Google+ has tended to be the forgotten brother when it has come to designing pretty covers for your online pages. While Facebook's Timeline has been festooned with great cover making apps like Picscatter, Cover Photo Maker for Facebook and New FB Cover but I'm finding it very hard to find any apps for tarting up your Google+ cover page. So thank goodness for Google Plus Cover Photo Maker - a free design engine for Google where you can make your cover page one notch up from the rest. CoverPhotoEditor.com is a powerful, responsive and very quick and easy to ... 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
We are all reasonably well acquainted with Facebook's Timeline by now and have come to accept it as the new way of viewing Mark Zuckerberg's social empire. Businesses are starting to get serious about using Facebook as an advertising tool and TimelineTab follows on from apps like Facebook Timeline Cover Maker, Cover Photo Maker and Picscatter in providing a new look for the new look Timeline. However, the big difference here is that Timeline Tab is geared as an advertising tool for medium to small businesses and provides a while heap of extras to create your Tabs as well as ... Read more
It was Andy Warhol who said that in the future, everybody will be famous for 15 minutes. Meriad doesn't offer quite that much time but it does offer you 30 seconds to record your thoughts for the rest of the world to see and hear. This free video microblogging social application for your mobile let's you capture moments in your life rather like a Twittering video diary where your friends and the rest of the world can get a glimpse into your world - 30 seconds at a time. Meriad.co is a new social networking platform that enables you ... Read more
One of the saddest things that has happened over the last few years has been the demise of the music store. Gone are the days when you could Wander down to the local record bar, have a chat to the guy behind the counter about his latest faves, listen to a few tunes and walk out with some great music. These days you have to do a lot more work to find some good new music. Sworly is a social music and video share application that could well be a way of making your music searching a little easier by ... Read more
We all seem to be so in love with photo warping apps like Instagram and Hipstamatic and it was really only a matter of time before a similar app was developed for the moving image. Of course, there is the staggeringly beautiful Cinemagraphs but the only problem there is that it takes so damned long to put a great image together. Flixel is a free photo and video share application for iPhone, iPad2 and iPod Touch that let's you 'live paint' your 'animations' quickly and turn them into pieces of art that will make your friends gasp just a little ... Read more
Shake2u is a file share application for iPhone and iPad that offers great benefits in either a personal or a business sense. It's a fast yet very simple way of transferring files, whether they be music, docs or photos, between idevices without the need for messy and time consuming emails. shake2u is a clever and beautiful looking app that avoids slow transfers by shaking your devices together to deliver your files immediately to family, friends, colleagues or potential customers. When it comes to sending files in your iPhone or iPad to friends or clients you will probably end up ... Read more
It's said that for every dollar invested in bettering the usability of your site there is potential for increasing your revenues tenfold. moustach.io is a usability app that encourages you to share your site with your social networking friends to get critical feedback and reviews on it's user-friendliness. They will aggregate all your reviews and feedback for a very cost effective monthly fee. Hiring professional reviewers has been known to cost upwards of US$40 per review. moustach.io is a business application to see how much we can learn about our software, web design and workflow by asking our friends, ... Read more
With so many of our friends and relatives spread across the world these days we are all constantly looking for the cheapest way to keep in contact with them - wherever they are. Forfone is a free voip and phone communication application for iPhone and Android that enables users to make free phone calls and send free text messages to other forfone users wherever they may be in the world. Even if they aren't a forfone user they also provide a low cost and affordable service to any landline or mobile in the world. With forfone you can make ... Read more
One thing that's proven tricky in the past when advertising or promoting your event or product (or yourself, if it comes to that) on Facebook has been the virtual seminar. Evinar may well sound like a Arthurian adventure but in this case it's a rather wonderful event promotion application for Facebook to host any number of live events for your business (ad)venture. Here you can arrange casual hook ups, host group chat sessions and watch promotional videos with your fans and, if you are just running the one Facebook page, it's totally free. Evinar is a safe and secure ... Read more