Posts tagged as "reviewcontest"

Posted by Matt Demers on 2nd May 2010

Hands on Dropbox beta for Android

Dropbox is a name I’ve heard thrown around a lot in tech circles, and until now I thought it was just an Apple thing, as it was from those sites that the name has popped up the most. Most Mac-heads I know seem to love it, and after discovering and using its Android incarnation, I’m going to begrudgingly join them in their love.

Dropbox solves a problem I’ve been having for a little while in that it cloud-syncs user files for access wherever there is a Dropbox client installed which includes Windows, Max and Linux variants. My primary use for it is that I enjoy reading (free and fair-use) comics on my Milestone.

However, being the lazy person that I am, I don’t like maintaining a “to read” folder on my phone’s SD card itself. Dropbox fixed this by syncing a folder on my computer to the cloud, uploading anything new that was added since the last time it checked. Accessing the client from my phone allows me to download the files and store them from my SD card.

Things I liked:

SD storage is a big deal because it differs from other syncing applications I’ve used. With those,

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Source: Android and Me

Posted by Guest Blogger on 29th April 2010

GeoQuiz: Learn about the world, brag about your score

GeoQuiz by Brain Cafe is a multiple-choice quiz game that purports to ‘test your knowledge of the planet Earth and all its wonders’. Sleek and well-presented, GeoQuiz is part game, part visual tour of Wikipedia.

Open up the app and you’re greeted with a bright, simplistic menu screen more reminiscent of an iPhone app than your typical Android game. Pick a category (choose from topics like ‘People’, ‘Capital Cities of the World’ or ‘The Great Explorers’) and you’re taken to a simple game screen with a question on the left and a set of four possible answers on the right. Whether you pick right or wrong, an information screen will pop up explaining the facts behind the question. Thoughtfully, there’s a Wikipedia link to the relevant topic included with every answer.

Complete a quiz and your score is saved in the app’s records. Feeling the need to brag about your intellect? You can even tweet your score and time from within the game.

The Good:

It’s pretty. From high-res menu photos to bright buttons and crisp transitions, GeoQuiz comes across as clean and attractive.
You might learn something. Most answers include detailed information about the facts behind the question,

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Source: Android and Me

Posted by Guest Blogger on 29th April 2010

Yelp: Businesses, restaurants, reviews.

As a college student, I frequently find myself scrambling for the nearest food option, bank, or gas station. When the frenzy that is my life slows down and I have a spare moment, I enjoy exploring the city and finding new restaurants.

Yelp, an application based on the popular website, allows me to accomplish these goals with its easy to navigate menus and great search functionality. I have the option of choosing to browse through a variety of categories (ex: Restaurants, Coffee, Banks, Gas, etc), to search for a specific type of item (ex: tacos, Mexican food, etc), or simply to search for a certain restaurant (ex: McDonald’s … although I wouldn’t recommend it). Yelp offers the ability to search locations close to you using the phone’s GPS, or to input an address or city, in case you want to search for places elsewhere. Furthermore, once in the list of items, Yelp allows you to filter by price, or if it’s late at night, to display only those locations that are currently open.

But the best part is Yelp’s extensive library of reviews. Nearly every restaurant I browse through has tons of reviews as well as user-submitted pictures, allowing me…

Source: Android and Me

Posted by Guest Blogger on 29th April 2010