This app for the iPhone is probably the easiest one I have found so far for discovering free apps. It is called Freed Apps. The full price when it was first released late last year was $3.99 but it has just dropped to free. I don’t know for how long so you should be quick…
Learning your Times Tables has never been so much fun. No child should ever miss out on knowing something as important as their Times Tables. Tables Splat allows children to develop their speed and accuracy in this fun and enjoyable game. It is always great to see new apps for the iPhone and iPad that…
Speak Shan is the first app ever made for learning the Shan language. Shan is spoken by over three million people in Shan State of Burma, northern Thailand, and southern China. A new app, called Speak Shan, has been released for the iPhone for people to learn a minority language called Shan. There are about…
This app for the iPhone is a train timetable for the different lines in Thailand. It will give you a list of trains departing from Bangkok and also ones for the return journey. There are also maps of each line. It is not comprehensive but it certainly has all the main trains that will be…
Learn Thai is a free, easy to use mobile app to give visitors to Thailand a good start to learning the language. It is starting to be a crowded market for iPhone apps for learning the Thai language. So many have been released of varying quality. I must say that LearnThai clearly stands head and…
This iPhone app will prove to be invaluable for anyone that plays the Thai lottery. As well as giving you a full list of winning numbers, it will also check the numbers on any tickets that you have bought. You can enter your own numbers by keyboard or by taking a picture of the ticket.…
BBC TV and Radio programmes now on your iPad. Watch and listen live, or choose your favourites from over 400 hours programming from the last 7 days. One of the most eagerly awaited apps for the iPad is the BBC iPlayer. Up to this point, we could only watch BBC programmes on the browser version…
The Apple iPad Camera Connection Kit is now available in Thailand at iStudio and iLife. The iPad Camera Connection Kit gives you two ways to import photos and videos from a digital camera: using your camera’s USB cable or directly from an SD card. iPad and the Camera Connection Kit support standard photo formats, including…
The วิทยุโทรทัศน์ (Live TV) app for Thai TV channels has been out a couple of weeks and is presently listed at Number 5 in the charts. There are a few other apps out there for Thai television but this one seems to be a little better. You can watch channels like ASTV (presently 24 hours…
Smartr’s the fastest way to get your news on Twitter. It turns the links in your twitter feed into beautiful, readable content. One of the main problems with Twitter clients for the iPhone and iPad is that you never know if a link to an article or blog is going to be interesting or not.…
On this blog I will be sharing with you tips and methods of using an iPhone and iPad in Thailand. I am not pretending to be an expert, but I hope that from my personal experience of using an iPhone for my work and pleasure you might gain some knowledge. As well as reviewing apps that I use, I will also post about accessories and also the latest news from around the world.
- Richard Barrow