It’s GAME TIME!
Since getting into Android gaming, I’ve become kind of a sucker for good tower defense games. Sure Plants Vs Zombies was the gateway drug, but then I chilled with Fieldrunners, then Grave Defense, then RoboDefense.
By the time I got my first Android tablet, I was hankering for something a little less cartoony.
Origin8 Technologies was happy to oblige… +Continue Reading
So I’ve covered two practical money management apps for my first two reviews of 2012.
I think it’s time for a game, don’t you?
This one’s been around for a little while, but I just recently stumbled onto it, and it’s done a fairly decent job of killing my tablet’s battery life.
All to run a ball through a maze… +Continue Reading
January is a typically quiet time of year for games releases, so thankfully it’s given me the opportunity to catch up with some of the other games I wanted to try over the festive period, but couldn’t fit into the hours of the day. So, taking a break from all of the big name major releases which have been dominating my time of late, I decided to investigate the latest offering from arcade shmup specialist Cave – the fearsome DoDonPachi Resurrection. +Continue Reading
So last week I talked about a great way to manage point of sale credit card transactions using Square.
But what if you want to pay (or receive payments) without using a credit card?
What if you think credit card fees are too high?
If only there was a way to link bank account information while on the go… +Continue Reading
Expanding our abilities with smartphone and tablet hardware was a common theme at many booths this year at CES.
As this show is about the tech INDUSTRY however, this week I’m not going to be covering a game or entertainment app. I had the pleasure of speaking with representatives of Square, an app that transforms any Android or iOS device into a mobile Point of Sale system for credit card transactions. This is maybe one of the most compelling business uses I’ve seen yet for mobile “entertainment” devices. I’ve encountered several businesses trying to employ the iPad as a POS for sales floor reps, but it’s often a hamstrung setup, usually involving the sales rep simply navigating to that company’s website on the iPad to complete the order. This is a task better served by traditional POS solutions. +Continue Reading
This may be the most useful app I’ve ever used.
Tablets are starting to become more popular, but at their heart, they’re slabs of screen for consuming media. It can take a surprising amount of effort to use one for media creation.
By the same token, us wannabe photogs are using our cameras for more and more. I actually use my Canon SLR more to shoot video these days than I do for photography. One of the biggest issues I have with video on an SLR is using the tiny screen when out in the field. I could use my laptop, but that’s a bit bulky, and the battery life isn’t great on my old Lappy.
If only there was a way for me to connect my SLR to my tablet… +Continue Reading
So.
Memory card readers aren’t that exciting right? You put in a memory card, and your computer, like, reads it. Woot.
However, in this era of ridiculously large memory cards and DSLRs that shoot HD video in 4GB chunks, moving large quantities of data from one device to another can be a time consuming activity.
Or should I say WAS a time consuming activity… +Continue Reading
2011 was a milestone year for me.
It marked the first year where I used a (number of) Android phone(s) exclusively as my daily driver. I’ve of course played with iOS, Symbian, webOS, and WinPhone7, but when it came to getting work done, Android was the OS I turned to.
Hit the jump for a list of my favorite Android apps of the last year! +Continue Reading
It’s been a hell of a year for gaming. It seems we’ve been thrown a new addition to pretty much every franchise under the sun; there have been a slew of downloadable titles whether they were on mobile platforms, Steam, Xbox Live Arcade or PSN and, like it or not, this is the year the “Project Ten Dollar” retail purchase bonuses really started to flex their muscles. All in all, it’s been a busy freaking year. So let’s take a moment and have a look back over the best, and frankly, worst games of the year.
Is it really that time of year already? I’ve been so busy over the past couple of months, I hadn’t had time to notice. It’s been one of the most densely packed fall schedules for games that I’ve ever seen, so much so that I’ve almost literally been gaming non-stop since about August. And I’ve still not had enough time to play everything that I would have liked to. Frankly, I’m glad that New Year’s is nearly upon us because it gives me the time to catch up before Mass Effect 3 inevitably takes over my life in 2012. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Hit ‘More’ to find out what my top 5 games of the year were, along with some musings over the biggest events of the year and what they could mean for 2012. +Continue Reading
It’s that time of year!
Time for children the world over to pester their parents about the arrival of a certain jolly holiday elf.
What’s the tech savvy Christmas participant to do?
Get a little help from NORAD of course… +Continue Reading
I’m sure that by now you’ve probably heard how mobile devices, for better or for worse, are the preferred gaming console of consumers worldwide; it’s not so much that the “gaming experience” is better on your iPhone, iPad or Android handset–it’s just that we always have them with us, making casual gaming and impulse purchases that much more accessible. With the video game industry still in a state of flux, many publishers and developers are fighting this move to mobile gaming tooth and nail–while others, like Atari, are embracing this new trend. But Atari also knew that simply porting their existing library to modern devices might not be enough to capture the attention of today’s more savvy consumer; so they partnered with the folks at Discovery Bay Games to create a piece of retro hardware to give new life to older classics–and thus, the Atari Arcade Duo-Powered Joystick was born… +Continue Reading
Android App of the Week – Sentinel 3: Homeworld
Android App of the Week – 3D BioBall
Bite The Bullet – DoDonPachi Resurrection: Deluxe Edition Review
