MY PICK OF THE WEEK’S APPS

CONTACTS SYNC GMAIL IOS FREE If you’re tired of not knowing if a contact is on your iPhone or in your Gmail list, this app will help get it in sync. It will work in either direction and it’s clever enough to see which is the newer entry from iPhone or other accounts. FACE OSCAR IOS €3.49 How would you look in an Oscarwinning role? Take a selfie, choose your favourite character and become the star of your favourite scenes. New scenes are added regularly. VLC VIDEO ANDROID FREE This is like the Swiss army knife of video viewers. Keep it on your tablet for summer journeys and you’ll be able to play just about any video format. Also plays audio and network streams. TEXTU – SMS ANDROID FREE TextU is a secured SMS and text messenger that keeps snoopers away from your messages. It encrypts messages and there’s a secure message box, an SMS blocker and SMS back-up. There’s also a clever SMS scheduler for automated sending.