I had a conversation with an American friend recently who was curious about the price of various items in Sydney Australia. She had read in the paper that Sydney is now considered one of the most expensive cities in the world and wondered if it were true. Rather than relying on trying to remember how much I paid for a can of coke from a supermarket or how much a movie ticket costs I should have just put her onto Eardex where she could compare prices on all sorts of everyday items. This free travel guide application gives you a ... Read more
First up, let me say that I love travel guides and Know What looks to me like a great one. This handsome looking travel application for iPhone gathers together some of the US's most creative and cleverest people along with some of the best travel websites to present some of the things that make our cities so unique and loved. It serves as a virtual insider's guide to San Francisco and Los Angeles (with New York, Chicago, Boston, Portland and Seattle coming soon) showing you all the things you might not get in your regular travel guide as well as ... Read more
SynopsiTV is a movie recommendation service which, on the basis of what you watch, manages to recommend the movies and TV shows suitable exactly for you. We can't all be movie buffs, can we? When you've settled on the couch with your popcorn and remote control there's only one thing missing - a great movie or TV series. You could check for reviews of good films but reviewers cant analyze your personal taste, can they? Here is a social, movie and TV application for your Android or iPhone that actually recommends movies to you based on your viewing habits. ... Read more
There are times when your music collection just doesn't cut it anymore. There is little that inspires you and the radio isn't giving you the music you crave. MoreChoonz to the rescue! Here is a social music and video application for your iPhone or Android that gives you the latest recommendations of the best music from all over the world. Rather than limiting yourself to reading reviews from critics that you know little about, MoreChoonz provides suggestions that you can watch, hear and save as well as being able to create your own playlists and share your new faves to ... Read more
You must all have seen that Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman movie called "The Bucket List" where a couple of guys decide to fulfill a whole bunch of things they've always wanted to do before they shuffle off this mortal coil? My Bucket List is a free social and travel application that gives you the opportunity to list up all of your wishes and desires before you fritter your life away and end up with a whole load of unfulfilled dreams at the end of it. With My Bucket List you can create your own list of life goals ... Read more
Do people still use the old asl abbreviation? I guess they probably do in the chat rooms around cyberspace. They do in the social networking chat application Asl Plz, that's for sure. Here is a place where you can make new friends the digital way and connect with users nearby who also use similar mobile phones. When you locate your new found friends you can unite, chat and find out if they have similar interests to your own. If you want to make friends the digital way the Asl Plz app is a free service for Android, Blackberry, iPhone ... Read more
TV seems to have taken over from the movies as the biggest talk around the water cooler these days. The regularity of a series gets into the psyche of the watching public far more effectively. With so many series being highly complicated to follow the viewer is sucked more and more into a maelstrom of information and snippets of information from friends and many other sources. Miss an episode and you have no idea what's going on - just ask fans of "Lost." Fav.tv is a place for TV tragics. It's a place where you can share thoughts and view ... Read more
Hold the front page! All you writers out there who rely on research and interviews to help you create that article or even longer piece of work will know what a grind it is getting all of it together. Getting it all together is one thing. Keeping it all together and putting it in a workable order is another but this one just might make your life a whole lot easier. I know, I’ve been there. You have a file for newspaper and magazine cuttings, you copy and paste useful web content onto a Word document (or print it out and file ... Read more
It's more important than ever now to be totally up to date on what's going on in the countries you visit when holiday planning. There are many things you need to look at to protect yourselves as well as your wallets. In so many cases an overseas holiday is a major investment of time as well as money. Is the place you are visiting safe from terrorist or criminal activity? Does it have any imminent health warnings? Is there a possibility of transport delays? These are all things you need to know and TripSentry provides all the up-to-date information that ... Read more
Let's face it, who doesn't like a good fart joke? It's guaranteed to break the ice at parties, that's for sure. Duck Fart is a fun entertainment application for Android that continues the classy tradition of fart applications like 101 Farts and Whoopee Cushion letting you relieve the tension (no pun intended) in tight situations where you need something to lighten the load. Gee, there were a lot of double entendres in there, weren't there? Read more