When I was in high school, we used to play a simple but addictive shareware game called Scorched Earth, a turn-based artillery game. It involved tanks shooting at each other with crazy weapons, fun upgrades, very basic controls, and a little dumb humor. I was delighted to find out that there is a version of [...]
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I hate getting up in the morning, and have long had trouble falling asleep at night. These two apps by Mobitobi work together to make it a bit easier.
Gentle Alarm
Thanks to the Motorola Droid’s dock and clock (ahem, “Multimedia Station”) mode, my phone became my alarm clock the day I brought it home. (Of course, [...]
If you have a consumer-grade camcorder, such as the Flip MinoHD (2nd Generation), like I do, you probably should use a tripod of some sort to stabilize your shots. Obviously, if your camcorder is smaller than a deck of cards, you probably aren’t going to lug around a full sized tripod. Luckily, mini-tripods exist, which [...]
I bought my Motorola Droid the morning it was released to the public. The first app I installed on it was Locale, which promised to automatically set the phone’s volume, wifi settings, and so on, based on its current location. I thought this was a great idea: I could automatically silence my phone at the [...]
The record industry is dying, and that’s fine with me. It’s most important function, aside from distribution, is content selection. Record label A&R (artists and repertoire) acts as a giant content filter, which has its good points (you don’t personally have to listen to 1,000 lousy songs before hearing a good one) and its bad [...]
I just received and wrote an Amazon.com review for the Flip MinoHD 2nd generation camcorder. Here is my review.
This camcorder is meant to be used on the go, to capture fun or spontaneous moments, and share the videos with friends and family. I wouldn’t bother using it to record a school play or a religious [...]
NewsRob is a paid app* that I use every day to access Google Reader. You might think that it is a mindless luxury, because Google Reader actually has a decent mobile site. That said, the Android Browser is pretty slow, and loading the content often took more time than was worthwhile.
NewsRob solves the loading time [...]
Verizon charges a monthly fee for Exchange access, which is exorbitant and ridiculous. For the first couple months I owned my Android phone, I didn’t have access to my company email or calendar, because I wasn’t willing to pay an additional monthly fee.
Later, a coworker recommended I try out Touchdown, a $20 app that integrates [...]
As a consultant, sometimes I have to take a plane or train to work and back each week. Last year I stayed in hotels almost 50 nights—and that was a pretty light year for travel. Traveling is stressful. Trains are late. Flights get cancelled—sometimes when I’m sitting on the plane. Gates get switched three or [...]
I’ve tried all the Twitter clients in the Android Market, and always return to Twidroid Pro. Twidroid is one of the earliest and most popular Twitter apps on the Android platform. I prefer the way it works to competing apps, mostly because of its interface. is superior for quick information consumption and action.
I think Twidroid [...]
