Category: Apps

(Not)Recipes for iOS by Food 52 is the food lovers must have app. #Food #iOS #App

Food lovers – There is lots of them and they usually like to share their food photos on Instagram to show the world what they are having for dinner and more,Yes it can be a tad annoying but this app is something food lovers will like where they can share all things food amongst others within the app. This app will basically be a community of food lovers where you can talk food all day long,you can share tips,pictures and search hashtags on food types and even play in contests.

Description

(Not)Recipes for iOS is a new way to find—and share—cooking ideas and inspiration using photos. It’s the only app to tap into the smart, spontaneous cooking really happening in people’s homes—and show how it’s done. (Spoiler alert: Most of the time, they’re not using recipes.)

GET INSPIRED
See how a community of passionate home cooks eats well every day, through real-time snapshots with quick, helpful descriptions—not just of what they cooked for dinner, but how.

SHARE YOUR COOKING
Get encouragement and feedback from a like-minded community—where everyone is there for the food (not the cats or the sunsets), and wants to see what you had for dinner.

FEATURES
• Dive deep into cooking topics you care about via hashtags like #cocktails and #breadbaking
• Scroll through a complete real-time feed, or a featured list curated by Food52’s editors
• Upload your own (Not)Recipes, with as much or as little detail as you like
• See ingredients automatically detected and displayed in mini-grocery lists
• Gussy up your photos with filters inspired by food personalities like Julia Child and Mario Batali—that make even your quickest, most dimly lit shots look great
• Comment and reply—ask cooks questions about a technique or ingredient, or offer words of encouragement or your own ideas for riffing
• Favorite (Not)Recipe ideas to cook from later
• Play along in weekly contests on inspiring themes: what to do with a boatload of zucchini, the dinner you cook when you don’t feel like cooking, not sad desk lunches

PlugShare – An app to Find Electric Vehicle charge points and submit tips. #EV #Motoring #Travel

Electric vehicle are still a slow burner here in Ireland still  but nonetheless people are buying them,for me range is still an issue and something that would be on peoples minds using them especially on a long trip,Electric vehicles though will continue to grow in the coming years but not as fast as other countries where they are rampant.

Thankfully there is some ways to keep an eye on things and plan ahead with some apps for our mobiles and one such app is called PlugShare which also allows users to submit feedback and tips within the app and you can also upload photos,this way people can be kept up to date with news and information about the locations and also leave tips for what surrounds the area so you can make plans whilst the car is being topped up..

PlugShare state

The largest community of EV drivers in the world, PlugShare users have contributed over 100,000 station reviews and 30,000 photos to make driving electric easier than ever before.

 

App features

★ Locate public charging stations for your electric vehicle.
★ View PlugScore™ station ratings, real-time availability, photos, and descriptions.
★ Check out reviews and tips from other PlugSharers.
★ Filter for chargers compatible with your electric vehicle.
★ Add new charging stations as you discover them.
★ Coordinate with others when you need to top off.

 

Adopt this new virtual pet called Suti for iPhone and iPad #Suti #Gaming #Kids

Virtual pets have been a hit in the past reminding us so well of the tamagotchi days,but now we are more into mobile than before apps like this have hit mobile format and this new game for kids it might just keep them quite for a while with plenty to do within the gaming app..

With Suti you can choose your pet’s name, birthdate, and place of birth before entering into Suti’s world of games, activities, and fun! Like any other pet, baby Suti needs to be kept happy and healthy: choose from a variety of fruits, veggies, meats, and drinks to feed her.

Features of the app include.

Have fun taking care of your own virtual pet while playing these fun games:
● Flappy Suti – Avoid pipes, fly as far as you can.
● Color Challenge – Improve and challenge your color vision.
● Find the Pairs – Strengthen your memory by finding the pairs.
● Whack Till You Can – See how fast you can tap the popping pets.
● Group Them – Group the same items together as quickly as possible.
● Gatherer – Observe and gather all items needed.
● Pop Suti – Blast as many balloons as you can.
● Slide To Suti – Slide and hit others.
● Throw the Ball – Slam-dunk to get a high score.
● One Color – Tap on your pets until they all become the same color.
● Cloud Avoiding – Help Suti’s parachute jump to avoid clouds.
● Sky Diving – Fly to collect coins, but don’t hit the clouds!

 

 

 

 

 

Tech start up launches app to help kids with Down Syndrome at maths. #Apps

It is good to see apps like these appear and with the digital age now helping in health more and more it also flourishes for kids with Down Syndrome with more apps becoming available to assist in the well-being of children this new start up called Enabling Play who was co-founded by brother and sister Will Jessop and Cara Jessop,the new app is called Millie Moreorless and is available for iPhone and iPad.

Nominet trust reports..

The game is based on pioneering scientific research in the field of Magnitude, our instinctive ability to identify whether one quantity is ‘more or less’ than another – without counting. This ability is believed by some scientists to be the foundation of all subsequent maths learning. However, research has revealed that children with Down Syndrome often experience significant developmental delays in this area. By helping players improve their magnitude sense, its creators believe their game will lay a foundation for children to learn the maths skills they will need to be independent in adult life.

Cara Jessop and Will Jessop, the co-founders of Enabling Play, say “Designing Millie Moreorless has been an incredibly rewarding experience. We believe that by allowing ourselves to be led by the young people themselves, we have created a game that is fun, engaging and inclusive. It is so important to bring players of all abilities into the mainstream. If we can help children with Down Syndrome get better at maths and lay the foundation for greater independence in adult life, then we will all benefit as a society.”

Features

– A fun environment for practising more and less
– A clear learning curve
– Easy to monitor a player’s progress
– Based on scientific research
– Designed and tested with children with Down’s Syndrome

– 5 worlds to explore
– Lots of rewards to collect along the way
– Free-play area inside Millie’s backpack
– Beautiful artwork by Nick Stoney
– Original soundtrack by Sam Swallow of the Hoosiers

Child –friendly design

– No third-party advertising
– No in-app purchases
– No social media integration

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Prepare for Impact. A new gaming app to learn Aircraft safety. #Gaming #Aircraft #Safety

This is a pretty cool idea although for some it could be a bit morbid but however its a good idea,Whenever we hop on-board a plane on our holidays we always get the drill from the cabin crew but how many of us actually pay attention to them?? This app is akin to that but you can learn from home from the comfort of your device be it a mobile phone or tablet,Within the app you can be asked questions on what to do when something goes wrong and then you can act out certain incidents that can happen. On starting up the challenge you will have to go through a tutorial on navigation with your device to get comfortable with the tasks ahead.

The object of the game in short is to brush up on knowledge should such an incident arise and it is a great idea which may spawn more similar apps. Incidents which feature on the app are Boarding the plane,Runway Overrun,Water Landing,Ground collision and crash landing..

Description.

This 3D game has been developed in the context of an international, aviation safety research project (http://hcilab.uniud.it/aviation), aimed at exploring possible new approaches to safety education.

The game reproduces the experience of real-world aircraft emergencies from the passenger’s viewpoint, with the highest fidelity allowed by today’s mobile devices. In each virtual emergency experience, the player can try first-hand right and wrong actions that a passenger can take, and see the positive or negative consequences those actions have.

Your goal is to take all the right decisions to come out from the plane unharmed as fast as possible.

The game also offers the option of publishing your best evacuation results on world leaderboards.

The different levels of “Prepare for Impact” depict major types of emergencies, such as in-flight decompression, ground collision, runway overrun, water landing, and crash landing. Moreover, they are able to simulate the different threats that can make aircraft evacuation more complex, such as fire, smoke in the cabin, water, unusable exits, and others.

Get the best car insurance with Cheap Car Insurance Ireland app.. #IrishApps #Insurance

Searching for car insurance is a pain and to top that off finding the best deal is another matter,we can of course use brokers or comparison sites but personally I think searching yourself if better,this app aims to do this by providing it all under one roof from the comfort of your phone. PK Solutions has before brought us apps in the past such as Fashion Goddess  GAA 32 counties and Holiday Search 

This time round the latest instalment is called Cheap Car Insurance Ireland App..and it is free to download now on Android.. Car Insurance Ireland App helps you quickly and easily find not only the best price car insurance quote for you but also the best quality and value insurance deal. Get quotes & purchases from over 25 of Ireland’s top insurance companies.. The app is simple to use and simple to navigate so users will have no issues getting around the app..

