Justin is back with another APPraisal guest review!
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I’m not a huge RSS junkie, nor do I visit a multitude of sites per day. I do, however, visit a small number of sites a LOT each day. I would say I’m visiting Gizmodo like 30 times between 8 am and 4:30 pm. So, if you’re like me and read a small number of sites with great frequency, Pulse is for you!
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MacUpdate.com is a website that helps you keep all your Apple Macintosh computer software and Apple iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad apps up-to-date. 5,000,000 unique visitors hit the site every month, and I’m one of them. While it’s certainly very easy to install and update software on a Mac, keeping up with all the updates to all the software is always difficult, regardless of platform. MacUpdate makes it easy, which is why they’re “the #2 Most Popular Mac-only software website on the Internet, second only to Apple.com.” If you own a Mac and don’t use their site… what the heck have you been doing?!?
The site is free to use, but they have several side features that are useful to members, such as a desktop client that will compare your software versions with the latest versions available, and update your software automatically. If you find that keeping your software up-to-date is always a bit of a hassle, try MacUpdate. Let me know what you think!
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I’ve recommended AppShopper.com to several people over just the past week, which certainly qualifies it for a Bookmarked post. AppShopper is a great site for tracking Apple iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch apps. They list all of the new releases, you can make a list of what you own, and best of all, you can make a wish list to track what you want to own. When the price drops on an app on your wish list, you can get notification by email or RSS. Needless to say, this site has cost me some money! A lot of my APPraisal posts started with something I found or was following on Appshopper. But it’s also saved me a lot, by allowing me to track apps and purchase them at the price I like when they go on sale or the price drops. It’s one of my few go-to app sites. If you’re an iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch user, try out AppShopper.com. Let me know what you think.
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I only do APPraisals on apps I personally found interesting or useful enough to try. I don’t always end up liking every app, but I don’t buy or download something just to review it. I was hesitant to discuss the SIRIUS XM Premium Online app, though, because it requires a subscription on top of the app which can be a bit pricey. But given how much I use the app (a spoiler to what I think of it below), I figured a discussion of it and the ways I use it might be appropriate. Someone else out there might get some tips or have some for me as well.
Amazon released a beta today of its Kindle software for the Mac operating system. As the press release states “Kindle books can now be read on the Kindle, Kindle DX, iPhone, iPod touch, BlackBerry, PC and Mac, and soon the iPad.” I don’t know that I’ll ditch my Kindle in favor of reading on my Mac, but I’m glad to see the Mac love. With Whispersync technology syncing my bookmarks and last page read across devices, it just gives me one more option to get that latest novel read. Download yours today.
When I first got my iPod Touch, I was dumping apps onto it like crazy. Free apps, apps that made top 10 lists, just about anything. Many of those have been long since deleted. Weber’s On The Grill, however, has made the cut, and definitely falls into the category of “there’s an app for that.”
ZarkSeven has this cool segment on his blog called “APPraisal”. It’s his weekly…or mostly weekly…review of various iPhone/iPod touch applications. Since Zark doesn’t use Google Voice and I’m addicted to it, he asked me if I would take a look at the new Google Voice mobile site and give a review for his APPraisal segment. I’m new to this…but I love new stuff…so here goes!
I’m a huge fan of Google. I use a lot of their services as my primary way to communicate. From Gmail for my email to GTalk for my IM needs, Google just seems to “get it” when it comes to stable communication tools that just work.
One of their most amazing services is Google Voice. If you don’t know what GV is, check it out here. Google does a much better job explaining it than I do.
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I finally got around to playing Mass Effect Galaxy. Although it’s been out since June of last year, I never got around to it. But with the imminent release of Mass Effect 2 tomorrow on the PC and Xbox 360, I’ve been immersing myself in all things Mass Effect again, like reading the latest novel, Mass Effect: Ascension, and the new comic Mass Effect: Redemption. So I figured it was time to give Mass Effect Galaxy a shot.
AdFreak.com has compiled links to videos of every “Get A Mac” ad ever aired in the U.S. since the campaign’s inception in 2006. They haven’t aired a new one since October so this may well be the complete campaign. Apple’s website has quite a few of these but not every single one.
Even though Windows 7 seems like a big step in the right direction for Microsoft, I still love saying “Windows 7 won’t have any of the problems that Windows Vista had…” or similar when I’m using one of my myriad of problematic work computers (from ad #64). Check them out!
Throughout the years, re-imaginings of Pac-Man have generally sucked. “New” Pac-Man games haven’t been good since Ms. Pac-Man. But when Pac-Man Championship Edition came on the scene in 2007, it created quite a stir. The swansong game of original Pac-Man creator Tōru Iwatani,Pac-Man Championship Edition was released on the Xbox Live Arcade in 2007. Does the iPhone / iPod Touch version of Pac-Man C.E. stand a ghost of a chance?
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