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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Baby Countdown for Symbian counts your contractions
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 [...]
Gwabbit Grabs Contact Info From Your Emails
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 [...]
The First ‘Real Time’ UK Pollen Forecast
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 [...]
DocumentsToGo Premium helped me write my presentation on the plane to Helsinki
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 [...]
OpenTable hits Nokia S60-5 touch devices
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 [...]
TouchCalc Free released on Symbian
Tam Hanna, CEO of mobile developer Tamoggemon explains that, “At Tamoggemon, we think that every phone must have a proper calculator pre-installed. As manufacturers have not been willing to assist us in this endeavor, we now take the matters into our own hands.” TouchCalc is now free and comes with the following features: Algebraic data input [...]
Use your iPhone & iKNIX to control your home’s lighting, blinds and heating
I’m British which means although we have a relatively nice standard of living, hardly anyone has cool stuff in their house. It just isn’t done. We don’t, as a rule, have air conditioning. We just open the window. Because it’s invariably cold or cool outside. We rarely have integrated entertainment systems that stretch across the [...]
Vlingo lets your voice do the heavy lifting
Back to the BlackBerry platform, I’ve been having a look at Vlingo for BlackBerry recently. The service basically voice-enables your device (iPhone, Nokia and Windows Mobile too). Provided you have an open mind — that is, you aren’t too stuck in your click-click-click ways, you may well find Vlingo a breath of fresh air. It [...]
