This is a new Irish app from a company aiming to become the leading loyalty-building business in the world.
Buy special offers in store that you find through the Reep app and take a photo of your receipt to earn cash back, meaning you’re saving on groceries and getting cash back.
There are quite a few retailers with special offers already signed up: Tesco, Dunnes Stores, SuperValu, Woodie's, Spar, Aldi, Mace, Eurospar, Costcutter, Lifestyle Sports, and more.
This is a loyalty scheme - similar to loyalty cards - on your phone. Retailers get information about who buys what and when and can target better offers at them. A user who earns cash back can either claim rewards like holidays, spa visits, gifts, golf trips, cinema tickets, etc.
Most people prefer to cash out when they reach the €50 mark. They do this through PayPal when they link it with Reep Account.
- Clean Reader - Read books, not profanity
The Clean Reader app prevents swear words in books from being displayed on your screen. You decide how clean your books should appear and Clean Reader does the rest.
Browse the bookstore to find the books you want, download them and decide whether you want your books to be Clean, Cleaner or Squeaky Clean. The “Clean” setting only blocks major swear words from display, including all uses of the F-word we could find. The “Cleaner” setting blocks everything that “Clean” blocks plus more. “Squeaky Clean” is the most restrictive setting and will block the most profanity from a book including some hurtful racial terms.
The terms are replaced by little blue dots which you can tap on to get a cleaner version of the word:
“What the • did you say?” his friend asks.“You • biscuit-eatin’ •!”
Tap on those blue dots, and the app reveals close if bland approximations: “butt,” “freaking,” “jerk” and “witch.”
Easy to understand news bites in Science, Tech, Financial Tech and Bitcoin - the headings and the articles behind them. The stories are curated by a team of editors, and then voted on.
- Gnoosic - discover new music based on the performers you already like
Enter three bands you like and the website will give you suggestions of other bands you might like. A good way to find new recommendations. Here are three examples using some of my favourites:
- Paul Simon + Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band + Van Morrison = Bob Seger And The Silver Bullet Band
- Maria Doyle Kennedy + Delorentos + Royseven = The Blizzards or General Fiasco
- Michael Jackson + George Michael + Frank Sinatra = Robbie Williams
A lexicon for lovers and the heartbroken, this website offers some startling definitions for words you never knew there was - or wasn’t - a word for.
For example:
n. the frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist—the same sunset, the same waterfall, the same curve of a hip, the same closeup of an eye—which can turn a unique subject into something hollow and pulpy and cheap, like a mass-produced piece of furniture you happen to have assembled yourself.
- ColorSinc - See the same colour at any time in the world
The web looks synchronized, but it isn't. Pages load half-a-second faster on one computer, a few hundred milliseconds slower on another. Even if you loaded up your Facebook page on two computers side-by-side, they'd both show up slightly out of sync with one another.
That means that no matter how connected the Internet makes you feel, we're all still experiencing it at slightly different times. But this is something unique on all the Internet: a cycle of colors, flashing across your screen. Regardless of what screen you're viewing it on, or what your Internet connection speed is like, the color is always the same. It's a shared moment.
The website is dead simple: outside of some text explaining the site, it's just a simple block of color that fills your browser window. The colors change from time to time, seemingly at random, but that's where Colorsinc gets interesting. The colors on screen change when anyone, no matter what device they're on, clicks or taps on his screen.
- Martin's Life
And lastly, this brilliantly observed web series on living with Irish parents has captured the hearts and minds of the country:
