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Super Stick Golf App
Fun iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch golf game.
Squaready App
Free app for prepping images in your iOS device's gallery for use with the awesome Instagram picture sharing app.
Spectre 3D App
iOS version of the classic (1990) Mac game. A very good port. Play is exactly like the original. The on-screen controls work very well. You can even play against others over network or bluetooth. Includes Spectre Classic, Spectre VR and the arcade version.
Ramp Champ App
Update to one of the first iOS games I ever bought, about 3+ years ago. It is a skee-ball game.
Bank of America App
iOS app for accessing your Bank of America online account and for searching for ATM locations.
Sale Price App
Update to iOS app for calculating sale prices and sales tax.
Mactracker App
Mac OS App store download of this awesome database of most every Apple product. Excellent for looking up details on your friends & family's old Macs when they ask you for support.
i. TV App
Update to this iOS app for viewing TV schedules. I like the new interface. They made it a lot easier to scroll through a time line. The app is also capable of programming a TiVO device to record shows. I have no TiVO to test it with. It does not support programming my DirecTV DVR. DirecTV's iOS (and Android) app does.
RunPee Mobile App
Update to this free iOS app for accessing their website's extensive database of the best times in a movie to run to the bathroom. I only downloaded this out of curiosity. My bladder is still capable of holding it's contents for most movies.
Amazon
This Amazon order was mostly gifts for others, and one for me. I got the new Beastie Boy's album "Hot Sauce Committee Part Two" for me. Wow, what an amazing album! I got my sister a DVD of the movie "Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil", got my Dad "Paper Airplane" CD from Allison Krauss and the "Harry Potter & the Deathly Hollows Part 1" blu-ray for the TV room.
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· $47.35 credit card purchase
Amazon
MP3 download of the album of remixes of tracks from the amazing Tron: Legacy soundtrack by Daft Punk.
I enjoy this very much.
Plus with Amazon's new Cloud Drive, they give you 20GBs additional space when you purchase an MP3 from their store:
https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/learnmore
I enjoy this very much.
Plus with Amazon's new Cloud Drive, they give you 20GBs additional space when you purchase an MP3 from their store:
https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/learnmore
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· $5 credit card purchase
gkruis
20GBS! I'd like to hear some of these remixes, any you'd recommend over another?
mshulman
@gkruis Amazon's new cloud drive gives 5GBs of storage for free. If you purchase an MP3 album from Amazon's MP3 store, they increase it to 20GBs for a year from date of purchase. MP3s purchased from Amazon do not subtract from your storage space.
To hear The Tron: Legacy remix album "R3CONF1GUR3D", you can search youtube for some of the tracks, or check out the official website: www.tronsoundtrack.com.
To hear The Tron: Legacy remix album "R3CONF1GUR3D", you can search youtube for some of the tracks, or check out the official website: www.tronsoundtrack.com.
gkruis
Thanks for the info!
saunieindiego
I love my cloud. I can share it with anyone that I give my amazon password to, as long as they have the amazon mp3 app on their phone.
gkruis
Another argument for me going androidward. Can you do tethering with yours, @shewalkdogs? You do have one, right?
mshulman
The Amazon Cloud Player website now works in the Safari browser in iOS devices. I do not own an iPhone, but I use an iPod Touch.
Fry's Electronics
I bought 2 Pogo Sketch styluses for capacitive touch screens (iOS, Android, Mac touchpads) are on sale this week for $7.95 each. 3 colors offered are green, orange and pink.
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· $17.29 credit card purchase
mshulman
I got 1 green and 1 orange. I do not believe that these will work with a Wacom tablet.
beverlynoelle
Aaaagh I LOVE Fry's. I spend WAY too much money in that place!
mshulman
Today's new Fry's ad offers 3 colors of the Targus stylus for touch screens for $7.99. They list for $14.99. These are a bit thicker and larger than the Pogo Sketch styluses.
Yogile.com 1-year membership
1-year membership in www.yogile.com for unlimited uploading of photos and sharing of group photos. Free accounts on Yogile are limited to posting 100MB a month.
I created a photo album to share photos from my recent cruise. This site made it easy for myself and my friends who went on the trip to upload their photos to the album too. The site allows for everyone to be able to download images too. I gave my album a password that can be shared with friends and family so that they can view the album and download the photos too.
