Author: Kevin Schulte

  • Android App Roundup! Abduction! 2 (Game) and my6sense (magical RSS and social network reader)

    It’s been a while, but welcome again to another exciting edition of our Android App Roundup series! This time I’ll be showing you how you can kill some free time with Abduction! 2 while Evan explains how you can discover the best articles from your RSS feeds and social networks with my6sense. If there are…

  • A Quick Look At Author Neal Stephenson’s Latest Project: The Mongoliad

    Any self-respecting geek has heard of the author Neal Stephenson, and many have read at least one of his works. Author of books such as Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and most recently Anathem, Stephenson is known for not holding back when it comes to technological descriptions.Cryptonomicon, for example, contains a multi-page explanation on the intricacies of…

  • Friday Fun! Why Do Homework When You Can Procrastinate With Liferaft: Zero?

    With school starting for many of our readers (myself included), what better way to celebrate than with another edition of Friday Fun? After all, Flash games are the ultimate procrastination tool! Liferaft: Zero is a devious blend of the setting from Portal, the acrobatics of N, and the frustrating difficulty of Jumper. You play the…

  • Friday Fun! Get That Fake Sense of Accomplishment In Achievement Unlocked 2

    If you’ve played a game on a major gaming platform in the past few years, chances are you’re familiar with achievements. Games on the Xbox 360 have them in the form of a Gamerscore, where certain actions in games gain you points that are displayed in your profile. The Playstation 3 has platinum, gold, silver,…

  • How To: Send Websites To Your Android Device With Chrome to Phone

    Root users and owners of Google’s Nexus One have had access to Android 2.2 for a while now, but the update is finally starting to trickle down to everyone else with an Android phone. Official versions of Froyo are available for the Evo 4G and Motorola Droid, and Motorola’s estimate for the Droid X update…

  • Android App Roundup! SDMove and Google Places

    It’s time again for another Android App Roundup! In this edition I’m going to tell you about SDMove, an indispensable application to have installed if you’re running Froyo (Android version 2.2), and Evan will tell you about Google Places, an app you probably already have on your phone but might not have used yet. We welcome…

  • Why You Should Root Your Android Phone

    Anyone who owns an Android phone already knows that Google’s operating system provides a tremendous amount of freedom right out of the box. If you want to take full advantage of your device, though, your best option is to root it.  (“Rooting” is the process of unlocking root permissions on your phone, like jailbreaking an…

  • Android App Roundup: SystemPanel (Task Manager/System Monitor) and Ringdroid (Ringtone Creator)

    Welcome to another edition of Android App Roundup! This week I’ll be taking a look at SystemPanel, an awesome task manager/system monitor application, while Evan tells you about Ringdroid, an app that lets you easily create your own custom ringtones. As before, if you have a suggestion for an app that we should talk about…

  • Friday Fun! Get Your RTS On In Pixel Legions

    In this week’s Friday Fun, I bring you a Flash game with a bit more depth than previous entries. Pixel Legions takes the complexity of most modern real-time strategy games and boils it down into its most basic form, perfect for the Flash game format. In Pixel Legions there is only one unit type, the…

  • Friday Fun! Get Your Flash Game Fill With Morplee

    Kick back and relax, it’s Friday! What better way to pass the time at work than with a Flash game? Morplee follows the WarioWare format of throwing mini-games at you and seeing how fast you react. You’re given 60 seconds to complete 25 mini-games, running the gamut from frantically clicking as fast as you can…