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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 every day, but not all of them are worth paying attention to.
This week features hyperlapses, staying away from your phone during dinner time and getting rid of spam SMS messages.
A5 Browser
For: Android
Cost: Free
- We’re already flooded with different types of web browsers, each one offering different things but what does A5 Browser offer that others don’t?
- To start, it describes itself as the ‘lightweight browser’ and while it certainly is this in the sense of how much space it requires (690k), it does a pretty decent job in loading up mobile sites quickly.
- The design is rather basic and clean, but everything you need immediately is there and it’s pretty easy to operate.
- Although the only drawback is that lightness comes at a price. Some of the functionality you would associate with other browsers isn’t here, which limits its use.
- For those looking for a quick and easy alternative to Chrome, Firefox or Opera.
Hyperlapse Mobile
For: Windows Phone (Android version coming soon)
Cost: Free
- In case you’re wondering, this is Microsoft’s version which has finally arrived (It’s not arriving on iOS since there’s already another app called Hyperlapse out).
- This version not only allows you to record new videos, but take old videos and give them the same treatment.
- Much like Instagram’s version, it’s a lot of fun to play around with. The level of customisation – you can make it normal speed or go up to 32x – and the smooth results make it so much better.
- There is an Android beta available, but it’s not available through Google Play yet so you’re better off waiting until it arrives.
- Definitely worth getting just to play around with it, and see what else you can do with old videos.
DinnerMode
For: iOS
Cost: Free
- You know the joke about there being an app for everything in existence. Well, there’s an app for helping you concentrate on your meal. No, seriously!
- That’s what DinnerMode is all about. An app that challenges you to put down your smartphone and concentrate on the food in front of you.
- You set the timer, put your phone down on the table (or level surface) and try not to check it during that period.
- That’s all it does really. The visuals are nice, but that isn’t really important when the whole point is to keep your phone down.
- For those who just can’t seem to tear themselves away from their smartphone screen and need extra motivation.
Clean SMS
For: Android
Cost: Free
- Remember when we all used to send each other SMS messages? While its popularity has been falling, they’re still relied on by many.
- Yet on Android there aren’t many SMS apps to rely on with Hangouts and Google Messenger muddying the waters. Which is where Clean SMS comes in.
- Alongside offering a simple design, it will port over your original messages and block any spam SMS from getting through.
- The latter is very dependant on how many of these messages you get, but it does a good job in guessing which ones are important and which ones aren’t. The text preview for each read message can be a little faded but new messages are bolder and stand out more.
- For those on the outlook for a new SMS service.
Kindo
For: iOS
Cost: €1.99
- If you’re looking for a game that offers a similar feel to chess (in that it’s unforgiving), but lovingly crafted, you should definitely take a look at Kindo.
- The aim of Kindo is to take over your opponents kingdom. Each turn allows two moves where you can take over a free square or fortify your own. It’s a little more complicated than that description, but it doesn’t take too long to get the hang of.
- It’s a game that rewards careful and deliberate moves. On lower difficulties, you’re allowed a slip-up or two, but the higher you go, the more costly such mistakes are.
- Although if you’re doing badly, you won’t have to worry as the ranking system pairs you with players of similar skill. You can also train against the AI which has three different difficulty levels.
- For those looking for a minimalist yet engrossing strategy game.
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This case showed exactly what is right with due process.. Mr dwyer got his chance to tell his story, was assumed innocent and the prosecution then proved his guilt. Now he’ll rot in jail and everyone knows he did it
Reality is more gruesome than a movie could ever be.
The jury system relies heavily on the assumed ability of the jurors to be able to comprehend complex legal matters that are sometimes crucial to a case.A juror is not obliged to offer any proof of his or hers understanding of such a matter.That could lead and has done in many cases to an ‘incorrect’ verdict.While the appeal system cleans up most of these errors, I wonder if it is time to test jurors for simple comprehension skills rather than let them lose on long costly trials that lead to long costly appeals….etc.It is the best system to have… A jury system ,But it needs to be reviewed.
Claiming to understand reasonable doubt and actually understanding it are two different things.
What parameters would you use to decide that Alan? Sounds to me like the process of jury selection would be so complex as to be unworkable and appeals more likely to succeed due to technicalities concerning juror selection.
Agree completely with you. The selection should at the very least be based on educational standards.I know that sounds elitist and even snobbish. It is not intended to be so.A very good friend of mine took literacy classes about 8/9 years ago.He had served on a jury and there were requirements to ‘read’ some of the evidence in the jury room afterwards.He admitted that he struggled to do so and could not understand half of what he read.Even the ensuing debate among the jurors was double dutch to him in parts.He said he was to embarrassed to admit this. I do not believe his experience to be unique.
I cannot offer a solution,Though I still believe there to be a problem.
This IS a difficult question. However, having an education is not the same as having intelligence or even comprehension. I know several people with degrees, but little real understanding of their subject. A degree gan be obtained with a good memory, or even using memory tricks. In the Elaine O’Hara case, I do think there IS reasonable doubt. The Master/slave relationship is not nearly as uncommon as many people believe. Dolcett or killing, can easilly be a fantasy, but there is a huge difference between having a fantasy as extreme as that, and actually doing it. I think it is a definite possibility that Elaine took her own life, telling Dwyer where, and that he burried her. That doesn’t absolve him from responsibility though, as I do believe it likely that he pushed her in that direction, and failed to report her death.
It doesn’t sound like the concept of reasonable doubt is very complicated at all to be honest.
On the face of it, no. But in practice it becomes exponentially more complex as more and more issues come into play.
I disagree Alan. Reasonable doubt is exactly that, reasonable. It is a subjective concept that a jury of one’s peers is assumed to understand. That is the whole basis of a jury trial. It only becomes complex when one attempts to explain a meaning or definition around it.
Hope he rots in hell
There is no hell. I hope he rots in his head!
It is not the same as a philosophical doubt…but it is often compared to a doubt about making a major decision e.g. marriage..buying a house…..at the very least you must be pretty sure or happy to go ahead.
He looks strange and was into weird sex = guilty
He doesn’t look strange at all to be honest and plenty of people are into weird sex but aren’t murderers.
In cases like these, most people would prefer to wrongfully convict a weirdo than to have weirdo murderer running free. Smoke and fire. Lots of smoke with this weirdo, hence he is almost certainly guilty!
Wish the media didn’t focus on this case as much as it did.
If you understand what a Theory is in the scientific sense, then there should be no problem understanding the premises of reasonable doubt.
It really is actually simple.
That was a good and helpful explanation. Thanks.
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