That’s what Capture aims to fix. Its theory is really simple: all it does is capture video, and it will start doing just that automatically almost as soon as you launch it. To stop recording, just press the Home button and the captured video will be saved to the Camera Roll of your Photos app as usual. There are essentially no other features, though you can toggle an iPhone 4’s LED on and off, and set a couple of app parameters in Settings.

There are only two minor issues. There’s a delay in saving a long video clip while it processes, which means it won’t show up in your Camera Roll instantly. This can make it seem as though your video hasn’t saved, but it just hasn’t yet. And while it’s saving, the Capture app locks and doesn’t let you capture new video.

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Buffer has a number of paid plans but you can use it for free too, with this iPhone app working for everyone. It’s both simple and well-featured, offering all the main Buffer features in one easy-to-use package.

The only gripe we have is that you can’t add new profiles within the app itself, but it’s a minor niggle in the scheme of things, and Buffer is a handy app if you’re managing multiple social network accounts.

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Gestures require diverting less attention from another task, but Audium’s emphasis on the album format has shortcomings. Flat album covers are easier to spot than in Apple’s Cover Flow view, but with only three visible at once, it’s a chore with a large library.

Albums are always sorted by name, and there’s no way to jump to a specific letter. Audium works best for rediscovering things you haven’t heard in ages, but it could do with an iTunes DJ-style shuffle mode to fit that circumstance.

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It also tells you how to make a few coffee styles yourself.

It’s pretty enough, and the information that’s there, though a little on the short side, at least feels appropriately concise for a pocket reference.

There are omissions, though, and some of the terms may not be the ones used where you live. Check Wikipedia first.

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Live Score Addicts is the follow up to the more Premier League-centric EPL Addicts iPhone app swapping transfer rumours and team news for a results service that spans 300 leagues from across the world. There are already a host of paid-for and free football apps that provide a similar service, but Live Score Addicts is one of the slickest we’ve seen in terms of looks and delivery.

Its chrome-style interface features just three tabs which breaks the app down into matches from yesterday, today and tomorrow. At the bottom of the app you’ll find tabs for Matches, Competitions, Notifications and More where you can prioritize which competitions you want to be notified about simply by dragging them into order. You can also set the update frequency ranging from a battery-friendly slow to a more addictive-friendly fast.

When you first launch the app you’ll be required to go through a set-up to initially select your filters for the type of information and competitions you want to be notified about. So if you want information on line-ups, goals or when video highlights are available, simply check the box and you are done. The push notification service worked well for us, and if you want to opt out of the alerts it is easy enough to find out match information if you’ve set up your filters appropriately.

As mentioned, there’s 300 leagues covered, ranging from the Premier League to the Spanish Primera Division all the way to leagues in Vietnam and Qatar. Even friendly club matches are catered for making it by far the most comprehensive we’ve seen in an app of this kind.

Video highlights are by far the stand out feature of this app, letting you see goals and footage from matches during and after the game has finished. Video content is not hosted on the app itself but is provided via third party video sharing websites like Daily Motion and Veoh. This does mean you will have to contend with foreign commentary, but when you get to see the action so swiftly there’s unlikely to be many complaints. Some of the more remote leagues understandably struggle for video content, but if you are following leagues around Europe and South America, you are well catered for.

Using the app is dependent on 3G or Wi-Fi being available, so disappointingly you are not able to check some stats and video highlights from the previous day because nothing is stored locally. Live Score Addicts does currently lack league tables while we would love to see tactical formations included, but it appears that developers are looking to add that functionality in the future.

Free apps like Sky Sports Soccer Centre and ESPN Goals do a decent job of covering football results closer to home while a paid-for app like Live Scores expands on this with top European league coverage, but Live Score Addicts takes things even further and does it such an elegant and user-friendly way. It covers more leagues than most other apps are capable of while the video highlights feature on its own is reason enough to download an app that can only get better. So, whether you simply love the English game or yearn to know the moment a goal is scored in the Allsvenskan in Sweden, football fans should have this app in their lives.

