If there’s one thing that a mobile device is good for these days, it’s managing your life, and there are many different companies and developers out there that have looked to take advantage of this particular niche in the app market. The iPad does come with its own built-in software for managing your days and…

It used to be that editing photos was a rather arduous process, reserved only for those with the relevant skill level and a computer processor powerful enough to run something like Adobe Photoshop. Thankfully, that is no longer the case: these days, most people don’t bother taking a camera on holiday with them and will…

It’s that time of year again! When you pack your back for your long awaited summer vacation, and have hastily stuffed a few relevant language learning apps on your mobile or tablet with the intent of picking up some words while on the plane over! To most tourists, picking up words to use when they…

If there’s one genre of apps that I spend a lot of time on these days, it’s the productivity apps that have been designed to hone and organize just about every aspect of your personal and professional life. Now, most people I’ve spoke to will typically find an app that they like and then stick…

I’m sure I’m not the only one among you who spends most of their news reading time on the sports pages; the same goes for the Internet, which of course offers an even more enticing and varying array of sports news and opinion for the digestion of fans – no matter the sport! Of course,…

Blogging apps can come in very different shapes and sizes, from those that are designed solely for the creation of your own personal blog, to those that can be very useful in this particular area. There are a whole host of blogging clients out there to pick from these days when it comes to starting…

So, social networking apps: how should we be defining them? Just the idea of social networking has taken on many different definitions since the launch of Facebook, with many different pretenders to the throne popping up at different intervals – and some finding success – with a slight variation on the mean, built around a…

As most of you will know, every new Apple device, whether that be an iPhone or an iPad, comes with Safari preinstalled as the default web browser. Now, as with Internet Explorer on all Windows computers for the last couple of decades and more, this may be fine for most users. In fact, from speaking…

As with all of these alternatives articles, it surprises me the amount of users out there that are simply not aware there even are any alternatives. It’s this ignorance that results in brand names becoming verbs, such as the way people now talking about “Skyping” one another. Speaking of video chatting apps, one of the…

We here at Top 8 regularly go weak at the knees for a well designed interface, and perhaps even moreso when you’re considering a tablet like Apple’s iPad with its larger screen. Google’s Material Design premise is responsible for some excellent looking UIs out there, and it’s great to see some kind of consistency on…

We all like to know what’s just around the corner, which is perhaps why the horoscope section of your local newspaper is still so popular and the App Store remains filled with horoscope and general astrology apps that will deliver that kind of info direct to your smartphone or tablet. Yet, there are so many…