Strum: Connecting customers and businesses

The newly launched Strum app offers something no other application has been able to give you before: the ability to directly converse and connect with local businesses.

Strum lets you locate and send messages to your favorite establishments, tag specific employees for their great service, and then send public or private messages directly to business owners. You can earn Strum Points for your activity and be able to use these to bid on great local goods and services in the Strum Auction. Meanwhile, employees who get recognized for great service can also earn Strum Points. If you want to try it out, you can download it for free on the iTunes App Store.

Cut the Buttons goes lite

You love your favorite timewasters but need something new to play with? If you haven’t give Cut the Buttons a try, now’s the time to do so. There’s now a free lite version of the addictive game. It still contains the much-loved classic mode, multi-touch and multi-user capability, and minimal ads. More information about the game is available on its official site. 

Counting Points: Reduce the guilt in guilty pleasures

Guilty pleasures usually make us feel good. However, too much of a good thing as we all know can be bad. This new healthcare app from Freecycle Germany called Counting Points wants to help you curb your bad habits and guilty pleasures without needing you to radically change your lifestyle.

Counting Points helps you start new better habits with an easy and fun to use points system. Each day you will be given fresh points to spend on any user-defined pleasure. Since you can’t spend beyond the points you’ve previously earned, this limits your consumption and hopefully reminds you to stop seeking the guilty pleasure. The app comes in both free and paid versions ($0.99) on iTunes, with the free version only capable of tracking one goal and the paid version capable of tracking up to four.

Review: Panasonic Lumix DMX-ZS30

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

It is hard to envy makers of standalone point-and-shoot digital cameras simply because they're up against some stunning competition in the smartphone space. The best camera, after all, is the one you have with you and that's often the one in your phone. Undaunted, Panasonic has aspired to give the point-and-shoot category a shot in the arm with the compact and innovative Lumix DMX-ZS30.

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