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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 app that shows videos based on what you’re doing, a Pocket-style app for Windows Phone, and an addictive numbers game.
5by
For: iOS, Android
Cost: Free
- You know StumbleUpon, the site that helps you discover interesting sites and pages, they’ve released a video app version.
- 5by is a video curation app that chooses videos for you based on your mood, interests and what you’re doing.
- The interface is simple, the app wastes little time bringing you from the home screen to curating videos for you.
- It also takes into consideration how much time you have to spare to watch videos in case you’ve only a few minutes to spare.
- For those who have a lot of time to kill but don’t want to search through YouTube or Vimeo for funny videos.
(Image: 5by/App Store)
Poki
For: Windows Phone
Cost: €1.99
- Pocket for iOS and Android is an incredibly useful app if you do a lot of reading, but Windows Phone users had to settle for the web browser version, until now.
- Poki is an unofficial Pocket app brings all the functionality of Pocket and presents it on Windows 8, yet does more with it.
- You get badges for competing different actions and reading different articles, if you’re into that sort of thing.
- If you don’t have time to read a piece, you can listen to it instead through language detection.
- There’s a free trial if you want it, limiting you to 50 requests to Pocket, but if you’re a power reader, it’s worth the €2.
(Images: Poki/Windows Phone)
Rocket Robo
For: iOS, Android
Cost: €0.89
- A 2.5D puzzle platformer, Rocket Robo which uses tilting, swiping and taps to control your jetpacking robot.
- It has puzzles, but it’s accessible to casual players who like to dip in and out of the game.
- It’s a beautiful game, as you make your way through different levels, collecting stars and controlling gravity.
- The tilt controls means it’s probably better played on smartphones. You’ll appreciate the graphics more on the larger screen, but tilting a tablet regularly can feel a bit strange.
- If you’ve like a slower paced platformer, it’s a nice distraction since there’s no time-limit for completing a level.
(Video: TouchGameplay/YouTube)
Cogi – Beyond Notes
For: Android
Cost: Free
- Since having a note app is always handy, Cogi lets you both write and record notes for later use.
- Its main draw is allowing you to add extra details to recordings like images, tags and text. You can do this while a recording is happening so you can note important moments.
- There’s no real limit to how much you can record, the only thing would be how much memory your phone has.
- The rewind feature allows you to catch moments that you mightn’t have caught first time round. Handy if you realise someone said something important a few moments ago.
- Useful for meetings and lectures where you don’t want to be scribbling down notes while paying attention.
(Video: CogiInc/YouTube)
Threes!
For: iOS
Cost: €1.79
- There are plenty of great puzzle games out there (Dots, Spelltower, World of Goo), but we may have a new contender for best puzzle game on iOS.
- The premise of Threes! has you matching numbers on a 4×4 grid, similar to a sliding block puzzle. The more numbers you can match, the higher a score you get.
- It’s surprisingly complex the more you get into it. Planning your moves is vital as your grid quickly fills up with different numbers
- The game oozes personality, little details like animations, the art style and the voices each number gives it a certain charm few games have.
- Easily one of the best iPhone games out there.
(Video: TouchGameplay/YouTube)
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Dirty savage, 8 years not enough!
I ask this as a serious question. Would the general public agree with chemical castration for men who do something like this?
I would Creamy! Your name in certain circumstances is a bit…well
You need to watch more family guy joan…although that might only confirm your suspicion..
Totally disagree with the chemicals. Knife much better and I am serious.
How could she have been a teenager for 9 years?
I would vote YES!
Rape is about violence ! Not just self-gratafacation ? I think boiled slowly in hot oil might surffice?
8 years for raping a child. Sometimes the law just seems so inadequate
Horrible excuse for a man . Dirty rapist 8 years is not enough.
No punishment is great enough for ruining a innocent life .
Agreed, but I could think of a few that I’d like to try out.
8 years!
Should be at least double that for each person he brutalised.
But at least he is serving a life sentence in daily life when he gets out.
His life will be an absolute misery! Probably worse than being inside!
I wonder what goes through the minds of judges when they pass light sentences of eight years for such a monstrous act , when the prosecutors asked for 10 to 12 years? Is it misplaced compassion or are they completely out of touch. Child rapists should be given a life sentence. I’d have no problem with castration either.
Ll fine calling for life for rape , but think about this- why would a rapist leave his victim alive to bear witness against him when he would get a lesser sentence if he kills her.
By giving severe sentences for rape increases the potential for MURDER, think about that if ur sister or daughter does not come on time.
Sorry come home on time.
Pedophiles, rapists and child molesters or any kind should be locked up for life, and have there basic human rights taken away because they aren’t human, they should be given, basic food and little to no time out side there cells !!
How about we place a rat on their tummy and seal with a metal helmet ! How do u think the rat will find it’s way out????
He should get a bullet. Simple as that.
i think we’ve become too politically correct.there is 7billion people on this planet and money is tight,so bugger it just put him down(with a cheap medicine)along with others who do this type of thing.REALLY why can’t they just do it?
the above comment from robert smith was actually posted by me gavan smith.we use the same computer and it was logged onto robert smith’s facebook page by accident
I have no idea why a certain length sentence is given to people who do this. So if after 8 years, he still has these urges, he has done his time so let him out? People like this should be given a sentence to pay for what they have done but be held for as long as necessary after that time for rehabilitation. If that can’t be achieved then they should choose chemical castration or life in a facility. I thought the whole point of laws, courts and jail was not only to punish people when they have committed a crime but was to keep society safe.
The whole point of punishment to fit the crime is lost on the judicial system and it needs to reflect the times. There is so many reports like this one that surely the whole system needs to be looked at. I’m not for a second suggesting that this is a new crime and it wasn’t being committed in the past but now that there is plenty of research done on this type of offender and their likelihood of reoffending it seems a crime in itself not to devise a sentence that is suitable.
Absolutely Liz. Well said. Interesting article on the subject
Death
I presume the last sentence is a typo?
Perhaps it is worth considering …..by undermining the traditional values/foundations of society…this is what you get…fer pities sake ….you liberals…fer pities sake….whatever next…
Mason change your name. I suggest Manson? You deranged creep!!
…..@ Martstjon…Before pressing submit…best you think about what you are saying …clearly must explain to the uneducated amongst us ….back when yer man were a boy homosexual acts were considered criminal…by making such depravity acceptable the foundations of respectability …of society were weakened…it is sugested this contributed …by degrees to the perverse amongst us thinking “well if homosexualiy is acceptable..all forms of self gratification must be OK” …thus society saw the behaviour of such as the French Tennis coach and the American Football coach take place and continue to this day..when the liberals amongst us condone same gender marriages…the adoption of the young by these people…how long will it be before the act of the pedophile will become acceptable ….along with incest…take it further ….cannibalism…..break the rules expect the unexpected…rules were made in sociey for well founded reasons…break them and the flood gates are opened….you cant have your cake and eat it …..Do you now understand? …..consider, before abusing others….
….it is pointless coming up with all these medieval ways of dealing with people who are socially unacceptable….we have to ask ourselves why people do such….what is happening to respectable behaviour…It be suggested that the Liberal..”progressives” in our midst….by condoning that which in the past was totally unacceptable….suggest to those unable to quell socially unacceptable desires….that self gratification of any form needs no restraint…This may be seen in film/ staged performance/ art /literature/ www sites/ magazines/popular music lyrics….Possibly alright for the minority seen as “we’ll balanced” a totally subjective notion…dependent on who/what/where you are….That said overall…most people are generally uneducated unable to form an opinion if it is against the trend the so called “progressive” mindset…..This fear of being rebuked by fellow man leads us down the avenue of “anything goes” the erosion of standards of civilisation… as the majority would like to see it ….As a teacher of Humanities KS9 to KS12…it is with dismay the notions of young minds are so easily influenced by the popular media….No the answer is not known! other than to discourage rather than encourage that which is felt to be unacceptable….
@mason…typos…homosexuality…well….
@mason …young people…are seen to be so easily influenced…..
…@MartStJohn….an apology for your abuse will be graciously accepted….courtesy costs nothing …perhaps a little loss of face…which does nobody any harm….
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