Yesterday afternoon, photo sharing social network Instagram announced that it was introducing direct messaging into its app with the launch of the latest version, 5.0. The new service allows you to send photo and video directly to up to 15 followers at once, without them being publicly visible. The news comes less than a month…
One of the very first App of the Week reviews we wrote was on Codea, a £6.99 iPad application designed to help people learn how to build their own iPhone applications. This week I’m taking a look at the first app from Codeacademy, called Hour of Code. Rather than being a tool to help you…
In a report published Wednesday by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP), Facebook was found to be the most popular app by more than three times any other app. The report looks at 500 smartphone users in the US, who were asked what their three most commonly used apps were between June and September of this…
The FIFA World Cup is just around the corner, with the draw taking place at the end of this week. To engage with fans as much as possible FIFA have launched the official companion app for the tournament (and seemingly worldwide, club level football at the same time). The app’s been launched simply with the…
Most people will have noticed over the last few years the sharp increase in the sale of tablet computers compared to traditional laptop and desktop devices. Well next year according to analytics firm Canalys,the lighter, cheaper and more portable tablet will account for 50% of all personal computers shipped globally.
Since Vine was launched towards the end of last year, interest in mobile video has increased significantly. After the Twitter backed project was launched, it didn’t take long for Instagram to start allowing users to take videos and start applying filters to them. Since then there have been a slew of video effect apps which…
Earlier this year at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple quite quietly launched iBeacons (alongside iOS 7) a low energy bluetooth device which is tipped to revolutionise location based technology. The technology which is used inside iBeacons is the same as ‘Tile‘ but rather than helping you to find things you have lost, iBeacons are…
There’s lots of things happening in the music industry related to apps; last week was the launch of Lady Gaga’s Artpop app, something which as much as I wanted to be excited about, I just couldn’t get behind. It could be because I’m not a massive Gaga fan or because I didn’t really ‘get’ the…
After Google acquired mobile phone manufacturer Motorola, there was a lot of speculation as to why the Android developers would want a mobile phone manufacturer. The obvious answer was patents, considering you can’t seem to go a few days without seeing some kind of patent lawsuit appearing in the news. However the launch of the…
This weeks app of the week is something a little bit different. Normally we pick out something which is going to help you be more productive, or something which will help you save time, or quite often something that will just run in the background for you to look back at later. I’ve picked out…