It's not good enough that Patrick Stewart plays Ebenezer Scrooge in the Muppets' version of Dickens 'A Christmas Carol'. Oh no, we need to know how Captain Jean-Luc Picard would celebrate the holiday season. This lovingly and painstakingly compiled set of clips from Star Trek: The Next Generation gives us a rendition of 'Let It Snow' in the form of 'Make It So'. It's a thing of genius. Shut up Wesley!

http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=RrG4JnrN5GA

Heyday app
As it nears the end of 2013 Heyday is the perfect app to relive some of your best moments.

This is a private journaling app that automatically creates entries based on your camera roll and GPS co-ordinates. Photos are laid out in montages with a map preview of where they were taken.

Manually edit to add details or swap around picture layout. The top panel is a mini slideshow that displays random photos, dates and the time of day they were taken. No need to worry about over-sharing via social media. Keep this app for yourself.

http://www.hey.co/


Codecademy: Hour of Code
Codecademy's free 'learn to code' platform has been live since 2012 and gaining in popularity with all ages. It aims to take complete beginners through to competence in programming languages like Python, PHP, JavaScript and Ruby. Hour of Code is its first app and promises to teach the basics of coding in under an hour. It's launched in conjunction with the Hour Of Code movement started by Computer Science Education Week in the US. A great initiative that motivates through social media integration.

https://itunes.apple.com/ gb/app/codecademy-hour-of-code/id762950096?mt=8