I'm not sure why I really like Melt...but I do. After all, there's really nothing that's particularly groundbreaking about this social photo and messaging application for iOS. It might be the fact that it has a very cool name or it might be the very minimalistic qualities of its simple interface. Or it might well be that it's just the place to get your favorite photos vindicated, liked and commented on. While, of course, we can always post our interesting photos on Facebook or any number of other social networks, there's no guarantee that your blaze friends will acknowledge them. ... Read more
There are times when you have to send a video or text message to a friend or colleague that has to be secure. You have to be sure that only the people that see it are the ones that you want to see it. Let's assume you are organizing a wedding and you only want certain people, like bridesmaids, to see their dresses. ZipaClip is an app to app messaging application for iOS that let's you send sensitive and private videos and text messages to fellow users with total security. What's more, if you change your mind, you can recall ... Read more
There's plenty of folks out there that see themselves as the next Martin Scorsese, Alfred Hitchcock or JJ Adams, if it comes to that. They spend hours laboriously editing footage to try concoct a cool film that they can share with their friends. Well, especially for those creative movie people, here is a great new social movie and video application called Act With Me: The Social Movie Studio. This innovative and fun little iOS package let's you easily create a short movie with your friends and share it on your favorite social network. but the difference between this and similar ... Read more
If somebody had asked you to get involved with an online social network called Facebook all those years ago do you think you would have taken it any further? If you did, of course, you would probably be sitting pretty right now. So if a new social network was about to start up that has something new to offer and offered you the chance to get involved during the pre-organizational stage, would you be interested? You'd be crazy not to look at it. GlobAllShare claims to be the future of social networking. It also offers the chance for early subscribers ... Read more
We all need a bit of a touch up every now and again, don't we? And when it comes to our online photos, it's pretty easy to take out all those little blemishes in our skin if you have the right photo editing tools for the job. Many editing tools will do a fair amount of the work for you like red eye removal and general spottyness but now there is a great little photoshop app that is custom designed for the job. BeautyPlus is a free photo editor that is probably going to be adored by girls everywhere. It ... Read more
Well, I thought Paul the Beatle was pretty good. And i thought that Paul the movie was hilarious. So, PAUL the app had a pretty good chance of turning out to be quite interesting. And interesting it most certainly is - especially for fans of video watching from the likes of YouTube, Last.fm, CNN and ESPN and your social networks. PAUL is a handsome looking video app for Android that is the only mobile service to offer both video playback and offline watching. Now you can watch your favorite videos anywhere you are and at any time you want whilst ... Read more
How could we possibly pass up on the opportunity to review a wedding photo app with a name as brilliant as AppilyWed. Believe me, there are some pretty average names out there for apps but this one is perfect. So does the app live up to the name, you ask? Well, luckily enough, this is an app that offers something new in the wedding photos concept. Up till now, this type of app has tended to be simply an online version of a traditional wedding album. Hardly a reason to switch formats as the traditional book style wedding album wins ... Read more
Data monitoring seems to have come of age over recent years, especially since the app revolution really took off. Up until recent years, the fine art of analytics and monitoring was a rather turgid and time consuming experience that nobody really wanted to take on. But with analytical tools like Google Analytics, Convertable and now Librato to help you out, data monitoring and understanding the metrics that impact your business have become so much easier. Librato let's you measure everything you need in one place and keep all your applications running smoothly. Librato provides a complete cloud-based solution for ... Read more
There has been a bit of a battle going on between Twitter and Instagram (and, of course, it's parent company Facebook) over the last few months. First up, Twitter launched its new video service called The Vine and described it as 'Instagram for Video.' This was coupled with Twitter stopping Instagram photos from turning up in people's streams. It might have seemed like a good idea at the time but, as we all know, part of Instagram's appeal is its unique set of filters that give photos that Instagrammatical look and The Vine fails to deliver that. So now we ... Read more
If you have a YouTube channel you will probably know only too well how difficult it is to get more subscribers to sign up with you. If you have a Facebook Page you will be only too familiar with how the general public tend to think and how hard you have to work to get people to like your page. But, while there have been a significant number of apps produced to help your Facebook Page gain followers there has been a paucity to give your YouTube channel the same kick up the bum. So it's my pleasant duty to ... Read more