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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 round calendars, bare-bones radio and surviving in an alien world.
Flyperlink
For: Android
Cost: Free (€1.02 for full version)
- Android has a number of floating browser apps out there. Linkbubble and Flynx are the most well known examples out there but there are others worth your attention.
- Flyperlink is one of them and while it may seem like it’s Linkbubble under a different name (and it kinda is under the free version), the full version includes a wide range of customisation features.
- For one, you can open up links as a popup instead of a full window, handy for those who have large screen phones or tablets, and it can function on top of the lockscreen as well.
- The app itself also shows you a history of all the links you’ve opened up with the app, should you need to find a page again.
- A handy browser tool for those who like having web pages available at all times.
Rolo Calendar
For: iOS
Cost: Free
- Calendar apps tend to follow the same look. Maybe a general view of the month, combined with a ‘what happening today’ schedule, and linkup with other calendars.
- Rolo Calendar opts for a more visual look by placing your entire schedule in a circle.
- You can view your calendar by day, by week, or by year. All entries are colour-coded so you know what you’re looking at.
- As far as an overview is concerned, cycling through your day or week is straightforward and provided you don’t overload it with entries of the same colour, your schedule is clear at a glance.
- For those who find traditional calendars a little too boring or inaccessible.
Transistor
For: Android
Cost: Free
- If you’re looking for radio stations, there’s no shortage of apps like TuneIn Radio to choose from but what if you want something a little more basic.
- Transistor is a bare-bones radio app that allows you to add radio stream that are encoded in MP3 and OGG.
-Adding in radio streams is a matter of either searching for the streaming links in your web browser and opening them with Transistor, or typing in the URL directly (the former is far easier by the way).
- Instead of saving a database, the app saves stations on your phone’s external storage so you’re only have the ones you want to listen to.
- It’s basic but if you’re tired of clutter, it’s a welcome break from it.
AirMail
For: iOS
Cost: €4.99
- There haven’t really been many mail apps that have done something different. You have to think back to the likes of Mailbox introducing swiping options (that was quickly picked up by others) as one.
- AirMail is an app designed for email power-users who want high levels of customisation. It can sync up with the usual email clients but it’s what you can do with it that matters.
- You could see it as a better-designed version of the standard mail app on iOS and you would be partially right. The design is simple and effective, and moving between different sections is quick.
- It also integrates with many different apps and services like Dropbox, Google Drive, Pocket and others.
- If you already use the Mac version, getting this is a no-brainer.
Crashlands
For: iOS, Android
Cost: €4.99
- Imagine a game that combines Minecraft with a number of other survival games and set it on an alien planet? The answer to that would probably be Crashlands.
- While it is a vast and complex game, Crashlands doesn’t exactly throw you into the deep end at the beginning. The presentation and humour eases you into it so you’re not entirely lost.
- When you do get into the swing of things by crafting tools, weapons and armour, exploring can be vast and sometimes unforgiving. Thankfully if you keep your wits about you, you can avoid being quickly killed by the wildlife.
- All actions are done via taps and while fighting is handled rather well. You can see where enemies are going to attack by a flashing red circle so provided you act quickly, you can dodge and counter.
- Those looking for a survival game with a nice amount of humour and fun, you’ll find a lot to like here (and you can sync it with your PC/Mac version as well).
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The authorities really need to rein this practice in
If 6500 horses were slaughtered for their meat with Dept of Agriculture approval, where is the market for this meat and is it sold as stated ie horse meat for human consumption so the purchaser is aware of exactly what it is they are buying ,my concern naturally is that it is being sold as beef.Additionally what health record is kept of these animals prior to slaughter, I assume the same standards relating to beef apply and the same age profile of animals ie 36 months at slaughter is also the rule and that these animals are veterinary assessed through their lives.
@Honeybee: horse meat is popular on the continent, that’s where it usually goes from factories here. Horses are to have a record of all medications on their passports, are are listed as either on or off the human consumption lists, depending on the medications and owners preferences. They do not require testing for tb, which is the biggest testing for cattle. No age profile, as this was brought in for cattle due to the instances of bse in older stock.
