Google Maps has always given great directions. Too bad it lived in a fantasy world where the roads were always clear and you could zip down the highways without another car in sight.
In the real world, I would always factor in …
Apps & Web
Startup Turns Tweets into Toilet Paper for $9 a Roll
Cue the jokes about the disposable nature of social media: A new service called “S—ter” (the actual name is usually displayed in full, adult-level parlance) is offering to print your Twitter feed on a roll of toilet …
Good Deal: Refurbished Amazon Kindle Fire Tablets for $139 Today
Today only, Amazon is selling refurbished 7-inch Kindle Fire tablets for $139. That’s a good deal considering new versions cost $199, and these refurbished units carry the same one-year warranty as the new models.
The 10 Best-Looking HD ‘Retina’ iPad Games
Does that iPad game you’re thinking about downloading support the latest model’s 2048-by-1536 pixel high-definition display? Here’s a list of 10 that do.
Camera Awesome Adds Instagram Support, Loses One Cool Feature
Instagram is my favorite photo-sharing service. SmugMug’s excellent Camera Awesome has became my default iPhone picture-taking app. So when I learned this week that there was a new version of Camera Awesome with built-in …
Box Wants to Be the Cloud-Based File System for Mobile Business Apps
There are lots of great productivity apps for the iPhone and iPad. I use several of them every day, and prefer them, in some cases, to traditional PC-based programs.
What there isn’t is a great way to move documents and data …
Pinterest Easiest Site to Spam Says Man Making $1,000 a Day Doing It
Now that even Barack Obama has a Pinterest profile, it’s safe to say the site is getting pretty popular. Where the people go, so too do the spammers — one of which actually sat down with the Daily Dot to talk about his …
Taposé: A Microsoft Tablet Concept Turned iPad App
Pin Tactics: Obama Joins Pinterest
It’s official: The President has joined Pinterest.
The @BarackObama Twitter account made the formal announcement yesterday:
Organizers, infographics, murals, and cake—now pinning all of the above for
#Obama2012 on
…
Kinect 1.5 Launches in May, Adds ’10-Joint Skeletal Tracking’
Microsoft’s Kinect motion-tracking sensor for Windows and Xbox 360 can today, out of the box, keep track of basic body parts like your arms and legs. It’s not very good at keeping track of rapid motion, and the lag can be …
Nine Possible Explanations for the Lousy State of Android Tablet Apps
PCMag’s Sascha Segan has created a slideshow comparison of iPad apps and Android tablet apps. The more enthusiastic you are about the potential of Android tablets, the more distressing the show is: with one or two exceptions, the …
BlueStacks Beta Brings Android Apps to Your PC
If you’ve ever wished that your Android apps could follow you from phone to PC, BlueStacks has a way.
The BlueStacks software, which is now in beta, allows you to run Android apps on a Windows PC. It’s available as a free …