iPad Free App of the Week: Calculog

More than just a calculator app.

Calculog is a simple calculator with an extra feature: It logs the history in the background and lets you send it to your email address anytime. You can also edit the history to add text notes before sending. It is a simple app, but is thought to become the default calculator for every user.

Great for adding up receipts, keeping track of travel expenses or mileage.  All right on your iPad.

This is a great free utility.

Kindle Free Pick of the Week: Video Poker

Now you can play video poker right on your Kindle.

 Video Poker accurately simulates the Vegas-style video poker machine known as Jacks or Better. After making a bet, you will be dealt five cards. You select which of these five cards to hold, and redraw the rest to try to make the best poker hand possible. A hand with a pair of Jacks or better wins.

The built-in Strategy feature, which you can turn on and off at any time, will provide recommendations for how to play given the hand you were dealt, and will give you hints on how to improve if you fail make the best move. This guidance will help you learn how to play the game, and how to maximize your payouts.

Video Poker tracks how much you win or lose and how often you play the best possible hand.

Try Video Poker on your Kindle today!  It's Free!

iPad Stands With a Speaker Part 2

With all the Green Bay Packer and Super Bowl excitement, I neglected to get part 2 of my iPad stand review out for GZ Tablet Stand's new and improved iPad stand.

As you can see, their new iPad stand has the speaker placed in the rear of the stand and it is actually anchored by a small magnet.

The original stand had the speaker in from of the iPad screen, making it difficult to reach over and touch the iPad's screen.

Notice the speaker placed behind where the iPad will sit on the stand.

The iPad rests nicely in its slot and the same great sound coming out of the Altec speaker can be heard anywhere in the room.

Get this handy and attractive stand from GZ Tablet Stands. 

There were available on Ebay, but now they are on Etsy at

http://www.etsy.com/listing/63954314/gz-tablet-stand-original

iPad Free App of the Week: Super Bowl Program

I love getting programs from sporting events.  I usually don't even look at them while at the event, I save them and read them later. 

The official Super Bowl XLV program is contained in an app and it's free.

This appears to be the same program you can buy at the game.  The photography is amazing and there are more facts and information in here that you can retain.

Also great stories about past Super Bowls and the people who played in them

Great pictures of both teams.  This program will get you ready for Super Sunday.

Get this free app.

Angry Birds Rio Coming in March

Good news for the millions of Angry Birds fans out there.

20th Century Fox struck a deal to bring the domesticated macaw and other feathered characters from its upcoming big-screen animated film, "Rio," to one of the most popular mobile game applications for the small screen, Angry Birds.

The Finnish creators of Angry Birds will release a version of the game -- Angry Birds Rio -- to coincide with the film's March 22 world premiere in Rio. The movie opens in theaters April 15.

On Friday, Fox Filmed Entertainment co-Chairman Jim Gianopulos announced the partnership with game developer Rovio in a press event on the Fox studio lot in Century City under a tent with giant beach balls and a lot of optimism.  The studio also screened 26 minutes of footage, introduced by director Carlos Saldanha and voice stars Jamie Foxx, Anne Hathaway and George Lopez.

Fox hopes to tap into the pop-culture phenomenon that is Angry Birds (downloaded some 75 million times and still counting) to build awareness for its latest animated project from Blue Sky Studios, creators of the "Ice Age" blockbusters.

Rovio, meanwhile, gets to introduce a new version of the game (using Blue Sky's intellectual property), and capitalize on the marketing blitz that is planned for the theatrical release.

Looks like a win-win for both companies, not that they needed any help selling their content and products.  Get ready to be invaded by Angrey Birds.