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I was introduced to Things by Mark Bole, former CEO of ShoZu. Mark and I were chatting about something completely different when the ‘to do’ conversation occurred. I can’t quite remember how it came about. Mark asked if I used ‘Things’. I said that I’d been using ’2Do’. “Oh no,” exclaimed Mark (I’m paraphrasing), “You must use [...]
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Granted, if you’re young, single and sleeping with everything that moves, then you probably don’t have much use for this application. If however, you’ve … moved to the country (check), optionally got married (check), got a spare room for ‘the baby’ that doesn’t exist yet (check), had that conversation about babies (check), got pregnant (check [...]
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Gwabbit is one of those applications that people rave about. Gavin May, one of the top directors at accounting firm Sage, introduced me to the product last year at the EMEA BlackBerry Alliance Summit (see my Mobile Developer TV video interview with Gavin ). He simply adored the product. I thus thought I’d better give [...]
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Kudos to the Clarityn team for dreaming this one up. Clarityn, if you haven’t heard of it, is a hayfever relief drug sold in the UK. I’ve used it myself many times and it does work for me. The team there have launched a ‘real time’ Pollen Forecast app. They’ve actually named it ‘Pollen Forecast [...]
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I have, on occasion, been a user of SUBWAY — the sandwich shop chain. I do like to see the chap or lady make the sandwich in front of me — although I also have to suspend my disbelief when I see the type of factory ‘formed’ ham they tend to use in their sandwiches. [...]
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I had a presentation to deliver in Helsinki this week. I joined a packed Finnair flight on Sunday evening along with Rafe Blandford of All About Symbian and arrived late on Sunday night. My presentation was scheduled for Monday lunchtime. I’d spent a good amount of time pondering over the subject of the presentation. I’d [...]
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Here’s some more reader application suggestions as contributed last week: Zenon reckons Flyscreen for Android is worth looking at: “Easy access to frequently used widgets and web bookmarks without having to unlock phone. Found out about it via this week in Android podcast.” Yatin rates AdvanceSMS, found on the Ovi Store: “I was particularly looking for an [...]
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OpenTable is the best online booking service on the planet. I simply adore it. Their mobile applications have seated millions of diners and generated approximately $150m in revenue for restaurants over the last year or so. The company has now launched their first Nokia application for S60 5th edition touch devices. It’s now available in [...]
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Sketch Nation is a piece of genius. It’s an iPhone ‘shoot’em up’ space invaders style game. With a huge compelling twist: You design the game elements. Literally! You use your iPhone camera to snap the various elements that you’ve drawn and then — hey presto — before your eyes, the game comes to life with [...]
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