Everybody hates traffic jams. Some of us would sell our Grandmothers' to avoid them. Our cities are being clogged by too many cars on roads that have often seen better days. What's Traffic is travel application for Android that will take the heat off your Grandmother. It's an easy-to-use traffic app that let's you see what's happening with the traffic surrounding you enabling you to take better travel decisions and avoid those hot spots that will hold you up. If you hate traffic snarl ups as much as the rest of us this easy-to-use app will help you instantly ... Read more
Despite the fact that our computers are loaded up with heaps of services we've set up over time, the truth is, we really only use a few of them regularly. kaanzi is a search and organize application that allows us to polarize the things we view on a regular basis. It's a command shell that optimizes web time by gearing your Internet time to the things you like most whether it be email, the weather, your favorite sporting team or the latest YouTube sensation. The idea of kaanzi is to access and utilize services across the web through a ... Read more
Wanna know where your employees or your kids are at any time of the day or night? Mobile Track is a travel and time tracking app for Android, Blackberry and Windows Mobile where you can track everybody who works for you, visiting VIP's and even your children or vulnerable adults wherever they are in the world. Here is the next generation of time tracking technology and one that takes the place of 'black box' car installations which has been fine up till now but only works properly when your subject is in the vehicle. Mobile Track is Crystal Ball's ... Read more
Roamz was featured as one of the Australian Business Review Weekly's top 10 start ups to watch recently. It's a clever little real time application for your mobile that shows the user completely up-to-date information of what's going on in your local area. It does this by gathering, collating and curating information from the social side of the Internet and delivering it to you based on your particular interests and preferences. Roamz is a free iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch app that makes sense of social media noise in real time to show users up-to-date information about what is ... Read more
We have reviewed many expense and money tracking apps in the last few weeks - Budget With Back In Black, My Weekly Budget and In-Ex Finance to name just three - it must be a sign of the times. The fact is, with over 80% of Americans stressed about their personal finances, it's probably time that you took matters into your own hands and organized your finances a little better. Spentable is a very fast and efficient expense tracker that you will more than likely use. It's a simple and user-friendly iPhone and Android app that will help you budget ... Read more
I was watching an episode of Anthony Bourdain's excellent No Reservations show a few years ago and, whilst drinking and eating with locals in the mountains somewhere in Asia, Bourdain holds up his glass and shouts "Damn Skippy!" Why would a native New Yorker like him be uttering a phrase that is so obviously Australian and yet I'd never heard it before? Well, So Slang is a search engine where you can get that information. Its an easy to use free urban slang wiki dictionary where you can your own meaning to the millions of slang words featured. So ... Read more
I had a conversation with an American friend recently who was curious about the price of various items in Sydney Australia. She had read in the paper that Sydney is now considered one of the most expensive cities in the world and wondered if it were true. Rather than relying on trying to remember how much I paid for a can of coke from a supermarket or how much a movie ticket costs I should have just put her onto Eardex where she could compare prices on all sorts of everyday items. This free travel guide application gives you a ... Read more
First up, let me say that I love travel guides and Know What looks to me like a great one. This handsome looking travel application for iPhone gathers together some of the US's most creative and cleverest people along with some of the best travel websites to present some of the things that make our cities so unique and loved. It serves as a virtual insider's guide to San Francisco and Los Angeles (with New York, Chicago, Boston, Portland and Seattle coming soon) showing you all the things you might not get in your regular travel guide as well as ... Read more
LocAlerts is a damned good geolocation based reminder board that would be absolutely brilliant for a road trip or a holiday away. Keep this search and reminder tool on your iPad or your iPhone and it will give you the perfect way to research your trip as well as giving you the ability to add stuff as you go. So its easy to note down a virtual to-do list before you go and add details like addresses and phone numbers of friends and sights and any other stuff that you need to make a note of along the way. And ... Read more
You must all have seen that Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman movie called "The Bucket List" where a couple of guys decide to fulfill a whole bunch of things they've always wanted to do before they shuffle off this mortal coil? My Bucket List is a free social and travel application that gives you the opportunity to list up all of your wishes and desires before you fritter your life away and end up with a whole load of unfulfilled dreams at the end of it. With My Bucket List you can create your own list of life goals ... Read more