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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 includes an intelligent time assistant, a novel way to get you out of bed and a handy way to get rid of unnecessary apps on Android.
MZR
For: iOS
Cost: Free
- Just to throw a warning out there, this game contains a lot of flashing so if you prone to seizures, it’s best to steer away.
- Now that’s out of the way, MZR is a game all about circuits and mazes. Choose the shortest path by tapping the right destinations in order.
- It’s fast, it’s frantic and the visual style will remind you of many old PC games.
- The time limit keeps you on your toes and you will make mistakes in the heat of the moment, but that’s what makes it fun.
- A fun little game that you can easily dip in and out of.
Wakie
For: Android, Windows Phone
Cost: Free
- Here’s a nice twist to the traditional alarm clock that may just help you get out of bed.
- The draw of Wakie is instead of using a traditional alarm, you’re woken up by someone using the app.
- A call lasts sixty seconds, once that passes, the call is disconnected meaning you don’t have to go through any awkward moments.
- You have to join via Facebook, but once you do, set your alarm and it’s likely someone will wake you up. The makers say that it’s all private and no details are shared between users.
- A fun idea, but have your normal alarm set just in case. Provided you don’t mind talking to a stranger for a minute, it’s quite novel.
Mirage
For: iOS, Android
Cost: Free
- Remember the guys that made the app Yo? You know, the app that only lets you message Yo, remember? Well, they’ve released another app.
- This time, it’s taking inspiration from Snapchat, offering a minimalist photo messaging app.
- This is actually a situation where simplicity is better. Tap on someone to send a photo, hold to send a video. That’s it!
- The big draw is not only its simplicity, but the fact you can message those without the app.
- It doesn’t have the same level of customisation as other apps like Snapchat, but it’s enjoyable if you’re only into quick, instant messaging.
Easy Uninstaller App Uninstall
For: Android
Cost: Free
- This is not an app that’s going to win prizes for its name, but thankfully what it does is far more useful.
- In case the name didn’t give it away, Easy Uninstaller App Uninstall (EUAU) gives you an alternative method of managing your apps.
- The process of uninstalling apps on Android is unnecessarily longwinded to do, but EUAU does make it so much easier to complete.
- You can sort them by battery usage or app usage, the latter showing you which apps you rarely use.
- If you find yourself installing apps regularly, but running out of space, EUAU will certainly help.
Timeful
For: iOS
Cost: Free
- Timeful describes itself as the “intelligent Time assistant” and claims to use behavioural science to help you complete tasks.
- You start off by entering any task you need done, but instead of just having a general to-do list, it uses algorithms to help you prioritise.
- The app learns from your past plans, responses to suggestions and what you achieve to help create better scheduling recommendations in the future.
- Eventually, once you have used it enough times, it will be able to place to-do suggestions at the best times, ensuring you start forming good habits.
- If you’re finding it difficult to keep up with daily tasks, this is for you.
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Re 50 Shades
I’ve said it before I’ll say it again If I wanted to watch a poorly written movie with a cast of unknowns and badly acted, unrealistic sex scenes I just watch actual porn.
Do girl.
Down to with this sort of thing!
There’s people coming from gdansk to see the film!
Ah in fairness the people from Gdansk are probably here to collect the social welfare and going to the cinema to kill time before the flight home.
Looking forward to film version of Fionnuala O’Carroll-Kelly’s ‘Fifty Greys in Shades’
“Why go to the cinema to watch other people have sex? It’s perverted. If I go to the cinema I want to be entertained”
In the olden days couples were known to ‘do it’ on the floor in the back row of the balcony seats in the Leinster Cinema in Dolphins Barn, giving much entertainment to us young lads.
I’m looking forward to it actually, hope its in 3 D too
The sequel is already in production – 50 Shaves a Day starring Susan Boyle!
In the words of Family Guy’s Glen Quagmire: “Giggidy gigidy al…rite…”
”Why go to the cinema to watch other people have sex? It’s perverted. If I go to the cinema I want to be entertained.”
Guess what Mary? A hell of a lot of people find sex entertaining. And (you may need to sit down for this one) a very large percentage of the 100 million copies of FSOG sold were to women, as is the target audience for the film. That’s a lot of lady perverts. But the good news for you is Shaun The Sheep is on. The clean version.
I’ve s feeling film is going to gratuitous just for the sake of it.
More ebbing away of Ireland’s mortality
Gary seriously get a hobby for yourself. Sick of your comments on nearly every article.
Ireland’s morality has been eroded by the very people who were preaching it. An organisation that was rife with child molesters, paedophiles, people who would abuse physically, mentally and sexually and then get up on an altar and tell people how they live their lives. Sorry now but a film/book about sex is not going to destroy this country.
I think Gary Gary is from one of them groups that dress women up from head to toe to cover them up for morality reasons. Yet when they get home they 50 shades the women where people can’t see them or judge them. It’s the 21st century Gary Gary come into the light my friend.
Mortality btw is about death. Morality is about morals fyi..
Gary
I’m surprised you’re posting comments here, I though you’d be at Mass!
Pat the only problem with what you said there is that people i.e the clergy did those things. It never said in the bible to abuse children and I do think there needs to be a separation there. But yes a lot of bad people preached one thing and did another and as a result hurt the church, country and people. Not all but some.
We’ll said Pat
Sex is not evil, immoral or a negative, we are the most sexualised and social beings on this earth. The head of the human penis is shaped like so to plunge other semen out of the vagina, we think about and have Sex More than any other animal, our biology shows that sex was used to strengthen bonds, people that love an old book have made us feel guilty of these natural “immoral” urges, wish they’d get a grip and stop trying to legislate nonsense on other people, feel free to flagellate yourselves though.
Save yourself a tenner: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2322441/plotsummary?ref_=tt_stry_pl
Would you watch your sister in a porn movie skippy?
“Austerity in Ireland ended more than 12 months ago.” Good one, isn’t not the whole of the eurozone in austerity because it was aimed at the currency rather than countries and this led to countries being in worst austerity than the Euro. How can the Eurozone have a currency that is in austerity and the countries using it are not, I find that confusing?
Time to do away with the whip system in government ,I say!
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