London 2012 Official Olympic Android game app review

This week, the Official (so they tell me) London 2012 Summer Olympic Android and iOS game app was released. The info they sent me tells me that the game allows you to participate in nine of the most anticipated events at this year's summer games.

It sounded interesting, but as many of you know, I'm more inclined to download, install and review productivity apps like CamScanner PDF maker or Vlingo than review an Android or iPhone game app. But, I figured I'd watch the YouTube video they sent and see how it looks. The YouTube video is only 37 seconds long, but that's all it took to hook me. Wow! That looks so cool. I gotta download this baby.

So, I followed this link to get the free version and sent it to my Android phone. I neglected to switch it to 4G and was wondering why it was taking so long to download. Because it's 49 freaking megabytes big, that's why. Midway through the download I switched to 4G on my Thunderbolt and figured I'd check it out during my lunch hour.

When I went to open it, I was greeted with an update (I only downloaded it an hour earlier), and the damned update took a very long time to download as well. But finally, I had the game and was ready to play.

The London 2012 Olympic game lets you participate in 110m Hurdles, Swimming, Kayaking and Archery and more. All events are displayed in 3D graphics at official London 2012 venues. You create your own athlete and the graphics are amazing.

The instructions for the first two events I tried (100 meter run and freestyle swimming) were very clear and I was ready to go.

I must say, it's a pretty fun app and if you have the time and space, I'd recommend it. I know I plan to play more.

CamScanner app review: create PDF's right on your Smartphone

 
 
CamScanner is an app that claims you can easily create a PDF of any document by simply taking a picture of it with your camera and then using their app to convert it into a PDF. Yeah right. So how did that work out for me? Perfectly.

I love productivity apps (see my review of the Top Three Productivity Apps of 2011), but I usually don't go looking for them unless I need to be productive in a manner which requires an app that I don't have.

So, there I was in need of a copy of my Driver's License so that I could confirm my identity and get paid by a client. But I wasn't near my computer or a scanner. Enter Google Play and the CamScanner app.

I downloaded it, opened it and took a picture of my license. When I was preparing to save it, the app intuitively knew that I wanted only the license and not the area around it, and cropped it perfectly for me. I then saved it on my SD card and attached it to an email which I sent to the client who then forwarded my payment to PayPal.

The features of CamScanner include:

• Auto crop and auto enhance
• Ability to scan a multi-page document
• Share document by email of SMS
• Upload to cloud storage (GoogleDocs, Box, Dropbox, etc.)

And it all works as described. Life is good. So is CamScanner.