Simplier is a very simple $3 music player for people who just want to hear some tunes without having to trudge through the hassle of opening and browsing inside iTunes. When I say very simple, I mean it. The app is clearly modelled on...Simplier Offers A Simple Way To Play Music Without iTunes [Review]
Simplier is a very simple $3 music player for people who just want to hear some tunes without having to trudge through the hassle of opening and browsing inside iTunes. When I say very simple, I mean it. The app is clearly modelled on...Google’s New iOS App Gets It Right [Review]
The revamped Google Search app for iOS, which we reported on yesterday, is a huge improvement on what went before. It’s slick, speedy, and simple. Everything you want in a web search app. Enter your query and results show up as you type, thanks...Tour Japan For Free With This Nice Photo Guidebook [Review]
Fotopedia Japan is a lovely photographic tour of modern Japan, available for free right now on the iOS App Store. Thanks to unobtrusive sponsorship by Narita airport, you get access to 1,300 high quality images of Japan, properly indexed, tagged and located on maps....Gnash Gnash! The Beano’s On The App Store With Five Free Issues [Review]
Iconic Brit kids comic The Beano has made its debut on the iOS App Store, with a hidden treat inside for kids: five free issues for the grabbing. So if you’re a fan of Dennis the Menace, Minnie the Minx and the Bash Street...Give Your Ears A Pre-Breakfast Brian Blessed Blast [Review]
Today’s – probably this week’s – Best Thing Ever is the amazing, ear-exploding wonder that is Brian Blessed Alarm Clock. For those of you whose lives have been left a miserable husk of despair and disillusionment due to the lack of Brian Blessed-based alarm...Spook Your Friends With Evil Twin Photos App [Review]
Evil Twin is a joke photo app that makes use of something called the Thatcher Effect. The idea is that the human brain finds it hard to spot small changes to a face if that face is the wrong way up. You can mess...Rock Star Sting Says Apps Are The New CDs
(Photo by Adam Riggall, used with thanks under Creative Commons license) Former Englishman-in-New-York Sting has been speaking to journalists to plug his solo career retrospective album, the 25 Years box set. And in his opinion, the music industry is facing another big change. The...You Can Get 120 Apps Inside One! But Do You Need To? [Review]
AppZilla 2 is one of those jack-of-all-trades apps, squeezing 120 little mini-apps into one place. Tap it, and it grinds open with a dramatic kzzzzzzrrr-tang sound. Inside, you see a springboard-within-a-springboard, with pages of apps to mess around with. There’s all kinds of stuff...Occupy Those Idle Moments With Blueprint 3D [Review]
When you first hear about it, Blueprint 3D doesn’t sound like it could be a compelling iOS puzzle game – but it is. The premise couldn’t be simpler. Each level shows you the blueprint image of an object, exploded in 3D so that the...See What’s Really Running On Your iPhone [Review]
You know about Activity Monitor for your Mac, right? How would you like to have an Activity Monitor for your iPhone too? Something like Activity Monitor Touch might do the trick. Inside it, you’ll find smart-looking charts and graphs for your device’s processor and...Stage An Opera On Your iPhone With This Fun Game [Review]
Not many opera companies have ventured on to the App Store, but London’s Royal Opera House has and the result is something unexpected: not a listings app, not a tickets app, not anything you’d normally associate with opera. It’s a game. And it’s great....Try Out This New Free Mac Text Editor [Review]
New on the Mac App Store is Tincta, a text editor for coders and writers. It’s small, lightweight, fast – and free. The single window layout lists open files in a panel on the left. The preferences are simple and basic. This is an...
