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Falcon Pro (for Twitter) Is a Newshound's Best Friend December 28, 2012 
Falcon Pro (for Twitter) pitches itself as "the ultimate Twitter experience on Android," and while one can usually take these app-store hyperbole laden statements with an idiom-laden statement -- in this case a grain of salt -- there is one thing that I'm looking for in a Twitter client that Falcon Pro promises.
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Flipboard on a Tablet Is a Sight for Sore Eyes December 21, 2012 
With its brand-new, tablet-friendly version, Flipboard takes online news reading to a sybaritic new level -- the bigger screen, along with Flipboard's elegance, surpasses poky smartphone screen real estate, and anything that has come before.
Flipboard pulls together social media, news, and website feeds into one aggregation.
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Listen: A Great Audio Manager - If You Can Install It December 19, 2012 
Unless you are an atypical Linux user, you tend to accept the default apps featured in your distro of choice. After all, if what you use works just fine, why scavenge around for a replacement? If saying yes to that question means you miss out on adding the Listen audio player to your desktop tools, you might change your answer after trying it.
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A Tale of Two Ecosystems: Amazon Instant Video for iPhone Marks Best of Times December 17, 2012 
Back in August, Amazon released Amazon Instant Video, an app for the iPad that lets you stream or watch downloaded movies and TV shows you access via an account with Amazon. Now the company has extended that app to the iPhone and the iPod touch, which is fantastic for iPhone-packing, Amazon-using customers like me.
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Sun Surveyor: A Cool Way to Look on the Bright Side, Day or Night December 14, 2012 
There's a tool out there that you may not have known you needed. Writing a statement like that make me think I should have gone into the marketing
business -- but wait. Gardeners, photographers, outdoors enthusiasts, outdoor events organizers, architects -- you name it -- will all benefit from this miracle tool made possible by the magic that is the magnetic-compass enabled smartphone.
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All Things Appy: 5 Best Windows 8 Entertainment Apps December 14, 2012 
Windows 8, Microsoft's latest operating system, has its own app library. In many cases, these apps can replace now-aging bookmarks or favorites, and the software that we used to install from floppies, CDs or downloads. Windows 8 apps are often usable on both desktop or laptop PCs, as well as tablets.
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Fotoxx Is a Bright Photo Editing Adolescent but Its Future Is Iffy December 12, 2012 
Fotoxx sounds more like a medical solution to fix a patient's physical appearance. It applies that concept to injecting tweaks on your photographic images. The results are impressive.
This photo editing kit has a look and feel that separates it from the expected approaches taken by the likes of Gimp and Krita, for instance. Fotoxx is geared toward photo enhancement; it's not meant to be an editing fix for other types of graphical images.
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Next Issue Looks Gorgeous but Lacks Personality December 07, 2012 
Unlimited, on-demand content for a fixed monthly fee? Where have we heard that
before? The answer is that we've heard it from Spotify for music and from Netflix for movies. Now, from a consortium of Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith, News Corp., and Time Inc., we have Next Issue, a similar concept for delivering magazines in Android tablet app form.
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MyNotex Would Be Perfect With Cloud Sync December 05, 2012 
MyNotex is a handy note-taking app that helps you rat-pack all of your scraps of information and images into a searchable database. It is easy to use and takes almost no time to learn. MyNotex is a bit different from traditional tree-form note-taking systems. It handles more than plain text notations, but it is an old-school technology that is easily replaced with mobile apps and cloud-based note-keeping systems.
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MonoPhix Creates Monochrome Effects on the Cheap December 04, 2012 
For many digital shutterbugs, the simple black-and-white filter included with most cameras these days meets their needs for dabbling with monochrome photography. For those who find that a tepid option, there are always the more sophisticated offerings found in high-end post-capture programs like Photoshop and Aperture. MonoPhix offers an alternative to those extremes, though.
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iTunes 11: I Want to Be More Impressed Than I Am December 03, 2012 
After the iTunes 11 delivery delay, I was hoping Apple was working through a seriously complicated redesign that would vastly improve my iTunes experience. Instead, we got iTunes 11, which looks like a huge improvement, but -- if anyone out in the world is at least somewhat like me -- is just a marginal improvement with some pretty shininess built into it.
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All Things Appy: Top 5 Android Shopping Tools December 01, 2012 
Keep things simple with Barcode Scanner. Scan the product barcode wandering the aisles and read up on the product via a Google Web search or Google's shopping Web
pages. That's it. It's super useful when showrooming, in-store browsing, price-matching, or looking for independent reviews and specifications.
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Wave Control Pro: Smartphone Wizardry Worthy of Obi-Wan November 30, 2012 
It's the holidays, and if your Android smartphone is feeling a bit neglected, I've got the perfect gift for it. Forget automating your life with remote-controlled garage door openers, motorized big-screen TV mounts, and electrically driven drapes -- that's all so last-century. Controlling your phone with a wave of your hand is where it's at this holiday, in my opinion.
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FocusWriter Rich in Features, Poor in Some Important Ones November 28, 2012 
FocusWriter uses an intriguing concept that makes you wonder why other word-processing tools do not offer the same hide-away tool panels to eliminate distractions. It offers a set of writing tools with the ease and speed of unencumbered text editors. Focuswriter is a full-screen writing program. It has no option to resize or minimize.
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Mixtab Delivers Content With a Side of Eye Candy November 27, 2012 
Really Simple Syndication is a way for people who produce content for the Web to push that content to people interested in it. For folks like me, it can save time otherwise spent jumping from website to website to gather news. During its heyday, RSS was quite popular, so much so that advertisers agonized over how to monetize the technology.
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Samsung's Galaxy Note II Is a Phabulous Phablet November 27, 2012 
The Samsung Galaxy Note II could very well be the best high-end smartphone/phablet on the market today. It brings the best features of Android Jelly Bean to this combination of high-powered tablet and state-of-the-art phone. The Note II has so many things to like, but if you have a phobia for really big form factors, beware.
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Stan Lee's 'Verticus' Starts With Awesomeness, Then Falls Flat November 19, 2012 
When I saw that comic book legend Stan Lee was involved in a new iOS game released last week, Verticus, I was stoked enough to drop $1.99 and give it a try. After all, we're talking about Stan Lee here, and if you don't appreciate his contribution to the entertainment world -- co-creator of Spider-Man, Hulk, X-Men, Iron Man, and more -- a new iOS game won't mean much to you.
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iMap Weather Radio Nails the Where, Flubs the When November 16, 2012 
iMap Weather Radio from Weather Decision Technologies may be the first Android app-
style weather-warning push product that accurately parses public safety announcements. It delivers timely alerts only to those within a geo warning box, rather than to everyone within a broad-brush area.
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Gnumeric Crunches Numbers Like a Pro November 14, 2012 
Gnumeric is a lightweight spreadsheet program that is fast and feature complete. Much like its chief open source competitors OpenOffice and LibreOffice, its graphical user interface is nothing fancy. What it lacks in colorful design or exciting visual menu displays, however, it surpasses with its format flexibility and easy operation.
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All Things Appy: Top 5 Chrome Office Productivity Tools November 14, 2012 
If you haven't already, dump archaic email for projects. It doesn't work. The idea
of having a stream of emails gathered chronologically -- and stuffed with uncollaborative attachments rather than fluid conversations organized by project -- is asking for confusion and delays.
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