Apple’s Siri application and her Android competition have been on my radar for a few months now, but somehow I managed to miss the commercial that Apple released several weeks ago. [yframe url=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G8fG1bKgQo’] Smart of them to go for the youth market, but somehow this tongue-in-cheek (and a bit NSFW) remix by Matt Binder does […]
Phone manufacturer HTC announced their new One series of phones at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. HTC says the three phones in the series, the X, S and V, will have a higher quality of audio and camera capabilities. Apart from a few key features, the phones are drastically different in both design and internal […]
What happens when an active duty Army Staff Sergeant creates a smartphone app built on the idea of killing homeless people? Late last week, Vice’s Jamie Lee Curtis Taete wrote about a horrid new Android app called HoboHunt. Basically, it’s a simple photo sharing app with the sickening hook of sending pictures of homeless people […]
I’ve been a user of Palm/PalmOS PDAs/smartphones for over a decade. I had a Palm III, a Handspring Visor with the SprintPCS Springboard, Treo 600, Treo 650, and the webOS Palm Pre. I’ve been a Sprint customer for over 12 years, so all of these devices have been CDMA versions on Sprint. I was an […]
Every night at 12:15 AM Pacific, Amazon gives away a free paid app through their Amazon app store. As I am usually awake at 12:15 AM Pacific, why not let you know if today’s app is useful, or just more clutter in your app drawer? Today’s free app is Dominoes by Polyclef Software LLC which usually runs for […]
Podcasts are great. Google is great. Google Listen, the company’s podcast player for Android, is not. Since its lackluster introduction in August 2009, Google has left Listen twisting in the wind with only extremely rare and inconsequential updates. Listen barely does the basic task it’s created for, and it’s far overdue for some TLC. The […]
My wife received an iPad 2 as a gift in September and loves it, but my kids know how to use it better than she does. She uses the Gmail app, Safari, and that’s pretty much it. So, why are there about 150 more apps on the iPad? To keep the kids occupied of course. […]
As a camera enthusiast and gadget junkie, I recently stumbled upon a rather interesting concept for a smartphone app that could revolutionize vacation photos. Scalado Remove essentially allows you to remove people and other moving objects from the frame of your picture by using multiple exposures to build a background matte. Using this matte, you […]
Every night at 12:15 AM Pacific, Amazon gives away a free paid app through their Amazon app store. As I am usually awake at 12:15 AM Pacific, why not let you know if today’s app is useful, or just more clutter in your app drawer? Today’s free app is Going Nuts by END Games Entertainment LLC which […]
On Wednesday, the Associated Press’s Tom Odula reported an interesting mobile development in Kenya. It seems that Francis Kariuki, the town administrative chief of Lanet Umoja, Kenya uses his Twitter account to communicate with people in town, most unconventionally to stop crime. Kariuki said that even the thieves in his village follow him on Twitter. […]
