May 18, 2013

Cooking Apps for Your Smartphone

RECIPE: Decadent Guinness-Battered Fish and Chips

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These days you can combine your love of cooking and technology by installing some useful applications on your smartphone. Best of all, many of these apps are free. So there’s no excuse to run out of ideas in the kitchen!

Here are some of the most popular free cooking apps available for smartphones.

Recipe Calculator helps you to quickly calculate the amount of recipe ingredients you will need for a particular amount of people. The standard number of servings for many recipes is 4-6. But what if you had to cook for 15 people? This handy little app will quickly calculate the extra ingredients you will need to enable successful cooking for any number of people.

Trying to eat healthy? Spark Recipes is an app for your smartphone that provides tons of free healthy recipes for those who want to watch what they eat. You can save your favorites and know exactly what you are eating, as each recipe comes with detailed nutritional information. Perfect for keeping track of every bite.

Campbell’s Kitchen is a great cooking app for those amateur cooks out there. If you’re not sure what to cook it has many suggestions for you, plus there are heaps of tips to make your cooking experience an enjoyable one. You will be whipping up gourmet meals in no time with this easy to use application that encourages efficiency and speed of cooking for any level of cook, from amateur to experienced!

With so many free cooking apps available for download onto any smartphone, it’s a wonder that anyone goes out to eat anymore!

 

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iPhone Versus Blackberry

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It’s becoming a standard debate in the world of technology today. What’s better? The iPhone or the Blackberry? Take a look at what each has to offer and then decide for yourself, if you can!

iPhone

For this the specifications of the iPhone 4 have been used.

  • Interactive touchscreen with multi-touch input, accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate, proximity sensor for auto turn-off and a scratch-resistant surface
  • In-built camera, for which there is a vast array of apps to download
  • Speaking of apps, there’s one for pretty much anything you can think of
  • Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity
  • A large battery life including up to 250 hours standby, 8 hours of talk time and 24 hours of music playing
  • E-mail, web browsing and SMS capabilities
  • Downloadable games
  • Unlimited phonebook entries
  • hands free talking
  • iPhone operating system
  • USB port
  • Polyphonic MP3 ringtones

Blackberry

For this the Blackberry Curve specs have been used.

  • Full QWERTY keyboard and touch sensitive optical track pad.
  • 2MP camera
  • Blackberry operating system
  • SMS, email, IM, and MMS
  • Downloadable games
  • Unlimited phonebook entries
  • Dedicated music keys
  • Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity
  • hands free talking
  • Up to 408 hours of standby and up to 4 hours and 30 minutes of talk time
  • MP3/MP4 player
  • 256MB internal memory
  • Micro USB port
  • Polyphonic MP3 ringtones

The main specifications for each phone have been listed here, but when making any decision it is best to look at the full list of specifications. Each person will have a different set of requirements when looking for a smartphone, be sure to keep your individual requirements in mind when searching for the perfect phone.

 

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