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Ben the Bodyguard iPhone App Review – Your Secrets Are Safe With Him

It takes innovation to breathe new life into a tired genre, a fact which applies to everything from books to film and now, to iPhone apps too.  Storing passwords and other pieces of sensitive information doesn’t make for the most exciting application, and normally the thought of reviewing them would be an instant turn-off. It’s not [...]

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Ben the Bodyguard Makes iPhone Security Interesting!

Here’s a great example of how to get people talking about your app, a difficult thing to do especially when it’s not a game or photo-sharing service but a security app.  The email introducing me to Ben the Bodyguard started with ’security with balls’ in big capital letters, and the promise of a story about [...]

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Opera Mini Updated, Goes Universal, Gets Even Better

One of the few truly excellent alternative browsers for any smartphone, not just iOS, is Opera Mini.  It has always been good to use and the last update to version 5 enhanced its tabbed browsing and improved the handy Speed Dial feature on the iPhone. Opera Mini has now been updated to version 6 and the [...]

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Instagram User? Meet Stickygram!

I’m a fan of Instagram, and use it to add filters to pictures I intend to post on my Tumbr blog, however I’m sure I nowhere near as prolific a user as many others out there.  If you’re one of them, then take a look at Stickygram, a service directly linked with Instagram. What Stickygram does [...]

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Jourist Vocabulary Builder iPhone App Review – Say What?

Learning another language is hard, but there are so many different ways of doing so that there is sure to be one way to suit everyone; it’s just a case of finding it.  As it’s difficult, the lessons needs to be engaging, progressive and well taught, otherwise it’s all to easy to abandon it.  Believe [...]

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Quick Draw Artist Gets the Most from his iPhone

In a great piece for the New York Times, Emily Hager talks with Eric Molinsky, whose story is fascinating not only because of his slightly unusual hobby, but for the tool he uses to facilitate it too.  Mr. Molinsky’s hobby is to draw his fellow passengers on the subway, and to do this he uses [...]

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ABBYY Business Card Reader Reaches Version 3.0

We reviewed ABBYY Business Card Reader at the end of June and gave it a good 3.5/5 rating.  Since then it has undergone a few changes and re-emerged as version 3.0, which has a clutch of interesting new features added as well as an interface overhaul. Most importantly the app is now compatible with the iPhone [...]

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Air Display iPad App Review – Space Ace

Unlike games, utility apps are a far more niche product, where they’re the best thing ever created for certain individuals or of absolutely no use to others.  Air Display falls neatly into that category, as it’s an application which lets you use your iPad or iPhone as your computer’s second monitor. To use Air Display you’ll [...]

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Travel Interpreter iPhone App Review – Talking Our Language

The middle of August is fast approaching and the peak holiday season is in full swing, so are you about to head off to foreign climes for a much needed break?  If you are, and you’re going to a country where you don’t speak the native language, chances are you won’t want to incur a [...]

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Pulse News Reader and Pulse News Mini Currently 50% Off

The Pulse News Reader is one of the better RSS reader apps for the iPad, plus there is the equally great News Mini available for the iPhone. The Pulse application had a difficult start to life inside the App Store, after it was yanked out due to it including New York Times content as standard, something [...]

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