Who’s making the tea? It’s a total arse, isn’t it? Almost every office suffers from this conundrum. And whilst you can usually count on the work experience kid to leap at the chance to get 5 minutes away from the filing, not every office is blessed with a tea angel. Instead, most offices suffer from [...]
HulloMail now supports more BlackBerries
HulloMail is the future of voicemail. They’ve been working heavily on application support over the past few months and have now released an updated BlackBerry client that extends support to the 85XX and 83XX Curve models — which is excellent news, given those devices are selling like hotcakes at the moment. HulloMail, if you’re not [...]
Photo Booth makes your iPhone camera 500% better
To the iPhone platform first of all, I’ve been using Photo Booth Classic Plus (bit of a mouthful, I know) for a week now. And I love it. I simply love it. It simply enables your iPhone to create a series of 4 ‘photobooth’ style pictures that are daisy-chained into one final photo. You can [...]
Quick updates from this week
Other interesting application tidbits from this week: Halal Scanner: Take a photo of the ingredients label and find out if the product is ‘halal’. Hugely useful for Muslims the world over. $1.99. Medical Point2: Enables medical personnel to easily assess the condition/interview Spanish-speaking patients by pointing to questions and answers on the iPhone, iPod Touch [...]
Last Tube – another travel app I need
I’ve got a page of apps on my iPhone now dedicated to travel. Next Buses, London Bus, Tube Status — they’re all there. Added to the roster last night was Last Tube by Erik Carlson. Last Tube is ridiculously simple but highly, highly useful when you’re having a brilliant night out that could well be [...]
Midomi: A gazillion times faster than Shazam
Midomi — otherwise known as SoundHound on the iPhone — is quite astounding to behold. Shazam still has a place in everyone’s heart, I’m sure, however there’s space for the new challenger, Midomi SoundHound especially after you see just how fast it performs. Provided you’ve got a decent connection, Midomi will typically identify a song [...]
Rove Mobile SSH: A total lifesaver for IT admins
I purchased my first dedicated server back in 1999, if memory serves. I bought it from Rackshack, which became EV1Servers which then became The Planet. Over the years I’ve leased dedicated servers from just about any decent firm out there. They’ve nearly always been linux servers, used to support the various applications, services and sites [...]
Where-Am-I brings simple personal location map to Vodafone 360
Yes, you read that correctly. I am looking at an application on Vodafone 360. Instead of checking out some of the guaranteed favourites (Facebook is flying off the VF360 virtual shelves), I thought I’d look at one of the apps highlighted in the store this morning. Where-Am-I caught my attention because it’s a stupidly simple [...]
WiFi Bathroom Scales that sends your weight stats to your iPhone
If you’re wanting to keep a decent eye on your weight and you’re reading this newsletter then you definitely need WiFi Bathroom Scales. Oh yes. 120 quid’s worth of pure joy every morning. That’s right, you connect your WiFi Scales to your internet connection and boom, every time you step on, your weight will be [...]
Here, File File – access any desktop file from your mobile
Now I’ve been a long time user of DropBox and ZumoDrive. But both those services are only as good as your file saving regimen. If you negate to save a file into your DropBox or ZumoDrive, and then need it while you’re away from your desktop, you’re screwed. Utterly screwed. And with today’s machines coming [...]
