BBC World News - Click, 03/05/2014 GMT, Weather apps use power of the crowd. BBC World News - Click, 26/04/2014 GMT, Picking the right game for children. BBC World News - Click, 19/04/2014 GMT, Searching for metaphorical results. Hunting for new prime numbers. Kate Russell's weekly review of the best apps and websites. The biggest known prime number is 17m decimal places long, but there are a lot of prime numbers below that which are still missing. Citizen science project Prime Challenge wants your help to find them using the power of cloud computing. If you have got a lot of old photos on paper Pic Scanner is a new app on iOS that should save you loads of time by letting you scan, auto crop and save up to four photos in one go.
Katerussell : How to protect your photos... News - How to protect the photos you post online. The apps to help you find new places. How zombies could teach you to code. BBC World News - Click, 15/02/2014 GMT, What is being said about you online? BBC World News - Click, 08/02/2014 GMT, Why 'how fast are you moving?' is a complicated question. BBC World News - Click, 01/02/2014 GMT, Dogfighting simulator relives military aviation history. BBC World News - Click, 25/01/2014 GMT, Nasa marks rover's 10 years on Mars. Katerussell : Become a music video maker,... BBC World News - Click, 18/01/2014 GMT, Teaching children to be smart about money. BBC World News - Click, 11/01/2014 GMT, Webscape: Extend your phone battery's life. Webscape: Augmented reality app brings drawings to life. Webscape: Apps to make you healthier. Share photos and videos on Twitter. BBC World News - Click, 16/11/2013 GMT, Webscape: Peer-to-peer dining for travellers.
Webscape: Personalise your news using social media. Kate Russell's weekly review of the best apps and websites.
The new iPad app from 360 Cities turns your mobile device into a window on the world. The app uses the gyroscope to spin your viewpoint around some of the most stunning landscapes on the planet. If you wake up in the morning and immediately reach for your smartphone to check what is happening in the world, then news360.com could be for you. It can connect to all your main social accounts and analyses what you like so it can feed the latest stories straight into your dedicated timeline. The Ed.Ted.com website lets you turn any video from YouTube into a complete lesson, adding context, objectives, questions, extended notes and resources links or discussion topics to really engage students in the lesson being delivered by the video clip.
Blackberry Messenger, or BBM - which at its height claimed over 75 million active users - has been released for iOS and Android. Watch more clips on the Click website. Webscape: Fitness tracking devices. BBC World News - Click, 28/09/2013 GMT, Webscape: Tracing your family history. Webscape: Business cards get smarter. Webscape: Sharing photos safely. BBC World News - Click, 07/09/2013 GMT, Webscape: Music to match your mood. Webscape: Lip-syncing animation tool. Webscape: Protection from phishing attacks. KateRussell.co.uk - Home. Webscape: Watch pandas in high-definition. Webscape: Wedding photos sharing app. BBC World News - Click, 22/06/2013 GMT, Webscape: An app to make food more memorable. Katerussell : To this asking after 'my Ducatti'... Webscape: Calendars to simplify your life. Webscape: Update Twitter and Facebook after death. Webscape: Video editing software for Hollywood movies.
Webscape: The app offering free guitar lessons. BBC News Channel - Click, 06/04/2013, Webscape: Can Microsoft's social network work? BBC News Channel - Click, 30/03/2013, Webscape: How to drive at 98mph and stay legal. BBC News Channel - Click, 23/03/2013, Webscape: Easy and visual calorie counting. BBC World News - Click, 16/03/2013 GMT, Webscape: Virtual ballooning.
BBC News Channel - Click, 09/03/2013, Webscape: Create simple GIF animations. BBC News Channel - Click, Webscape: Sending a smartphone to space. BBC News Channel - Click, 23/02/2013, Webscape: Make your own phone app. BBC News Channel - Click, 09/02/2013, Webscape: An easy way to share images. Webscape: Compare tech products honestly. Webscape: Adopt cats seen playing on a webcam. Kate Russell's weekly review of websites and apps.
Earning money from photos can be a difficult business, especially if those photos are taken on a smartphone. The apps Foap and Scoopshot allow the sale of uploaded photographs for use in commercial projects. For job seekers, MyJobMatcher scans the details of an uploaded CV and returns a selection of available jobs through around 90% of leading niche online jobs boards in the UK, with USA and India to be covered soon. Unroll.me is a Gmail plugin that takes the pain out of unsubscribing by moving email circulars into one hidden folder, giving a single list to check for anything interesting. Catroulette is a site by a Belgian rehoming charity that shows video loops of cats looking for a new owner. Blue Badge Style is designed to help wheelchair users and other less physically able people find the most stylish entertainment venues and restaurants who are catering for their access needs.
