I absolutely adore OpenTable. I love the whole concept. I love the fact that when you query the system for restaurant availability, you’re getting a true picture. I simply cannot stand ‘booking’ something that turns my booking into an email or a fax and then needs a human to phone the restaurant, confirm the reservation, [...]
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Auto Trader Mobile: Simply brilliant
I’ve been hearing about Auto Trader’s mobile application for a little while. It’s been mentioned in hushed tones of reverence from quite a few corners of the mobile industry. And so it should be. On the face of it, the application is simply a convenient interface into Auto Trader’s huge listing database. Dig deeper and [...]
LoKast: Share your media with anyone quickly & simply
I’ve been playing with LoKast for a few days and it’s raised some rather exciting possibilities. The application turns your iPhone into a two-way media server, enabling you to rapidly share any of your media (photos, video, contacts, music) to anyone else using the app on the same WiFi or Bluetooth connection.
Nosey Parker helps you find car parks
Here’s another application that’s a piece of genius. I simply love applications that really do help with the challenges and frustrations of day-to-day life. A friend of mine drives up and down the UK every week meeting businesses. One of the biggest arses she has to deal with is finding and locating public car parks [...]
Tesco’s Clubcard app hits 200,000 downloads
Nick Lansley runs a website called Tech For Tesco and provides some illuminating information on the retail giant’s recent mobile application launches. Tesco’s Clubcard app is — as you might have already determined — dedicated to the company’s loyal members of it’s Clubcard scheme. Whilst it is a considerable annoyance being asked ‘Have you got [...]
Meeting Magician is a life saver for rubbish meetings
Reader Simon emailed in with this suggestion — Meeting Magician is one of his agency’s creations. I should point out from the start that Meeting Magician is not necessarily intended as a productivity application. It’s name alludes to the fact that the helps you manage the arse of sitting in boring, ridiculous, unnecessary meetings. The [...]
International calling for… FooCall
FooCall. Say it slowly, in two parts… Fook. All. Now say that together? Fook All. FooCall. That’s right! International calling for next to nothing. I’ve used a lot of international calling services, particularly from my mobile phone. For a long time I made use of an array of services that enabled me to call locally [...]
I’ve been wasting time with… Paper Toss
This is one of those Apps I continually see in the top iTunes Appstore lists but I’d never bothered trying it out until last week. The creativity of application developers never ceases to amaze me. This app is all about trying to throw a piece of paper into a bin (“trash can”). You have to [...]
Motorway Services UK… hardly exciting, but critical
Can you guess what this one’s about? Don’t scroll to the next piece yet though! I know motorways are hardly exciting, but now and again, I’ve found myself needing the information that this application supplies. The most important feautre of this app is that it’s got all the Motorway Services facilities in the UK listed. [...]
Mail Boxed – unusual but highly useful
The chaps over at Layer8 software created Mail Boxed to address a real problem when you’re out and about: That is, searching your email for ticket / orders / bookings information. It’s supremely annoying having to look up information like parking confirmations or flight details. Well, Mail Boxed is a neat solution you may well [...]
