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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 Google’s answer to your photo woes, a guide to getting you started with exercises, and a rather classy way to organise your day.
Google Photos
For: iOS, Android
Cost: Free
- This is a strange one. If you already have an Android device, you will have photos already (it’s an update), but it’s a pretty significant update so we’re placing it here.
- If you’re familiar with the layout of photos on iPhone, you’ll know what to expect here in terms of presentation, but there’s more to it than that.
- It’s able to recognise photos so you can search for them, even if it doesn’t have a description, and will detect what photos you’ve saved online so your phone always has space free.
- For those using only their phones to shoot photos, there’s unlimited storage for normal photos. Original photos (those from DSLRs) have 15GB of space to play around with.
- It’s far from perfect, but if you’re on Android, it’s a much-needed improvement.
Pinpoint
For: iOS
Cost: Free
- Find yourself screenshotting your phone and sending them onto other people for whatever reason? This adds an extra layer to that concept.
- Pinpoint is a newer version of an old app called Bugshot but the concept is still the same, add extra annotations to any screenshots you take.
- Taking all of your screenshots together, you can add text, draw arrows and boxes and, blur out certain aspects before you save or send it.
- When you’re finished, you can get rid of the old screenshot so it doesn’t take up space.
- For those who want to give their screenshots more life.
Moleskine Timepage
For: iOS
Cost: €4.99
- There’s something about Moleskine’s notepads and journals that are classy, even if they aren’t necessarily better, and while that’s difficult to recreate on a smartphone screen, that isn’t stopping it from releasing its own app.
- Moleskin Timepage is a calendar app which is both minimalist and gorgeous to look at. Everything is bright, clear to look at and cleanly presented.
- It only displays a list of upcoming days, even days where you have nothing planned, which may put some people off, but for those who like to focus on each day as it comes.
- If you can get past that, it integrates weather, maps and contacts to create a more comprehensive scheduler.
- It’s expensive, but the benefits are worth it if you’re all about day-to-day management.
Perfect Workout
For: Windows Phone
Cost: Free
- Although summer hasn’t exactly arrived yet (in weather terms), it’s as good a time as any to start exercising more and get a routine going.
- Perfect Workout is all about that and provides more than 100 exercises included so you’re not stuck with the same routine.
- All exercises come with their own animations to show you how to perform them, taking the confusion out of them.
- If you need to focus on a specific area, there are twelve exercise packs to help you get started and you can keep track of all your activity through weekly graphs.
- For those who are unsure what exercises they should do, this is a good place to start.
Sword of Xolan
For: iOS
Cost: €0.99
- The app stores are awash with pixel art games, but good looks do not equal a good game. It’s something many similar games falter with.
- Sword of Xolan, on the other hand, is a great action platformer which combines both style and gameplay effortlessly.
- The controls are precise, and it’s easy to pick up and play. There’s also a nice combination of virtual buttons and swipe gestures to help you navigate each level.
- The levels and obstacles you face show a lot of imagination and keeps things varied, yet the same can’t be said about the boss fights. Still, that’s a minor blip on what is an accomplished game
- One of the best action platform games you can get for iOS.
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Bertie Ahern is iffy.
That would have been enough.
If gardai are so different. They shouldn’t be included in the LRA. They have wanted to be a stand alone. The government can’t keep saying they are the same as every other public service
Berty would have just got out his blankety blank cheque book and pen!
Bertie should be in jail end of.it just shows how much of a failed country ireland is when the man that caused the most severe economic collapse in the country is still getting his opinions published on media well done journal you keep out doing yourselves all the time.
Bertie had his day look at the mess of our country because of ff policy snakes is what they are.they should be stripped of their pensions not on here giving their irrelevant opinions.Bertie the dinosaur that sold his country down the tube with the help of his fg and liebour buddies.never forget about these three most corrupt partys this country has ever seen.gombeen politicians is what they are.
I didn’t read this article because I could care less about what Bertie Aherne thinks. He’s still robbing us by accepting his huge pension. You can bet he has a bank account for that!
Berty Ahearn is iffy in every way. He knows all about screwing up a country !
