The business management tool Schedule was developed because the alternatives, quite simply, weren't very good. They were too slow, too complicated and too expensive. Schedule is an ultra cost effective business tool that's free if you have less than five users. It's an easy, fast and communicative way to resource your team and assign everyone their role whilst keeping everyone in the loop on the bigger picture. Schedule is the easiest way to resource your team. It was developed as an internal business product because all the options our there failed to come up with the goods or were ... Read more
One of the saddest things that has happened over the last few years has been the demise of the music store. Gone are the days when you could Wander down to the local record bar, have a chat to the guy behind the counter about his latest faves, listen to a few tunes and walk out with some great music. These days you have to do a lot more work to find some good new music. Sworly is a social music and video share application that could well be a way of making your music searching a little easier by ... Read more
Have I told you how much I love travel guides? TripFlick is a ruthlessly efficient free next generation guide for android that doesn't give you heaps of irrelevant information about flower shows and the city's secret nightlife. Some of us might actually prefer that kind of information but TripFlick doesn't go down that route and just concentrates on the important stuff. It does, however, add a rather intuitive side by offering you personalized recommendations based on other users' experiences and geared to your personal preferences. TripFlicks considers that travelers face enough problems without having to deal with overwhelming and ... Read more
The way it stands at the moment when I find an interesting webpage that I want to hang on to and look at again later with my friends I do one of two things. I'll either save it to the myriad that is Facebook or I'll bookmark it into another myriad of messiness. Meaki turns the whole bookmarking thing on it's head by making it social. It's a microblogging and sharing application where you can collect and share the cool web pages you find and it presents them in a great looking package. It's almost the Flipboard for web pages. ... Read more
This simple Learn to write Chinese application from the Monkey Write people is another in the series following their earlier Numbers, Blessings and Eating Out excursions. It's a free and easy to use language, education and learning tool for android that literally teaches one to write Chinese characters and turns it into a bit of a game that even kids can play and learn from. It's said that the only way to truly master the complicated art of Chinese writing is practice, practice and more practice. However, doing that on paper could be construed as being rather dull - ... Read more
We all seem to be so in love with photo warping apps like Instagram and Hipstamatic and it was really only a matter of time before a similar app was developed for the moving image. Of course, there is the staggeringly beautiful Cinemagraphs but the only problem there is that it takes so damned long to put a great image together. Flixel is a free photo and video share application for iPhone, iPad2 and iPod Touch that let's you 'live paint' your 'animations' quickly and turn them into pieces of art that will make your friends gasp just a little ... Read more
Shake2u is a file share application for iPhone and iPad that offers great benefits in either a personal or a business sense. It's a fast yet very simple way of transferring files, whether they be music, docs or photos, between idevices without the need for messy and time consuming emails. shake2u is a clever and beautiful looking app that avoids slow transfers by shaking your devices together to deliver your files immediately to family, friends, colleagues or potential customers. When it comes to sending files in your iPhone or iPad to friends or clients you will probably end up ... Read more
When I first bought my iPad a few years ago I looked upon it as a really useful little toy to access email and Facebook when traveling. A couple of years down the track and with the help of WiFi technology and a few essential apps it has turned into a second computer that i tend to use more than my Mac at home and at work. OrganiDoc HD has just turned into one of those essential apps! This staggering and very powerful file management application is almost the missing link that revolutionizes your tablet and is virtually a USB ... Read more
The last couple of years has seen the social music share site SoundCloud go from strength to strength. Just released is this newly updated free app for iPhone, iPad and iPhone Touch that takes the musical community mobile and wherever you can get an Internet connection enabling you to interact, share and record music wherever and whenever you want. SoundCloud really is the easiest way to share original music with friends in your social networks. It let's music fans as well as musicians and spoken word performers easily upload and listen to music from anywhere they can get a ... Read more
Do you have any idea what you are buying your family and friends for Christmas this year? No, there are very few of us that do this early in the year. iWishfor is a social gift shopping application for iPhone that let's you plan your Christmas shopping nice and early and find gifts that your extended family actually wants rather than having to pick up some makeshift gift the week before the event. What usually happens in my house is that i swear every year that i will be organized in my present buying endeavors. I will check out ... Read more