You can't deny the success of an app that has had a half a million downloads so far. ibisPaint X is a painting and drawing app for iOS that has consistently proven to be the pinnacle of this type of artistic tools and succeeds primarily for a couple of reasons. This version, geared towards the Anime style of Japanese animation, works with various online drawing implements like iPen and gives a detailed YouTube instructional video that shows you just how the specific anime painting was constructed. Add this unique feature to its easy social sharing capability and it's easy to ... Read more
While Google+ Hangouts has hardly taken over the world since its inception, the chances are that it's profile will increase somewhat when the iOS version is made available in the not too distant future. At the moment, this free video chat service with face to face and group chats of up to ten people, can only be accessed by laptop, desktop and Android. HangoutMagix is a rather cool free graphics creator for your video chat that allows you to put up various graphics to decorate your window. HangoutMagix is a completely free online graphics creator for Google+ Hangouts. While ... Read more
If you have a YouTube channel you will probably know only too well how difficult it is to get more subscribers to sign up with you. If you have a Facebook Page you will be only too familiar with how the general public tend to think and how hard you have to work to get people to like your page. But, while there have been a significant number of apps produced to help your Facebook Page gain followers there has been a paucity to give your YouTube channel the same kick up the bum. So it's my pleasant duty to ... Read more
There used to be a covers band based in London a few years ago called Gabba who featured a hugely tall singer and performed Abba songs in the style of The Ramones - ie fast! I was always convinced that it would turn into a music genre that would take hold. Imagine doing all the Bob Dylan songs in the style of Bob Marley or maybe Kanye West songs in the style of Taylor Swift (can't wait for that one.) Sadly it didn't really take off but the fate of the cover version was taken up by shows like Glee, ... Read more
The noble art of cricket. It's a sport that's played in over one hundred countries including the U.S. and a game than is made up of some of the most subtle skills of all sports. It's not a game, however, where you can just pick up a bat or a ball and be successful. It takes a lot of practice and a lot of coaching. Cricketcoach is a series of three different cricket coaching apps for iOS and Android that delivers quality coaching skills to nurture your cricketing talent. This sporting app, which covers everything from basic skills to advanced ... Read more
One of the 'great leaps forward' of recent times in the world of apps has been the unabashed realization that social media advertising can really work for you. The second giant leap has been the provision of great business tools to monitor, market, promote and analyze your campaigns through your favorite social networks. BeeLiked is a new social media marketing platform that specializes in running engaging and easy to create competitions of various sorts. The idea is to keep your customers satisfied whilst offering a chance to increase your return on income. BeeLiked is a new social media marketing ... Read more
Now that the Olympics are over it's time to get back to the real thing. Don't get me wrong, the sight of Usain Bolt and Mo Farah setting London on fire will remain with me and all sports fans for a long time, but there is nothing like the passion and rivalry of team sports to stir the emotions. With the European Football and, specifically the English Premier League, just about to kick off now might be the time to take your support to another level with FANiGRAM. This free sports entertainment application lets you create short completely personalized animated ... Read more
I guess the significant word for this social sharing application is INTERESTING! You see, ScanThe.Net is a great place to find new content while scanning the net for cool things to share on your social networks. And, in a Twitter-ish or Pinteresting kind of way, you can follow people as well as your interests via keywords and find all sorts of interesting stuff that you might not find through normal channels. You can vote for your best or worst content so you'd better make sure the content you come up with is, at the very least, interesting. ScanThe.Net encourages ... Read more
You know what a Flip film is don't you? It's a very short home made film that hopefully has a little artistic merit going for it. And how about a digital flipbook? That's one of those cool and classy online books that you can flip through with your fingers - rather like the way you would flip through a regular paper book. One of the most beautiful apps that illustrates the flipbook concept is Flipboard, of course, which won App of the Year a couple of years back. There are plenty of flipbooks available for your photos but there are ... Read more
Its inevitable that, given the slow demise of the magazine in favor of online version, that people would begin to hanker for the format and create their own. Living Junction is an easy to use, drag-and-drop free publishing application that lets you create cool magazines on your favorite topics and hobbies by displaying your multimedia using great looking displays. Share your magazines with social network or email friends and create micro communities with people who also love the things you love. Living Junction is a user-created social publishing platform that let's you drag-and-drop your favorite rich media content to ... Read more