Anyone who remembers the eighties will be familiar with the Filofax, a large personal organiser synonymous with the ‘Yuppie culture’. Pin-striped, double-breasted suit types would run around the City with a huge leather wallet loaded with contacts, notes, you name it. They’re still popular today but we also have electronic organisers.

Luckily, increasingly sophisticated mobile apps mean we can organise our lives at the touch of a button via our mobile handsets. read more

I was in Paris earlier this year for a few days exploring the many delights of the City of Light. Armed with walking boots and euros, I suddenly found myself bogged down by some unwelcome weight, and it wasn’t shopping! Ah, travel guides.

Much as I love them, incisive travel books are often bulky and heavy, and can seriously detract from a good day’s exploration. There’s all that stopping, sifting through your bag, finding the right page and then reading up on the monument or to check on your location. read more

Softwareload has unveiled its brand new mobile store, giving you simple access to more than 15,000 downloadable mobile applications. Softwareload.co.uk’s UK mobile store offers apps compatible with BlackBerry, PalmOS, Symbian and Windows Mobile platforms, including a number of free titles. read more

For the rest of us who don’t have an iPhone (yes there are still some of us left!) it seems to always be a matter of compromise. Your (business) phone is good for what you bought it for, but you can’t help wishing those other bits and pieces that aren’t soo important, like internet browsing, were as good as well, an iPhone! Softwareload had a look at 2 Symbian solutions, Skyfire and Opera Mini. read more