Chill,Aviva,Axa.Allianz,No Nonsense.AIB.Post Insurance,It’s 4 Women,Quote Me,Zurich,FBD,Liberty Insurance,Campion,Quote Devil,AA,123.ie,AIG,Britton Insurance,Blue Insurance,4 The Lads,25 Plus,Top Quote,Insure 4 Less,CoverMe.ie,Cornmarket,Cover In A Click,Quoteline,Best Quote Brokers and XS Direct.

Note

Car Insurance Ireland are not affiliated with any of the above companies and are not an insurance provider.
This app aims to bring all the very best insurance providers in Ireland together in the one place for you to find the best value and quote.Download the app below.

 

 

Create professional logos on your mobile phone in minutes with #LogoFoundry #Apps

If you are in business or own a company you should have a logo,there is plenty of free tools to do so on the web and there is also apps that can assist in creating logos too or you can go the pro route and pay big fees for a logo to be created,With this app from Logo Foundry you can create a logo for free and not only do you have the obvious basics to pick from which are pre-loaded the app has layer management built in.There is over 6000 icons and logos to pick from in total so there is an abundance of choice here.What also is different here is that not only do you have the plain horizontal or vertical text layouts we see in other image editing apps, you can have curved and waved too..

App features include..

3000+ Symbols, Shapes & Icons categorised by Industry
– Easy search function that lets you search for symbols by keywords
– Advanced text editing tools that let’s you create beautiful typography for the logo
– Support for advanced text layouts such as Circular Text & Wavy Text
– Professional layer management functions that let’s you work on logos at ease
– Export to Transparent PNG or Flat JPG files
– Ability to Save, Restore and Reuse logo templates along with their layers

Logo Foundry say.. Logo Foundry is designed with ease of use in mind and hence can be used by both professional designers and people without prior design experience to create custom, creative and beautiful looking logos in a matter of minutes.

It is a really neat app and its now free on Android and iOS get them below.. The app is quite big at 69 MB so ensure a Wi-Fi connection rather than data if you are limited to allowance.There is IAPs and ads and you can unlock buy paying €7.92 or remove the ads only for €3.39.Not a bad price to pay in fairness.

 

 

 

St Patrick’s Festival 2016 App on Android and iOS. #StPatricksDay #StPaddys #Ireland

St Patrick’s Day is almost upon us and we surely will want to enjoy the festivities that are on offer,and I’m pretty sure all our visitors will that will flock to Ireland to celebrate the occasion.Thankfully there is now an app to use which is free on Android and iOS which does all this for you and its quite a nice app too and looks rather well.The App is called St Patrick’s Festival 2016 and we will leave direct links below for you to download onto your device..There is also a website to check out too so pop over there and have a look check the source link below.

 

 App description. 

This St. Patrick’s Festival app provides all the information you need to enjoy the four days of festivities from March 17th to March 20th 2016. Covering all the major events happening in Dublin..

– full event listings,
– a live feed of the parade,
– an interactive map
– twitter and Facebook integration
– and new for 2016, the St. Patrick’s Festival Photo Gallery and Photo Competitions – be part of the St. Patrick’s Festivities and share your fun. Upload your own photo through the St. Patrick’s Festival App and appear in the Gallery and be in with a chance to win some fabulous prizes.

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Is this the dumbest app ever launched? It seems like it. #PeepleApp

Last year an app called Peeple which is basically an app that anyone can publicly rate anyone else was in the news and it got plenty off attention THE WRONG ATTENTION. But you need to join though which is some relief and to join you need to use your Facebook account and phone number which can give some sense of security but this does not address FAKE accounts and they claim  “Character as a new form of currency.” Well so far that does not seem to be the case on their FACEBOOK account enjoy reading the comments there..

There is not much more that can be said on this really but somehow it has been allowed onto iTunes,why is there a need for such a silly app when we have the likes of LinkedIn where we can all get along peacefully? Peeple is really an app that brings many others together that do the same thing but in the most unrealistic way. Check out the video below.

I you want to download the app you can search for it,It has to be the dumbest app I have ever seen launched.. Peeple now plan to monetize on negativity by introducing a “Truth Licence” which means you pay them and they will let you see whatever people have written about you “Bad or Good”.   Jesus Wept! 

Tell us what you think below.  For now the app is on iOS but due to launch on Android soon…