Available for iOS and Android, OnLive Desktop, puts a Windows environment on your tablet or smartphone. Users can view, edit and create documents with Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Files can be transferred between OnLive Desktop and other devices. Two gigabytes of storage is also included with the free version.
The optional $4.99 monthly service adds some features including being able to play Flash video and access to more services.
A partial answer to what is wrong with America, read on for the App Store Official Charts for the week ending October 10, 2011.
Females prefer Facebook. Men actually do use maps despite popular belief. And both sexes play entirely too much Angry Birds. This is according to Nielsen which ranked the 20 most used Android Apps by adults in the U.S..
Recently on NPR's self proclaimed "oddly informative quiz show" Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!, a clever spoof on a fake augmented reality app was spun for its "Bluff The Listener" segment.
Quite funny, it is worth the read below. If you'd like to read more or even listen to the segment head here.
The spoof:
Responding to the alarming rise of injuries caused by engrossed smart phone and tablet users walking into traffic and over cliffs, leading PDA makers Apple and Nokia have joined forces to produce "Watch Out," a Bluetooth proximity and audio sensor that employs a simple onscreen text message to keep users apprised of their surroundings.
"Bus approaching right flank" might allow you to survive your fantasy football draft. "Brick wall ahead" could save you thousands on corrective face surgery while you monitor your disintegrating 401k.
The application can help with basic social cues as well. "The line has moved" will alert you to step forward at the Starbucks or DMV.
"Your wife appears to be speaking to you" and "A child sounds injured" may keep your home life peaceful, even while you ignore it.
Watch out for "Watch Out," approaching from your blind side.
Groupon Now, an off-shoot of the insanely popular daily deal site, has launched in the Triangle area, catering to the more impulsive among us deal hounds.
Groupon Now offers a host of deals you can click on and use immediately.
Say you're out with friends and decide you want to grab a pizza but don't want to pay full price? Check Groupon Now for a deal.
Apple has laid down the law on apps that warn users of DUI checkpoints.
MacRumors highlighted the change in Apple's App Store Review Guidelines.
"Apps which contain DUI checkpoints that are not published by law enforcement agencies, or encourage and enable drunk driving, will be rejected."
Advocacy groups both for and against the sharing of DUI checkpoint information have been sparring over the past few months.
In March, a group of senators fired a letter to the mobile industry heavyweights calling for a ban of such apps.
The letter from Senators Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ), Harry Reid, (D-NV), Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), and Tom Udall (D-NM) was sent to Apple, Google and RIM.
"With more than 10,000 Americans dying in drunk-driving crashes every year, providing access to iPhone and iPad applications that alert users to DUI checkpoints is harmful to public safety," they stated in the letter.
There have been a number of apps available in the major mobile software markets that alert drivers from DUI checkpoints to speed traps which often depend on crowd-sourcing.
There are some law enforcement departments that share their checkpoint information ahead of time.
Apple or any other company has the right to apply their own guidelines. Sharing the information is not illegal, but it has obvious implications as far as aiding those who abuse their driving privlages.
What if the information is shared on Facebook or Twitter? Can they be expected to police that information as well?
The Flash video capable Skyfire browser hit the Apple App store for a brief time Wednesday and then disappeared. Don't blame Apple.
Wild West Pinball game is currently free. AppVee posts video review.
