App of the Week 8th July 2013

You spend more time with your coworkers than anyone else, but sometimes you don’t want them to see that photo of you rolling out of a kebab shop at 5 in the morning, or you just don’t want to be endorsed for a skill you weren’t aware you had by 15 different people you used…

App of the Week 2nd July 2013

Sometimes we have a bit of a hard time choosing the app of the week, but this week it was an easy-pick.  We all love travelling in the Tradebox Office (just take a look at our range of Trippa travel guides) and naturally we all love apps so when we saw that budget airline EasyJet…

Top Five Google Reader Replacements

Google announced in March that it would be bringing it’s Google Reader service to a close in three months, well today is that day.  Since it’s launch in 2005, Google Reader became one of the most popular services for accessing RSS feeds but Google have made the decision to work on less products at once…

Digital Cardiff Week Roundup

Digital Cardiff Week has been and gone, the event which was held in the Wales Millennium Center had been hailed as ‘exploring the digital future of the creative media industries in Wales’.  Companies were given the opportunity to showcase themselves and workshops were held to give advice across a wide range of digital industries.  The…

App of the Week 24th June 2013

This week was the start of Wimbledon and this year the world famous tennis competition has got a second screen app to accompany the live coverage.  Whether you’re a lover of Andy Murray or Rafa Nadal, you’ll want to keep up to date with all of the latest news wherever you are, and this accompaniment…

App of the Week 20th June 2013

Vox Pop Me is a clever new market research app, which allows users to make money by giving their opinions on certain topics.  Rather than the long and arduous surveys that can be completed online through services like YouGov though, responses are given by simply tapping record at the bottom of the app and the…

iOS 7 Features Roundup

Last week was Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC).  The event was a highly anticipated affair as big changes were expected. Jony Ive has had a good chance to rework all of Apple’s software into his own style.  Gone is the old skeuomorphism which split opinion significantly in previous versions of iOS –  the faux…

App of the Week 13th June 2013

NarcoGuerra is a strategy based turn-by-turn app from independent developers of political gaming apps, Game The News.  Fans of ‘Risk’ will be familiar with this concept, you are presented with a map (Mexico) divided up into separate areas and you’re tasked with taking control of each area, one by one.  The storyline for the game…

Zooz Payment SDK for Retail Apps

A while ago we spoke about integrating PayPal into apps for in app purchases, not for unlocking new parts of the app or buying add-on’s to games, but for the purchase of physical items through apps.  At the time we weren’t aware of anything that was as easy to use as PayPal inside a retail…

App of the Week 2nd June 2013

SignNow – Free (Subscription) – iOS and Android Almost any freelancer will know this problem – you’re sat in a coffee shop desperately trying to get all of your work finished for one client, then someone sends you a new contract or a non disclosure agreement that you need to get signed and sent back…