App of the Week 23rd July 2013

IFTTT (pronounced like shift) was launched in 2010 with the intention of making more services on the web automated.  The acronym stands for ‘If This Then That’ and works by creating logic statements (so called recipes) that will do something, when something else happens.  It’s a really nifty way of connecting, otherwise completely unconnected, online…

App of the Week 16th July 2013

A slight change from our usual app of the week, the Tile app hasn’t actually been launched yet.  It’s not going to be fully launched for another 4-6 months actually, however it deserves a mention in our App of the Week section because of the amount of hype that surrounds it.  In one of the…

What is NFC To Do Without Apple?

Just over three weeks ago, when Apple unveiled iOS7   and revealed that the “biggest change” the iPhone had ever gone through would not include the addition of near field communication (NFC), Matt Witheilder of Flybridge Capital Partners wrote a blog on how Apple’s decision may have killed NFC. He wrote “I’m finally calling this…

Five Years of the App Store

Five years ago today Apple decided to launch something called the ‘App Store’ for iPhones.  The idea being that people could download pieces of software for their iPhone called ‘apps’ which would let them do things that they previously couldn’t do on their phone.  Who knew on the 9th of July 2008 that Apple were…

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…