From the Dark Side
by Tiny Ruisch
It’s hard for me to believe, but I’ve been writing these Android articles for more than four years now. It all started when I got my first Android phone, the Samsung Galaxy Note II. That was a good machine. I used it a lot and never had one battery explode. Since then I’ve written a lot of articles about using Android, hardware that I’ve owned and apps that I’ve used. This month, I thought I’d take a look back and re-view some of the applications I’ve reviewed.
Voice Shortcuts Launcher was the first app I ever reviewed. I liked it a lot but don’t use it anymore. OK Google has improved so much that it is the only voice control I use. Speaking of Google, the first app of theirs I reviewed was “Google Currents”, a newsreader that Google discontinued about six months later. It sure is hard to believe that Google would discontinue something.
When I reviewed Cluefhttps://tinys-bs.com/wordpress/wp-admin/post-new.phpul Privacy Advisor by Bitdefender, I thought it was an interesting program that inspected your installed apps and gave privacy recommendations. I didn’t use it for a very long time. Kingsoft Office is a suite of apps that has been updated and renamed to WPS Office + PDF. At the time, it was the best word processing software available for Android. Many tech sites still say that today. I don’t do much word stuff on my smaller mobile devices any more and have not installed it lately.
When I reviewed the Amazon App Store, it wasn’t really a review but an article explaining why I removed it from all of my devices. I got a little upset when Amazon required me to be logged in whenever I used one of the “free” programs they featured. My machines seemed to run a lot faster without the program installed.
Wordiest is the first game I ever reviewed. I still play the game almost every day. Other games I’ve reviewed are Red Herring, Trainyard, Shikaku and Monkey Wrench. Except for Red Herring, I still play them all fairly frequently. I’ve reviewed the Fireproof Games Room Series more than once. Even though they aren’t free, they remain my favorite Android games.
In October of last year, I reviewed Solid Explorer, an excellent two panel file explorer that keeps getting better all the time. Simple Checkbook hasn’t been updated since November 4, 2014. Every time I think about downloading something newer, I realize that the older model keeps my accounts perfectly.
I hope you enjoyed this short synopsis of some of my Android Reviews. It has been four years since I left Windows Mobile and went to the Darkside. Maybe it isn’t so dark after all.
Thanks for reading.