Ty’s Recommended Apps List
This Post is to help mainly my friends who have recently got an Android Phone and is written primarily for the Samsung Galaxy S2, This is not the Definite Must have list but a good start for anyone who has recently joined the Android Family for the first time. If anyone would like to see something on the list please forward it on, A must have games List will be up as soon as iv finished trying them all out.
Closes Left opened Apps which consumes your background memory and battery. Adding the widget to a home screen gives you a one button press function.
A great alternative web browser that offers faster speeds and a smoother interface. It also compresses web pages so you view them quicker and save on data usage.
This app tracks your mobile internet usage (4G/3G/Edge/GPRS) and notifies you when your reaching your limit and can even stop the continue of use saving you from going over your monthly allowances. It has lots of options to customise reset dates,allowance limits and notifications.
This is a short cut button to obliviously turn the wifi on and off. Great for lazy people. The market place page also offers buttons for other connectivity short cuts, I personally have the Wifi And 3G buttons on my main screen.
This app allows you to schedule the AirPlane mode of your phone to a start and stop at certain times (e.g during sleep) to save your battery. You can set which day of the week to turn on the mode and what connectivity to turn off when in AirPlane mode.
Go locker replaces the default lock screen with custom ones which can be downloaded from a huge library of many different styles and functions. One downside is that you have to download the Go Launcher Ex App (download here) for it to work, Go Launcher ex is an App that changes the default home screen to custom designs, you don’t have to use it just set the Samsung default home screen when you press the home button next. I personally dont like to use it but you have to have it installed to use Go Locker.
If your like me and still use the stock messaging app, then SMS Popup is a must have. Does Exactly what it says on the tin, And even has a quick reply section so you never have to go into your message list.
A great app for creating ringtones, can use sections of songs and save them to your phone.
Battery widgets are great to have on the home screen, there are many on the marketplace but I am currently using this one. All of them have some kind of % or Accurate Value of you battery life and some come with extra features to save your battery life like auto screen brightness and notifications.
Again, there are many Flash light apps out there and this one is the most popular (although they all do the same thing). A handy thing to have, shame the Samsung doesn’t come with one.
A music recognition app which identifies the song you want to find out more about like the artist,year ect. Great for when you hear a song on the radio and don’t know who sings it.
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Killing The Kids Of Video Games
After the emotional trailer to the upcoming Dead Island game was shown, A storm of controvosy was triggered in the media last month about the youngt girl who not only dies and once but dies as a zombie….well zombies dont die,but, you get what i mean.(Trailer At The Bottom Of Page) now the devolopers have stated there will be no zombie children in the game yet this has still sparked up old ideas and thoughts on children being harmed in video games zombies or not. So i sat here at my recently ressurected computer and thought about all of the zombie games with children in them….and came to the conclusion that there arnt many! Alough in other media especially movies, there are numeras films involving the slaughter of what we all fear more than adult zombies. So i made a top 5 list but included zombie like/ demon children.
the first post
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The first Blog post ! Hmm I was thinking what I could write about and thought a good place to start would be my own opinions on the gaming industry as a whole.
Before I start I would like to say how each games company has done extraordinarily well considering the economic down turn and all that balls crap. Also the increased competition this gen brought on by the Wii and the great things Sony and Microsoft are trying to do with there systems. Although in my opinion the Wii has held back the progression of graphic technology it has encouraged a lot more people to look at games differently and not just something for kids. However having said that in my opinion I think Nintendo really needs to start looking at newer ways to use the Wii motion controller because for me they are getting a bit old. This is even more important now that Microsoft and Sony are joining the motion controller revolution with Natal and the Arc or whatever its called. I’m not the biggest fan of the motion controller mainly because I think it stops developers using the full potential of the system and they think they can just get away with doing the same old game over and over again as long as it looks different. For example on the Wii you have loads of games that use the same motion controller movements just for different sports. I dunno about you but I would just prefer to go and play the sport for real. What I’m trying to say is when I play games I want to escape the real world and do different things that I cant do in real life.
I’m not saying the Wii is a bad thing. Nintendo has done wonders making the gaming industry such a powerful industry. I just want the developers to stop making games so safely I want them, to experiment and do different things. Hopefully the Arc and Natal will do something different and not just all the same things the Wii has done with nicer graphics.
Okay I think that’s enough of my crazy thoughts I’m going to go play some games and eat some food .
Oh and I don’t dislike the Wii in anyway I just want some more exciting games.
Andrew