Pensions ( about 6) not pension
Here here!
Always be weary of a man who pronounces there as “dare” and three as”tree”
would he suggest the imf to sort it out shut up
We pay Bertie about eight times the average wage as a thank you for his years of making a hames of running the country. Is it too much to ask for him just to fukc off and stop bothering us?
Lol. Brilliant.
More BS from the this over pensioned spoofer
Why is this toerag popping up in the press allot lately.
Exactly this piece of corrupt sh*t shouldn’t be anywhere near the airwaves. That’s this yokes in RTE for ou, why would anyone pay those leeches a tv licence?
@PaulJ: I managed not to for years, but I was caught a couple of years ago and received a court summons where I was told Id be fined 1000s if I didn’t pay up.
I now pay the f**kers €13 a month for not ever tuning in to RTE, ever.
Irish president job nearing
I completely agree. This f***er has had his eye on the Park for years.
Typical Bertie speak
“I’m iffy”
“I’m not sure”
The man can never talk straight.
The man of the unfinished sentence.
“I don’t really think, you see the point is, sure look it, ”
He waffles and waffles and waffles without ever really saying anything.
I guess that’s how he survived in politics.
‘Sure look it’ is a phrase when used by Irish politicians makes my blood boil. It means ‘I don’t really mean what I say and sure, ye all know the craic wink wink’
Gas, Bertie would know all about “iffyness”,he’s been the master of it
No shocks there. All he ever done was chat out ten sides of his mouth
@Stephen Todd: Does that mean he spoke with a forked tongue??? lmao !!
Jesus wept . This gobsheen gangster back in the news
who actually cares about what this fat miserable old creep has to say abt the economy/industrial relations. lord knows he didnt do a great job himself
Why is something that the fool said even deemed newsworthy?
This is the guy who introduced bench marking of public servants against the private sector and blew most of the ‘boom’ monies on the public service wage bill, increasing it’s size by 20% and buying his way out of industrial relations problems, effectively permanently corrupting the whole system!!!
@winston smith: Thankfully no one’s buying their way out of industrial relations problems these days…
Emmet I hope that’s sarcasm because that’s what just happened with the Gardai.
Why is this failure given airtime?
The only thing I want to know about this Thicko is he no longer robs the state of the pension he does not deserve.
Either that or he died roaring….
It’s all smoke and daggers then along comes Bertie to upset the apple tart.
Trust RTE and that overpaid Woman Finucane to give this wretched creature airtime and for the Journal to give him oxygen. That creep Ahern should be kept our of sight
F#*K Bertie
How is he even allowed to comment!
Bertie you caused this iffy shiite, go back and earn your speach money.
Iffy Bertie ☺
Chuckle aloud ☺
Bertie Ahern Mind Your Own Business – You Helped Destroy Our Country and Have Put Our Country Back Years – Our Garda, Teachers, Doctors, Nurses, Health System, Housing and all of the Hard Working Men and Women plus all the countless most vulnerable people you brought to the brink collapse shame on you!
Why does this guttersnipe have a forum to speak his mind on any subject? His naked, taxidermied vessel should be on display in a junky museum somewhere.
The voice of reason is Bertie.
You left out the T
Why do they even give Bartholomew the air time anyway? His words aren’t even worth the airwaves they’re broadcast on…
The journal loves bertie. Slow news day , wait , we’ll stick in something about bertie. Job done .
Bertie Ahern is nothing short of a national disgrace and a prime example why Fianna Fail needs to be kept out of government as they alone, still won’t hold him accountable.
If even Bertie Ahern – the taoiseach whose capitulation to the trade unions on so many occasions ultimately led to the collapse of the public finances – is concerned about the concessions that the Government made to the Garda unions, then you know we are in trouble.
I’m iffy about that journalist!
Why is this douchebag even getting air time, he’ll be president before we know own it…..let him Rot In Piece
Iffy rhymes with “a fee” which Bertie likes! Why is this windbag still getting air-time?
That bo11ox again
Please please please go back in your cupboard and shut up.
