ShopSavvy

Free app for iPhone

ShopSavvy you might of heard from that guy in the office who finds every little iPhone app a must download, but this one is very clever and potentially money saving.

The idea is that you scan the barcode of any product, which you would like to purchase; lets say for example you’re at a Department Store and you wonder if you could possibly find it cheaper at another store or online. So with ShopSavvy, you scan the barcode, and it will search online to see which places it is available for purchase, and the price you’d pay.

This will be perfect for Christmas coming up to make sure you can stretch every dollar to either give or save more, especially seeing as the app is free, you have nothing to lose except saving some money if you don’t!

AroundME

Free app for iPhone

Have you ever found yourself on a side of town you’ve never seen, or even heard about before? Now have you ever needed to know where a hospital, petrol station or ATM machine in this strange part of town?

If yes, well quickly download Aroundme, it’s a free app which uses Google’s database to quickly find what you are looking for around you; from what was listed previously, to movie theaters, restaurants, bars, hotels, supermarkets and parking.

A perfect app if you like to travel or are new to a place, or just bad with memory or directions. This one is a keeper!

Review of Calorie Note Free – Daily Food Diary

With winter heading north again, and summer soon sneaking up on us, many of us are starting to notice the warm winter comfort food around our waists and are joining diets to fit into that short summer skirt again.

With many dietitians suggesting calorie tracking to fight that belly jiggle, here’s a free iphone app that can help ease that stress of counting, tracking and monitoring all the food you eat through the day.

It also has other features such as; Goals, calendars, weight management and calculators for BMI, adequate weights and basal metabolic rate.

Perfect to help achieve your weight loss goals this summer!

iGizmo for iPad

Review of iGizmo for iPad – FREE

IGizmo has been a popular I.T Gadget magazine of mine for the last year, first publishing its magazine in March of 2008. It offers a wide range of gadget reviews and comparisons of the latest technologies from mobile phones, computers, tablets and what ever else is out there in the world of technology and cool nerdy facts.
The free application itself, is only limited to the iPad, allowing you to download the magazine editions back to September last year to keep in archive to view anywhere without data connection, allowing use for iPad without 3G
If you don’t have an iPad, don’t worry, the magazines full content is also available from its website; http://www.igizmo.co.uk/signup or available in print.

Cut the Rope

This iPhone app review is about a great game which was made for time wasting in any location. Its simple game nature with puzzle, arcade like genre, however it’s the achievement of grabbing all three stars before feeding ‘Om Nom’ the little creature his candy which drives you to keep playing each level over and over till you achieve it, not finishing till your screen is full of gold stars.
The game requires you to cut ropes as the name suggest, use items around you such as springs & balloons, as well as motion and gravity to deliver Om Nom his candy.
It sounds simple, however some of the levels can really stress your brain or just require fast skill action, this game is for everyone.
It offers a free lite & Christmas Version which I found  the Christmas  version wasn’t all that challenging, but rather copying ‘Angry Birds’ of its many seasoned themes, and I’d just skip with the lite version seeing as the full content cost is a minor 99c, I guarantee mostly everyone will find their money’s worth of enjoyment with this iPhone app.

Rugby World Cup 2011

Review of Free App for iPhone

Of course one of the many exciting events of 2011 is the Rugby World Cup being hosted by our friendly neighbors, New Zealand.
If you don’t watch TV like me, you might find it hard to know when a game is on this September, October and be disappointed when you miss it.
So you might join me in delight that the RWC has released a free app that’s packed full of features.

The apps of course has all the latest news on teams for upcoming matches from official RWC sources, show’s a calendar of all the matches in this years World Cup, brings the ability to filter information for your team, so you can focus on the Wallabies rather than reading about those rubbish All Blacks and Pohm’s.
My favorite feature which makes it more worth it, is the video selection of highlights from past Rugby World Cups.

This is a fantastic app that will keep you informed about all that’s happening, in one simple location.

Review of Urbanspoon iPhone App

Stuck in the office with no lunch and can’t decide what to eat? Urbanspoon is a free iPhone App that can help, simply open it up and shake your iPhone and Urbanspoon will suggest somewhere close by for you to chow down. Not a fan of Sushi? Give it another shake! Don’t want to walk more than 500 metres? That’s right, just shake it again! If you think you’ve found something good, but you’re just not too sure just click in and check out the reviews.. and if you liked it make sure you leave one of your own, as Urbanspoon skews the results towards the most popular restaurants and food joints .

Review of Dropbox iPhone App

Dropbox is free cloud based file storage service that lets you access, view, retrieve and share any of your files on ANY of your devices whether it’s your iPhone, iPad, iPod your computers or even directly on the web. In a nutshell, Dropbox is a simple iPhone App with a synchronisation service that lets you save all your files and then have these automatically synchronised to wherever you’ve installed the Dropbox application and it’s all done behind the scenes, no need to click any buttons to make things work just make sure you’ve saved it in your Dropbox and it does the rest!

Here is a good treat for all Scrabble fanatics! EA just recently launched the official Scrabble App on the Android Market. The best thing about the new app is that it is free and cross-platform multiplayer. Android users can play against iOS and Facebook users.  Through EA’s Origin service, users can save their games through the cloud.

Here are some of the basic features of the game:

• CONNECT WITH FRIENDS IN MULTIPLE WAYS - It’s easy to find friends playing SCRABBLE. Connect and play via a username, email address, or send an invitation using your Android smartphone contact list. Post invitations to play via Facebook and email, too!

• PLAY FRIENDS ACROSS PLATFORMS - With real Cross-Platform Play, you can challenge fellow word warriors on other Android devices, iPhones/iPod touches, and even Facebook. Play SCRABBLE anytime, anywhere – and with virtually anyone.

• PLAY UP TO 50 GAMES AT ONCE - Also play against random opponents online and enjoy 2-player Pass ‘N Play (and see your highest scoring choices with the Best Word feature). When you add it all up, you can play up to 50 GAMES at once!

• TALK A GOOD GAME - Socialize and stay in the game! During gameplay, the chat icon will blink when you have a message. And when you’re not playing, you can get notified when it’s your turn, when a game is created, or when a game ends. (Notification features require OS 2.2 and above. Please upgrade to the latest Android OS for full functionality.)

• LEARN AS YOU GO WITH THE TEACHER FEATURE - See the best word choice from your previous move with this fan favorite feature. The more you play, the better you get!
• TRACK YOUR STATS AND SEE HOW YOU DID - At end of the game, check out the highest-scoring word and more. See how your play improves as you become a real SCRABBLE master.