Compiled by JOHN COLLINS

INSTALL: Pollen Alert Ireland for hay fever warning

Although we mightn’t be enjoying the traditional Leaving Cert sunny weather, hay fever can still be a major issue for students, impairing their performance when doing exams.

The Pollen Alert Ireland app from IrishHealth.com, which is available for Android and iPhone, uses data provided by the National Pollen and Aerobiology Research Unit at the University of Worcester to provide a daily pollen forecast for each province in Ireland. You can also sign up for high pollen alerts which are pushed to your phone until November when the service ends.

www.irishhealth.com/pollen

DISCOVER: What's distracting you from real work

Xerox’s Business of Your Brain app for PCs analyses your Outlook in-box so you can find out what you are really spending your time on rather than what you think you spend it on.

The free software provides detailed reports based on your e-mails and appointments to tell you things like who you have the most meetings with, who sends the most high-alert e-mails, what are the latest buzz words being used in e-mail subjects and whose e-mails you delete without reading.

Now if it could only get your in-box down to a manageable size...

www.BusinessofYourBrain.com

BOOKMARK: CatchFree: free apps without the catch

It’s happened to us all – you download and install an app you think is free to find those hidden “catches” which mean you have to pay to get the functionality you were really looking for. Products featured on CatchFree.com has a free version that never expires and has been voted on by users on the site. The top 10 most recommended apps – which currently include Dropbox, Evernote, LogMeIn and Skype – are essential installs for your PC or smartphone.

Catchfree.com

GET: All your daily deals on a single page

If you think Groupon, CityDeals and all those other deal of the day websites are still largely a US phenomenon, think again.

Deal Page pulls together all the deals on offer in Ireland and shows just how popular a marketing tool it is with deals on offer from TodayFM.com, Pigsback, BoardsDeals and Gruupy to name but a few. As recession beaters go you can’t get much better than this.

http://www.dealpage.ie/