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On face value the new cafe at Trentham Gardens adjacent to the play area is outwardly pleasing, architecturally striking and provides a potentially better environment than the rather pre fabriacted predecessor.

Due to it's vicinity to the play area the majority of the clientele are parents with kids.

Penguin Books have released this video which reveals some of the exciting titles such as Spot the Dog which are forthcoming on the Apple iPad.

Penguin Books have released this video which reveals some of the exciting titles such as Spot the Dog which are forthcoming on the Apple iPad.

The Twitter league in the UK Football Premiereship is a totally different territory to the real league.

Noteably Manchester United have banned use all together.

We normally head to Blaze Farm, Wildboarclough when seeking farm based entertainment for our toddler. After a recommendation we headed for Tatton Park Farm.

Entrance was £4.50 per car plus £4.50 per adult, £2.50 per child which starts to add up so we anticipated something quite good for our money. However we were rather dissapointed to discover that once we had seen the donkeys, a small handful of sheep, hens, one rabbit, a couple of horses and some pigs that was it.

With Toyota USA having to recall 5.5 million cars they could do without little annoyances like web sites written in a manner to permit abuse via injection of inappropriate images from external sites without their knowledge.

One clever hacker has done just this, and it's really easyto do.

Whilst @VodafoneUK mop up from the fallout from Fridays monumentally bad single Tweet it is worth considering how they could have improved their response better.

The power and problem with social networks is the immediacy and the scale.

The Vodafone Twitter account Tweeted this message earlier today.

@VodafoneUK: is fed up of dirty homo's and is going after beaver

Apparently rather than a hack this was an employee. They removed the message but unfortunately the tweet reached 8000+ followers and whilst the message was 'deleted' countless people retweeted it. Too late @vodafone huge damage to your brand.

Business beware, be very sure who is tweeting on behalf of your organisation.

Google and Apple couldnt be more different. Googles revenue comes from Advertising, Apples from Hardware, software and more so recently content be that music, apps or soon media. Suddenly Adwords seems so old school.

So often I've wondered why Apple have never introduced smart playlists based upon mood.

My music taste is influenced by the way I feel, I'm sure most people are the same.

At last someone has filled the gap with a great iPhone app which allows you to define playlists based on sliders reflecting your mood and the tempo you want to listen to.