We new it was coming today and now Tiki Towers is available for $3 with a free trial (like most Xbox titles) even though it’s now free for the iPhone (Tiki Towers 2 is $3): *** Winner of “Best Casual Game” – 5th Annual International Mobile Gaming Awards! *** Save the monkeys! Only you can … Read more
Arcane’s Tower Defense has received a lot of attention. Mostly because it looks sick. The dev was nice enough to drop me a tip that they’ve uploaded a new video on YouTube showing off their game progress. One of the most interesting aspects is a world editor. Pretty silk. Check it out and at the … Read more
There’s now an official Hundred Pushups app for Android. It’s from the same developer that did the iPhone and WP7 version. If you don’t know, this is the system that trains you to do 100 pushups in 6 weeks. Here’s the app description: Can you do the Hundred? If you’re serious about increasing your strength, … Read more
Whoah what’s up with that title? OK, a new app called PIM is in the Marketplace and in it’s simplest terms, it’s a fancy-as IM client for Windows Phone users. You can send text, pictures and voicemails and it even uses push notifications so that means, even though there’s no multitasking, you can get notices … Read more
Well, it was fun while it lasted Microsoft, but in Q4 2010 there were 101 million smartphones sold and only 92 million PCs sold so there are more mobile OSes than Windows licenses being activated. Now it’s really not the same thing as a mobile OS costs somewhere between free and $12 depending on who’s … Read more
I finally read the letter that Nokia CEO Stephen Elop wrote to his company. Am I the only one who thinks he’s not talking about Windows Phone 7? Here’s his text, from Engadget: Hello there, There is a pertinent story about a man who was working on an oil platform in the North Sea. He … Read more
I’ve noticed that not all apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace are routinely updated. While some apps really don’t need updates(very simple ones), I find myself scrolling down to the version number before I download any app nowadays. If I notice that the app was relased over 2months ago and its still on version 1.0 … Read more
So I got a gig Thursday, the kind of gig that could lead to another cloud migration mission (the first one you helped me with went swimmingly by the way), but the first and presently the only item on the list is that they’ve got ten computers they want to throw out but before they … Read more
Attention iPhone readers, Google just released their Translate app for your phone, free naturally, so go on and grab it unless of course you’re not worldly. You’re worldly, aren’t you? In addition to translating toward fifty (and counting) languages, you may also use it to speak any of fifteen foreign languages into the phone to … Read more
If you’ve got an employer, well first of all congratulations, who’s been hip enough to let you use a non-Blackberry device as your company phone or tablet but since you and the other brokers went on that coke and hooker binge while snapping and emailing pictures the other night which made the cover of the … Read more
According to Microsoft, their update of the Zune PC software resolved the following issue “When you try to update Windows Phone 7, the Zune software may stop responding during the backup process.” Man I wish I had that problem already. Hey, where’s the update that should have been part of the OS that shipped and … Read more
Something impressive is brewing in XDA (as usual), basic voice recognition that does not require you to be online in order to relay your speech and its transcription to and from Google in order to do whatever you tell it to do. I’m struggling to come up with many scenarios in which you’d want to … Read more