Webscape: Tracking your money. Kate Russell's weekly review of websites and apps.
Chromeweblab , a year-long project that lets you play with five experiments inside the London Science Museum through a Chrome web browser. Keeping track of your cash can be a pain in the wallet, especially if you have more than one bank account or credit cards from various companies. Moneydashboard is an account aggregator that lets you take control through one central hub so you know exactly what is going on with your finances. Webscape: Peer-to-peer home rental buzz. Kate Russell's weekly review of websites and apps.
App Detective is a useful tool for Windows Phone 7 that keeps users informed about when the apps they are waiting for arrive in their format. Finfstufftodo.com reveals all the best things going on around you in categories including restaurants, live music, exhibitions and comedy. Airbnd.com is the latest buzz in peer-to-peer home rental, where you sign up to either rent out or book in to a room in someone's home. Just launched globally on iOS and Android is Grafetee, a smartphone location app that helps you remember the places you want to visit by adding and sharing real-world bookmarks. Webscape: A new way to sketch. Kate Russell's weekly review of websites and apps.
Sketchometry is an open source web and tablet application for students learning about Euclidean geometry and function plotting. VideoLAN's VLC media player has gained a reputation for being able to crunch through pretty much any type of media file and now it has been ported across to Android with the free app, VLC Beta. Webscape: How to hear Twitter. Webscape: Image software identifies tigers. Kate Russell's weekly review of websites and apps.
Tiger Nation is a site that uses cutting-edge image recognition software to ID photographed big cats by their stripes, building the story of their life and movements for supporters to follow. Wob.io is a new kid on the block for music discovery. Similar to Grooveshark it offers free music streaming and the ability to tailor make your own YouTube radio station and share it with friends. Please note, it won't work on older versions of Internet Explorer but does work in the latest browsers and on mobile devices. With the first high definition photos coming back from Mars take a look around the surface of the Red Planet at 360 Cities where you will find the view from Curiosity on Martian Solar Day 2. Webscape: Google's handwritten search. Kate Russell's weekly review of websites and apps.
Moodstream from Getty Images stimulates your senses by playing a mood board of music clips, images and video. Small Business Sunday from Theo Paphitis is a free community with a neat twist of using this Dragon's huge twitter following to promote worthy UK businesses. PeoplePlotr is a genealogy tool that lets you make visual plots of people's connections. Snapguide is a new social network which lets you create pictorial step-by-step guides with their free iPhone app or browse the guides made by others.
Google Handwrite is a new feature for mobile search on Android 4.0 and higher and iOS5 devices that lets you handwrite words anywhere on the screen to initiate a search. Troubled social bookmarking site Digg has gone through a major rebuild after changing hands. Webscape: The Olympic race online. Kate Russell's weekly review of websites and apps. The National Archive's online Olympics collection contains hundreds of historic documents and images relating to the Games. If you are in the capital itself at any time during the Olympics, Get Ahead of the Games offers news and advice about roads and public transport around all venues.
If trains are too crowded then cycling could be the solution. Some of the smartphone apps to help find bikes available to hire are, for Apple's iOS, London Cycle and for Google Android, Cycle Hire Widget Lite. Visit Stratford will explain information about visiting the Olympic Village area. Webscape: Camp cheaply in other people's back gardens. Kate Russell's weekly review of websites and apps.
The dreaded "clean reinstall' can be helped with the service Ninite . It makes installing necessary software automatic. Qype is a location based smartphone app for all platforms, filled with information and reviews for pubs, clubs, restaurants and entertainment venues close by. Camp in my Garden is a community of proud garden owners only too happy to let you stay on their land at friendly prices. Dextr is an Android keyboard-replacement app released on beta that aims to make texting and typing faster, more accurate and fully adaptable to suit all typing types. And Google's Android operating system has already begun being rolled out. 4.1 Jelly Bean needs a fairly recent handset or a brand new Nexus 7 tablet if you want to download it.
Webscape: Back-up services in the cloud. Kate Russell goes paperless with the rest of the Click team.
But if you are going to rely on your computer and smartphone to replace pen and paper you will need to back up your data. You might want to consider one of these popular back-up services: Backblaze.com, Crashplan.com, Dropbox.com, Sugarsync.com or Google Drive. Once you are sorted for back-ups, check out Fresh Books to organise your cash flow. Webscape: Finding the best music. Webscape: The space-aged app. NASA has a new smartphone app for Android and iPhone that can take you to the moon - a must for anyone interested in space.
