There is a billboard in town that advertises Amazon's One Laptop Per Child Give One Get One store. Cool.Yesterday I went wild on the iTunes App Store - nailed iBlogger (a blog app - used it in the last post), RSS Player (an RSS based podcast downloader with subscriptions instead of having to download each individual podcast), and iChess (a cheap chess game - I suk at chess, but I like playing it). Noticed MANY of the apps are dropping in price or on sale - if you are looking for apps you might want to keep checking back, as prices change.
Looking for good podcasts now. So far, I like NBC Nightly News (video), Diggnation (video), BBC's Newspod (audio), NPR's Most Emailed Stories (audio), The Dawn and Drew Show (mixed audio and video), and This American Life (audio). It's cool to be able to just check for new podcasts and then download them. MUCH easier, and no computer required. I figure when I get up in the AM I can get things downloading (while hooked up to power, still) and then when I get done I everything will be loaded up and ready to roll.
I posted earlier about adding a few online goodies to my cellphone - and subsequently killing them a short time later because they weren't that cool. Anywho, since that time I noticed my battery doesn't last long and every now and again I get a "data transferring" icon and if I go to "data calls" it keeps dialing up a three digit number and transferring anywhere from 8 to 14 kb of data every 3 or 4 hours. Hmmm... Talked with the cell phone support people and then deleted the apps from the phone. It stopped. Also seems faster, as I killed some that were already on the thing. Here's hoping I don't get a honking huge cell bill from that.
The daughter and her crowd was here over the weekend, so we enjoyed some grandkids and the like - they brought some battery powered 4 wheelers, which was fun watching the little one roll. His had knobby tires and he took it through the remnants of my father-in-law's garden. Didn't get stuck, either. They also had some Lincoln Logs - I sorta built a barn with the oldest grandkid. Good times.
