10 iPhone apps to make you more productive: Instapaper, Evernote and Audioboo

It's often hard to remember that mobile apps aren't just all about angry little birds and retro photography. There are plenty of apps available that have been cleverly designed to make you more efficient, productive and most importantly close Tweetdeck down and STOP PROCRASTINATING. The key thing to remember with productivity apps is that you…

Five networks for curation and inspiration

Gone are the days of cutting inspiring images out of magazines and pritt-sticking them all over a sad looking scrapbook. Now there are a range of different online networks specially designed to help you curate images and photos that interest and inspire you. It seems like quite a niche little hobby, but it's amazing just…

10 Cool Facebook brand pages

It's safe to say A LOT of businesses, from Coca-Cola to that dodgy hairdresser on the corner of your street, have a Facebook page. I'm sure if we were online marketeers or social media practitioners or 'Facebook experts' (LOL) then we'd be sat around discussing click through rates, return on investments, levels of engagement, numbers…

Best apps for looking at the stars

Unless you read specialist publications or blogs, you probably won't be aware of the exciting things going on in the sky every night. Certainly, the mainstream media tends to think we're all much more interested in what's happening on Celebrity Big Brother than whether there's an eclipse or a really rare (and scarily close) meteor…

Five reasons you NEED Tumblr in your life

Tumblr has long been considered the quirkier, more informal little brother of the dull and text-heavy Wordpress. However, as more individuals, brands and even publications have started tumblogging over the past few years, bringing the grand total of Tumblogs to more than 27,000,000, it's clear it has a lot of benefits and a lot of…

Facebook vs. Twitter: What if you could only pick ONE?

Don't worry. It's hypothetical. Unless our daily social media intake suddenly starts to get rationed, which in light of recent events isn't that hard to imagine, then it's not a decision anyone would have to make any time soon, but what if you did have to choose just one, FOREVER? Granted some people prefer LinkedIn…

Three Instagram photo app rivals for the iPhone

There are now more than seven million users actively sharing photos on the Instagram platform, manically applying grungy, retro filters left, right and centre, which is a pretty impressive stat considering the app was only launched onto the iTunes app store late last year! Dedicated Instagrammers will cite a number of reasons as to why…

Is it REALLY worth subscribing to Spotify?

Spotify is increasingly becoming a love-it-or-hate-it kind of service, much like Marmite or the Twilight franchise. In my experience, those that avoid it tend to fall into one of two, or both, of these categories: "My music taste is just so obscure that Spotify doesn't have any of my favourite tracks." "I'm not paying money…

The top ten magazine and newspaper Tumblr blogs

You'd be forgiven for thinking Tumblr is just a crazy world of GIF images and cheesy quotes, but as we've seen in the past from our Top ten Tumblr blogs you should be following and Top 20 Tumblrs posts, it can be much more than that with the right person (or brand, or magazine, or…