Category: Video

I remember as a kid that my elementary school, had fallout shelter signs in many places. Yes this was in the days before Internet. Years ago we prepared for bombings and had designated shelters to go to. Well those days are gone.

This week the E3 2015 conference is going on and lots of neat games and electronics are being introduced.  One of the games out now is Fallout Shelter from Bethesda Softworks LLC. This is a free game (with IAPs) currently only available for iOS but the Android version will be coming shortly.

In the game you are in charge of managing a fallout shelter. As citizens come you will need to given them jobs, make sure they are busy, and expand the facility to make sure everyone has a place to be.  If you enjoy time management games or played games like Tiny Towers, you will quickly get into the game.

I love the retro graphics and sounds of the game! The game allows for 3 saved games or vaults. I am now the manager of vault 187!  You start off with a couple of rooms underground and a friendly tutorial shows you the ropes.  Power, food, and water are the basics to survival. How good of a vault manager can you be?

The game is fun and one that you can play a little every day. Well Josh took a look at Fallout Shelter for this week’s video review. Enjoy.

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Fallout Shelter

Developer: Bethesda

Price: Free⁺

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If you see one movie this summer, it has to be Avengers: Age of Ultron. It is the latest installment in Marvel’s super hero movies and definitely one of the best ones so far. I will not spoil it for you but there is a ton of action and stuff blowing up! 🙂

Well did you ever want to be a super hero? Who is your favorite Avenger? Well now you can be one of them in Marvel Contest of Champions. This mobile game is a free for both Android and iOS devices.  In the game you will play different super heroes and complete missions and story based adventures; you are to help defeat Kang and Thanos. You can play alone or with your friends online. Definitely a nice follow up to the movie.

In this week’s video review, Josh takes a look at this awesome game. Can you be Iron Man?

Get it for Android devices from Google Play

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Marvel Contest of Champions

Developer: Kabam Games, Inc.

Price: Free⁺

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I am not sure how much explanation is needed for the game Mortal Kombat.  Hasn’t everyone heard of Mortal Kombat? Well if not, it is a video game that come out back in the 1990’s. It first was a stand alone video arcade game, then it was a computer game, console game, and now it is a mobile game!

Mortal Kombat X, is the tenth version of the game. It is a 2D fighting game and your job is simple-knock the other guy out. This version of the game is very well done and a lot of fun.  If you looking for some tips on how to play, check out this article: How to mangle people efficiently and cheaply in Mortal Kombat X: Hints, tips, and tricks, from Pocket Gamer.

It is currently only available for iOS, with the Android version coming out soon. Josh decides to take on this game for this week’s video review. Enjoy.

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Mortal Kombat

Developer: Warner Bros.

Price: Free⁺

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Dubsmash is a free, fun, and unique video app that allows you to create your own dubbed videos.

The app is available for both Android and iOS and is only limited by your imagination.

After downloading the app, I recommend you create an account. You do not have to, but with an account you get the following extras:

– add your own sounds
– save your own dubs
– add extra effects to your video

Once the account is complete, you will follow these steps:

1. Choose your favorite sound
2. Record yourself with the sound
3. Share your video

The app comes with a huge collection of sounds. There about 30 categories such as birthday, TV shows, video games, dance, food, sci-fi, action, etc. As you search through the sound bits, you can preview any of them, favorite them, or share them. I enjoyed just going through the sounds-almost forgot I had to pick just one and do a video! 🙂

In addition to these categories, you can search sounds via trending or latest categories.

Dubsmash is simply a lot of fun and great entertainment. Check out Josh’s video review and start dubbing. (I did not know he wore glasses).

One of the things many offices are doing these days is becoming paperless. This is a great idea but hard to implement. I must admit that I print a lot of material out to help me remember and keep track of tasks, emails, etc.

Smart Document Scanner from Softxpert is a great tool for Android users to help get rid of paper and one of the best portable scanner that I have tried. The app is free but you are limited in how many scans you can do and a number of other items. You can purchase a yearly subscription but right now Softxpert is offering a lifetime subscription for only about $5 USD. You can find more details on their website or within the app.

The app is super simple to use and has a very nicely designed interface that makes finding what you need easy. The app allows you to organize your scan into folders and share/save them via email, text, etc, and Google Drive or Dropbox respectively. The is a detailed help section within the app if needed.

The other major aspect of the app is its features. Holy cow, this scanner will allow you to batch scan, has an OCR Scanner (with a ton of languages supported), a number of camera features (brightness, contrast, sharpness, greyscale) to create perfect scans, the ability to crop images and add annotations to them.

The bottom line is that is works and does an excellent job.  With it being a free app, there is no reason not to try it. Let us know what you think. Need some more information? Check out Joshua”s take on the app in this week’s video review.

Features:

• Mobile Scanner-in-app camera is customized for scanning (single, multi-page or even batch scans)
• OCR Scanner-recognizing text and making it searchable
• Convert to PDF
• Image Enhancement
• Sync to Google Drive and Dropbox
• See the rest here

Download on Google Play or learn more over at the Smart Document Scanner website

These days it is hard to stay on top of things, the more we can organize and centralize our lives and work, the better. A recent app/service we discovered is Pushbullet, which allows you to easily connect your mobile devices to your MAC or PC.

Setup with Pushbullet is easy-simply download the app on your device, get the browser extension and/or the desktop software, create an account and you are off and running.  With Pushbullet you can:

• get notifications of incoming text messages or calls
• shares files, links, contacts from your mobile device and desktop
• reply to many different messaging services
• keep up with your favorite websites via Channels
• and more as this service is growing quickly

Channels are notification feeds that you can subscribe to. When you subscribe to a channel you will get a message via Pushbullet that new content is available. AppReviewCentral has a channel over at Pushbullet, so you can keep up with our great reviews! Click here to subscribe.

This free app/service is great and very, very easy to use.  Pushbullet helps simplfiy the process of sharing and saving content between devices and keeping up with messages. I am interested in seeing where Pushbullet goes.

In today’s video review, Josh takes a look at this productivity app/service.

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