Web designers and presenters, Matt and Chris
Our archive of things we've reviewed on the podcast (click hashtags for episodes). We base our reviews on three principles: how usable it is; how interesting the content is; and how good the thing looks.
Music and film

Site Review: Get Some
Site Review: Get Some

getsomeuk.com
Gold mine for up and coming DJ’s/Artists/Producers alike. #ep18

Application Review: TV Catchup
Application Review: TV Catchup

tvcatchup.com
Watch TV, without using a TV! Whatever next? #ep18

Site Review: NEET Recordings
Site Review: NEET Recordings

neetrecordings.com
MIA’s record label website. And like her eclectic sound, it’s visual chaos. #ep17

Application Review: Mflow

mflow.com
The social music store, Twitter meets Spotify? #ep17

Site Review: Mixcloud

mixcloud.com
A site that collects together lots of independent podcasts, radio shows and DJ mixes for you to discover. And gives you the tools to get involved yourself #ep16

Site Review: VBS

vbs.tv
Vice’s broadcasting arm and a home of brilliant video content. Watch it! #ep15

Site Review: Youtube (new look)

youtube.com
It’s Newtube, a New look youtube! #ep15

Youtube Channel: Red Letter Media

youtube.com/user/redlettermedia
A multimedia content producing serial killer comedian film reviewer? Sounds fun! #ep14

Site Review: thesixtyone

thesixtyone.com
It’s a musical adventure through all sorts of bands and genres right in your browser. #ep13

Site Review: We Are Hunted

wearehunted.com
It’s like a radio station of lots of new and exciting music, culled from around the web. #ep12

Site Review: Compare My Radio

comparemyradio.com
Keeping track of the playout information from the UK’s radio stations, enabling you to pick the radio station that suits you. #ep09

Site Review: Culture Critic

culturecritic.co.uk
This site aggregates reviews on films, music, theatre, DVDs, books and exhibitions from the British press. So now there’s no excuse to not see the best stuff out there!

Site Review: Warp

warp.net
This site apart from looking ruddy lovely, houses some of the best records, films & events you could ever see/hear/maybe even smell?

Site Review: Metacritic

metacritic.com
A site that gathers together all of the reviews of films/games/music from the media to create an overall (meta) score.

Site Review: Tune Checker

tunechecker.com
Battling the ‘evil empire’ of iTunes, TV’s Martin Lewis of Money Saving Expert fame has released a price comparison site for music downloads. #ep08

Art and design

iPhone App Review: Depict
iPhone App Review: Depict

It’s Pictionary with your fingers and loads of other people on the iPhone! #ep15

Site Review: How To Be A Retronaut
Site Review: How To Be A Retronaut

howtobearetronaut.com
It’s a blog of old images and stuff - much of it a gloriously visual treat. #ep11

Site Review: Lomography
Site Review: Lomography

lomography.com
Analogue cameras with a lovely digital case. #ep11

Site Review: Da Font

dafont.com
A site, that funnily enough is a great place to search for free fonts to spice up your life/design.

Site Review: It’s Nice That

itsnicethat.com
A blog/website showcasing the best in creative stuff that turns up online.

Site Review: The Big Picture

boston.com/bigpicture/
Lots of brilliant, big images from the news. Regularly updated with great content.

Flickr Set: Design Archive

flickr.com/photos/20745656@N00/sets/
A handy research/inspiration set for print designers.

Application Review: Colour Challenge

xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77
A fun little game you can play to find out just how good your colour vision is by rearranging little squares…

Site Review: Book Cover Archive

bookcoverarchive.com
Quite literally an archive of loads of lovely book covers. One for you lovers of print.

Site Review: Free Photo Printing

freephotoprinting.net
It’s a website that tracks down all the free photo print offers available on the web so you never need pay for photo printing again. Or at least you should be able to get 500-odd free pics…

Travel

Application Review: Nike True City
Application Review: Nike True City

Nike and Vice have got together to create a free guide to six cities, updated regularly by people in the know. It’s another place reviewing idea and we’ve a review of the iPhone app. Find it in the App store.

Site Review: Unlike
Site Review: Unlike

unlike.net
It’s a travel guide for all you young and funky people. Yeah! Everyone loves to travel to the coolest cities in the world.

