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
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
It's been quite a long wait, but it's finally here. iFile Download Manager for iOS is the long awaited download application that many have been hanging out for. So, why has it been so eagerly anticipated? Well, this cloud-based app lets you download multiple files of any type from Safari and store and view them on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. And yes, that does mean iOS5! Being based in the cloud means that you can easily wherever you are and whenever you want to. IFile Download Manager is the long-awaited download manager for jailbroken iDevices that lets ... Read more
Some might call this photo app rather shallow. After all, it really only does one thing. The thing is, this one thing that Color Thief does - to transfer and repaint one picture with the color of another - actually works really well. The app is simple to use and allows you to take your rather dull original photos and 'steal' the more vibrant colors of a second photograph to turn them into something completely different. We all have a few photos sitting in our mobile photo albums that aren't particularly vibrant and interesting. Some may be downright dull ... Read more
Imagine you have just arrived in a new city, let's say it's Louisville, Kentucky, and you know nothing about the place. What's the first thing you do? Buy a map or a tourist guide? Well you don't have to do that when you have a travel app like this one. SpeakypediaEN is a new way of accessing information about a new place and gives you an audio guide using information from Wikipedia. It's like when you are going around an art gallery and you want all the guff on the artworks. Just plug in and connect with the Internet and ... Read more
I guess we are going to refer to pretty well every photoshare with comments application as Pinteresting from here on in. There are lots of them springing up all over the place and each one seems to have its own specific quirk to set it apart from the others. Enpixa is a free photo share app for iPhone where you can add your voice to it so you can tell everyone the circumstances of when it was taken. Well, you weren't expecting that, we're you? When you have chosen or taken your photo just record your 30 second voice over ... Read more
It was really only a matter of time before someone came up with an audio version of Twitter. But, whereas Twitter delivers its epithets of wisdom in 140 characters or less, Audiolip gives you the opportunity to present your pearls of wisdom by recording and sending a 15 second audio clip which your friends can listen to, share and interact with. This free social micro-podcasting application gives you the chance to vent your spleen on current issues or just offer a few inspirational words for your friends to react to. Audiolip is a revolutionary and brand new micro podcasting ... 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
One of the saddest things that has happened over the last few years has been the demise of the music store. Gone are the days when you could Wander down to the local record bar, have a chat to the guy behind the counter about his latest faves, listen to a few tunes and walk out with some great music. These days you have to do a lot more work to find some good new music. Sworly is a social music and video share application that could well be a way of making your music searching a little easier by ... Read more
The last couple of years has seen the social music share site SoundCloud go from strength to strength. Just released is this newly updated free app for iPhone, iPad and iPhone Touch that takes the musical community mobile and wherever you can get an Internet connection enabling you to interact, share and record music wherever and whenever you want. SoundCloud really is the easiest way to share original music with friends in your social networks. It let's music fans as well as musicians and spoken word performers easily upload and listen to music from anywhere they can get a ... Read more