Lifehacker suggests that the same types of queries supported by Google SMS will work, though we didn’t have any luck getting a response out of the [...]

In the video, I show how to jailbreak the brand new iPad or iPad 3G using the new jailbreaking application called Spirit. Spirit is an extremely easy and fast way to download Cydia and get apps that Apple does not allow Note: You must have iTunes 9 or above for this to work. Links: www.iPhoneXpert.com [...] Source: http://www.ipadbuzzblog.com/how-to-jailbreak-ipad-firmware-3-2-using-spirit-untethered-easy-detailed-free/ Zhang Ziyi

Tower block in the late-afternoon sunset, or pink wafer biscuits arranged to look like architecture? In Gary Bryan’s photography series, everyday biscuits are art—or rather, architecture. [Gary Bryan via Inspirational Geek] More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/ATbOVD4LSJw/ Tricia Vessey

A new study suggests the Milky Way doesn?t need a makeover: It?s already just about perfect. Astronomers base that assertion on their discovery of a vast section of a spiral, star-forming arm at the Milky Way?s outskirts. The finding suggests that the galaxy is a rare beauty with an uncommon symmetry — one [...] Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/05/milky-way-symmetry/ Natalie Imbruglia

Apparently the U.S. Constitution no longer applies when it comes to battling music and movie piracy. Consider California legislation already passed by two state Senate committees. It allows law enforcement to enter optical-disc plants and seize disc-stamping equipment, and pirated movie and music discs without a court warrant. “The crime of illegal mass reproduction of music and [...] Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/05/riaa-warrantless-seizures/ Yvonne Strzechowski

If you’re a baseball fanatic, the MLB At Bat app is a must-have. It’s packed with live updates, scores, stats, news, and videos — and right now there’s another great reason to pick up At Bat. Pony up for At Bat and you’ll get to enjoy MLB.tv free for the entire month of April. The service streams games in HD to just about any connected device you can imagine, from iPhone to PS3, and even [...]

It’s not really a secret the Microsoft had planned on bringing bits of Windows Phone 7′s Metro UI to Windows 8, but we haven’t seen a lot of really telling evidence. However, with the Windows 8 milestone 3 build now available to Microsoft Connect partners, it was really just a matter of time before we started to get a peek. Thanks to Rafael Rivera and Paul Thurrott, we’ve now had a glimpse at what the [...]

Just a little under two months after its release candidate went live, Windows Home Server (WHS) 2011 has been finalized and released into the wild. The new version of Microsoft’s slick, do-it-all server OS is a big step forward from its predecessor. Built on the Windows Server 2008 R2 base, Home Server 2011 features a simpler dashboard, a better backup solution, dead simple remote access to your home computers, and Silverlight-powered remote media streaming. For [...]

As several of you noted in the comments to our post asking for cross-platform iOS/Android games, Words With Friends for Android does not provide the smoothest gaming experience… and that’s being rather charitable. You might be happy to hear that a couple of days ago Zynga released an update which promises to solve many of the Android-specific issues, such as notifications not popping up. Sadly, installing the update is not a smooth experience; you have [...]