Amazon Offering "Word to Word" For Free Today

If you have an Android device, get on over to Amazon today and get "Word to Word" for free.

Greant fun and it makes you think a little.

More Improvements for Instagram

If you haven't check out Instagram in a day or so, you may want to download the software update and get back on.  The popular photo-sharing app has now added something we all wished was available way back months ago – comments and friend management. Now you can edit or delete comments on your Instagram photos, or comments that you’ve written on your friends’ pictures.  You can also block people!

In addition to these updates, you can also tag your uploaded images with certain subjects, sort of like Twitter. If you live in Los Angeles, for example, and you happen to be a sports fan, you can tag you sports pics with something like #Lakers, #Clippers or #Dodgers and it will show up in that topic stream.  It's exactly like how it works on Twitter and adding the hashtag will add your photo to that particular topic stream.  Kind of cool and convenient.

These changes the Instagram team is making is keepig it curent and allowing users to do more than just upload random pictures.  Kudos to Instagram, and can't wait to see what else is coming.

iPad Free App of the Week: Bravo Now

It's no secret than women love to watch the shows and drama that happens each and every week on Bravo.

It is a dirty little secret that men like to watch the campy antics as well.  I have to admit it, I'm looking forward to a new season of Real Housewives of Orange Countyto see what Vicki, Tamara and the whole gang are up to.

This free Bravo Now app will let you get a taste of how your favorite characters on your favorite shows are doing.

There are clips and blogs from the Bravo TV Web site, all in a neat package. The app can host second-screen live-event programming, and that will appeal to many watching episodes and specials on Bravo.

Full episodes of the shows are not free, but they are available for purhase. 

Bravo is calling this "interactive TV" and this is where television viewing is headed. 

The app also features blogs, and extensive collecton of short clips from the shows and a social media component so you can interact with your fans.

There is a lot to this app, and it's free so go and get it.

iPad Free App of the Week: The New Twitter App

This is the official Twitter app for the iPad. Twitter for iPad sports a really elegant interface that’s significantly faster and more intuitive than other Twitter apps I've tried.

I'm impressed, the overall design is very pleasant. When you’re creating a new tweet, for example, the app brings up a notepad-style compose window, which is very cool. It's easy, tap on a tweet with a link, and the content loads in a browser pane; pinch a person’s tweet to get more details on the author, and swipe down with two fingers to view the threaded conversation. The paned view of content was very cool and surprisingly fast with loading photos and web pages. However, the pinch and two-finger swipe functions are awfully gimmicky: simply tapping on a person’s tweet with a single finger shows profile details and threaded conversations as well, rendering the pinch and double-swipe not necessary.

When composing a new tweet, there’s a location-pin button to share where you’re tweeting from, as well as a paperclip icon to attach a photo. This is a great way to use Twitter and it's free.

iPad Free App of the Week: Battleship

Just like the classic Battleship game we all used to play in our living room. This time though, my brother can't cheat by moving his ships around when nobody was looking.

A great looking app, decent sound effects, and a tough one-player mode. You have to use Bluetooth to play a two player mode, it doesn't find a random opponent for you online.

From CustomerIn Systems Inc. This app came out on Aug. 18. I love it.