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Over the Christmas weekend, my usual flow of app downloads pretty much ground to a slow saunter. I’m usually purchasing and downloading apps on a somewhat frequent basis, but with friends and family all around, it was clearly time to shift priorities. That said, over the holiday I DID manage to scrape together to try…
It’s been tough catching up to the king of the mountain, but Google is getting up there with the number of apps available in the Android Market. According to AndroLib, the open platform now has over 200,000 available applications. That’s some impressive growth considering the fact that Android is just a little over two years…
It looks like Microsoft’s strategy of buying developers is starting to pay off already; unofficial stats counters show the official Windows Phone Marketplace is up to 5,000 apps, which at least competes with, if not surpasses Palm’s webOS Catalog. To be fair in the comparison, Microsoft was able to churn out a lot more phones…
If your morning cup of joe is the most important factor in kickstarting your day, having an app that helps you hunt down a fresh cup is always handy. That’s why, as soon as the TimmyMe app for BlackBerry (from Tim Hortons) was launched, I’ve had it locked and loaded. TimmyMe helps you locate the…
They say necessity is the mother of all invention, and I’d be hard-pressed to think of a greater necessity than to stay immobile and comfortable on the couch while remaining adequately refreshed with ice cold beer. In that spirit, one enterprising couch potato has modded his mini-fridge to dispense one of four different beers, which…
Will someone please sit down with me over a cup of coffee and explain the latest craze that’s sweeping smartphone photography addicts? It seems that applications like Instagram and Camera+ are taking off because people like to intentionally make their photos look old and tarnished. Years of advances in CMOS technology, image processing, and component…
If you’re like me, the Back to the Future Trilogy was well and truly part of your happy childhood. With fond memories of those movies clear as day in your head, chances are you will do anything to make time travel possible… and, if you know your facts about time travel like I do, you’ll…
I promised to keep all of you gamers up-to-date on the new ‘Back to the Future‘ title coming out for iOS… and over the holidays, there was some movement on this front. Just before Christmas, Telltale games released the PC and Mac version of Back to the Future: Episode 1… much to my delight. It’s…
The introduction of the Apple iPad and iBooks had some predicting that the Amazon Kindle and others e-readers were heading for a quick demise. That’s not the case, Amazon says, as many readers are purchasing an iPad and Kindle. “We’re seeing that many of the people who are buying Kindles also own an LCD tablet.…
What does it take to be a successful app? When it boils down to it, I think you just need to deliver what the people want in a technically proficient way. This is exemplified by the Bible.is app hitting more than 1 million downloads in about five months. The Bible app is available for the…