Month: July 2012
10 Apps for the London 2012 Olympics: Zeebox, Last Tube, Shazam
We've been hearing about building dramas, athlete controversies and crazy opening ceremony plans for as long as we can remember, but the London 2012 Olympics are nearly here and there are all kinds of apps on the market to get into the spirit of the games, navigate your way around London or show just how…
APP OF THE DAY: Turn your mobile photos into cash with Foap
Many of us have become so accustomed to taking photos with our mobile phones that we'll snap pictures of pretty much anything, our friends, cool buildings, things we eat (maybe stop this) and impressive scenery. However, the majority of amateur photographers (yes, that's the title we've decided we can all call ourselves) don't tend to…
Microsoft's Spotify rival Xbox Music is set to arrive later this year
New details have been released today about Xbox Music, a digital streaming service that's set to rival Spotify and will run on an Xbox 360 console. We first heard about Microsoft's music offering at the E3 conference and now it's emerged that it's set to launch later this year along with an annual subscription model…
New app uses gaming to help young patients track their health
Many of the health and fitness apps that we review over on our sister site Connected Health employ gaming techniques (or gamification) to encourage people to fill out more information about their bodies, beat personal best times and scores when they're working out or just log-in and promote the app more often. Whether you're set…
Google Maps will stop you getting lost inside now too
Ahh Google Maps, without that shiny little app we'd have been even later for meetings, died of caffeine withdrawal on multiple occasions and would never have stood a chance of finding that pretentious cocktail bar. Well good news, the popular service ventured indoors at a number of key locations in the US and Japan last…
Shoe Addicts: Instagram-style shoe porn for your mobile
Many fashion lovers have a "thing", whether they're drowning in necklaces, have hoards of dresses they'll never wear or racks and racks of shoes. Well if you fall into that last category we've got an app specially made for you, Shoe Addicts. As you'd expect Shoe Addicts is a place for shoe lovers all over…
APP OF THE DAY: Gabi gives you a new way to experience Facebook
Over the years Facebook has made a whole load of changes to the way we interact with the network, like more ads, a constantly scrolling news ticker of doom, trending topics, subscriptions and oh did we mention this thing called Timeline? Although we've learned to love the changes here at Shiny Shiny, we were very…
1 in 4 women deliberately post gross photos of their 'friends' on Facebook
Most of us have fallen victim to the fugly Facebook photo tag at some point in our lives, but why oh why did your good 'friend' really decide to do it? Well, we hate to break it to you, but they may have thought your clothes looked nice, that you seemed like you were having…
Samsung joins the health app market with S Health for the Galaxy S3
Samsung took its first step (or should we say fairly big leap) into the mobile health market this week as it officially announced S Health, a wellness app specially designed for its latest handset, the Samsung Galaxy S III. The new application has been built to track all kinds of health data and it stands…
5 Celebrities who quit Twitter [DRAMA QUEENS]
Most of Twitter can be divided into three categories, social media "experts" tweeting about infographics, award ceremonies and blogger lists, Justin Bieber fans tweeting about Justin Bieber and celebrities tweeting about how awesome/boring their lives are. Some celebrities clearly leave the tweeting to their management teams, some take to it like a duck to water…
