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bbc.co.uk/news and click on the link. Those are the headlines. Now

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That way. Get away from me. Yes! Away from me and just through

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This week Click looks at the brand new PlayStation Vita and asked

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whether the rise of the smartphone means it's game over or game-on

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dedicated portables. We look at how to control a mouse or anything

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other than your good bod erk. Is this talent for the tiny, or can

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the mobile movie make it big? We take a look at Paris's Mobile Film

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Festival. We have an app that will not leave

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you in the dark in Web Scape. Welcome to Click. I'm Spencer Kelly.

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You can play video games on anything these days, on home

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consoles, PCs and out and about on portable devises. Mobile phones and

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tab lets have started to muscle in on this part of the industry,

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leaving some to suggest that the smartphone has done for the

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portable games console. Mark Cieslak tore himself away from

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playing games at home to play some games on the move.

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The launch of any new games devise is cause for much hoo-ha and

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hullabaloo. Each new devise claims to be the most powerful. -- -

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device claims to be the most powerful. The goal is to create so

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much buzz that the gamers can not feel they can live without the

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latest console. Things change when it hits the shops. The marketing

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onslaught does not always work. Last year Nintendo launched the 3DS.

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I cannot wait for you to try this. The 3DS is a handheld with cameras

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front and rear. The screen allows the player to see the action in 3D,

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without the need for 3D glasses. Initially it sold well, shifting

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374,000 units in the first week of sale. Those sales soon started to

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plummet. The 3DS launch portfolio was not

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that great. There was pent-up demand from consumers that

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tkwipbldled away relatively quickly. -- dwindled away relatively quickly.

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Nintendo slashed the price and launched a host of crowd pleasing

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games, such as Super Mario Land 3D and Mario Kart 7. It reversed the

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fortunes of the new device. In December last year, Sony unleashed

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its latest handheld, the PlayStation Vita. It has been

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described by some as a harcore machine. Front and rear touch

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screens and front and rear cameras. It has a pin-sharp OLED screen and

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powerful for a handheld quad-core ARM processor running the show.

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Like the 3DS, initially the Vita, in Japan, sold well. Second and

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third week sales, well they were nothing to write home about.

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announced sales of 500,000 units in Japan after what is really a short

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period of time. That's figure we're comfortable with. We measured the

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life of our platforms in units of years. Typically we looked to

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thrive and prosper over a ten-year cycle. Nintendo was forced to slash

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the price of the 3DS handheld not long after the launch. Will Sony

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consider that with the Vita. It is not on our -- in our minds at the

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moment. We are in the middle of a vibrant order campaign. The demand

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is strong. A price-cut, to be honest, is the last thing on our

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minds right now. Now the Vita is preparing to launch in the rest of

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the world. It's a really solid package. Its five-inch display

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delivered bright visuals. While it cannot match the home consoles, it

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does have a quad-core ARM processor, which means it is capable of

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producing visuals which are unmatched by any other handheld

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device. The analogue sticks ensure precise control. It feels familiar

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to hardened gamers. It is not that far off playing on a home son sole.

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The big selling point is the touch screens, one at the front and one

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at the back. The back touch screen is a good idea. It ensures the

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player's fingers do not obscure the action when the screen itself is

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being used. There's a strong line-up of launch

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titles including Wipeouts 2048 and third-person adventure, Uncharted:

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The Golden Abyss, a game which goes to great lengths to show off the

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different ways the player can interact with it. It makes use of

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both the touch screens. At some point the player has to physically

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move the device. Sure, all these different methods of controlling

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games are interesting. They have the potential to be used in some

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really fun ways. At the moment they are more of a curiousty rather than

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a must-have. Sony has done away with spinning drives and the Vita

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can download games from the store or use visible, bespoke memory

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cards, which are plugged into the top of the device. It can play

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music and video. There is a web browser. All nice features, but

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things which you can presently do on a device you might already own,

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namely one of these or one of these. Smartphones and tablets are

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becoming more popular as games devices, with app stores chobg ka

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block with new titles. Many of these titles appeal to

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casual or main-stream consumers. Is the Vita a handheld with a limited

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market? Will it only appeal to harcore gamers? That demographic is

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in the millions across Europe. We know how to go after that

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demographic. We know how to appeal to them. We will, quite subtlety,

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but steadily broaden the demographic, bring in the more

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casual consumer, hopefully the female consumer and grow that

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potential target available to us. It a east not necessarily a huge

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audience, but it is a -- it's not necessarily a huge audience, but it

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is an audience which spends a lot of money. It is a little unfair to

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conpair it to smartphones, what this was designed fosh, playing

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games, it does -- for, playing game, it does very well indeed. It does

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not look like the smartphone has conquered the world of gaming just

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yet. Your thoughts would be very welcome. E-mail us or Tweet us.

