New App: Luko Remote (playbook)

So a remote app let's you use your phone or tablet as a mouse for your computer.  Most with,let also let you use the devices virtual keyboard to type things on your computer.  I got this remote app for my playbook and it's really nice.

There's the basic mouse and keyboard stuff.  There's separate buttons fir right and left clicks, as well as the middle mouse buttons.  There's also arrow keys, control, and although buttons.  Probably the most useful part of this app is the file browser. The file browser let's you open files on the pLaybook so that it reads in the computer.  For people with one monitor this could be really useful.  You could be browsing files or videos and use the playbook as the playlist to easily move through files.

The app cost three dollars. I feel it's easily worth that.  When I buy apps I usually compare the price of the app to the same dollar amount of food.  In this case I would rather have an app I can useeveryday then a large fries.

Im thinking about trying out a remote desktop app next.

New software: blackberry playbook OS 2.0

It has been.a couple days since the release of RIM's new OS.  Savy consumers should have taken advantage of the huge price drop on the playbook.  The new os brings all the things people wanted at the device's launch, such as the mail client, calender, and contacts.  It also add android app emulation.  This is primarily for the gaming apps.

Another really neat feature is the new virtual keyboard.  I always find the iPhones auto correct a little intrusive.  I would rather tap the correction to opt-in then opt-out.  RIM does well on this keyboard giving you several choices of words they think your trying to use.  and then tries to anticipate the next word.  This can be fairly useful and time saving.



There was a problem that I had with the old OS were the browser would not load pages.  This doesn't seem to be a wide spread problem but its gone now with the new OS anyway.

There are a bunch of other improvements to some apps that I don't use regularly like the "docs to go app" as well as blackberry bridge.  which now that I have an iPhone is not all too useful.

This new OS is a welcome advancement to the under appreciated tablet.

Mobile app for blogger

This Is a simple test, and review of the features offered by google blogger's mobile app for iOS. I will be travelling to Japan in the spring and will be blogging here about all of the interesting things I come across. As my laptop is far to heavy to bring on this trip I will be using either my phone or the hostel's computers.

Probably the most important thing I need in this mobile app is the ability to add pictures. At the moment it looks like the pictures are in the labels tray at the bottom of the screen. I don't think I can add them into the text the way I want to.

The app won't let me resize the pictures individually, but I can choose the default size.  I also cannot move the pictures around in the app.  A bit of a let down, But I can make drafts in the app then go back to a computer for some final editing.

The picture on the right shows the app.  I three icons let you write a post, view the blog, and some basic options.  Overall the app is very simple.  I think It would be better with a lot more features, especially being able to move photos around.

Also the picture on the left is just a picture of the street by my house.