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 [...]

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Gravity cleans up on the Nokia platform

One of the most annoying things Rafe and I have been having to deal with over the past few months is twitter application, Gravity.  It’s annoying in a good way.  But hugely frustrating when you’re filming.  You see we’ve been asking lots and lots of people about their favourite application on the Nokia platform.  It’s [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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The Best Sports Apps

Last week I asked for your recommendations on the best Sports apps out there.  I didn’t give any other qualification so it’s been fascinating to see what you’ve all come up with. Mark Hawkins wrote to say that the Sky Sports Football SC (“Score Centre”) is an absolute must for footie fans, especially with their newly [...]

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