Archive : Software Reviews

I love casual games.  They’re great.  But Daddy Was A Thief was honestly, a little disappointing. The premise of the game is simple; Daddy gets fired, worries how he will provide for his family, decides to start robbing banks, you have to help him escape. No back story to discover, no intro...

I think it’s pretty safe to say that as a consumer collective, we have become accustomed to the same things when it comes to email clients. The ones that separate themselves in our mind are usually ones with a holo UI and a twist on the otherwise basic functions of your mobile email app. Well,...

News apps are a dime-a-dozen in the Play Store these days, but few do it as well and as simply as PressReader. With over 2,000 publications available in full to download to your device, you can read whatever you want, whenever you want, from wherever you want. When you first open the app you are greeted...

  Newspapers are still around, unfortunately for trees, but we humans need the news.  In this world of fibre optic internet, TV on demand, RSS feeds and Twitter, we still need to keep up to date with the world.  Newspapers are still clinging to life, some are adapting, some are not. The News: UK...

Almost 30 years ago, there was a game released on Atari computers called Boulder Dash. That game involved running around, digging through dirt to collect gems, and avoiding boulders. After decades of countless (twenty) remakes, HeroCraft and First Star Software has released Boulder Dash XL for the first...

Route 66 Navigation and Panoramic Car Kit.   Founded in 1992, Route 66 started out by creating an alternative Navigation application for your Android devices competing with the likes of Google Maps and Waze.  Not only did they develop a navigation application, but they also offer custom car mounts...

  UPDATE:  Nitroglycerine33 has released Build 2 of the progress builds, this time with sweet new changes in the System settings for Battery Icon Mods (one of my faves) and a few other tasty treats.  If you’re not on the Progress Builds already, you’re missing out, get over there,...

Custom 4.2 Visits Toro With each new release of the sweet treats from the Android Mother Ship, Google, there is a race (at times a meander) to get a solid stable build up that is full of clean coding, buttery smoothness, and all around Android tastiness.  In my mind the race from 4.1.2 to 4.2 was no...

  This post comes from my own and several other users’ frustrations who are plagued with Google services failing on a daily basis. Google seems more concerned with pushing out new OS versions than they are fixing existing problems for users. There’s still many problems with its services...

There’s seems to be a worldwide trend about zombies lately, and this game is no stranger to that. Shoot the Zombirds bring dead birds and pumpkins to an otherwise classic gameplay. The idea is simple, zombirds (I don’t think the term needs any explanation) fly from left to right on the screen...

We all love games, and there are many different kinds and styles of games, you have big hits like Angry Birds or Fruit Ninja which everybody knows, you have hardcore games like Shadowgun which everybody knows by name but not everyone has played and you have less known but still amazing games. Gyro is...

When purchasing a smartphone, we love to know that it can do HD playback and has plenty of memory. Being able to put our favorite videos or movies on our devices for viewing can really make your device do more for you. Having owned a number of smartphones, tablets, video players and other devices that...

As if the racing in the previous game wasn’t enough, now there’s even more recklessness with Reckless Racing 2. Racing games have a pretty high bar on Android with games like Real Racing 2 and Need for Speed, one could wonder how a smaller developer could release something competitive and...

Is the two button control method of games such as Robot Unicorn attack bringing you down? Because Whale Trail is now on Android, with half the buttons and twice the delight. Is a platform game still a platform game when you get rid of the platforms? Perhaps not, but what if you’re scrolling from...

What other game series entices you to spend hours building a perfectly balanced society and then tear it down with some unnatural disasters. For many, the city building gaming genre begins and ends with the SimCity series which is now over two decades old. Sadly the series has been going through a...