Apps & Software

Check out the latest and greatest apps and software for your mobile phone, tablet or PC. Whether it be iOS, Android, Blackberry or Windows – we review and discuss a huge variety of great apps.

mylocalsalon iOS app review

mylocalsalon iOS app review

Here’s one for the ladies! So you are going on holiday in a few days and you need a beauty treatment, perhaps a pedicure or a spray tan to get in the mood. Where is your nearest salon? Step in iPhone app, mylocalsalon. mylocalsalon gives you a directory of hair…

Pizza Express iPhone app review

Pizza Express iPhone app review

Eating is one of the most basic activities imaginable but like most activities, there is some nerd fun to be had by throwing some technology. And like most technology in the past few years, that’s either going to be 3D or app-based. When you think about Pizza Express and “cutting…

iRemoco: Remote control helicopter for the iPhone

iRemoco: Remote control helicopter for the iPhone

iPhones are cool,  but everything is so virtual. If you want to use your iPhone for physical fun, you’ll need iRemoco – a remote control helicopter for the iPhone, iPod and iPad. Using a special adapter that plugs into your iDevice, full control of a model helicopter is at your…

Scan your way to some spare cash with musicMagpie’s app

Scan your way to some spare cash with musicMagpie’s app

Fancy making a bit of spare cash, but can’t be bothered typing in all the details of your CDs, DVDs and games onto an auction website – or indeed carting them off to the nearest car boot sale in the early hours of a Sunday morning? The folk at musicMagpie.co.uk…

Script It!: Budget screenwriting software

Script It!: Budget screenwriting software

Do you have unfulfilled dreams of creating the next Twilight or True Blood? If so leave this review now, throw away all your pens and pencils and let us never speak of this again. If however, you are hoping to write something sensible for the stage, screen (big or small)…

London on a plate iOS app

London on a plate iOS app

As any London-based gourmand knows, the capital offers an amazing range of eating options, which can at times be over-whelming or even obscured by numerous steak houses and burger bars. Apps like Urban Spoon and Yelp are great for listing nearby eateries but have a tendency to swamp you with…

Blurb iOS app: Share your stories in an instant

Blurb iOS app: Share your stories in an instant

One of the great things about all this technology we have at our fingertips is that we can share instantly with friends and family – maybe post up some pictures from a party, or share a video of a family event with relatives who couldn’t make it. But sometimes all…

Wuala: Online DropBox competitor from LaCie

Wuala: Online DropBox competitor from LaCie

It’s always nice to have some competition, right Dropbox? Enter Wuala, by LaCie – an online file storage service that steers dangerously close to copying DropBox, but with added functionality and cheaper pricing. Read on for our comparison of the two services. Functionality It’s a score-draw in terms of functionality….

Mozy online back up

Mozy online back up

As the designated IT guy in my social circle I’ve had to say “… but you’ve backed everything up right??” more times than I care to remember. The first line of working with computers 101 and the mantra of IT support professionals , backing up your work should be second…

The Wild Jam Maker App: Possibly the most ‘fruitful’ app in existence

The Wild Jam Maker App: Possibly the most ‘fruitful’ app in existence

From apps that can turn your iPhone into a stethoscope so that you can listen to your own heartbeat, to an app that encourages you to lick the screen to curb pangs of hunger, there’s an app for just about anything these days, although the latest app press release to…

Etymotic AWARENESS headphone app: Making headphones safer

Etymotic AWARENESS headphone app: Making headphones safer

Now here’s a funny story. A friend of mine recently got into jogging but insisted that he needed his run to be accompanied with the music on his iPod. As he was happily running through a field with the lyrics of U2 helping him maintain his pace, he was blissfully…

Hector: Ep1 HD – We Negotiate with Terrorists

Hector: Ep1 HD – We Negotiate with Terrorists

The iPad’s status as a viable gaming platform is a constant source of debate amongst overly passionate console devotees with empty lives. However as the number of game studios developing for the platform grows it’s harder to argue against the fact that people seem to enjoy playing games on their…