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Lack of landscape mode aside, which tends to put you off long text entries, it does the job, albeit with an extremely limited set of tools. Compared with Tumblr – the lightweight microblogging champion of the world, also available on the iPhone – it’s a featherweight. More themes (as well as premium themes), custom URLs and video are all on the way, but even with all that it’s a basic package.

It’s either really stupid or completely brilliant, and we suspect the latter: bare-bones web publishing that does just what it says on the box, right now.

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Just like the older Hipstamatic, Disposable is trying to emulate the good old film days, with vintage camera effects characterising each shot. Unfortunately, it also requires In-App Purchases to unlock its full potential. Some of these, controversially, only work for a limited number of times, meaning you’ll need to cough up again when they ‘run out’. However, the app itself is free, and with three cameras included, we think that’s reasonably generous.

It’s frustrating that all those In-App Purchases you made in the original Hipstamatic can’t be brought across to Disposable. However, using the app is easy, and waiting to finish a roll is nostalgic – if a little tedious.

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The app contains 11 short videos that combine clear instructions with soothing music. They’re easy to follow (though they do stutter after a while, requiring a restart to fix), and we found the poses effective for releasing muscle tension.

Just try not to take it too seriously, and don’t worry about the giggles of your colleagues. After all, laughter is the best stress-reliever – so you’re doing them a favour!

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It does more besides, so you won’t need anything else to have a great summertime barbecue, and we really like the thoughtful interface. It’s a great example of an app that brings together everything you need in one gorgeous place.

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Luckily this reviewer falls bang into that category; your mileage may vary. It’s dripping with retro style, right down to its bleepy chiptune music, and once it really gets going it’s one of those games that you can only really win at by defocussing a bit and letting your instincts take over. That, or learning the layout of the entire game, which seems a little too much like hard work to us.

Chances are that it’s not going to be up your street, but if you’re gazing at the screenshots and drooling at the prospect of lightspeed arcade action then, well, step right up.

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Rather than humanity’s last viable home being powered by, say, a nice set of solar panels on the roof, its working mechanisms involve massive gears that are helpfully located in perilous surroundings. Cue: worldwide earthquakes, ancient machinery damage and quite a lot of panic entering the story. And, of course, instead of being able to repair everything by flicking open a hatch and fiddling with a screwdriver, the entire fate of humanity rests on a ‘repair sphere’. The sphere’s job is to trundle around the behind-the-scenes engines of the stupid humans’ home, grab power gears and deposit them in collection funnels, presumably digitally tutting while doing so and wondering if there was any way whatsoever in which mankind’s survivors could have made things any more needlessly complicated for themselves.

The answer, clearly, is no, and Gears is not by any stretch of the imagination an easy game to get to grips with as you try to coax the sphere around each level, grabbing power gears and reaching the exit. The tilt controls are a total disaster, like trying to roll a marble carefully around a tea tray made of ice. But the swipe controls are better, enabling you to use subtle flicks to move your sphere short distances and large flicks to fling it into the air. The second of those things might seem reckless, but we ended up doing this quite a lot, due to regularly finding ourselves snarling at our device, thinking the sole remnants of humanity deserved to perish, given the crackpot design of later engine layouts. The problem is that the 3D nature of the landscape is often not terribly obvious, resulting in the sphere plunging to its doom time and time again. Coupled with controls that aren’t quite tight enough and levels that require more precision than is really on offer, Gears is often a frustrating experience once you’re past the first few levels, and especially once you’re immersed in trying to get through the Rivers of Magma and maze-like Cavern of Omens. In addition, even the Normal difficulty level is saddled with an insanely tight time limit to proceedings, which can mercifully be turned off if you decide to wuss out and opt for the Easy mode.

Despite the brutal nature of Gears, it still draws you in. On the iPhone or iPod touch especially, the early levels’ steampunk labyrinth and dexterity-oriented gameplay, along with the Danny Elfman-like score, put you in mind of a Burtonesque take on Marble Madness or Super Monkey Ball. Through sheer bloody-mindedness you’ll find yourself bludgeoning your way through the game, emitting shouts of victory when you beat a level, because, frankly, you deserve those end-of-level trophies after all that hard work. But at every point, you’ll also be thinking the game should be a bit more fun than it is; and although the intro movie, soundtrack and setting try very hard to place you in magical surroundings, the Dark Nebula games succeed in the ways Gears fails. So if you fancy a steampunk dexterity-test arcade game, those are a better bet; but if you completed both Dark Nebula titles with your eyes closed, you’ll find Gears a much sterner test.

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After choosing your angler you wander out to a picturesque stretch of water to take part in competitions, thus unlocking new items of tackle, earning fish bucks for upgrades and opening up fishing venues. Casting out and wrestling with fish is achieved by waggling the phone; reeling in takes a swirl of the thumb.

Hitting your angling goals is, oddly, a hugely satisfying experience.

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Type in the tracking number provided by, say, Amazon or Apple, and Delivery Status touch will display your package’s location on a Google Map.

It will also give you an expected delivery date and a link to the shipping company’s website.

You can synchronise packages with the free Dashboard widget on a Mac or on the web.

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You then resize or move the box to make it more prominent. Make important things massive and put them at the top of the screen. Hide less important ones lower down. You just pinch to resize and drag to move, and when a task is done, flick it off the screen.

There are awkward limits to how large you can make a box depending on how you’ve laid out the text, which can take some getting used to, but our main issue with Cueframe is that it’s a little ugly. The font isn’t very pleasant, and the boxes aren’t pretty.

Having options to change the font, or maybe having a few themes to choose from, would make this more than just a nice idea.

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Mind you, neither do the people sent in to clean up the mess. You’d think it might be wise to quash an undead uprising by, say, sending in a well-equipped army, rather than dumping a single bloke with a gun among the zombies. Naturally, then, your job as a private military contractor is to run around shooting zombies, collecting dropped intel and legging it back to the helicopter before it scarpers. And in this game, pilots don’t tolerate tardiness – if you’re a single second late, they’ll leave you to get your throat ripped out.

Extraction could so easily have been a run-of-the-mill twin-stick shooter, but the developers were instead inspired by classic game Cannon Fodder (cue a huge cheer from ex-Amiga owners). This mostly comes across in its elegant controls: tap the screen to make your dinky soldier move to that location and swipe across foes to shoot them in the order you’ve defined. The system not only suits touchscreen, it also adds an extra layer of strategy to the game, enabling you to choose targets before they’re in your line of sight. Extraction therefore sits somewhere between arcade shooters and stealth titles – with an added layer of zombie guts, obviously.

Where the game begins to falter is in not expanding enough on its tight, engaging central concept. You only get a handful of missions, most of which centre around killing hordes of zombies, rescuing scientists that would probably be better off left to their fate or escorting soldiers that appear to have all the stealth capabilities of an elephant smashing panes of glass with a hammer. The environments change little, too, and soon become monotonous, although levels are at least semi-randomly generated, providing a little extra variety when repeating missions. The game was also rather crashy on an iPad (but fine on an iPhone).

Still, this is a solid title, with plenty of potential. In short bursts it’s a lot of fun, and it can be genuinely tense when you’re out of ammo and fleeing through a decaying prison while zombies go after your blood.

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Before you can say “hang on a sec,” you’re immersed in 50 levels of Lunar Lander-style shenanigans, helping an alien hero to carefully nudge his craft past obstacles and into switches, and to pick up bombs with his magnet and drop them on targets.

Unfortunately, the military’s extremely tight-fisted regarding fuel, making many levels frustrating – something made worse by overly tight collision detection and iffy magnet controls. If it was more forgiving, we’d wholeheartedly recommend this game.

