Posts tagged with ‘app’

The social weather app that is going down a storm! Weathermob for iPhone

We’re not the first to highlight the newest social meets weather iPhone app, Weathermob - it’s already triggered an interesting debate on Wired and been featured by Guardian, Cult of Mac and Appadvice.

With the weather being THE most universal of conversation topics, the winter quickly drawing in and the collective mood changing with the season, the release of this app couldn’t have been timed better.

The app takes a whole new approach to weather - it has your hour-by-hour weather forecast data as you’d expect, but it’s the first time the human/social element has been layered on in a clever and interesting way, allowing you to make your own reports adding text, photo, video or simply using the nicely designed reporting icons for weather, mood and mood badge (take your pick from snowmen, penguins, ice creams and more).

You can choose to see reports from all over the world or those just local to you and it has Facebook and Twitter integration built in, so finding and following your friends is a breeze!

Very cool, looks slick and it’s free - so a must try for anyone who has ever had anything to say about the weather… which is everyone, right?

Weathermob for iPhone in free on App Store

Discover fashion on the move with ASOS’ new app (iPhone/iPad)

ASOS, leading online global fashion retailer, has joined the likes of Ocado in rolling out a well thought through and excellently designed bespoke app that makes shopping on your mobile a genuine option.

ASOS launched their mobile web store back in October ‘10 which was OK, it did a job and was usable, but was very much a poor cousin to the online shopping experience found on the main ASOS.com site.

This new iPhone/iPad app from ASOS really steps it up a gear, after a noticeable but reasonable initial load time you’re able to view browse the thousands of products easily drilling down by category, trend or search. The product thumbnail images are big and clear enough to be useful, but what’s great is the pinch zoom function allowing you to get right in on the detail of images.

The navigation and differently functionality is all very intuitive, load times for new product to load seems VERY snappy and the app syncs all of your personal ASOS account info meaning that you’re able to see your saved items, add to basket, pay for and track your orders right from the app (though I did notice an initial glitch where it emptied my entire basket on first login - putting this down to teething problems). 

ASOS keeping true to their innovative reputation, already fashion industry front runners in social media and now stealing a march on their rivals when it comes to mobile with an extremely good app.

ASOS app for iPhone and iPad is free from the app store.

Television, drug of the nation. Control your habit with Rowmote [iPhone/iPad]

For anyone that uses a mac/PC for their TV needs, here are two things well worth checking out.

Firstly a great tip (lifted from Lifehacker) on how you can use your mac as a PVR… ‘How to Automatically Download TV Shows as Soon as They’ve Aired (or Turn Your Mac/PC into a TiVo)’ - full info here.

Secondly - if like me you’re on the eternal quest to minimise the need for physical movement - then you need to check out Rowmote.

Rowmote is a simple app that allows you to use your iPhone as a remote control giving you control over a massive range of apps on your mac. Plus, with the upgrade to Rowmote Pro you get full trackpad and keyboard control too.

Works really well, reduces the need to move off the sofa, what’s not to like?

Rowmote for iPhone and iPad is 59p, Rowmote Pro for iPhone and iPad is £2.99 from app store.

Read it Later (iPhone/iPad)

Read it Later is, err, very much like Instapaper. You can save stuff to read later… hence the name.

Read it Later has a free version and also a pro version for £2.99. Available for both iPhone and iPad on App Store.

Instapaper (iPhone/iPad)

Instapaper lets you save ‘stuff’ so that you can read them later, offline. Stuff generally being web pages, interesting blog posts, articles, etc that you really want to read, just not right now.

It’s also being incorporated into a lot of websites/mobile apps too as a useful feature.

The Instapaper mobile app lets you read the stuff that you’ve saved on your phone - and once your stuff is downloaded you can read it offline (underground, on a plane, etc, etc).

Trainyard (iPhone)

To get the trains to the right stations you’ll need to master timing, colour blending, switching of tracks and more.

This has a bit of a slow start, but really needs to in order to teach the different fundamentals you’ll need to complete the more advanced stages. Keep with it as it soon starts to become quite addictive.

Trainyard Express for iPhone is free.
Trainyard for iPhone is £1.79.