You might have seen an item featured on both The Daily Show and the ABC News with Diane Sawyer programs recently that talked about the wild cost variations for hospital treatment in the US. In the case they cited - a young boy in need of a tonsillectomy - the family were given five different quotes from five different hospital locations for exactly the same treatment. Nothing unusual there, except for the fact that the lowest came in at US$2,800 and the highest was $21,000. Everyone involved agreed that there should be a 'price list' for treatments and somewhere they ... Read more
These are busy and stressful times and we probably don't take enough time in our crowded daily schedules for a moment of relaxation and meditation. We probably don't think we have the time to do it anyway - whether we have faith in relaxation techniques or not. MyRelax is a health and wellness app for Android and iOS, narrated by noted Italian author and meditation expert Carlo Boschi, that offers simple ways to take a moment out of your day and turn your mind off. Perfect for all ages, the app offers different methods of relaxation to reduce stress levels ... Read more
Let's face it, this world would be a better and a far more efficient place if our personal lives were better organized. We would get far more done, things would run smoother and there would be more time to do the things that we love to do best. There are plenty of personal organization apps (known as "get things done" or GTD apps) available on the app market but I guess you have say that there are app...and then there are APPS. As far as personal productivity apps go, Facile Things is an iOS and Android app that happens to ... Read more
If you want to work out complex calculations in your specific line of work you probably have an Excel spreadsheet to work it out. But what happens when you are away from the office and don't have the availability of those spreadsheets at your disposal. Do you take down all the info and work it out at the office and tell them you'll get back to them later? Wouldn't it be better to have something that will do the job now? Valuation App has been designed with the financial entrepreneur and venture capitalist in mind and provides an instant answer ... 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
To the initiated, let me just take a few minutes to tell you about Lionel Messi. In case you aren't aware, Messi is an Argentinian superstar football (or soccer) player who plays for the Spanish club Barcelona and has won the coveted FIFA Ballon D'or award as Best European player four times now. He's as tricky as Maradona or Pele without any of the controversies of the former or the legendary celebrity of the latter. He hasn't been pictured on the front page of the newspaper with numerous prostitutes nor he has been connected with any drug taking scandals. He ... Read more
The image that immediately comes to mind when thinking of planning and preparing teaching lessons is of the kindly teacher, laboriously trudging through large amounts of paper and mapping out the direction of the upcoming lesson. Oh, hang on...that was a Dickens book i was reading. Well, its either that or you can update it to the 20th Century by imagining the same scenario with its modern day equivalent - Excel spreadsheets and Word documents. Now it's time to move on from those efficient but bad old days and move into the next generation of lesson planning. Common Core is ... 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
While we aren't, by any stretch of the imagination, advocating self diagnosis here - there is certainly nothing wrong with being reliably informed. Especially where your health is concerned. That's why this medical and healthcare app for Android and iOS will be of great interest to a lot of FeedMyApp readers. RxWiki offers all the very latest health related news from all over the world so you can stay completely up-to-date with everything concerned with health, medications, current techniques and the breaking news topics that could matter to you most. Let's face it, if you are taking a medication given ... Read more
Well, it's an age-old problem that's been with us since the dawn of time, isn't it? Nothing's changed, surely? Men have never stopped trying to find the best way to pick up women. Or has it changed I wonder. With the emergence of Internet relationships as a major part of dating, maybe guys have lost a lot of the one-on-one social skills that are required with the art of real-life seduction. PickupNavigator is a new, free dating app for Android and iOS that attempts to teach the prospective dater all the subtle things needed to woo a woman in the ... Read more