Category: Software and apps

Virgin Media have just released an Android app for their popular TIVO boxes. Rather like Sky’s Sky+ app, the application features a TV guide and the ability to set your box to record remotely. I find this one of the most useful features on my phone frankly, so great to …

Check in lovers everywhere (well those with WP7) rejoice. Foursquare have rereleased their official app for Microsoft’s great if not much loved mobile OS. I never actually tried (or even knew about) the first version which was actually developed by Microsoft and removed from the Windows Phone Marketplace …

When Google launched Music Beta back at IO back in May one of the biggest disappointments that it was to be an invite only beta available only in the US. However through some nefarious means (*cough* proxy server!) I managed to sign up and snag myself an invite to …

For the last week I’ve had a chance to play with the beta of iOS 5 that Apple released to developers at WWDC. The only official way to currently get your hands on it is through a registered developer with access to the iOS SDK. For everyone else …

Evernote have just announced the release of a new app for WP7 which joins the versions already available for PC, Mac, Android, iOS, WebOS and Blackberry. For those new to the service, Evernote allows you to take notes which sync across all your devices. In addition to simple …

So WWDC has been and gone and Apple has laid its cards on the table with iOS 5.  The biggest surprise was perhaps the sheer scope of the update and the number of major new features that are being released. With one notable exception I’m now struggling to …

So you have a smartphone.  Be it Android, Apple or Windows Phone 7.  Or some other platform.  Now what? Smartphones are becoming more and more popular, as they become cheaper to produce and more popular, and people are following their friends and buying something similar to them.  Now, …

This is the first time that I am going to take a look at a game. Words with Friends is also available on the iPhone though so you Apple fans might want to pay attention too. I’d also like to invite you all to download the app now and …

SPB  have recently been porting their various apps from Windows Mobile and iOS over to Android. We have seen them release SPB Wallet, SPB Shell and SPB Wireless Monitor. Today they have released SPB Time. To quote SPB, “SPB Time is an adavanced, skinnable time toolbox for your …

It seems a ton of Android developers are keen to mimic the minimalistic style of Windows Phone 7, and the developer of hugely popular Launcher Pro has decided he wants to make his own replica of WP7’s music player for Android. It is a pretty much perfect copy; …

SPB Wallet has been around for many years now. It initially appeared on Windows Mobile devices years ago and more recently appeared on ios. It has been eagerly anticipated as many people used it on Windows Mobile and moved to Android only to find they could not use …

This week I was asked by Spy Parent LLC if I would take a look over their application designed to help catch bullies. It’s a simple Android app designed to be able to block unwanted calls or texts and even covertly record physical bullying. Here is the first look video …

Following our news item this morning we can now confirm everything thanks to a full press release on from the company. The figure paid by Microsoft is indeed $8.5 billion (£5.2bn), and was paid in cash. Microsoft state that … The acquisition will increase the accessibility of real-time …

Android customization is a huge topic, there are so many different apps that let you change a different parts of your phone. Desktop Visualizer lets you create shortcuts for programs in a variety of different sizes. The basic idea behind it is to create 1×1 shortcuts to run …

In the New Year, I decided to take a nose dive into custom ROMs for my Desire.  Oh we had been getting along just great for a while, but I realised I needed more… Wanted more.  It needed to be faster, and easier to use and not as …

I’ve been meaning to give Dropin a mention for a while now. It’s a great little app which provides some much needed functionality that I’ve always thought the native Dropbox app should have had from the start. Dropin automatically syncs all your photos and videos from your phone …

For this week I have been sent QFS or Quick File Share. It’s a very basic application for sharing your files on your phone with anyone. Here is the first look video, the full review will be along next week. Also I would like to mention that the …

  Those gamers among you will likely already have heard about World of Goo. Over the last few years it’s built up a reputation as a cult classic among puzzle games. Originally released on PC before making its way to Wii and then the iPad, last week developer …

LiveProfile is a device-to-device messaging app for Android, iOS, and Blackberry. It works on a similar basis to Blackberry Messenger, whereby you are required to create an account and then you are assigned a PIN. Other LiveProfile users who have your PIN can become friends with you, and …

So I posted my immediate thoughts after having my Motorola Xoom WiFi only a short period earlier in the week. If you missed the post, you can have a read here. With so much chatter around debating the strengths and weaknesses of Android’s latest OS on the Xoom, …

