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EACH WEEK, WE highlight five apps that are worth downloading for your smartphone and tablet. There are a lot of apps released on a daily basis, but not all of them are worth paying attention to.
This week features a relaxing ski down the slopes, instant messaging based around drawings, and new motivation to get all those tasks done.
QUICKIE
For: iOS, Android
Cost: Free
- Remember LokLok from a few months ago? If you don’t, it allowed you to draw messages on your lock screen for your friends to see.
- That’s the same principle Quickie follows, except think of it as a way to messages while using GIFs.
- It’s pretty simple to use, and once you read a message, it’s instantly deleted. Also, if you don’t check them within 24 hours, they’re also deleted.
- Although one area that’s worth noting is it requires you to pick your 9 best friends, sending them invites if they’re not using it. That may annoy a few people so just be wary (alternatively, just pick landline numbers if you already have a number of them on your phone).
- However, once you get a few friends on board, you’re going to have a lot of fun with this.
Lumific
For: Android
Cost: Free
- Chances are you take a lot of photos with your phone, but if you’re constantly snapping, then it’s likely that some of them are quite similar.
- Lumific is a smart organiser that groups similar photos together so they’re easier to find, and you have a shorter list to go through.
- Tapping on any group expands them so you can view them again, in case you really need to check them again.
- Selecting a photo will cause it to be automatically enhanced, alongside the usual editing features that are included.
- A useful photo app that’s more than what it appears to be.
Powder – Alpine Simulator
For: iOS
Cost: Free
- We should probably start this off by saying this is an incredibly relaxing game, despite one that gets hard very quickly.
- Power is an endless runner all about skiing, but instead of going from left to right, you’re going down a slope.
- Movement is done by swiping left and right, although you can’t swipe too hard as you will lose control very easily.
- You will crash a lot, but the nature of the game means you won’t mind near as much as you should. You can pay for the privilege of playing as a bear if you want, if you want to support the developer (and to be fair, it is fun to see him crash).
- A fun and relaxing game that is a breeze to play but tough to master.
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PhotoScrambler
For: Windows Phone
Cost: Free
- Keeping your photos safe and secure used to be limited to just your lock screen pin or password. Now there are numerous apps out there that will keep each portion of your phone safe
- As the name suggests, PhotoScrambler protects your images from prying eyes using a number of methods
- You can encode your images, take encoded photos within the app to give them extra protection or add custom codes, colours and descriptions that will scramble your photos if someone tries to access them.
- It isn’t exactly straightforward to use, it’s better to give yourself some time to explore it first before you do anything. It works with your normal photo and cloud services so it’s not entirely isolated.
- Should you need to give your photos an extra layer of security, give it a whirl.
Complete
For: iOS
Cost: Free
- Keeping up new tasks is difficult at the best of times, especially if you set a New Year’s Resolution
- Complete is all about sharing what you need to get done, and getting motivation from friends, family and strangers.
- By sharing any task you need to get done, people can help you out and you can return the favour as well.
- For those worried about having to share everything, there’s a private mode included so you only have to share the tasks you need help or motivation for.
- Should you need a regular boost for certain tasks, it might be useful to have this on the go.
What a time to be alive…
Wait for LGBT groups to demand their LGBT Paddy’s day bags.
That’s a pretty cool looking bag of crisps !
When’s the 1916 pack coming?
Next year
Brilliant, love it…why don’t others follow suit and keep it that way not just for the centenary, would be lovely to be truly Irish even in the EU, the Brits manage it!
They better make sure these southern taytos don’t make it north of the border or world war 3 will ensue!!
Brilliant Spud !!
Tacky Tayto!
What !! Will they have 19.16 grams like the normal bags ha ha
Coming home for Paddy’s Day. Will be shoving a few multi-packs of these in my luggage before I leave
Can dress them in any bag they want, they’re still disgusting!!
Get out. And leave your passport on the table by the door.
Yum
F*cking pr*ck!
I smell a Walker traitor.
Not a walker traitor, I live the salt and vinegar tayto but the cheese and onion are disgusting. Over flavoured, horrible taste, leaves your breath stinking and a horrible after taste for hours. Never took them
So u hate cheese and onion there… disgusting, Over flavoured, leave a horrible taste, leaves your breath stinking and a horrible after taste for hours. And you’ve Never took them. ok so
Never took *to* them
What about smokey bacon? Ready salted?
1916 bag be useless ir have a split in it and all the crisps would fall out
It’s starting to feel like the beginning of Paddy’s day in New York… Then realise.. It’s going to last all year
I’ll take your Cavan Cola and raise you a Tanora!
Am I the only one who gets annoyed when Irish people call ‘Patrick’s day’ ‘Paddy’s day’….
Maybe..
Cool
Was it for this the 1916 leaders died….. Yes
It’s tastefully tacky lol. ..
Rubbish.
Ffs, I just willingly read a blatant advertisement disguised as an actual story. My bad..
Taste like beer mats.
Stop the press!
Tip: Buy a tonne of these when they come out, seal them away somewhere safe and sell them off in twenty/thirty years time for serious profit.
Sliced potatoes. What a treat. I’d prefer a steak.
I look forward to seeing these little tricolours strewn all over the backroads of the country. #proudtobeirish
Lots of lovely processed shyte all wrapped up in green white and orange bag.
Great marketing ! Now can you remove the msg from your product ! Then you will be perfect Mr Tayto
Will they be sold in the north I wonder
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