Author Archives: Karl Monaghan

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Go to church,

Ciaran says:

I’m a singer with the Dublin Gospel Choir we’d love to let your readers know about our special Christmas Concert in aid of the Capuchin Day Centre for homeless people on Sunday 22nd of December at 8pm in the adjoining Saint Mary of the Angels Church on Church Street, Dublin 7

Admission is free with a donation encouraged if they wish to the Capuchin Day Centre which currently provides 200 breakfasts daily (300 extra each Wednesday) and dinner service to seldom less than 450 people a day.

 

Capuchin Day Centre

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Brought to you by siblings Cormac, Catriona and Colm Barry, trakAx MovieExpress is an impressively fully featured video mixer.

The app scans your device for photos, music and video and lets you edit and mix them together before exporting out as a whole new video.

I did find some of the controls were a bit fiddly to use on my Samsung S3 but I’m sure that’s not a problem on larger screened devices.

It’s available for €4 on the Google Play Store, which seems to me to be extremely cheap for what you get. There’s a free version in the pipeline with a somewhat reduced feature set.

Do you have an Irish app? Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie

As always, no favours, cuddles, or pints were given for this post. Some guidelines on submission are here.

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Dublin based developer Kevin Bergin has released this addictive little game for both iOS and Android.

Like the best casual games, the idea is simple. Move your Gooboid (the little greenblue guy) around to gather energy and advance the levels all the while staying as close to but not touching the other Gooboids to get points.

It was so addictive I started carrying my horrible Galaxy S3 again just to play it.

The iOS version (which I only discovered this morning) unfortunately has my absolute bugbear issue of not being sized for the 5/5s/5c sized screen, but plays the exact same as the Android version.

Gooboids is available for free on the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store.

Do you have an Irish app? Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie

As always, no favours, cuddles, or pints were given for this post. Some guidelines on submission are here.

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Leaving Cert Answers from The Educational Company of Ireland is a nice little helper app for those wretched souls facing into the barrel of a ‘life determining’ exam.

The app provides the answers for the 2005 papers as a sample so you can see the quality before splurging on later years.

Leaving Cert Answers is available now on the Apple App Store with a free sample of the answers available and the rest as in app purchases.

Do you have an Irish app? Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie

As always, no favours, cuddles, or pints were given for this post.

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Ger Kelly of Getchoo Creations has created a way for you to experience the roller coaster of startup life with his Hispter CEO app.

There’s now no need to trap yourself in your mother’s basement a cramped smelly office slaving  over your precious world changing idea when you can simulate the realisation that no one actually wants to use your idea (or if you’re really lucky the soaring delights of selling out the man in a billion dollar buyout and retiring to an island).

It also perfectly captures the douchebag brogrammer speak that infests the sector.

Harrumph.

Ger has  given us four copies to give away to the fastest typers:

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Hipster CEO is available now on the Apple App Store for €2.69.

Do you have an Irish app? Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie

As always, no favours, cuddles, or pints were given for this post.