Application Review: Rummble
Application Review: Rummble

rummble.com
This is something we’ve been after for quite some time: an app that enables you to store details of a place against its location on a map. #ep09

Subculture and fashion

Site Review: Fly 53
Site Review: Fly 53

Fly53.com
Fly 53 got a new site don’t they! #ep18

Site Review: Zimbio
Site Review: Zimbio

zimbio.com
A new place to search for images. #ep16

Site Review: Flatspot
Site Review: Flatspot

flatspot.com
A lovely looking site that offers up a spectacular variety of clobber. #ep16

Site Review: Viceland

viceland.com
Viceland is the home on the web of Vice Magazine. #ep15

Site Review: Vice Style

vicestyle.com
Vice have launched their own attack on the world of style/fashion blogs. #ep15

Site Review: Covert Candy

covertcandy.co.uk
Clothes for free! Them’s the rules.

Triple Style Mags

hypebeast.com / slamxhype.com / thedailystreet.co.uk
A triple pack of fashion & culture magazine/websites (magasite/webzine if you prefer) that are a must check on a daily basis.

Site Review: Grime Daily

grimedaily.com
It’s a site for people wanting to get down with the exciting world of the UK grime scene! #ep07

Sport

Application Review: Panini Virtual Stickers
Application Review: Panini Virtual Stickers

en.stickeralbum.fifa.com
The future of football stickers! Just like you remember – except you can’t touch them. #ep17

iPhone App Review: Livescore
iPhone App Review: Livescore

The first live score service on the Internet, powered by livescore.com since 1998, the no.1 ranked football (soccer) website globally. #ep15

Site Review: Mclaren F1
Site Review: Mclaren F1

mclaren.com
A look at Mclaren’s shiny new website, and by God it’s shiny! mmmm #ep13

Site Review: Footytube

footytube.com
View highlights and videos from football games around the world. It might be somewhat dubious but then it is free. #ep12

Podcast Review: The Football Ramble

thefootballramble.com
Hoooooo! It’s a podcast about football (obviously) but a good one that doesn’t feature an abundance of journalists. It’s for all us mugs who think of ourselves as genuine fans of the game.

Site Review: Football Filter

footballfilter.com
This is a great little aggregator of a site, pulling together a mass of football resources from around the web (with a slight English bias, which is nice!) into one filterable page.

Web tools

iPhone App Review: Opera Mini
iPhone App Review: Opera Mini

It’s the first piece of browser competition to be introduced on the iPhone. #ep15

Application Review: Audioboo
Application Review: Audioboo

audioboo.com
You think you don’t need another form of communication? We look at the ‘audio Twitter’ web and iPhone apps. #ep15

Site Review: fivesecondtest
Site Review: fivesecondtest

fivesecondtest.com
Review the look or clickability of websites with simple five second long tests. For users and site-owners alike.

Site Review: Favicon Generator

html-kit.com/favicon/
If you’re going to look like a serious website you have to have a favicon! Make one here!

Site Review: Icon Finder

iconfinder.net
A search engine for those really little graphics that are so necessary in the web 2.0 world.

Application Review: Pixlr Editor

pixlr.com/editor
A free Photoshop-lite that enables you to edit images on the fly within your browser. #ep08

Odds and ends

Site Review: Peter Jones
Site Review: Peter Jones

peterjones.tv
He’s a tall man and big in the digital media department if you know what we mean! #ep14

Site Review: Gif Bin
Site Review: Gif Bin

gifbin.com
Look out! It’s moving! It should be still but it’s doing something crazy. Animated gifs eh? What will they think of next… #ep14

Site Review: TED
Site Review: TED

ted.com
Lots of videos of big ideas in the form of talks by famous, intelligent and interesting people. #ep13

Site Review: 43 Things

43things.com
The worlds largest goal-setting community, apparently. Its like a big social to-do list. So what are you doing next?

Site Review: Flavors

flavors.me
A site that allows you, humble user, to quickly create your own webpage aggregating your content from around the web. #ep12

Site Review: Lego Instructions

peeron.com/scans/themes/2
Tons and tons of old Lego (a.k.a. the best toy in the world ever) instructions for you to browse.

Site Review: Sporcle

sporcle.com
Fancy learning while you waste time? Pretty much the ultimate quiz site out there! #ep10

Application Review: Hootsuite

hootsuite.com
It’s a dashboard-style free web app for managing your social media accounts within a browser. No downloads. Dead easy.

Application Review: Spectra News

msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/components/spectra/index.html
This is a pretty craaaazy new way of viewing the news through a spinning, kind-of-3D, visual interface. A news re-imagining if you will.

Podcast Review: Carpool

llewtube.com
Carpool is a weekly video cast with various interesting people, often celebrities of some form, hosted on the website of actor/presenter Robert Llewelyn.