The Surprisingly Easy App of the Week: AroundMe

Each week, we bring you an app that’ll make your life surprisingly easy. This week, we’re going to help you find important stuff in your vicinity with AroundMe. What is it? AroundMe uses your phone’s GPS to find banks, cash machines, petrol stations, hotels, supermarkets, cinemas, bars and plenty more …

27/11/2014

Chris Smith

Which tablet should you buy this Christmas? Hereâ€™s your answer!

Christmas is coming, although you probably know that thanks to a near-constant barrage of adverts, Christmas songs and blog posts telling you so (sorry…). Anyway, now is probably a good time to get your present list together. We know that you’ve still got 5 weeks to go shopping, but we …

19/11/2014

Chris Smith

Tech

The Surprisingly Easy App of the Week: Pocket

Every week, we bring you an app that’ll make your life easier. This week, it’s the turn of Pocket, an app that promises to declutter the internet and leave you with only the good bits. Sounds like our kind of app! What is it? Pocket allows you to save articles, …

13/11/2014

Chris Smith

Novemberâ€™s New Releases

With temperatures dropping (supposedly) and the nights getting longer, the entertainment gods have rewarded us with a bumper crop of new releases this month. In fact, there are so many new releases this month that we’ve decided to change the format of our round-up slightly; just click on one of …

03/11/2014

Chris Smith

4 incredibly fun new mobile games

There’s a whole world of games sitting in your mobile phone, just waiting to be played. Unfortunately, finding the decent games among the hordes of clones, rip-offs and generally awful titles is a momumental task that would cause most people to break down in tears and swear off gaming for …

30/10/2014

Chris Smith

This month in tech: round-up

Find it difficult to keep up with the fast-paced world of technology? Well, don’t worry: here’s the best of this month’s technology news in one handy blog post. Apple release a brand new iPad After last month’s massive iPhone 6 launch, you could have forgiven Apple for taking the month …

30/10/2014

Chris Smith

Tech

How to motivate yourself for a half-term decluttering session

Half-term is a great time to declutter; you’ve got a week of free time with no need to run the kids to school, go to lessons or go to lectures. Unfortunately, it’s difficult to motivate yourself to clean when the alternative is sitting around watching TV all day. We sympathise …

24/10/2014

Chris Smith

Are we getting bored of our smartphones?

We’ve published quite a lot of posts on smartphone addiction recently, including a quiz that’ll tell you just how addicted to your phone you are (which you can take by clicking this link). However, a recent study by American company Comcast suggests that most of us aren’t quite as addicted …

24/10/2014

Chris Smith

Tech

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