The Kindle, A Parrot, and Platform Cyclicality
January 8, 2010 by Carlos Eduardo · 3 Comments
This Christmas I was able to play with the Amazon Kindle. Chromewalker’s little sister (CLS), in an attempt to out-do her brother, asked Santa for one of the more recent ‘lust worthy’ gadgets on the market. She must have behaved well, for she got the new ‘international version’ Kindle. However, as usual, CLS is more [...]
Thoughts on the Palm Pre
October 18, 2009 by Carlos Eduardo · 1 Comment
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Chromewalker’s little sister recently acquired the Palm Pre. She has been a loyal Palm user for what seems like forever and she actively shunned the iPhone in hopes of being one of the first to use Palm’s latest wonder-phone (Actually, from what she tells me, she was the third [...]
The Rise of the Fun Mobile (Casual Multiplayer) Game
July 6, 2009 by Carlos Eduardo · 2 Comments
Cover via Amazon Today my brother-in-law (Bil) and I decided to try out the multiplayer features of the iPhone. Having recently bought a iPhone 3GS, Bil decided to download every single game in the app store, minus the ones that could do wifi multiplayer. What’s the chance? Ok, he didn’t actually download all, but pretty [...]
The iPhone Apps I have on my phone right now.
April 10, 2009 by Carlos Eduardo · 2 Comments
Image by 37prime via Flickr The Apple app store has been out long enough now that the newness of downloading and trying every single app wore off a long time ago. I do continually try new stuff, but I’ve set myself a hard and fast rule, if I don’t use the app at least once [...]
Location Based Services: Games
November 4, 2008 by Carlos Eduardo · Leave a Comment
This is just a quick post, but I wanted to highlight a game that is available for free from the Apple App Store. It is called Parallel Kingdom, and essentially overlays the RPG world on top of your real physical world. http://toucharcade.com/2008/10/31/parallel-kingdom-is-now-available-for-free/ In terms of LBS gaming, this is probably the first kind of game [...]
Location Based Services Part 1: The iPhone 3G experience
September 15, 2008 by Carlos Eduardo · 4 Comments
Image by jeanphony via Flickr I recently bought an iPhone 3G to see how both the on-board GPS and the easy to use UI could help make location based services (LBS) more mainstream. My first experience with useful LBS was with an application called Vindigo. Vindigo ran on my close to first-gen Palm Treo. It [...]
Online To Do Applications, How do you use them?
August 30, 2008 by Carlos Eduardo · 2 Comments
Image by ahhyeah via Flickr Since the launch of the iPhone App Store, I have gone into download overdrive. I think I’ve tried all the applications at this point (ok, slight exaggeration). Too many to review all, that’s for sure. A recent find was the To Do application (the paid one). I was thinking about [...]