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Next up, a look at this week's news. This week, millions of Iranian

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Netizens, have lost G mail, Facebook and popular foreign nuls

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pages. It appears to be intermittent. Many are concerned

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the Government may reveal its Internet system, effectively giving

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the authorities total control on their on-line activities. Apple has

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responded to pressure over a lop hope which allows apps to get

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addresses without permission. It comes after the revelation earlier

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this month that the path photo sharing app was uploading entire

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address books to its servers. It transpired that Facebook and

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Foursquare engage in similar practises. Apple's iPad is facing a

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legal battle in China. Pro-view claim it owns the name and is

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asking customs to ban the import and export of all products. It

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could be a threat to their sales as China is a main base for the

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company. Many have confiscated iPads from

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retailers. And finally, in a separate

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development, Amazon is seeking out talents to develop originalal TV

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content for its on-demand TV streaming service. All on-line

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video services are fighting to get a slice of what might become a very

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big pie. Netflix, YouTube and hu lu are developing exclusive shows for

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their platforms. OK, time to throw away your remote

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control now, because for the next part of the programme you will not

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need it. This week and for the next couple, we look at interfaces - new

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ways of interacting with new technology. This week, ges-tureE

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The way it works is it measured how light is reflected back from

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objects. Based on that it can re create the object.

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One of the more practical uses is natural interruption over your TV.

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Everybody is talking about over the top, smart TVs on-line programming.

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Everybody forgets that people are lazy and they want to sit down and

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You stand there. You get scanned. You will see your body on the

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screen. Then the clothes will be mapped to your body. Actually you

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are working fabric come positions as well. It is precise. For the

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purpose of this, the guessures you make are with your hands and body,

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so you can see how the garment looks at different angles. Use your

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hands to pick the garments on the screen.

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With women, particularly, there are problems with vanity sizing now. A

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lot of brands are giving you sizes so you feel you are thinner than

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you are. That does not help you shopping at home. It is a maze.

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That is what it is helping with. You look at the clothes as they are

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and not what they are telling you In our case we are using infra-red,

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to kuen kait between the marker and the base. -- communicate between

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the marker and the base. We have a link which carries audio from the

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marker. That way, if you are far away and want a good audio link, we

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have a microphone in there. there you go. Your hand is now a

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controller. Next week, in our look at interfaces, we will look at how

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your eyes and brain can be left to do the work for you.

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Mobile phones and the images shot on them have already revolutionised

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revolution. Their potential as tools for news-gathering is

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undeniable. Can the mobile ever be used as a creative tool of artistic

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expression? Can a mobile movie or cell phone cinema ever be as good

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as, well filmed film? We went to Paris's Mobile Film Festival, in

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search fof a BlackBerry Besson or an iPhone Fellini.

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This is the seventh time France has held its Mobile Film Festival.

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Although the films are only one minute long and the cameras tiny,

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Organisers have received more entries than ever. 380 films have

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been submitted by producers vying for prize money. And a unique

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chance to work with a professional production company putting together

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a short film that will go out on French television. So, why mobiles

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and why just one minute? We decided two things. You shoot with a moat -

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- mobile so everybody is equal, almost, and it is one minute long.

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This one minute is very important because it to make a good one

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minute film you have to think of it very well, you have to write the

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story, you have to write the dialogue potentially, to make it as

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Lives can turn on one minute, or one minute can reveal the lifetime

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Last year, Une Longue Tristesse won Best Film, which for a brief

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exchange between a man and a woman gives us a glimpse of a couple in

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He believes the technical limitations of shooting with a

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mobile means film-makers Une Longue Tristesse was a minute

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that changed his life. He went on to direct a short film which went

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out on France's Canal Plus. The British actor Jason Wilcox appeared

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in both. What is extraordinary in this business, you get cynical

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people say you have made a movie with a mobile phone, what is that

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about? And a year later, having made a film where the budget is

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150,000 euros, a fair amount of money, now they are running down

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the hill saying this is a great The film industry is notoriously

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difficult to get into but the incredible array of inventiveness

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on show at the Mobile Film Festival reveals the industry could do a lot

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worse than tapping into this scene of emerging talent. Consumer

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camcorders and mobile phones mean this new generation has filmed and

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been filled more than any other in history but is that enough to make

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good film-makers? You know how to make a video of a cat, or the dog,

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anything that has no interest, but you are not a film maker. Film-

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making is knowledge, and experience, a technique, an art, and that is