As it is, eBoo has plenty of character and inventive (and sensibly short) levels, but you must decide if you’re tough enough to be mocked for smashing your craft up. Again.

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It’s pretty simple from a strategic standpoint, but the campaign is nicely varied, and survival mode is a stern test for even the most battle-hardened of bug-squashers. Really, the game only catches on fire under scrutiny’s magnifying glass when it comes to patrol path deletion, which occasionally lacks responsiveness. It’s frustrating, but hardly a deal-breaker in an otherwise great game.

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To help you remember who’s in the round and what they want this time, tap the name to highlight them. Shame there’s no reminders function to tell you when to put the kettle on.

See, EPOCH. doesn’t “do” time-consuming fat. It cuts right to the heart of these games, straight to the combat. You’re physically stuck to cover (as the result of some tragic glue accident, we’re sure), resulting in a control scheme based entirely on swipes and taps. Swipe left and right to move between three lanes of cover, then tap on different enemies to target them. Simple, right? There are, however, a couple wrinkles: swiping down lets you duck, and swiping up sends you jetpack-flipping through the air, usually putting you out of harm’s way.

Meanwhile, enemy bots attempt to vaporise you with all manner of guns, grenades, lasers, cover-smashing blasts, and so on. The end result is fast, fluid and heart-poundingly hectic. In a word, it’s excellent. Really, combat’s only big hang-up is that baddies look like garbage – literally – and have a habit of blending in with EPOCH.’s junked-up post-apocalyptic world.

Problem is, EPOCH.’s sandwich becomes decidedly less appetising the further you get from the meat. In terms of structure, it does its best Infinity Blade impression, but gets the details all wrong. Exploration is non-existent, progression is snoozeworthy thanks to samey upgrades, and the first not-even-an-hour-long playthrough is a total cakewalk. Granted, the game goes from R2-D2 to Terminator on higher difficulty levels, but you have to unlock them first.

It is, however, a joy to look at and – in spite of its lows – highly replayable. Like guns, robots, and hiding behind walls? Then EPOCH.’s a no-brainer.

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A stylus helps, but it takes a lot of patience to make an accurate one.

DocuSign isn’t as time-saving as you might imagine and is particularly awkward to use on the smaller iOS screens.

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Interface

Accuracy
Both apps alerted us to the presence of speed cameras in a timely and useful way, using a female voice alert. When a speed camera comes into range, AA Safety Camera alerts you and tells you what speed you should be going, and the screen flashes a red warning.

Extra Features
Both apps tell you how fast you’re driving as well as warning you about fixed and mobile speed cameras, but AA Safety Camera has an advantage in that it will warn you with a voice alert if you’re going over a user-specified speed limit – useful in 30mph limit zones.

Price
AA Safety Camera is a free app, but you only get seven days to try it before you have to subscribe to the RoadPilot.com database of UK speed camera locations to use it. Your options are to sign up for one month for £2.99, one year for £9.99 or three years for £19.99.

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That’s to say nothing of forward motion, which feels fantastic whether you’re jetpacking between traps or piloting one of the many vehicles, including a giant robo-dragon called Mr Cuddles. As a whole, it’s absurdly compulsive. On the downside, some objectives can be tedious, and the game wears out its welcome fairly quickly. In-App Purchases, meanwhile, tempt but never tarnish, since coins can be earned fairly quickly.

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That’s basically it – you can adjust the speed of your animation and set it to either loop or run back and forth, and you can choose between two output resolutions, but that’s about as sophisticated as it gets. It’s simple, unfussy and it works.

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We love the latter’s breakneck pace and variety, although we finished it during our first go, and subsequent plays show up this collection as being shallow. It’s a pity developer Halfbrick was hypnotised by DreamWorks’s cash, because a deeper Desperado could have been a fantastic Fruit Ninja sequel.

dd birthdays to existing contacts, then see how many days until their next birthday, how old they will be and even their star sign.

You can also text, phone or email contacts from within the app.

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