I created a photo album to share photos from my recent cruise. This site made it easy for myself and my friends who went on the trip to upload their photos to the album too. The site allows for everyone to be able to download images too. I gave my album a password that can be shared with friends and family so that they can view the album and download the photos too.
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· $24.95 credit card purchase
beverlynoelle
Do you prefer this over other photo sharing sites?
mshulman
I wanted to use a site that allowed for a group of people to post their photos to the same album, that offered password protection. I had hoped to us Facebook's Groups feature, until a recent change removed the creation of a group photo album in a Facebook group. Yogile offered a nice feature set, including the ability to upload photos to an album via email and SMS.
mshulman
The group of 26 who were on the cruise vary greatly in technical ability and Yogile seemed to be easy for everyone to use. Plus it allows for downloading of full-sized images.
gkruis
26 friends on a boat. Sounds perfect! How was the cruise?
saunieindiego
I use KODAK share and its FREE
mshulman
@gkruis The 7-day cruise to Mexican Riviera on Norwegian Cruise Lines was excellent. Everyone had a great time. @shewalksdogs I wanted to use a site that allowed for multiple users to share their images in a single album, without all the spammy things that KODAK does to encourage you to buy their products and services.
Moo Inc Printing
Shipping/Handling fee for 50 FREE business cards from Moo cards!
http://us.moo.com/ Moo offers a very nicely printed product. Their mini-cards are awesome. You can order a pack of business cards and have a different image on every card.
They are testing a new API with members of the about.me site, so I gave it a try.
http://us.moo.com/ Moo offers a very nicely printed product. Their mini-cards are awesome. You can order a pack of business cards and have a different image on every card.
They are testing a new API with members of the about.me site, so I gave it a try.
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· $5.50 credit card purchase
beverlynoelle
I love that you can get different images on every card. I think I'll order some for mmy photograhy stuff :)
Intuit Turbotax
e-File fee for a chance to not print out and mail dead trees to the Franchise Tax board, even though this year I did not get a state tax refund.
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· $19.95 credit card purchase
Ncl M S Norwegian Star
I honestly thought I would have spent a LOT more on a week aboard the ship. With a pub crawl, 2 nights of "All-you-can-eat sushi/sashimi" and countless drinks... Well worth it for a week with my friends down to Cabo San Lucas and Puerta Vallarta.
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· $195.87 credit card purchase
mshulman
Of course that was just the "on-board" expenses. The cruise price itself was also very reasonable, under $600 for me for an inside cabin shared with one other person. The entire NCL staff was amazing. Every single employee was extremely friendly making for a great time everywhere on the ship.
girlfriday
A ringing endorsement. Might be time for me to visit Cabo San Lucas!!!!
mshulman
Sadly, Norwegian Cruise Lines and a few other companies are ending their cruises to the Mexican Riviera. I think NCL will stop at the end of April. I think it has to do with all the negative press about the drug wars in Mexico. I felt very safe in Cabo and Puerta Vallarta. They are far from the violence. Disney did the opposite, and just brought a ship to LA to visit Puerta Vallarta and Cabo.
riddlefish
Whoa whoa whoa whoa WHOA. "all-you-can-eat sushi/sashimi"??
I think I just passed out for a second.
I think I just passed out for a second.
mshulman
One of the "specialty" restaurants on the Norwegian Star is Ginza. They offer an all-you-can-eat menu of Sushi/sashimi or Asian fusion. The first visit the waiter asked if we wanted to order from the sushi menu each time or could he "take care of us?" We had 3 tables. We opted for his services. He brought out appetizers, soup, then a giant boat filled with sushi/sashimi and along with other filled platters. We went back again 2 nights later and did it all over again.
gkruis
I love me some sashimi!
Tron: Legacy 3D/2D & Tron: Original blu-rays/DVD/Digital copy
Love the visuals and the soundtrack! the 3D/2D blu-ray box was the only one with the Tron: Original blu-ray in the same box.
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· $29.99 credit card purchase
Formula1.com 2011 App
Free iOS app that provides some info about Formula 1 races. During practices and races, the app can show live timing results. As reported by others, I also could not log-in after creating an account. I hope this is fixed soon.
Sigalert.com App
Decent free iOS app to check traffic conditions reported on the sigalert.com website.
TWCable TV App
I DLed this iPad app in anticipation of getting an iPad 2. I may have jumped the gun a little. I don't expect to posses an iPad 2 until sometime in April/May.
beverlynoelle
Noooooo! Hopefully when you get it, it'll be just as good as you were hoping!
