Archive for the ‘WWW & Apps’ Category
Cab:App – The smarter way to hail a London cabbie
The days of Londoners stood on a street corner desperately trying to hail a cab without avail look set to be over, thanks to cab:app, a revolutionary, cross-platform app that hails a black cab almost instantly. The brainchild behind the new app is Peter Schive, a London cabbie, who, for years, has listened to quips and grumbles that ‘there’s never a black cab when you need one!’ Determined to resolve…
Silhouette iMirror app: Taking vanity to new heights!
Choosing a pair of glasses that suit your face can be an arduous task. It is also a task that, more often than not, is not given the amount of time and patience we would like to devote to it through fear of looking vain and taking up too much of an optician’s time at a local Spec Savers. Although these days of buying a pair of glasses on a…
Share a gift with shareagift.com
Fancy contributing towards Cliff Richard’s 71st birthday present, or coughing up 200 quid towards a beach holiday for Julia Roberts? No, me neither. These are some of the gift pages set up at shareagift.com. And while no one has felt the need to dig deep for these multimillionaires, the site does have a very useful purpose. When I got married, we thought we’d got the wedding gift list sorted. Like…
Imail’s new postcard app: Desktop to doorstep’ in a few simple steps!
Long gone are the days of spending precious time on your holiday finding somewhere that sells postcards followed by the even harder task of then finding somewhere to post them, with 9 times out of ten being that you arrive home well in advance of your postcards reaching their destinations. Postcards can now be directly sent from iPhones leaving holidaymakers with more time to enjoy what they have come on…
There’s plenty of point to Poynt
If you want to find a cinema, business, restaurant or even an event in your local area, then download Poynt, a new app that finds you just about anything. Cleverly or some might argue a little cornily named ‘Poynt’, we assume because it ‘points you in the right direction’, this local search app is compatible with all mobile platforms as well as the blackberry Playbook and iPad. Sharing thoughts, reviews,…
Ebooker’s Hotel iPad app: No more chancing your chocolates
Long gone are the days when travellers and backpackers, unsure of where the next hotel might be, precariously ‘chanced their chocolates’ in entering a dark, dingy and eerie-looking inn down some alleyway in Outer Mongolia to get their head down for the night. Thanks to ebooker’s new Hotel iPad app, for travellers on the go, locating a hotel couldn’t be faster or easier. Exploiting the iPad’s GPS capabilities, the iPad…
Colour Splash Studio Mac review
If you’ve ever wanted to recreate “the little girl in the red jacket” effect from Schindler’s List then a new app has just hit the Mac App Store just for you, and rocketing in at number one you’re apparently not alone in your desire. Whilst not the only app that lets you create colour splash photography, it is the most powerful – at least according to the team behind it…
Strato’s Hi-Drive: 5GB of free high security cloud storage
For storing files, the world is taking inspiration from England’s summer: it’s all about the Cloud. And while Yahoo!, Gmail and Hotmail rule cloud-based e-mail, YouTube is the King of cloud video, Flickr and Facebook champion cloud pictures, Dropbox is the only big name in cloud-based file storage. That’s something German-based Strato plan to change. If you haven’t heard of Strato, it’s because they’ve mainly been focussed on the business…
ViewRanger: An essential publishing tool for guide authors
Back in the dark ages, getting lost in a foreign land was all part of the fun of travel. I still remember walking around an Arab souk in Morocco for hours and hours getting nowhere fast. These days technology has taken all the fun out of it. Still, I suppose it gives you that much more time to see the sights you want to see, rather than the ones you…
Pioneer’s Appradio makes your dash even more dashing.
It was inevitable. It had to come eventually and now it has. In car audio has officially gone mobile. Pioneer, never one to shirk its responsibilities, has been the first out of the blocks to fully integrate a smart phone into an in car audio system. The Appradio is a WVGA 6.1” touch screen radio that fits flush into your car’s dashboard to provide all your in car entertainment as…