I’ve been an iOS user for nearly eight months now having bought a 4G iPod Touch to find out what Apple’s mobile OS is all about. Having used Android for the last two years and Windows Mobile for the six before that it’s fair to say that I’ve …

  Crane Driver – iPhone and iPod Touch “Game mission is to operate a crane and to relocate load from one place to another preserving position relative to each of its parts.” Version Reviewed: 1.1 Developer: PaBusily Co Ltd Price as of Review: £0.59 Current iTunes Rating: 4+ …

So you can all see that the ‘Android App Review Show’ is back up and running. I no longer have the stress and strain of University to distract me, and I have a degree in Multimedia Technology and Design under my belt to help me make a professional …

Today Apple has released a minor update to the iOS platform. The update fixes minor bugs that users noticed causing FaceTime to display a blank screen or on some occasions cause the app to freeze. It also provides a fix for those 3G iPad owners that have been …

Android tablets are all over the place at the moment. The prices of current Android tablets are plummeting such as the Galaxy Tab and the Advent Vega. There are also lots of new tablets being announced every week such as the Asus Transformer and Acer Iconica. Due to …

Go Contacts is a replacement for your normal contacts app. If you run HTC Sense there is not much point in reading this as your “People” app does everything this does. This app is more for the people who have an Android device without a fancy skin on …

New versions of some of Google’s official Android apps have leaked online and also been made available for download. The highlight is probably a new version of the default Android Music Player which has been brought in line with it’s Honeycomb counterpart. There is a greater emphasis on …

Swiftkey is a great keyboard that has been available for a while now. “Swiftkey predicts your most likely next word based on what you’ve already written. It learns as you use it from your message archive to make predictions amazingly accurate over time”. They have two new free …

SPB have been making software for smartphones for years now, they started with Windows Mobile, they recently have been making software for Symbian and in the last year or so have been making software for Android. SPB Shell 3D is their latest creation. The name may sound familiar as they had …

This is quite a simple app. It lets you continuously take photos with your camera. You run this app instead of your camera app, press the shutter button and of it goes, trying to fill up your memory card as fast as it can! When you have had …

I recently bought a Zeemote. It is a bluetooth game controller that has drivers available for Android, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, Symbian and Windows. Here are some pictures of the joystick. This joystick has been around for a while now, the manufacturers Zeemote originally bundled these with various Nokia …

  Earlier this week Opera released a new version of Opera Mini for Android. The new version has an updated look and feel which is more polished than before. There are also new features with the browser offering support for pinch to zoom for the first time. The …

Floating Image is a replacement for your gallery app, the app also contains a live wallpaper. It shows a nice 3D floating thumbnail slideshow of your images. By default it uses your “DCIM” folder on your memory card plus a random selection of photos from Flickr’s top 500 images, …

Earlier today Amazon officially launched their Appstore for Android. The store will feature apps that have been given Amazon’s seal of approval which we hope means that it will be free of all the crapware that plagues the Android Market. Amazon will be giving away a free app …

Platform wars, is Apples way the only way? With the enormous growth of the smartphone, and the never ending war between platform makers to be the dominant force, are we looking at a future dominated by the curated, closed platforms, and will Android have to become more regulated …

Sweet Home! is a backup tool, tt works over wifi and creates a backup of your images. What you need for this app to work is wifi and a shared folder somewhere on your network. This folder can be on a network attached storage drive (NAS), a shared …

The people behind Xobni, the superb plug-in for Outlook, are looking for beta testers for Gmail ,iPhone and Android. For those that don’t know what Xobni is (Inbox backwards….), this is a free plug-in for your Outlook email on the PC and Blackberry. It is basically a powerful search …

Earlier this week Google released a new version of their Google Mobile App for iOS. The newly dubbed Google Search App has a new UI which in my opinion makes it nicer to use than Google Search on Android. The default view gives you a text search box …

Quick System Info is a great app, it’s main purpose is to give you detailed information on your SD card storage, A2SD storage, Internal storage, System storage, System cache, Memory and your Processor. Once you select a piece of information you get a breakdown of capacity, used and …

SMS Backup & Restore lets you backup and restore your sms messages! This could be helpful for many reasons, you could be swapping phones, you could have a new phone, you could have recently reset your phone or you could have installed a custom rom to your phone. …