Archive for the ‘WWW & Apps’ Category
ExpenseMagic: Accountancy takes to the cloud
Self-employed? Run a small business? Or do you just have to track purchases for your job? If you’re generally frustrated by keeping track of your expenses, fret not, as there’s an app for that: ExpenseMagic. Using the iPhone’s camera (or the iPad and iPod Touch), you take a picture of your expense receipts, which then transfer to ExpenseMagic’s servers in the cloud. Once your photos are successfully stored in the…
3M Screen protection
Technology company 3M has got a new technology ready to make you feel like James Bond – a screen protector. Sure, it’s nothing out of Q’s lab – but these give you super-resistant, privacy-increasing films that are easy to apply. Fresh from 3M’s MISD – Mobile Interactive Solutions Division – the range comes in two lines – one that reduces the viewing angle to prevent prying eyes – and another…
Garmin Street Pilot
For old-school Sat Nav companies, the motto is: if you can’t beat smartphones, join’em. That’s why Garmin have released a new Street Pilot App for the iPhone, bring with it UK and Ireland maps, free real-time speed camera alerts, traffic avoidance options and loads more premium sat nav features. Where the app excels is in its use of preloaded maps, to allow for easy navigation without tapping into your data…
ON VoiceFeed: Visual Group iPhone Voicemail
ON VoiceFeed, the visual, group-customising voicemail service for the iPhone has just gone social. Before the update, the app brought visual voicemail to your iPhone and let you set personalised answer phone messages for different people. Now, it integrates Twitter and Facebook to offer an even more useful service. If you’ve never used ON VoiceFeed before, here’s a quick run-down of the service. After an easy (but slightly strange) install,…
My Daily Deals iPhone app
There’s been a huge increase in the number of group deal websites recently, brining with them more money-saving methods than ever before. The problem, however, is that it’s annoying to keep up-to-date with Groupon, KGB Deals and the other million companies vying for your attention. Luckily, My Daily Deal is an iPhone app ready to bring masses of deals to… the masses. The lightweight app aggregates offers from the top…
Apps to unlock the voice of autism
Approximately 1.5% of all people have autism. The recorded prevalence of this neural development disorder has risen in recent years and reviews estimate that 1 -2 people per 1000 have autism. For the parents of children diagnosed with autism, the diagnosis is naturally a worrying and confusing time. Fortunately traditional therapies in treating autism, such as repetitive speech and developmental activities, are finally being replaced by more sophisticated methods such…
Jamie’s Recipes for iPad
It’s easy to make fun of celebrity chefs, especially Jamie Oliver – ask any lazy comedian. But it’s also worth noting that as a nation a lot of us eat *terrible* food when we really don’t need to. There’s a fallacy that good food is expensive and time-consuming and Mr Oliver has gone out of his way to disprove that through a series of TV shows, books and, because he…
Proximitips iOS app: A cool guy to be around
Latest Gadgets were invited to an intimate Soho venue to have a hands-on play with Proximitips, an explosion of cool sounding sounding buzzwords and ideas. Phrases like “hyper-local”, “real-time” and “social graph” were thrown around with gay abandon. So what’s all the fuss about? Proximitips is a free iOS app that attempts to be your cool buddy that knows where all the good restaurants and bars are, knows all the…
Imfuna inventory-taking iPhone app
Ever lived in rented accommodation? Do you remember the time when you moved out and the landlord didn’t charge you surprisingly extortionate charges that you weren’t expecting? No? Us either. With a lack of decent vigilantes around, it seems that prevention is better than retribution – which is the whole purpose of Imfuna’s inventory-taking iPhone app. The new app, Imfuna Let Lite, is a digital inventory app that empowers tenants…
Edinburgh Fringe Festival virgins and true Fringe troupers unite to take advantage of the GiggleMaps app
If you’ve ever been to the Edinburgh Fringe festival you will know how difficult orientating yourself and finding the different venues, shows and events you want to see can be, particularly if you are, as they say, a Fringe ‘virgin’. To help eliminate the embarrassment poised on those obvious Fringe virgins, squinting with maps as they struggle to familiarise themselves in the largest arts festival in the world, Realise Digital…
