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Compiled by JOHN COLLINS

INSTALL

O2 Money app to transfer money

When it recently launched its O2 Money card, a pre-paid Visa card, the telco said it was the start of the journey to an electronic wallet that would allow you to pay for goods with a swipe of your mobile at a shop checkout.

O2 has taken a step down that road with an Android and Apple app which allows O2 Money customers to transfer money to other users. The app is free but it costs €1 to transfer up to €350 which can then be spent in shops, online or for an ATM withdrawal.

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READ

'Will web have place in world full of apps?'

Farhad Manjoo is writing a series of articles on the future of innovation for Slatemagazine. This latest instalment addresses the rise of apps and whether they will kill the web, as Wired has predicted.

Manjoo’s argument is that the move to the cloud will see the distinction between the web and apps become increasingly blurred. His vision of the future is a lot closer than casual observers might expect.

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STALK

Your friends from a secret location

Foursquare, Twitter and Flickr all allow us to share information with our friends and family, but they also enable us to give away our location at the time we post to them.

Enter Creepy, a Windows and Linux application that allows you to pull that geo-location information from your friends’ (and presumably your enemies’) social network feeds. The information is then plotted on a map so you can see where they spend their time hanging out.

The software is developed as a proof of concept to show just how much information we share without realising. is.gd/HUqK3u

CALCULATE

Your taxes on Irish Taxation Institute app

Tax calculators are nothing new, but how many of us sit down to visit a website and figure out if we are paying Revenue too much? Enter the Irish Taxation Institute’s iPhone app, which helps you calculate your tax bill, ensure you are claiming all your allowances and reliefs, and makes monthly calculations on pensions payments, mortgage interest payments, loans, tax reliefs and the new universal social charge.

Although the app has a price tag of €1.59, it’ll more than pay for itself if you discover you’ve been overpaying your taxes.

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