Showcase your design talent on the go with Viewbook’s beautiful iPad app

Viewbookis an online platform aimed at helping designers and artists share their work in good-looking, easy-to-use portfolios. You can even sell your work through the service. Now the Dutch team behind the service has launched aniPad app. Tablets such as the iPad are great for taking out and using to share portfolios with potential clients, and the Viewbook app is designed to make that process as easy as possible. Integrating with your Viewbook account (nay,requiringa Viewbook account), you can view and manage your work much more easily than with Apple’s built-in gallery....

2 min · 334 words · Dennis Barr

Showdown: Spotify vs. Rdio vs. Grooveshark vs. Pandora

Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul.-Angela Monet Music, like travel and fine wine, is one of the greatest pleasures a human being can indulge in. In today’s rapidly changing digital landscape, we have a plethora of awesome options for discovering, sharing and enjoying music online, particularly in the U.S. Today the big news is thatSpotify, the all-you-can-eat buffet of musical tunage, hasofficially launchedin the U....

11 min · 2160 words · Timothy Waller

Showreel brings the latest and greatest movie trailers to your iPad in gorgeous HD

The App Store is teeming with movie and entertainment apps that bring you trailers, showtimes, box office charts, news and everything else related to Hollywood that you could possibly want; butShowreelis all about the best in movie trailers. Built by iOS app-maker Riot, whose other apps on the App Store areConverse for the iPadandShaken for the iPhone, Showreel is a gorgeously designed app that stands out of the pack due to its relentless minimalism....

3 min · 539 words · Michael Blanchard

ShowYouLikeIt: A slick way to display your Facebook likes

ShowYouLikeItis a great way to keep up with the most popular music, books, movies and more according to the number of Facebook likes a particular item has received. Additionally, signing up for a free account by connecting your Facebook account gives you a personalized and attractive page of all of your Facebook favourites. ShowYouLikeIt’s public page displays the most popular items based on the Facebook members who have already connected their accounts to the site....

3 min · 631 words · William Goodwin

Shutl adds six more cities to super-fast UK delivery service

Shutl, the super-fast online delivery startup, has announced today that it is expanding its service to cover six more cities to in the UK. Online shoppers in Aberdeen, Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff and Liverpool will soon enjoy the company’s super-fast service which can deliver online goods within 90 minutes of purchase. The company – which featured on ourlist of European startups to watch in 2010– allows online shoppers to select whether they would like to receive their order within 90 minutes (“Shutl Now”) or delivered within a 1 hour window of their choice (“Shutl Later”)....

2 min · 298 words · James Mcguire
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