I think it was writer P.J. O'Rourke that once said that golf combines two of the favorite American pastimes - taking long walks and hitting things with a stick. What is certainly true is that, while it may be a very pleasant place to spend a few hours on a sunny afternoon, golfers take their sport very seriously. The thing that gets me though is the way they keep score. While TV scoreboards are filled with up to the date information,the humble golfer still mostly relies on the simple piece of paper to keep their score and has no idea ... 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
Tripomatic have earned themselves a name over the last few years as one of the better travel organizations. They have always aimed at providing and excellent travel information that helps you create and plan a trip fast. They have been described in the past, as being like a cross between Google Maps, Lonely Planet and Wikipedia. Now they have branches out and are using their travel knowledge to release Tripomatic City Guides and Maps where you can easily create your very own travel guide for over 300 major destinations around the world. Tripomatic City Guides and Maps lets you ... Read more
A few years ago I tailored my skills as a writer by writing a blog for a video and DVD organization but I would spend half my time researching interesting information on what I thought my reading audience wanted to hear. These days, those same research skills are still used by writers and businesses worldwide though things are a wee bit better organized and analyzed in the techno savvy 21st Century. Inbound writer is an Internet marketing app for writers to optimize their online content and gives them a much clearer vision of what their viewing audience is talking about ... Read more
New York is so good they named it twice, according to Frank Sinatra. There has been so much written about the place over the years and it is still one of the must-visit cities in the world. Every travel application features it amongst their top cities but most of them just show you the highlights and obvious tourist places. While its essential to touristy visit places like the Brooklyn Bridge, the Chrysler building and the Statue of Liberty it is just as interesting to see the stuff the locals see. CitydopingNYC is a new iOS app created by New Yorkers ... Read more
Somehow, up until now, the concept of fishermen and a social network didn't quite sit right with me. I don't know if it's the fact that fishing is an outdoor activity and the complete opposite of the original idea f the social network. But with the explosion of the mobile and tablet phenomenon everything has changed now. Now fishermen can sit proudly alongside workers, photo enthusiasts and students in having their own network. Fishfeed Mobile is a community where you can do all those things that a network does including sharing videos and photos with other fishing enthusiasts. If ... Read more
One of the things that sets the biggest sporting teams apart from the also-rans in their field are their rabid supporters who will support their team through thick and thin. NFL has the Dallas Cowboys, Washington Redskins, New England Patriots and New York Giants, baseball has the NY Yankees and the LA Dodgers, basketball has the Lakers and the biggest of all - soccer (or football, as it is known in most territories) has the Spanish clubs, Real Madrid and Barcelona and finally, there are England's Manchester United and London's famous Arsenal. Formed in the 19th Century, Arsenal - or ... Read more
The Wikimedia Foundation have built a reputation over the last twelve years as being an excellent interactive reference for everything from Civil War battles to reality TV shows. The whole idea of Wiki being to allow everybody and everybody to input information into the system. Every year of their existence the Foundation have released a new project and Wikivoyage becomes the 12th official Wikimedia project. It's a free, worldwide, online travel guide and, like Wikipedia and its sister projects, Wikivoyage is free to edit, free of ads and is built collaboratively by volunteers from around the globe. Regular FeedMyApp ... Read more
I wonder how many of you know what's going on in terms of entertainment in your city tonight. You'll probably think you have a pretty good idea but it's actually fairly difficult to get a grip on the multitude of events that are happening every night in a major city unless you buy an evening newspaper, the local 'whats on' guide and then check a few local Internet sites. Wikido is a very flexible geolocalization-based entertainment search engine that hunts down all the entertainment in your city from countless websites whether it be a concert, a rodeo or sports event. ... Read more
I remember those days when the Italian master downhill skier Alberto Tomba used to weave his magic in the slalom events at the Winter Olympics. It seemed for a while there that no one would beat him. It wasn't that long afterwards that Microsoft introduced a skiing game called SkiFree for Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 that everyone played for a bit of fun. Well, this great addictive old school downhill racer has now been adapted for iOS and proves itself to be just as addictive as its parent. That is, until you get caught by the abominable snowman, of ... Read more