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why we don't want to have this point of view of OK, you have a

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mobile, you can be a film-maker, no, you have to make this film

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qualities. That said there is something the professionals can

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take from the amateurs. The mobile phone is a particular type of

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camera was a split personality. On the one hand we associate it was

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cities and journalism and on the other hand it can be a family

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camera used to record intimacies between friends and relations. This

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second use was employed to great effect by the winner of this year's

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Festival, who came up with the perfect vehicle of a SEN -- still

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contained love story lasting just TRANSLATION: I already had an idea

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of a lift with two people inside. I said maybe I could try to make

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everything happen in one minute and then I said, why can't this girl

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tell a story in one minute and during filming that was the issue,

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how did time the journey in the lift Sir Mick was one minute and

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choose the right for. -- so it was one minute. Only in Paris could you

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fall in love at the start of an elevated journey, only to split-up

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Some might prefer to take the stairs. It would be interesting to

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see what other countries would come up with, faced with a similar set

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of rules, one mobile, one minute, one film. And we might get the

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chance. The organisers are exploring taking the Mobile Film

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Festival to London. Maybe we should try filming an

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entire episode of Click on a mobile phone one of these days. Someone on

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the team clearly disagrees. Moving on. Time for our weekly foray into

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the world of the Web as Kate Russell gets ready to shine a light

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on everything that is worth looking at the online in Webscape. It has

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all gone dark. Kate! Don't worry, I think I see the

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problem. I think you have popped up bored with your animal magnetism.

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Luckily I have my BlackBerry on hand to come to the rescue. The one

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thing most people always have close at hand is their mobile phone, so

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if you are ever caught in the dark and needed emergency torch

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flashlight two 41 app could be an absolute life-saver. Once installed

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you will see two new launch items - - icons in your application list,

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one for the back flashlight which gives you the torchlight and then

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there is also the front flashlight, which gives you were softer, more

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ambient light for things like reading underneath the covers at

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night. Just don't tell your mum I told you that. It is really easy to

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set up. Though I did wonder why a flashlight needs permission to

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access my personal information. This is explained satisfactorily on

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the wiki website though. Once you have shed light on the world around

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you you can start making sense of your desktop with Screencast-o-

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matic, a three Screen recorder that lets you take video and audio as

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well, and published direct to YouTube without having to register.

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Hang on, one second. If you have got any friends or relatives who

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are not that good with computers there is a fairly good chance you

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become their unofficial text support and by unofficial I mean

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unpaid. Well, you can save yourself huge amount of stress and troubled

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by just recording a simple step-by- step of what you want them to do

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rather than trying to explain it on the telephone. Yes, no, controlled,

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control... It runs on a Java applet that you will have to accept and

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just click to begin recording. It is a great little screen recorder

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and really easy to use. Social book marking tools are excellent for

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collecting on Lancashire's but you do have to remember to interact

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with them and actually book mark that page you're excited about --

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online treasures. Faveous .com takes that responsibility out of

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your hands as it links to sites and says anything you interact with.

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There is a plug-in or extension to cover most prototypes just in case

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you want to clip an entire page. Whether that impressive list of

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social hookups will make you want to jump ship from sites like

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Delicious and Instapaper, only you can decide. If you are teetering on

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the edge of indecision, unable to quite give up all the work you have

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put into those two particular sites, Faveous does have some nice little

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import tools to make things a little easier. You can set your

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collection as public or private, the default setting his public. You

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can set your own address to make chairing straightforward. Once nice

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touch is the option to or to delete your Twitter favourites after they

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have been saved to Faveous, so you can keep your favourites list

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private if you want. When you shop for clothes getting

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the right size can be tricky, as all the band seemed to work to

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their own standards. So a fashion mad computer programmer has

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launched a website this week loaded up with all the size data and

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statistics from the major UK and US retailers. Pentti Knorr

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measurements, choose a shop and a website will tell you which size

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will fit best -- enter your measurements. A fantastic accessory

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for when you are not going to try Swan who let the dogs out #. A Los

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Angeles photographer has become an overnight that success when his

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photographs of underwater dogs when viral this week. The struggling new

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business owner splashed out on a waterproof camera case and after

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being posted to Reddit the collection quickly became a social

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web favourite, clocking up 30,000 Facebook likes and boosting food

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for his website to 200 to 100,000 hits a day and that, my friends, is

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a perfect example of the power of the social web.

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That was Kate Russell. Her links are available as usual at our

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website. Along with all of our recent reports and extra staff as

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well, in video and text form, and you will find a link to the radio

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programme them as well. Getting touch on e-mail, on Twitter, if

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