Tag: App
The app of love: Condom-finder app launched by New York City health officials
A free app for free condoms – what more can you ask for? New York City health officials has launched an app that will pinpoint the five nearest venues that distribute official NYC Condoms. These even come in fun…
Lighten up: Natural daylight cycles for your computer with F.Lux
It was never all that realistic to ask us to get up from behind our computers anyway, so at least there's an app that realises this. F.Lux software will change the light on your computer depending on the time…
APP OF THE DAY: Nokia Soundtrack to London (Symbian)
What with all the big Nokia news doing the rounds this morning, it's only fitting that our App Of The Day be one seemingly-final hurrah for the Symbian platform. We've picked Nokia's Soundtrack to London app, developed in conjunction…
Google brings Trekkie fantasies to life with 'universal translator' mobile app
It's a Star Trek fan's dream: the 'universal translator' is here. Courtesy of Google's new translation app for iOS devices, you can now speak into your mobile phone and it will translate for you. The app, free from the…
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…
The Daily iPad News App: Why You Should Care and Why You Should Be Afraid Too
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation yesterday launched The Daily iPad news app, a massive new venture reportedly costing $13 million dollars to develop. A premium-cost news service, it's the first to employ Apple's newly-introduced iTunes subscription system. "The iPad demands…
APP OF THE DAY: Skiver (Android)
There are never enough holidays in a year: FACT. That's why so many of us choose to watch Jeremy Kyle in our pyjamas all day rather than find work, and even more of us employed cogs in the capitalist machine…
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: 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…
VideoSurf: The Shazam of Video
Shazam is easily one of the most popular smartphone apps, and one of the first app success stories. Now VideoSurf is hoping to recreate this success, but with video. The concept behind the app is very simple. If you…