Hackerbuddy.com is a great social concept that puts together start-up coders and designers, so they can help each other out with free advice through email. UK sports fans will find LiveSport.co.uk useful as a Sports TV guide, with constantly updated schedules to make sure you never miss a match. Timeslines for brand pages went live this week and if you are stuck for something creative to do with your cover image this post on design and photography blog, Machoarts, showcases some clever ideas. After racking up nearly 30 million iPhone users, retro photographic app Instagram finally released their free app on Android this week.
Finally, the story of a camera. Webscape: How to track ships. Bring your desktop to life at Kuvva.com, a free desktop app for PC or MAC that delivers an ever changing landscape of desktop wallpapers designed by some of the world's best artists and illustrators. Turn iPhone videos into funky edits for easy sharing with the free app Magisto. Shipfinder.co tracks and displays shipping data in Google maps - so you can follow ships sailing around the world. For game lovers Firstpersontetris.com is a new take on a classic old computer game. And finally, finger painting really paid off for the creators of chart-topping smartphone app Draw Something. It was revealed this week that Farmville makers Zynga, were prepared to pay $180m (£113m) for it. Webscape: Your music in the cloud. Kate Russell's weekly review of new and interesting sites and apps.
Tinkatolli.me is a virtual world for kids, created by parents to be a safe, fun and importantly a challenging place for young minds to start experiencing exploring and socialising online. Give your Facebook fan page a makeover at Pagemodo.com. Google+ page owners might feel frustrated there is no option for a vanity web address, making it easier for people to find you. Gplus.to fixes that with a dedicated short URL maker. Mymusiccloud.com is an app that puts your music collection in your hand, any time, any place, anywhere and on any platform - mobile or desktop. And you can take an amazing journey around the planet by viewing a time-lapse video of the stars as seen from the International Space Station at vimeo.com.
Webscape: Security for social media. Kate Russell's weekly review of new and interesting sites and apps. Safego from Bitdefender provides security for your online world. For mouth-watering recipes and irresistible photos, Gojee carefully curates recipes and content written only by food writers. If you are feeling a little under the weather iTriage is a free app providing straight forward diagnostics tools and advice. Sport Relief is taking place next month, but the fundraising starts now and they have launched an official app to celebrate. And with Spielberg's historic epic, War Horse, about to finish in the cinemas, there is just time to point you to an interactive TimeMap of the historic journey the movie was based on. Webscape: What Google thinks about you. Webscape: Social exercise and the school-wide web.
Webscape: Using social networks at work. Webscape: An easy-to-use website builder. Webscape: mobile music and social media Klout. Webscape: Locating friends and web evolution. Webscape: Tweeting WWII. Webscape: Share karaoke with the world. Webscape flies into a dogfight. The augmented reality app for hi-tech treasure hunts. Webscape: The app that wakes you at your train station. Webscape: Facebook and apps without the web.
Webscape: How CVs are evolving. Webscape: Can you find out next week's news? Web reviewer Kate Russell looks into the future by using the global public calendar Zapaday.com, which scans over 4000 news and government websites to find out what's going to be in the news next week. If you're a bit of a foodie who likes discovering interesting new restaurants and getting great deals, then Tastecard for Blackberry should be on your smartphone menu if you're in the UK. It covers over 5,000 eateries, offers include 2-for-1 dining and 50% discounts. Webscape: Cloud-based artistic apps. Kate Russell gets creative with a flock of cloud-based artistic apps at aviary.com.
This suite provides tools for working with photos, graphics and sound. With university students now packing up their satchels ready to start the new year, how would you like some free text books ease the financial strain? Webscape: Make your old photos part of history. Webscape: Make a museum of yourself and goatcam. Webscape: Virtual book club and crowd funding for writers. Web reviewer Kate Russell joins a book club - virtually speaking. Anobii is an online community for book lovers that uses social recommendations. A couple of cute Blackberry apps aimed at two to five-year-olds from TVO Kids will keep little ones occupied on long journeys.
Webscape: Android app gets you running from zombies. Web reviewer Kate Russell attempts to outrun zombies, with an outdoor GPS game for the Android. This free app has players dodging hordes of murderous zombies, displayed as little red men on your map view. Webscape: Crunching numbers with a trading game.
Web reviewer Kate Russell tests her trading skills in a free interactive game at howthemarketworks.com.