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Many parents wish to instil a love of reading in their children, but with so much competition for children’s attention in today’s fast-paced world, it can be more difficult than ever to get them to sit down and focus on a book. A new iPad app called Bookboard may provide a solution to the book [...]

Is augmented reality just a tech fad? Tech news was once rife with how AR would become an everyday occurrence. Well I’m still waiting for that day. A video recently caught my eye and I’ve come to the conclusion: AR is fun for about 5 secs, as this video proves. Wow! You can change a can of beer into the [...]

While there are a ton of running apps on both the App store and Google Play, there are few that motivate you to actually lace up your trainers and go. Introducing Zombies, Run!, a game/app that does exactly that. It’s a really interesting concept that rewards you the longer you run. I won’t reveal too [...]

The Android market – sorry…Google Play Store – is awash with music players for your smartphone. Check any forum discussing this topic and you’ll find at least five different suggestions for the ‘best’ player. I’ve tried countless music players over the years and found there isn’t one to rule them all. So instead I use [...]

Instagram finally made its way to Android last week. The much sought after camera app has already been downloaded over 5 million times in only six days, proving how hungry Android users were for its release. Its success has now seen the company being bought by Facebook for $1 billion! It’s still unsure as to [...]

One of many great things about the smartphone is the ability it gives you to stay clued up with the latest news and gossip; we have never been more informed. I can’t remember what it was like without Twitter and RSS readers. There are a ton of apps out there that perform the same function [...]

Imagine the life of your smart phone. There is likely nothing in your life that knows as much about you, gets as much attention from you or spends as much time with you. Even if you don’t make a single phone call in a day, chances are you still interact with your phone on a [...]

Apps are one of the many joys of owning a smartphone. Apps range from: clever games that help you pass the time; apps that help you with everyday tasks or those really stupid ones that are funny for the first five minutes until you delete them. But with so many apps available, how do you [...]

The wide variety of apps available for smartphones across all platforms is staggering. As the iPhone ad suggests ‘There’s an app for that’. Whether you want an app to pop some bubble wrap or want to measure how ugly you are, someone has already developed it. But is there an app for catching a mobile [...]

By now we all know about the iPhone 4s and the talk it generated, both positive and negative. However alongside the iOS5 release that preceded th 4S, Apple also announced the launch of ‘Find My Friends’, an iOS 5 compatible app which could be downloaded from the Apple app store. The app is designed to [...]