“Your co-worker has gone on holiday. The other one is off with flu. Suddenly, you’re drowning in a sea of sticky notes while frantically trying to type a letter before hopping into a cab for that meeting and wait, is that your boss heading this way? Don’t crawl under your desk with a sympathetic chocolate bar – Lady Geek TV have found the apps to keep you productive under pressure.

This week, Lady Geek test Quickoffice Suite to ensure you are mobile and ready for action by letting you view and edit documents on the go. We also test one of your favourites, Remember the Milk, to keep you organised, calm, collected and on top of Mount Sticky-Note.

Get in touch before 10am on Friday 3rd September and you can win a gorgeous Nokia E72. All you need to do is ‘like’ our Facebook page at facebook.com/ladygeektv or follow us on Twitter @ladygeektv.

The Lady Geeks look forward to hearing from you.”

Had most trouble this week doing the dodgy Powerpoint presentation slides. It’s really difficult to make things look intentionally bad, rather than just bad. If I had more time I would spend a bit longer on those bits, as I think there is a next level that they just haven’t reached yet! Also, for some weird reason AE didn’t render out the silhouetted woman on the slides at the end…

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“We know how it starts. The huff and puff up your street while your Olympianesque neighbour sprints past with a cheery wave and an all-too-hearty, Hello there! Jerk. Or maybe your favourite top is just that tiny bit too tight. Trainers laced up, gym membership at the ready, you vow this time it will be different you will be fit. 200 meters later and you’re ready to collapse. How will you ever get fit?

This week, the Lady Geeks bring you fitness apps that WILL make a difference. The Lady Geeks show you how you can train your way to a 5K with the ingeniously named C25K for iPhone. Measure your progress and brag about your accomplishments with Sports Tracker for Nokia and prove those fitness skills with a crunch-off match thanks to CrunchFu. You’ll be outpacing your smug lycra-clad neighbour in no time at all.

Get in touch before 6 pm on Monday 30th August and you can win the ultra cool Nokia X3. All you need to do is like our facebook page and leave a comment or share the episode with your facebook friends.

The Lady Geeks look forward to hearing from you.”

This one was epic, and really difficult to cut down to under 8 minutes. Think it’s come out ok tho, maybe one of the best yet… ;)

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“How do you survive being stuck indoors, with only your smartphone to help you?

We want to showcase apps that will make a practical difference to your life. This week is our guest presenter is the fabulous Hermione Way, from Newspepper and TechFluff.tv.

Debs and Hermione use their brains, brawn and mobile phones to survive this week, looking at Amazon Mobile, Ocado on the go and the brand new Tesco Grocery app. Our App of the Week is the Ovi V Festival app, essential for this weekend’s… V Festival!

‘Like’ our Facebook page this week to be entered to win a ticket to the SOLD OUT 2010 V FESTIVAL!”

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“How do you keep bored kids entertained with your phone?

We want to showcase apps that will make a practical difference to your life. This week is our Mumsnet special, with guest presenter Justine Roberts.

Debs and Justine will be looking at Fish School for iPhone, Qik for Nokia and the new Google Image Search on Android, iPhone and Palm. Our App of the Week is Toddler Lock.

‘Like’ our Facebook page this week to be entered to win the fabulous Nokia 6700 Slide featured in the show.”

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“We want to showcase apps that will make a practical difference to your life. This week, is our fashion special, so Debs Anne and fabulous guest presenter Angela Buttolph from Grazia Daily bring you Go Shop, TouchCloset and Ask A Stylist. ‘Like’ our Facebook page this week to be entered to win the fabulous Nokia C3 featured in the show.”

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“We want to showcase apps that will make a practical difference to your life. This week we’re looking at Qype for Ovi Maps, Talking Phrasebooks and Tube Pro, with the help of the magical Maggie Philbin. Join us on Facebook this week to be entered to win the fabulous Nokia C3 featured in the show.”

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“Episode 2 of The App Show. We want to showcase apps that will make a practical difference to your life. This week we’ve picked out cross-platform app OpenTable, with Pair It! and Epicurious on iPhone and Android. Join us on Facebook this week to be entered to win the fabulous Nokia E72 featured in the show.”

The second episode of our new show, this time with guest presenter, Kate Stevens.

Filming this one was just as fun as the first; really funny and whilst we’re trying to keep things simple to get them done within the short turnaround (around 4 days for this ep) we managed to squeeze a bunch of fun ideas in there. Even had to miss out a few jokes to keep the show at around 7 minutes long…

If you missed the first episode, you can see it here.

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“Episode 1 of The App Show. The show that puts apps to the test in the real world. This week we try out Ovi Maps for Nokia, SitorSquat on Blackberry and TouchNote on iPhone. Tell us what you think!”

We’ve been commissioned by Lady Geek to make a Web TV series! Very exciting, as it’s something we’ve wanted the opportunity to do for a long time, and hopefully will lead on to more SMAP shows in the future. Let us know what you think of the show, and if you join the Facebook group or comment on the website you will be entered to win a new smartphone! Craziness!

More info on the show and behind the scenes stuff soon!

Some features on the show so far:

Front page of the new Yahoo! Lifestyle portal
Grazia Daily
Mobile Entertainment
Mobile Marketing Magazine
The Wall
The Phones Show Chat (audio podcast)
Financial Mail Women’s Forum

Also, you can become a fan of Lady Geek TV on facebook to get updates.

Really hope you enjoy the show!

We’re also putting together some quick ‘How To’ guides for installing apps, etc. The first one is below, more to come soon!

Behind the scenes

Pretty sure many of our generation grew-up making mixtapes with twin cassette recorders. I certainly did and received some awesome tapes from friends before all this internet gubbins came along.

I’d planned to use Muxtape to do this a year or two ago, but since that all went pear-shaped, Spotify came on the scene to save the day. We’ll see how the recent royalities issues play out a little before we abandon it in protest, as for now it’s one of the best way to hear new music and (as it turns out) share it with friends.

This one’s a bit of a genre-hopping, rag-tag bunch… Too many exciting tracks to choose from! Track listing below, for those without Spotify.

Have fun!

Super Mixtape Action Plus! Vol 1

1. Beating Heart Baby / Head Automatica / Decadence
2. Again & Again / the bird and the bee / The Bird And The Bee
3. Raid / Madvillain / Madvillainy
4. Find It / Stu Phillips / Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
5. The Rains / Some Girls / All My Friends Are Going Death
6. Live From the Plantation / Mr Lif / I Phantom
7. F.K.O. / Subtle / A New White
8. Stillness Is The Move / Dirty Projectors / Bitte Orca
9. The Littlest Birds / Jolie Holland / Catalpa
10. Forests And Sands / Camera Obscura / My Maudlin Career
11. In This Shirt / The Irrepressibles / Mirror Mirror
12. Atlas / Battles / Mirrored

All those mirrors at the end are purely coincidental!
Original cassette player image from here.

Filmed by Super Mega Action Plus, with additional camera by Fritz Stolberg.
Edited by Jamie McDermott and Super Mega Action Plus.
Grade by Super Mega Action Plus.
Directed by Jamie McDermott.

Our photos from the show are below, or check out the slideshow on Flickr.