Cartoon of The Day: Skunky Weather

 

 Taken at Club Balance. And yeah, the weather in real life for many in the USA this weekend stinks. 

 

By Bixyl Shuftan 

 

Game Review: Homescapes

 

Today's game review involves one that can be played on both the PC and smartphone: Homescapes. The player helps Austin the butler as he works to repair his parents' family home room by room, bit by bit. So how does it go?

 

Read the review in Other Grids, MMOs, and Games. 

 

*Updated with a link on where to get the game* 

 

Trying To Figure Out New Tech

 

If I haven't been writing much lately, there's a reason. Yours truly has been making a tech upgrade. 

 

For years, I had just the old flip phones that came about in the 90s. Then when the company phased them out about a couple years ago, I finally got a smartphone, a simple one. But friends kept telling me I needed to upgrade. So I finally did. I went ahead and got a much better smartphone: a Samsung.

 

Trouble is, the joke about new tech being scary to people over forty, well, there's something to it. It's been something of a struggle trying to get the thing working right, which takes time. Time that cannot be used for writing, or covering events like the last days of the SLB.

But I'll get this figured out. In the meantime, in-depth stories, other than from other reporters and reader submissions, will have to wait.

 

Image credit: PC Mag 

Bixyl Shuftan

Cartoon of The Day: Not So Smartphone

 

 

 Taken at the Happy Vixen. Smartphones can be useful, but their AI sometimes has much to be desired.

By Bixyl Shuftan

The Lumiya Viewer : A 3D App For Second Life on Android

For viewing Second Life on one's computer, it isn't hard to find options, from the official viewer to Firestorm, Singularity, and others. But for accessing it though tablets and smartphones, it can be harder to find choices. Wesley Regenbogen recently found one viewer designed as a mobile app" the Lumiya viewer by Alina Lyvette. He gave it a try, and wrote a review.

Read Wesley's article in Extra.