We’re definitely having an app moment – here are our latest and greatest:
Vine – bought by Twitter at the beginning of the year, this 6 second video app is already zooming up the app charts. The genius is that… Continue reading
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Technology
Technology: our favourite (ultra useful) new apps
Apps: JustSeen
We love twitter and we also love Instagram, but there is a sort of no man’s land in between the two, where we want to post pictures, but not necessarily in an arty, filtered way (like Instagram), in more of… Continue reading
Tech: Holiday Apps we can’t travel without
Suncream: tick. Bikini: tick. Tickets & Passport: tick. But have you uploaded the best holiday apps onto your phone? Here are our top picks for this year:
Google translate (FREE): get instant spoken translations in over 30 languages.… Continue reading
Apps: 8mm Vintage Camera
If you like the retro photo app, Hipstamatic, you’ll love 8mm Vintage Camera for video. It gives you a selection of vintage film camera filters (1920, Noir, 60s, 70s, Sakura, XPro, Siena), a jitter option frame (when the frames displace… Continue reading
Technology: a great poetry App for the whole family
Why is it we can never remember any of the brilliant, funny poems we learnt as a child? Well, with iF-Poems, a great new App, you have 230 poems at your fingertips, from Lear’s The Owl and the Pussycat to… Continue reading
Apps: iSwap Faces
This is a very silly but hugely entertaining app that can make for some hilarious results. The idea is to swop two faces around on a photo you have already taken (you use basic photoshop to make the edit) and… Continue reading
Technology: how to send a personalised Postcard from your phone
A friend recommended this App (voted Sunday Times App of the month) just before we went on holiday and we love it. Download Postcards for free from I-Tunes and then all you need to do is choose which picture you… Continue reading
Online: make your own newspaper
Newspaper Club is an inspired website and service. It does just what it says: prints newspapers, only with you as editor. You can go either full colour or black and white, and the content can be anything you like:
Technology: Viber App
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that technology is actually supposed to make life easier, not more complicated. Well, we’ve discovered a new App that not only makes it easier but much cheaper too. Viber is free to download from i-Tunes… Continue reading
Technology: our favourite childrens’ apps
Sometimes even the most angelic of children need a little distraction via an i-Phone or i-Pad app. Here are some of our favourites:
Tom Cat (free) – one of the most popular apps around: you can pet, video,… Continue reading
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