When I got my first Android phone a bit over two and a half years ago, an HTC Evo from Sprint, the Android Marketplace was a confused and confusing place. The Apple App Store had the clear advantage. Android apps that did exist then were often clunky. A lot has changed in two and a half years. Today, the aptly
Working at my desk all day on a computer I wasn’t getting enough exercise and it showed. So I decided to start walking, however being a geek I couldn’t just walk I had to measure everything. I do wear a Fitbit which I really like, however it has it limitation, no maps and the sharing has never worked correctly for
There is an app called MicroCells that has become my newest addiction. The game is made by a company called Bootant, is simple to play, and is a “kid-friendly” game. You start with three MicroCells scattered randomly on the board. Click on one, and move it anywhere. This triggers the game to put three more MicroCells somewhere on the board.
This is great news for podcasters as well as people who enjoy checking out live podcasts. Livestream has announced that is has free accounts that are ad-free. In other words, it is now possible to do a live podcast through Livestream without it costing the podcast producer any money, and without forcing the viewers to sit through a series of
Shazam the music recognition app has been updated to also recognize TV shows . I was trying it out today and it still needs some work. It didn’t recognize many of the shows that I was watching. It either gave back no information or incorrect information. There were times when it took multiple tries before it came back with the
I am a sucker for trivia games. In fact, I pride myself on being what my wife has called "a fountain of useless information". I think (hope) she means that lovingly. That being said, she's not bad at these games herself and, in fact, is quite good at those involving music. When an Android app called "Songpop" came to
Lately, I've become a bit nostalgic for some aspects of what computers were like in the early days of the internet. Remember when PCs used to come with one, simple, solitaire game installed? I spent countless hours playing with the virtual cards on my computer even though I had a perfectly good deck of real cards that I could have