@Honeybee: fact is that veterinary standards for horses going to the factory is more stringent than that of cattle
@Liam Carlin: are more stringent
Giddy up
Would want to be a very fast horse nowadays not to get eaten.
What’s a microship?
@Doz: A boat
@Peter: A very small ship
@Doz: It’s a small ferry-shaped object used subcutaneously to identify an animal; not to be confused with a microchip, a large silicon wafer used to transport people and goods between islands. Confusingly, microchips sometimes carry animals carrying microships. :)
@Doz: I think they come with pocket battleship.
We’re already eating chlorinated chicken from Brazil, just labelled “Made in Ireland” as it’s cooked, sliced, diced and packaged here.
Shergar burger anyone !!.
@tommytukamomo: A stallion should never be mixed with a scallion
It seems unbelievably crude
That the kindred of Shergar
Could get mixed in a burger
In Monaghan’s Silvercrest food
Why the long face?
Ate the goverment asleep?? And the ESB scandal went unnoticed also
Is there a health risk with eating horse meat?
@Coco86: It’s not great for the horse…
@Coco86: No, if the horse is/has been checked by Veterinary professional at time of slaughter.
@Coco86: yes, in that it’s not traceable and so is not properly regulated.
@Coco86: Yes , if the horse has been on certain medications , the horse is not considered fit for human consumption. Horses are meant to be chipped and if given those meds , that would need to be recorded on their passport .
@Coco86: it was reported on the news that the horses were unfit for human consumption hence the falsifying of paperwork.
@Coco86: ya can get the trots
Springer’s final thought;
Who was supplying incorrectly labelled horsemeat throughout Europe?
Mafia et al.
Who do they need to get rid of?
Lots of people who may negatively impact profits.
What did folk not test for in meat samples?
Human DNA.
Let that one sink in over dinner folks ;)
Well horse, how’s she cuttin’.
What’s with the long face sir? Not enjoying ur burger?
Meat products like certain foods say may contain nuts etc … Should say may contain other meats .
Does anyone actually regularly buy horse meat?
@Hardly Normal: its popular on the continent not so much here.
@Hardly Normal: I lived in Holland around 2003 and someone told me they were into it over there.. I was a vegetarian at the time so I didnt investigate it further..haha…but that’s as far as my horse eating knowledge goes..
@Hardly Normal: the belgians
It appears that the journal.ie don’t want certain establishments mentioned
Free press is certainly not alive and well where these shower are concerned
@builditnow: well let’s just say the biggest restraunt in Ireland
Have certainly brough their chickens home to roost all the way from twiwan
All the laughs and Jokes and many stupid comments above indicate that some people don’t mind if our international reputation is again destroyed and export income is lost and the result of that sort of effect means less money to pay the bills and the social welfare and all the rest of the costs of running this little Republic . Shame on those gangsters whoever They are ! It’s isn’t a laughing matter at all at all.
@Terry Cahill: Just remember that the firm which owned and operated the operation with the rotten imported Polish horse meat was owned by Europe’s biggest beef baron and he used the ensuing stink as an excuse to reduce the price he was paying to his own Irish suppliers AND GOT AWAY WITH IT.
@Terry Cahill: could not agree with you more. Why is there always some b……..ls cropping up every so often, destroying the reputation. And no heads will roll, vets, managers or owners.Saints and scholars…….
@John Mc Donagh: again same old, same old as i mentioed above
To many neigh sayers on this site.
Christ lads if ye knew where mc Donald’s are sourcing their chicken ,you never look at a chicken again
Couldn’t eat a whole one, maybe a fallabella with chips and a Coke!
Ahhh horsesh#t…
Steak Tartare ..
Expensive when you can get it
What are the odds for a bovine only burger.
Must have got the hind leg of a one from ballydoyle last night in the chipper I scorched up the town to back a looser
Is it illegal to eat horse meat?
@sb: Only if you’re an ass!
Neigh,not again
on holidays in France at the min had horse steak twice it’s bloody lovely
Here we go again!
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