Category: iPhone apps
The app that reads money for the blind (and tourists)
The MoneyReader is a new iPhone app from LookTel, helping the visually impaired keep track of their banknotes. The MoneyReader app uses a proprietary recognition algorithm to read a bill put in front of the phone, then saying the…
Justin Bieber dominance strengthens as Bieberhead app lets us put his head on any picture (yes really)
This one may well be the freakiest one yet – I mean, is there anything more scary than Justin Bieber? It started out sort of cute, with this fluffy little thing bopping around singing. But ever since that Rolling…
APP OF THE DAY: A!arm (iPhone)
Waking up is never fun. I've been in the middle of life-defining dreams in which I'm about to save whole galaxies, become a millionaire and ready to run away to a secret love nest with Scarlett Johanssen quadruplets when I'm…
Warner Bros release The Dark Knight and Inception as iPhone, iPad apps
A chance to offer film fans more content,or just Warner Bros way of bypassing iTunes? Who knows? Whatever the reasoning behind the film studio's new dedicated movie apps that its just released for two of its biggest recent films,…
APP OF THE DAY: Confession: A Roman Catholic App (iPhone / iPad)
Bringing a whole new meaning to the iPhone's "Jesus Phone" nickname, today's App of the Day crown goes to Confession: A Roman Catholic App. Turning your iPhone or iPad into a direct hotline to the big man upstairs, the app…
Instagram photo sharing app to expand beyond iPhone with fundraising
First the app, then the world. Instagram, the popular iPhone photo sharing tool, has raised $7 million for expansion. Only four months old, Instagram has already attracted nearly two million users, who collectively upload 290,000 photos each day. Following…
Impeccably timed Andy Gray and Richard Keys iPhone app launches
What a week for Andy Gray and Richard Keys! First the Sky Sports pundits get the boot from their long-time posts for repeated acts of sexist behaviour, and now they're the stars of their own iPhone app! The Andy…
APP OF THE DAY: Memonic (iPhone / iPad)
Looking for an alternative to Evernote for digitally jotting down and storing useful info quickly? Then give Memonic a go, an online and smartphone-freindly piece of clipping software that lets you collate snippets from websites and store them in one…
Space Invaders meets AR tech in The Look Up iPhone game
Your mum and dad may have told you off for having your head in the clouds, but at least you'll be the first to know when the imminent alien invasion hits. Now, thanks to a new augmented reality game…
APP OF THE DAY: Ducktastic (iPhone)
On the face of things, Ducktastic is a pretty standard arcade game for the iPhone, iPod and iPad. You guide a duck on his annual migration flight, eating bugs along the way and avoiding the bullets of hunters out to…