Our favourite app this week is only really going to appeal to quite a niche market – people in London, who get the bus. Despite this, the design and functionality of the app are so clever it definitely deserves a mention as the top app this week. Called Jump, it’s for people who need to…
It’s been six years since Steve Jobs presented one of the biggest additions to the second version of iPhone OS (as it was known at the time, not iOS). The App Store was not only a revolutionary way of selling software, it was also a landmark in the way developers could distribute their creations. Last…
A few months ago, as most people will have heard, Facebook made an offer to buy Snapchat for $3 Billion. Snapchat turned the offer down, despite having never made any money, claiming they had bigger plans for the ephemeral messaging service. Facebook have instead released their own media messaging service called Slingshot, billed by some…
We told you all about Google I/O last week and the biggest thing to come from the event being the launch of Android Wear, the operating system that Google have rolled out for their wearable devices. Well now Android Wear devices have their own companion app for Android smartphones and tablets. It’s called, imaginatively, Android…
Parallels have been making remote access software for a number of years now, they were the first company to make Windows apps available for Macs and last year released Parallels Access, giving people the same service on their iPads. This week, they’ve updated Access to version 2.0, now making all Mac and Windows apps available…
A few weeks ago, we took a look at everything that took place at Apple’s WWDC 2014. The event had a load in store for developers, while making notable changes to OSX and some minor tweaks to iOS for end users. This week was the Google equivalent event – Google IO 2014, it would only…
Last week we looked at the perfect app to accompany the FIFA World Cup (TVCatchup); there’s a huge list of events taking place this summer though, many of which have their own companion app. We were going to take a look at the Wimbledon app which has been updated for the 2014 tournament, although we…
A lot of people will be far less excited about this than I am, but as you all surely know by now, it’s World Cup time. We took a look at the official Fifa World Cup app when it was released last year, something which has already been an excellent companion to the tournament so…
It’s not just new apps that we like to review in our App of the Week, sometimes a complete overhaul of an existing app is just as important and interesting. This week we’re looking at the new Guardian app, it’s been on my phone pretty much since I bought it and is usually my first…
It’s that time of the year again, Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) takes place in San Francisco next week. One of the biggest events of the year in the technology world, WWDC is where Apple traditionally releases the latest iteration of iOS, along with any other software it’s been working on over the last 12…