Reggae - surely the most infectious of all the musical riddims. Even the sweetest Kentucky filly can't resist singing along when Bob Marley's "Three Little Birds" comes on the radio. It might be a little hard to hunt up reggae clubs, concerts and restaurants in your local area so Reggae 411 is a free and fun music, food and entertainment application that has been put together for iOS to locate all the Caribbean entertainment around you with special deals on entry fees on food and drink. Reggae 411 gives you the most comprehensive info, directions and deals on reggae ... Read more
Time To Enjoy is an event schedule app for people who have some spare time on their hands. But while it could quite easily be used as an event finder and schedule calendar in your home town, where it comes in really handy is if you are on holiday or spending some time in an area you don't know so well. Time To Enjoy transforms your mobile into a source of information to search, plan and book your day's activities based on where you are in the world and what you would like to do. While Time To Enjoy ... Read more
Some people are born to organize events and planning meetings - the rest of us can sometimes need a little help. Those people born to it are usually the same ones that know what to buy when someone is leaving but those types don't come along all the time. That's when it is time to turn to an event organize application like Together. Developed for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, Together is a free app for planning and organizing events whether they be business meetings, seminars or a get together with your friends. Together is a free app for ... Read more
Ive seen enough Real Housewives to know that one of the toughest things about event planning is the organization of seating arrangements for your guests. There's always a few disgruntled characters who don't get what they want and ruffle a few feathers with your designated planner. Arrange My Seat was developed to take the pain out of seat arrangements for your special event, whether it be a graduation, a banquet or a wedding and creates a seating plan in minutes. Need to split your guest list into different categories or get some information about your guests dietary habits? No problem ... 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
Moojive is an event sharing application for Facebook that is kinda similar to FourSquare and Google Latitude in that it let's you instantly find the locations of your friends when you go out. The idea being that if you or your friends get lost on the way to the movies or a specific restaurant, Moojive makes it pretty damned easy to find them again. Moojive is a mobile app that extends your Facebook event experience. The app makes it easy to plan events on the go as well as being able to stay on top of where your friends ... Read more
Here’s a great site that has more than one use when it comes to event organizing. Whether you’ve been unfortunate enough to be given the task of finding somewhere suitable for your firms Christmas bash or if you have a great venue but are finding it hard to manage, Tripleseat has something for you. The site can be used by all types of businesses connected to the event industry such as restaurants, hotels, golf courses and catering firms. By signing up, venue details are automatically added to the Tripleseat public listing site and exposed to thousands of monthly visitors. In addition ... Read more
Worrying about registration and ticket sales should never be the main event of your event and this app looks as if it can solve this problem in a simple to use fashion. Clear and concise step-by-step instructions will give your "do" its own page which can be customized in a number of ways allowing participants to register and purchase tickets online. The great thing about this is apart from wearing out shoe leather by hawking your tickets around, at the click of a button you’ll have real time confirmation on just who’s coming. Read more
I have to say when I first happened upon this one I had one immediate thought; since when has grocery shopping been a whole family event? I’m kind of glad I looked a bit deeper into it though because it does have some great features that go beyond just sharing a shopping list with the rest of your hungry crew. Sad that I am to admit it I’m a guy who not only enjoys cooking but also enjoys cruising the aisles of grocery stores poking and squeezing and smelling things. This app will help you indulge in both of those activities and ... Read more
Here’s a topical one. You can’t watch a cookery programme these days without the celebrity chef banging on about the pleasure of growing your own fruit and veg. As if he actually gets down and dirty with a spade and a hoe! He’ll be too busy in make-up or signing his latest recipe book. It does however have a certain charm about it but for people of a certain age it’s something that your dad did. Add to that the likelihood that he learnt the skill from his dad and you start to get the picture; why did I never ask ... Read more