Searchgonzo is a surprisingly sophisticated free product discovery and shopping comparison application that provides a search tool to find some excellent fashion, travel, sporting or home based products online. What's more, goods on offer are thankfully not provided by advertisers, paid for with spam attached or even cookie based to get something out of you. Searchgonzo is a very clean and intuitive service with a constant stream of quality products in its database making this online shopping experience a positive one. Read more
Here's a very cool music application for the serious music fan. ListenItLater which allows you to make multiple playlists of newly found music and podcasts collected from streaming websites. Create your lists from SoundCloud's vast array of sounds (with YouTube about to be added) and gather them into any number of varied playlists to listen to later when you have more time to enjoy them. For us music lovers, we discover great new music all through the day though, quite often, we don’t have enough time to organize it right where and when we find it. ListenItLater is a ... Read more
Apart from all its other features, SongFreaks is the amateur karaoke singer's dream. Since launching earlier this year this music player application for Android and all the usual iDevices has racked up over 20,000 downloads but it's key feature is one all buddy Freddie Mercury impersonators will love. It's Lyric Stream technology streams the lyrics in time with the song you are playing allowing you to follow the lyrics and sing along until your heart is content. SongFreaks is a personal music player that's defining feature is that it streams lyrics in time with the song being played. It ... Read more
The way we access our social networks has changed very subtly over the last year and that's partly down to the legacy of Steve Jobs. With the onslaught of mobiles and tablets being gobbled up by our avid populace rather than the more sedentary home computer there is now more of a tendency to access networks whilst on the move. It is not always convenient to access your networks while jogging or commuting to work or when driving, if it comes to that. Hubbub is a new kind of social network that relies on sound. It allows you to record, ... Read more
There's a new DJ in town and their name is...you. ofthemuse is a nicely named new social music and video entertainment application that adds a new dimension to the music player phenomenon. Not only is it a fun way to compete with your friends based on your listening taste but it also increases musical knowledge and exposes you to the plethora of new music available these days. Pit your musical taste against others by becoming an online DJ and have your friends and followers vote on who has chosen the best song. ofthemuse is a new music application that ... Read more
It's very annoying when you hear a song on the radio and you don't get a back announcement on who it is. Or maybe you are out at a mall somewhere and a song that you like but have no idea who it s comes on over the system. One of the most frustrating of all is when it comes on during a movie or as part of a tv show. Damned frustrating, isn't it? Well, Tuneup Mobile solves that problem with ease...and then gives you even more. This Shazam-like music recognition application for iDevices hits all the right notes ... Read more
If you are a private music teacher I would hazard a guess that you didn't get into it because you wanted to spend hours on behind the scenes paperwork. What you really want to do is to get on with turning your students into great musicians rather than preparing bills and keeping track of lesson times. Privio is a free invoicing and management application for music teachers and students that provides billing and time management tools to take you away from paperwork and let's you concentrate on improving your students' capabilities. Privio is a music management app that provides ... Read more
There are two different types of apps that I love reviewing most. There's the beautiful looking, comprehensive ones like OrganiDoc HD and that are full to the brim with useful items and give you more than you think they will. Then there are apps like Websites Like that fill a gap in the market. They may only do one or two things but they provide a great service and deliver what they claim to, effortlessly and efficiently. So, what puts this search engine into the latter category? Well, it's reason for existence is to help you find similar, related or ... Read more
Streamd.in is a localized geolocation app for Android, iPad and iPhone that attempts to take your Twitter account to a different level. It focuses tweets emanating from specific places the world over and delivers them complete with location map and, as an added bonus, you can even chat and video chat with your fellow tweeters. You can browse tweets from your local neighborhood or concentrate on a specific city or any countries around the world. Streamd.in for IOS and Android is a free and easy to use browser-based and geolocation based Twitter client. The primary focus of the app ... Read more
xDownload is a document management and file download application for iPhone from the people who brought us the fabulous OrganiDoc HD and, with that sort of pedigree, you automatically know that it is going to impress. Its a very powerful and easy to use set of tools that let's you grab and download pictures as well as audio and video files - or anything else from the web - and put it into a queue on your iPhone so it is ready for downloading when you have WiFi access. If you are feeling a little hand-tied to Safari's rather ... Read more