Android is one of the favorite mobile platforms for geeks and power users for a reason: it's much more customizable than the competition, and provides the tools to really make the device yours. Widget support is a customization feature that can provide a huge amount of functionality, and Widgets HD was designed specifically for the large screen of your Android Tablet.
Windows Phone 7 is one of the better mobile platforms for getting work done. Microsoft’s Exchange, SharePoint, and Office products are all integrated into Windows Phone 7 to some level. Strangely though Microsoft left out a business tool that can be integral to managing your daily schedule, this being some sort of task management or to-do list utility.
Internet Chat is still one of the top methods of instantaneous communication between multiple parties. Chat junkies who have been using mobile devices for a while will be familiar with IM+ by Shape Services. IM+ has been one of the leaders in mobile chat software for a very long time, and is this week's Windows Phone 7 App of the Week.
Why do I like VLC Media Player? Because it plays media. That’s pretty apparent in the title, however, so hear me out: The bane of Windows Media Player is that it straps a whole ton of accessories and add-ons into the picture when all you want to do is play a movie file. You don’t want to fuss with the library. You don’t want to go through a bunch of crappy skins or rudimentary add-ons. You don’t want to wait for Windows Media Player to load. You want a video. End of story.
There are two extremely satisfying features of Gotow.net’s HexDefense game. The first is its simple tower defense game play. Setting up your defenses, upgrading your defenses and generally blasting the hell out of those sneaky enemy, umm, things will make your 15 minute wait in the DMV seem like three seconds.
I am going to bet that you know what the application “Outlook on the Desktop” does without me even having to describe a single byte of it. Congratulations; You win. Good day sir, ma’am.
Many stores have membership cards that confer some sort of benefit--discounts on purchases, points toward magical rewards, cash back, or simply tracking your every move so that the store management can sell your purchasing information to the highest bidder. If you're like most people, those benefits are irresistable. So you start carrying a reward card. Or twelve. Just in case.
Ladies, here comes the big confession: I’m a space geek. There’s a ton of cool stuff out there in the night sky, it does cool things, and it really makes me feel like an ant in a humongous vacuum–er, tank– whenever I turn my face to the night sky and gaze at the big, shining, millions-of-years-old flickering lights.
Some freeware apps were made to solve small problems; some were made to solve huge problems. If you’re as picky as me, then you’ll slap the freeware application Windows 7 Color Changer in the latter category without a second thought.
If you're anything like us, and we pray you are, then you're positively brimming with brilliant ideas that beg to be recorded before your megamind moves on to the next revelation. Or maybe you just think it's cute to record your cat's meow. Whatever your recording needs, chances are your Android device did not come stocked with a voice recorder. As we prowled the app-i-verse for a suitable remedy, we desired something with a little more panache than a the basic speak-and-save audio recorder.
