To truly compete as a small business In your local area it is a good idea to be aware of what your competitors are doing and be able to adapt to any promotions they have going. If the pizza store down the road has a two-for-one deal going on you'd better have a pretty good pizza to be able to compete with them. Perch is a local marketing business tracking tool for smartphone that monitors social media and promotional activity for businesses in your local neighborhood. It's a mobile app designed for small business owners that delivers a live, ... Read more
Realikety is a very interesting new take on the social networking concept that works on the theory of 'liking' anything you see on your travels or just out on the street. Whereas Facebook gives you the ability to 'like' videos you love, photos you want to share and witty and clever updates from your friends, Realikety adds a new spin by getting you to snap photos of things and places you find while on the go, set the location of your shot, add relevant information to go with it and post it for friends to enjoy, react and comment on. ... Read more
There are some apps that come around that just make you wanna go aaah with their beauty and magnificence. Viddy is one of those apps. As Instagram is to the still photograph, so Viddy is to the video. It's a free social video share application of the highest order that let's you very simply capture, produce and share your videos with your friends and the rest of the world. And in the same way as Instagram, you can edit, apply effects, recolor and warp your video masterpieces before you unleash them. The very stylish social photo posting app Instagram ... Read more
With the recent acquisition of Instagram by Mr Zuckerberg's all consuming Facebook organization we can expect to see a lot more photo editing applications on the market - as if there aren't enough already. However, the extremely cool looking Jazz could well be the one to make the big leap forward. This powerful photoshare and photo editor for iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone puts it's considerable hand up by offering unlimited photo stylings for the interested amateur yet provides plenty of unique features to make even the most hardened pro sit up and take notice. Jazz is a powerful ... Read more
The excellently named Empathyo is a free social networking application for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch that enables you to share your events in the real world with your online friends in your favorite social network. Rather than phoning everyone up to tell them your plans for the day or week or sending out mail outs, you can just set up your details in Empathyo and share the details with social networking and Facebook friends. Equally, you can see what the rest of your friends are up to and meet up with them easily. Empathyo is a free social ... Read more
There are two different types of apps that I love reviewing most. There's the beautiful looking, comprehensive ones like OrganiDoc HD and that are full to the brim with useful items and give you more than you think they will. Then there are apps like Websites Like that fill a gap in the market. They may only do one or two things but they provide a great service and deliver what they claim to, effortlessly and efficiently. So, what puts this search engine into the latter category? Well, it's reason for existence is to help you find similar, related or ... Read more
Streamd.in is a localized geolocation app for Android, iPad and iPhone that attempts to take your Twitter account to a different level. It focuses tweets emanating from specific places the world over and delivers them complete with location map and, as an added bonus, you can even chat and video chat with your fellow tweeters. You can browse tweets from your local neighborhood or concentrate on a specific city or any countries around the world. Streamd.in for IOS and Android is a free and easy to use browser-based and geolocation based Twitter client. The primary focus of the app ... 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
Penmia is a totally secure writing and journal tool for your mobile that let's you capture, share and organize all your precious memories easily and quite beautifully. As George Carlin used to say...it's a place for your stuff. It's an easy to use free application where you can keep lists, jogging schedules, vacation experiences, photos, lyrics and links - in fact, pretty well anything and everything that you want to be reminded of later or share with friends now. Penmia is a free, secure online journal that allows you to capture, organize, and share your memories like you never ... Read more
What would you buy if you won the lottery, i wonder. They reckon that most lottery winners spend everything they win in the first five years and, I can only assume, that they spend all their money in Most Expensive. Here is a fun entertainment app that brings out the Paris Hilton in all of us. It's a fantasy shopping app (well, I guess the fantasy depends on how much money you have in the bank) that let's you search and find some of the most expensive items that money can buy - assuming you have the dosh, of course. ... Read more