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ASUS signs magazine deal with lekiosk

March 5, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I’m a big user of Comixology on my Nexus 7; especially after the popular comic app made the tweaks necessary to perfect the platform for Google’s popular 7″ tablet. lekiosk is a bit like Comixology except rather than comic books it works with big magazines from the likes of the BBC, Conde Naste and Dennis […]

Filed Under: Cool Tech, Mobile Tagged With: android, asus, ios, nexus 7

HabitRPG: A roleplaying game that improves your life

January 19, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Habit RPG is a real, live and currently active game. It gamifies your life, rewarding you for to-do list success, healthy habits and slaps your hit points otherwise. HabitRPG’s been so successful that the server is stressing. Now there’s a Kickstarter to help fix that, similar to EN World, and to provide a mobile app. […]

Filed Under: Mobile, PC Tagged With: android, ios, kickstarters

Nvidia unveils Project Shield handheld Android gaming console

January 7, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This might be the first surprise of CES. The chip maker Nvidia is stepping into gaming in a huge way. They’ll be making their own handheld gaming console – Project Shield. Project Shield is a combination of a 5 inch touch-screen, joy sticks and buttons in a clamshell design. The handheld is designed to link […]

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: android, nvidia

HTC and EE partner for 4G HTC One SV launch

December 11, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Today the government run auction on the 4G space in the UK starts. However, EE is already active (in some cities) and there are already some 4G LTE phones. HTC has timed this well; announcing their new 4G LTE phone that’ll be available via selected operators and retail partners. The launch partner is EE. The […]

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: android, htc, smartphones

Curiosity carved the cube: 22Cans pictures

November 11, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

22Cans is the studio gaming legend Peter Molyneux created and Curiosity follows on from such hits as Populous, Black and White, Fable and Dungeon Keeper. The game is available for iOS and at Google Play and is free. Except; game is the wrong word. Curiosity is an experiment. It’s an experiment to see whether people […]

Filed Under: Mobile Tagged With: 22Cans, android, ios, Peter Molyneux

Sponsored Video: Shiny tech is helping to evolve education

November 2, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Technology is helping to shape education and this geek thinks it is a good thing. Gadgets are helping in two ways; through application and through culture. I think it’s important not to forget the cultural impact of technology on education or under estimate it. Late last year, a survey said that 60% of students wouldn’t […]

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: android, ipad, samsung, tablets

The Dark Horse horror sale

October 26, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Dark Horse currently have Halloween inspired horror sale on with a range of titles reduced to less than a dollar. Dark Horse recently made some pretty big changes to their Android app. In the past, in order to buy a comic, you would have to leave the app and visible their digital store on your […]

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: android, dark horse, sale

Rumour: Could the LG Optimus G Nexus run Key Lime Pie?

October 5, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Reports and apparent leaks of the expected next Nexus device are coming in. It looks like Google might have picked LG to be the next manufacturer to score the honour of producing the latest Nexus branded phone. One report said; ”I can confirm the next nexus is LG Optimus based. The phone looks surprisingly like […]

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: android, google, htc, samsung, smartphones, sony

How do you read a .mobi attachment in Gmail on your Android Kindle app?

October 1, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 4 Comments

Now and then people email me .mobi attachments. This is a popular format for eBooks, .mobi files are quite small so they’re a popular alternative than shipping paper books around. My eBook reader is my Nexus 7 Android tablet. I have Amazon’s Kindle app on it which lets me resize text, sync across devices and, […]

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: android, kindle, nexus 7

Sony Xperia’s “Unleash your music on the world” ad ramps up NFC

September 5, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Apple has announced an event for September 12th and so the speculation around the iPhone 5 begins. One heated area is NFC (near field communication) and whether the iPhone will support it or not. Lots of people want the feature but some of the best tipped pundits are saying it is unlikely. This Xperia ad […]

Filed Under: Cool Tech, Music Tagged With: android, smartphones, sony, Xperia

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