Archive | Spring 2017

Tripit An alternative to Google trips, TripIt lets you store all of your travel plans, including information about your itinerary, hotel, and car rental bookings in one convenient location. It can import this information direct from your email box, and you can easily share your travel plans with your family and friends. It’ll even add […]

https://get.google.com/trips/ Google Trips makes exploring the world easier by organizing your essential info in one place and making it available even offline. Get activity suggestions based on what’s nearby, customizeable day plans, and your travel reservations from Gmail. It uses information from your Gmail account, so this needs to be used for your trip! Install […]

Google Now is an intelligent personal assistant developed by Google. Google Now, including Now cards, voice search and commands, is available in the Google app for Android and iOS.You must at least have Android 4.1. Google Now uses a natural language user interface to answer questions, make recommendations, and perform actions by delegating requests to […]

Join broadcast legend Sir David Attenborough to explore more than 1000 of the greatest wildlife moments ever filmed. • Explore the most comprehensive collection of Sir David’s work ever released online. • Includes six decades of highlights from more than 40 landmark BBC programmes, including Planet Earth, Blue Planet, The Life of Mammals, Africa and […]

Quartz’s new app puts the entire global economy in your pocket. It’s an ongoing conversation about the news, sort of like texting. We’ll send you messages, photos, GIFs, and links, and you can decide when you’re interested in reading more. Each session lasts just a few minutes, so it’s perfect for the train, elevator, grocery […]

Feed your curiosity and expand your world with TED Talks. Explore more than 2,000 TED Talks from remarkable people, by topic and mood, from tech and science to the surprises of your own psychology.

Greenify help you identify and put the misbehaving apps into hibernation when you are not using them, to stop them from lagging your device and leeching the battery, in a unique way! They can do nothing without explicit launch by you or other apps, while still preserving full functionality when running in foreground.  Great for […]

This is the UK’s number one classified website and it is really easy to set up.  Because your tablet/phone has a camera, it is remarkable easy to place adverts for free.  Similarly if you are looking for anything, this is a very quick way of finding that specialist item!  You will need to register an […]

You can remove an app from your device simply by going to the app drawer: Scroll through your apps, pick the one you want to remove, press and hold it.  You should see a bin or remove option appear at the top of the screen.  Drag the app on to it and it is removed […]

You may feel that your tablet is slowing down, or is just downright messy having been experimented with for a number of years.  You can of course simply delete apps from your device.  However, you could quite simply go for a fresh factory install.  Doing this takes you back to the very begining and so […]