Pee-er reviewed movies with RunPee
The allure of the big screen is often dampened (no pun intended) by the need to leave and pee – there's no way of knowing if you're missing a really good bit. Alas, one cannot pause a movie playing at the cinema but the next best thing is RunPee, an app that alerts you to the optimum time to dash to the loo.

The creators watch the movies, find the least interesting bits and summarise them for you to read on the loo before returning to enjoy the rest of the film. Costs €0.99 on iOS, Android, Windows.

http://runpee.com

A workout for the post-Christmas brain
The jury is out on what kind of effect (if any) various brain-training games have on an individual's intelligence or working memory. There are, however, a few games out there that are developed through scientific studies and may be worth a try.

Dual N-Back tests your visual and audio memory with coloured boxes that appear in various on-screen locations accompanied by a voice calling out a random letter.

It begins at “two back” meaning you have to remember and match the letter and location from two moves ago. It hurts the brain but it gets easier with practice.

http://soakyourhead.com

Combining apps for the new year fitness regime
It's the new year and the obligatory fitness and diet apps will be downloaded, tested and soon forgotten about.

There are, however, two excellent ones that I recommend you get and connect for a really robust (and free) way of tracking your overall fitness.

MyFitnessPal is a free food diary that not only has an excellent database but provides barcode scanning. It used to look quite ugly but the (Android and iOS) interface is much improved.

Get RunKeeper and just use the free version. Link it to MyFitnessPal and the calories burned from your logged exercise will be counted alongside caloric intake.

http://myfitnesspal.com