Posts tagged with ‘lifestyle’

Do some good in 5mins

Neat use of mobile from Orange RockCorps. Their ‘Do Some Good’ iPhone app allows you to complete bite-size actions - taking photos, completing surveys, etc - to help projects and charities via the app.

The Do Some Good app is free on App Store.

Moooooonpig—dot-com! (iPhone)

The makers of personalised greeting cards (and one of TVs most brilliantly horrible, but infectious TV ad jingles - altogether now, ‘mooooooonpig—dot-com’) have hit the iPhone.

You can now create and order your birthday, Christmas and Valentines cards with customised photos and text from the comfort of your own phone. Nice idea.

Streetcar (iPhone)

If you’re a member of pay-as-you-go car club Streetcar and you have an iPhone, then you need to get the Streetcar app.

Use it to find out where the nearest car is, see if it’s available, reserve it, get photos of where the car is actually parked and then even use it to unlock the car doors!

Streetcar for iPhone is free on App Store.

Nigella Lawson’s Quick Collection (iPhone)

Nigella Lawson hits the iPhone with her ‘Quick Collection’ app. 70 recipes, 60 are taken from her best selling recipe books (How To Eat, How To Be A Domestic Goddess, Nigella Bites and Nigella Express) and 10 are new and exclusive to this app.

Looks very nice (though doesn’t feel quite as well put together as Jamie Oliver’s 20min Meals iPhone app) and does everything you’d expect from a half decent cooking recipe app - there’s some nice video, photos, etc - but the voice control feature for moving through a recipe without having to touch your iPhone is a nice touch.

Nigella Quick Collection for iPhone is £1.19 on App Store.

Gardening all year round with Charlie Dimmock (iPhone)

Charlie Dimmock comes to the aid of all budding gardeners with her brand new Four Seasons Gardening app.

The green fingered gardening goddess of TV has loaded up the app with a stack of tips and video guides to ensure your garden is kept looking tip top right through from Spring to Winter… and all for just over a quid. Bargain.

A smart app from a smart supermarket

Hats off to Waitrose for coming up with an app that’s more than just an mobile ordering tool and store finder.

They’ve designed an app that offers up nice recipes and cooking tools (conversion calculators, cooking times for meat, how to vids) in addition to the usual shopping list and special offer promotions you’ll find in other supermarket apps.

The iPhone Waitrose app is free on App Store.

Save yourself a few quid with Vouchercloud (iPhone)

Bag yourself a discount or two at shops and restaurants with Vouchercloud. Install the app, fire it up and it’ll tell you waht deals are available near you.

Vouchercloud for iPhone is free on App Store.