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Just watched Battle for LA. Lots of shooting little story.
Battle for LA
I like a good action movie, but this was a bit over done. Where was my story?
Shoot. Kill. Repeat. That’s pretty much what it was.
And why do aliens, who can build spaceships and other cool stuff, always have one week spot that we can find and hit every time with a basic machine gun?
Turn your iPad or iPhone into a weather radio.
I’ve been looking to get a new weather radio and I found a really good, and cheap, one that happens to be an iOS app.
NOAA Weather Radio is an iPhone and iPad app that lets you listen to over 160 weather radio stations from all around the country and even a few in Canada.
The app also has current weather conditions, radar and forecast.
If you setup your location, it’ll alert you via push notifications when there are severe alerts in your area. Just like a normal weather radio, it’ll make the weather radio warning sound too.
Google Music vs Amazon Cloud Player – A quick review.
I’ve been testing out both Google Music and Amazon Cloud Player and have to say that they are both nice services.
Below are my pros and cons of each service after some initial testing.
Price:
Google Music – Free (for now)
Amazon Cloud Player – First 5 gigs are free, after that it’ll cost. Tip
Uploading:
Google Music:
- Pro: Creates a native Mac system preference.
- Pro: I can set the bandwidth used to upload my music.
- Pro: Automatically uploads all my music. And when new music is added to my system, automatically uploads that as well.
Spent $0.99 on Bird Zapper for iPad and it’s awesome.
I don’t usually impulse buy games for my iPad, but when I saw Bird Zapper the other day, something made me download it and I’m glad I did.
Bird Zapper has fantastic graphics, good game play and it keeps me wanting to play more. Basically you use your finger to connect three or more like birds and zap them. There are plenty of combos and bonuses and it just hooks ya.
If you’ve got an iPad or iPhone I think you should check it out. For $0.99 it’s a heck of a lot of fun.
SwiftKey is my choice for an Android keyboard replacement.
About a month ago I started looking for a keyboard replacement for my HTC Incredible. I tried a few different apps and have decided that SwiftKey works best for me.
What I like about SwiftKey is it tries to predict what I’m writing. It suggests the next logical word in my sentences and it does a pretty good job at it. I can write emails much faster and sometimes I can write a whole sentence with just a few taps.
If you’re looking for a keyboard replacement for your Android phone, I highly suggest taking the SwiftKey demo for a spin and see what you think.
Testing out WordPress custom post formats.
I’ve been waiting for WordPress 3.1 to come out for months now. I was so excited for post formats as I thought that’d make my WordPress blog cool like my Tumblr blog. Turns out, maybe not.
The first thing I forgot was that I’d have to update my theme to make them work. Not only adding the custom function, but also writing the code to figure out if a post was a custom format or not. Then styling those differently as that is the whole point behind custom post formats.
FedEx rocks at customer service while USPS fails.
I ordered a few things from Amazon the other day and they decided to ship them to me in three different packages so that I could get them sooner; which was really nice since I didn’t have to pay more.
On Feb 9th I got notice that package 1 shipped. Feb 12th package 2 shipped. Feb 13th package 3 shipped.
Package 2 arrived on Feb 14th and package 3 arrived on Feb 15th. But where is package 1?
According to my tracking number, the status is ‘Shipment Accepted’ with an expected delivery date of February 15, 2011. It said that on the 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th.
The Things I Love About My Android Phone
It’s been just over two months since I got my Android phone and there are things I love, and things I don’t like so much.
Here are just a few things I love.
Widgets
Having the ability to get information out of an app without opening it is great. I can turn see the status of Wifi or GPS without opening the system settings. I can also enable or disable them with just one touch. I also have an app that can lock or unlock the phone and a whole screen dedicated to my calendar so I can just scroll to it and see what’s going on. No opening apps means I can do things faster.
Saying Goodbye Remember The Milk Pro
A year ago I decided to try Remember the Milk Pro, however this year, I have decided that it’s not for me.
I was trying to replace Toodledo with Remember The Milk. RTM has a nicer interface, seems simpler, a lot of people rave about it and it just felt like a good move.
A Pro account is $25/year and it includes apps for Android, iPhone, Outlook, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and an option to see new features before others. My main reason for upgrading was for the iPhone app.
Unstoppable Is A Great Movie
The wife and I don’t get to go out to movies much anymore since we have a little one. Actually, we didn’t go to that many before either, basically because they are expensive and usually not that good.
Over the weekend however, we did get to go out to a movie and saw Unstoppable. And it was a great movie.
It’s a story of a run away train and it’s done in a way that keeps you at the edge of your seat the whole time. There’s no distracting side stories, no overdone actions scenes, just a damn good movie.
