App Store Favorite: Battleheart

Battleheart ($2.99)

iPhone, iPod Touch, & iPad | 62.0 MB | 4.5/5 stars

"Battleheart - enter a world of epic fantasy combat! Create a unique party of heroes, and lead them in frantic real-time battles against monsters of ever increasing power. Lay waste to your foes with dozens of unique special powers as you gain experience, upgrade your party's equipment, and craft them into the ultimate battle force!"

Niftis

Niftis is a post that highlights neat, interesting, fun, and techie items/stuff that I've found or created.

First up is an artist by the name of Louie Mantia. His website, Mantia.me, shows off some of his work, including all his sweet wallpapers. He is a pretty big fan of LEGOs and geeky stuff, so there's something for everyone. I like the S.H.I.E.L.D. one, particularly because my computer looks awesome when it wakes up.

Blogsy for iPad

Since getting my iPad, I have slowly transitioned computer tasks into iPad tasks. For example, I prefer watching YouTube videos more on my iPad than my computer, and I more frequently make and edit documents in Google Drive from my iPad. I really wanted to start blogging from my iPad, but I couldn't find a good solution. Google's Blogger 2.0 update brought iPad support, but it was very lacking in tons of needed features. The Blogger website was a mess from any mobile browser, so I looked towards other apps. Through Google searches, I found that the top 2 blogging apps on the iPad were Posts and Blogsy. Only because of the difference in price, I went with Blogsy, which was half of Posts' $9.99 price tag. The big differences I picked up between the 2 were that Posts was modeled around Blogger's other features outside of creating and publishing posts, such as managing tags and comments. I felt Blogsy provided enough, so I got it. This is the second post I've created with Blogsy, and everything looks to be working rather well. Multiple photo placement is a bit iffy, but it always has been with Blogger.

The good and bad Windows 8 thus far

Windows 8, Microsoft's latest (and greatest?) incarnation of their iconic operating system has been out for a few weeks, and I've been using the official release for as long as its been available. It's certainly a step towards the future of technology. "Technology and its innovations are the way of the future. Adapt or be left behind" is a saying I've come to find very true, especially with Windows 8. There have been points about how Microsoft and its new design suit mimic a lot of what Apple's been doing with its image and the image of their products. That's Microsoft adapting. Apple's Macs and iOS devices are so widely loved, and their ease of use is always contrasted with Microsoft products. So, Microsoft simplified their OS. Big, minimalistic tiles on a solid-color background with a little decal screams simplicity, or certainly more so than the Start menu. It's great to see Windows taking steps toward a more user-friendly experience, but there's still all that pre-Windows 8 OS to deal with.

iOS 6.1: Getting up-to-date

To check out more blog posts about iOS 6, including my introductory one, click here.

Last week, Apple released iOS 6.0.1, to combat some bugs in the iOS 6.0 release. Around the same time, they also posted iOS 6.1 for developers to try out. So, I updated my iPhone out of curiosity. There are 2 additions to iOS that come with 6.1 that most blogs have already picked up on, but I'll go over them anyway. They both have to do with catching up with the rest of iOS.