There are times when you have to send a video or text message to a friend or colleague that has to be secure. You have to be sure that only the people that see it are the ones that you want to see it. Let's assume you are organizing a wedding and you only want certain people, like bridesmaids, to see their dresses. ZipaClip is an app to app messaging application for iOS that let's you send sensitive and private videos and text messages to fellow users with total security. What's more, if you change your mind, you can recall ... Read more
Now... if only our day-to-day lives could be organized this well. Imagine how brilliant it would be to sort out the important from the not-so-important and be able to box up different parts of our lives and then have wise people whisper to us the things we could be missing out on. Well, that may not be so easy in the real world but online is a different story. theneeds is a news networking application that makes your whole Internet experience less cluttered and more intuitive by compartmentalizing the best and most important stuff on the net just as you ... Read more
You see it every day with school kids on the bus or train on the way to or from school. There will always be a couple of best friends with an earphone from the same device plugged into their ear listening to music. You've got to hope that they both like the same kind of music. But what if one of them is into the abrasive sounds of someone like Skrillex and the other likes the smoother sounds of Beyonce? How do you get around that? One song each, maybe? Well now this new music sharing application called splitr has ... Read more
There's plenty of folks out there that see themselves as the next Martin Scorsese, Alfred Hitchcock or JJ Adams, if it comes to that. They spend hours laboriously editing footage to try concoct a cool film that they can share with their friends. Well, especially for those creative movie people, here is a great new social movie and video application called Act With Me: The Social Movie Studio. This innovative and fun little iOS package let's you easily create a short movie with your friends and share it on your favorite social network. but the difference between this and similar ... Read more
Does anyone really know why games like Angry Birds take off to the extent they do? It certainly wasn't for its cutting edge graphics or for its scintillatingly complicated gameplay, that's for sure. Smashing Egg Tido is a new arcade-style game by developer JaiZee and Gamesutra that throws itself into the ring as the next fun and addictive game for iOS. Tido is a colorful animated egg character who spends his time finding ways of trying to prevent being turned into a tasty omelet by various chefs. Collect points, add power-ups, pick up items as you go and beat your ... Read more
So how do you think you'd go in the fashion stakes? Have you watched enough episodes of Project Runway and America's Next Top Model to know your silk from your satin and your alpaca from angora? Fashion Games is a new app for would-be fashionistas that offers a heap of fashion-related games to test your knowledge and shopping skills and sets you on a path to maybe turn you into the next Yves St Laurent or Vivian Westwood. This fun and entertaining set of games features various levels of difficulty in taking you to the top of the fashion tree. ... Read more
If somebody had asked you to get involved with an online social network called Facebook all those years ago do you think you would have taken it any further? If you did, of course, you would probably be sitting pretty right now. So if a new social network was about to start up that has something new to offer and offered you the chance to get involved during the pre-organizational stage, would you be interested? You'd be crazy not to look at it. GlobAllShare claims to be the future of social networking. It also offers the chance for early subscribers ... Read more
We all need a bit of a touch up every now and again, don't we? And when it comes to our online photos, it's pretty easy to take out all those little blemishes in our skin if you have the right photo editing tools for the job. Many editing tools will do a fair amount of the work for you like red eye removal and general spottyness but now there is a great little photoshop app that is custom designed for the job. BeautyPlus is a free photo editor that is probably going to be adored by girls everywhere. It ... Read more
I think things turned around for witches and magic with the popularity of TV shows like Charmed and Buffy the Vampire Slayer and their appeal to a younger audience. Before that they were considered a bit too scary a subject for younger kids and half the potential audience went out of the door. Then Harry Potter exploded into our lives and now there appears to be wizards all over the place. With the popularity of mobiles and tablets at an all-time high, it's easy to see that the introduction of a game dealing in all things witchery is going to ... Read more
Well, I thought Paul the Beatle was pretty good. And i thought that Paul the movie was hilarious. So, PAUL the app had a pretty good chance of turning out to be quite interesting. And interesting it most certainly is - especially for fans of video watching from the likes of YouTube, Last.fm, CNN and ESPN and your social networks. PAUL is a handsome looking video app for Android that is the only mobile service to offer both video playback and offline watching. Now you can watch your favorite videos anywhere you are and at any time you want whilst ... Read more