Bent as an s hook,why give this rsehole airtime.
He’s been in the media a lot of late,asking to give an opinion.Is this the start of a campaign to get him back in the political arena?
This man should never be allowed comment on anything
Coming from the biggest crook of them all!
Bertie for Taoiseach
The King of iffy thinks there is something iffy. Nothing iffy about that.
Extraordinary deal? Anyone want to refute it or endorse it? From what I’m hearing it will be rejected and there will be far more trouble coming
Well would’t he be an expert on iffy
Iffy was his politics
He knows iffy the crook
Ahearn is lucky that the FBI aren’t in Ireland.unlike gardai,the FBI go after corrupt politicians
@Kevin Moylan: “— the FBI go after corrupt politicians —”
And yet they seem intent on shoehorning one of the most corrupt persons who ever ran for public office – the Orange Monster Trump – into the Oval Office.
Why is this thing allowed to have an opinion on anything he should be doing time in the joy.
Bertie himself is about as iffy as a three card trick man St Puck Fair.
What the f##k why would anybody care a damn what a dud like Ahern has to say on anything
“The Mahon Report found that Mr Ahern gave untrue evidence about the source of over £215,000 lodged in bank accounts connected to him.” Why is this liar given airtime by the national broadcaster?
Why is he allowed to comment on anything
Wonder if he was as “iffy” about paddy the plasterer’s monies or the sterling he had which he allegedly won on the horses??
Berty Ahern & iffy..three words that fit together perfectly
The gardai were forced into all this.They are different.they didn’t want all this exposure.
“Iffy”?
I’d have said “dodgy”.
But maybe he did win all that money on the nags.
Lol
Oh by the way tell that harris flute that apple ran away with that magic money tree.
Bertie is as bent as any politican currently in the Dail. Dennis O”Brien and Lowery should be still in Mountjoy with this parasite who told folks to ”Hang Themselves” for doubting the ”Celtic Tiger”.
Well these folks have ””Real Blood” on their hands now.
Re repossions via the Eviction Bill supported by most politicians of the main party’s.
FF//FG//Labour are only for big business via banks,vulture funds and no longer care for the working class// middle class ordinary citizens of our Emerald Isle.
Labour has been decimated in the last election and FG lost out big time due to the decimation of the working class.
The only reason treasonous FF gained seats was because of a pre-election promise to abolish Irish Water.
They are now unwilling to state where they stand now following commission started!
Are our politicians ignorant to the hundreds of thousands who oppose these unjust charges?
If so as the Labour party has been obliterated and FG cut down to size,, so too will any political party that ignores the people
Am I missing something here? The Gardai are a domestic law agency, surely it’s not their job ensure the ‘Security of the state’ wouldn’t that be the job of the military or a National Security agency?
Look get a hold on yourselves Bertie said he gave us the money when he had it,when he dident have it he could not give it.,don’t be like spoiled children now stamping your feet just because Bertie had not got the money to buy you an ice cream .!!!lol
Bertie Aherne is iffy. Stop it right there. That is all we know and that is all we need to know. Is there no other criminal with better command of the English language than he whose opinion on the Gardai or anything else you could solicit?
Guards aren’t any more or less important than any other front line services, but we have to use our common sense here. If we don’t give our coppers a decent wage, then they’re more vulnerable to the usual market forces of bribery, blackmail, etc. I don’t want to live in a society where the police are even more deferential to the wealthy than they are now.
Yea you can drive home after 10 pints so long as you can drop 50euro to the young guard who needs to pay his ESB bill before thursday to avoid disconnection.
The race to the bottom is over. The big boys have won.
U gotta love the teflon Taoiseach . Haha.
Was he in fagans half cut when he made that statement.
Why does anyone actually give a shit what Bertie Ahern thinks! He never gave a shit about anyone only himself! Given what happened in this country under his watch and corruption scandals his opinion is irrelevant!
I couldn’t believe when I heard him on RTE this morning. Marian had Pat Rabbit on the panel too. The electorate passed judgement on these politicians, so why is the state broadcaster still giving them a platform?
Who cares what that Muppett thinks???
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