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Mile Mapper is Queen’s University Belfast student Stephen Laide’s first app, but you wouldn’t be able to tell from the quality.

The premise is simple – it will suggest a random route of your chosen distance (up to 10 miles) to and from your current location.

As you’re running (or in my case, walking) it’ll do all the usual fitness tracking things of pace and calories burned.

It gives a nice bit of variety to your routine as well as helping you explore the area around you. The routes can be stored, so you can go back a particularly good one.

Stephen had previously studied architecture and was able to bring that design experience to the app by making his own custom UI rather than rely on the stock iOS elements. One complaint I’d have though is that some of the sliders are a bit finicky to use.

There is a limitation in that only 5 routes can be generated a day (this is because of limits on the free Google service used to generate them). Still, I found it enough to get a reasonable route each day.

Mile Mapper is available for free on the App Store.

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Podcast apps are the new Twitter clients of the iOS world – they’re where all the interesting design and user interfaces are happening right NOW..

Network, built by Dublin based engineer/designer Andrew Conlan is a great example of the new crop of apps that take full advantage of everything iOS 7 has to offer.

Network has a slick, minimalistic interface that fits in beautifully with iOS7. The app really gets to the core of what you want from a podcasting app – listening to the content as quickly as possible with minimal interference and setup. Everything in the app can be accessed with a few quick, intuitive gestures.

The app is also very conscientious when it comes to downloading new episodes – it’ll wait until there is wi-fi instead of gorging on your 3G data.

Network is available on the App Store at €2.99.

Andrew has kindly given us 5 copies to give away to the fastest clickers:
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Daddyo-timeline-HDFrom Dublin based digital consultancy iQ Content comes this app aimed squarely at first time fathers.

Based on the experiences of their lead designer and young dad, Tom Cunningham, it provides a timeline from conception to 6 months old.

For each stage, a list of tips and explanations are given to guide the nervous first time father through the nightmare journey.

Daddyo is available on the Apple App Store for €1.79.

We have three FREE codes to giveaway to the fastest typers:

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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.

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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.

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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.

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We’ve featured Tapadoo’s original version of this app before but their new iOS 7 only version is worthy of a post of its own.

Completely redesigned, it raises the bar for transport apps both is terms of looks and ease of use. It takes a minimal amount of taps to set up your stops and once that’s done you’ll get all the information you need at a glance.

It certainly beats the pants off the official offerings.

They’ve even included a few easter eggs for you to discover but they’re not saying where they are.

My Dublin Bus 2 is available on iTunes for €1.79 right now.

We’ve been given 10 free copies to give away:

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Timetable apps have been a staple of the app store since it opened its doors. They’re often as dull as their subject matter.

But the people in Tapadoo have managed to both make a useful, functional app with a humorous twist

The app follows founder Dermot Daly‘s mantra to perfection – do one thing well.

A couple of taps and your daily commute buses can be set up so there’s no fiddling about every time you want to use it.

In fact, it works far better than Dublin Bus’s own effort or even the signs at the bus stops.



When something does go wrong (more often than not the fault of the Real Time Information rather than the app) it will show a southside/northside appropriate error (above) based on your current location.

And how much for a beautifully crafted app like this?

Not a brass farthing.

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