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Galcon for AndroidOS

I loves me the Galcon, an amazing real time seat of your pants multi player risk style game set in space. I have been playing since 2007 on Linux and of course was a bit ticked off when an iPhone app of it came out some time ago. I wrote the author and asked “Why no love […]

Android Jeeves Alarm Clock and General Notification Prompts

AndroidOS has an amazing little app called Tasker that gives you the powers to instruct your device to take over the boring tasks of turning various things off and on, alerting you when things happen (based on location, time, other apps, other tasks, etc) and in general working for you in the ways you wished […]

DIY Dr Who Cubecraft

Heather found this cute little link to a bunch of Print and Make Dr Who Cubecrafts. Print….snip…fold…and you too can play out all your favorite episodes….or make new ones…oi the possibilities.

Aurorae Tomorrow?

Cosmic Variance reports “The sun kind of burped yesterday, and sent gigatons (or maybe hellatons?) of material streaming our way – to Earth that is. There is an awesome video of it over at SpaceWeather.com. The particles, mainly electrons and protons in the sub-100-eV range, are expected to reach earth tomorrow (Aug. 3) and could give vigorous […]

RemoteDroid Turns Your Android Phone into a Wireless Mouse and Keyboard [Downloads]

Lifehacker reports on a remote mouse/kydb app for the Droid. I have been using Gmote and VNC to muck about with other computers….lets see if this will pass the “Am I Still Using It In A Week” test. Â