When you are the guy who has volunteered to collect the money for a group or team event it's not always a pleasant thing. There's always one or two that lag behind the rest when its time to pay up but you're the one who comes across as the bad guy. It's not fair. Well now you can use an app to 'spread the blame' so that the request comes from the ones who have already coughed up their dough as well as the guy collecting the money. is a simple set of social accountability tools that uses peer pressure ... Read more
Many of us claim to be non believers when it comes to aliens and the supernatural but anyone who witnessed any of British mentalist and illusionist Derren Brown's recent TV shows will know that even the most avid skeptics have their moment of doubt. Let's face it, most of us get scared pretty easily. Now, I'm hardly suggesting that this new fun iOS photo editing application is going to turn your hair white overnight, but I am going to tell you that it's a great piece of entertainment that you can share with your friends. Camera Hoax is a special ... Read more
When we reviewed the first release of this excellent business intranet application last year you might remember us singing it's praises from many rooftops. Essentially, it's a social network just like the Facebook that we all know, love(?) and are familiar with - but the difference here is that Bitrix24 is built for a work environment. Now the developers have upgraded the app specifically for iOS. Now you can easily log in to your totally safe and secure business social intranetwork whenever you want and from wherever you can get an Internet connection. Bitrix24 creates a unified work space for ... Read more
Gablit is a new entertainment and recommendation, social search engine, born out of London a few years back, when three entrepreneurial types realized one night when they had lost their mobile phone, that trying to find the best entertainment available was turning into a full time job. They decided to develop this classy, informative, localized entertainment guide that encourages entertainers to promote their event and gives the audience a place to find out everything that is going on around them or wherever they are planning on visiting. Gablit solves a problem that people often find themselves having to deal ... Read more
It probably started when you were a child and were given a bag of marbles by your mother for your birthday. You probably began to make up your own ball games where, by flicking them, you could knock an opponents marbles off the carpet. When you were a teen you probably moved on to pool where you used a cue to skillfully hit them into the pockets. Maybe you moved on to snooker after that and added a new set of cueing skills. Well now that we are in the age of technology you can use those same skills to ... Read more
A social network for the deceased? Ten years ago it would never even be considered but in the 21st Century it seems like a brilliant idea. I don't know whether it has been the popularity of tv shows like "Who Do Yo Think You Are?" or the rise in genealogy sites like Ancestry but the interest in giving due homage to the deceased has increased beyond belief. A brief obituary in the local newspaper isn't enough these days. Light an ICandle is a social remembrance application and gives you a place to create a digital afterlife for the dearly departed. ... Read more
More and more businesses these days are adopting the idea of an internal business social collaboration network to aide communication in the workplace. For a start, most people are pretty familiar with the social network concept and use it on a regular basis so the learning factor is minimal. But secondly, it allows your workers to communicate in individual teams as well as across the whole business and negates the need for endless emails and time spent in meetings. Communifire is a new enterprise social collaboration application that makes for superb real-time communication between your staff while still retaining control ... Read more
Social gaming has been one of the great phenomenonas of the last few years with the runaway leader - Angry Birds - pulling in about a quarter of a billion users over December alone. Not only are they an entertaining distraction for users but they can also be big business for developers. Indeed, leading Facebook developer, Zynga, has turnover that regularly dwarfs top rated games developers like EA Games. With an Android application platform, game developers have an unprecedented opportunity to tap into existing social connections for both compelling gameplay and viral promotions for their titles. I Need A Hero ... Read more
Anyone who uses the Internet regularly will know the tricky situations that they can get themselves into when texting. Basically, its not easy to get your emotions and true feelings across at times without your messages being misconstrued. Dubbler is a new free social app for smartphone that deals with that problem by letting you express what you are feeling in an audio kind of way. Here, instead of using text as your communication medium, you can record and share up to 60 seconds of audio, tweak it with the various voice filters and share it with your social networking ... Read more
The days of the cigarette smoker are almost numbered. This generation will more than likely be the last where it's a natural thing t buy a packet of smokes after school given the massive worldwide anti smoking campaigns, rising prices, restrictions on where you can smoke and packets that feature grotesque pictures of dying patients. That's all very well for the youngsters who won't take up smoking up in the first place (and good on them) but what about the long term addicted smoker? They need all the help they can get to kick the habit. KwitHD is a health ... Read more