It’s gotten to the point where I’m going to stop calling these gifts and just start calling them year-end deals, maybe Google should’ve stuck with .10$ media for these surprises. Anyways that’s a conversation for another day, today’s surprise happens to be a deal on a very funny American TV comedy — 30 Rock. Now don’t get all excited just yet, you won̵... »
Today’s Google Play gift is a discount to buy the HD version of Men in Black for $4.99. Some of you may think these “gifts” are not very good surprises (much like Ralphie thinks of a football instead of his beloved Red Ryder bb gun). However, some think that by buying this, you are showing Google that we have lots of interest in purchasing HD movies from them, if they lower their... »
Today my email contained holiday greetings from SwiftKey. Amidst the well wishes was one of my favorite words…Sale! SwiftKey 3 and SwiftKey 3 Tablet are on sale for $1.99 each, (for a limited time). Too bad Swiftkey Flow didn’t get updated or added to this as well. It doesn’t provide a sale end date, so if you are in the market for a keyboard app take that Google Play gift card ... »
Day 8, our Christmas Eve gift from Google Play, has pretty good timing. Today’s surprise is a free, enhanced, interactive version of an adapted, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas). Download it HERE to see–and hear–each of the four ghosts as an early 20th century audience might have. The illustrations and narrati... »
Day 6 of Google Play‘s surprises brings us another e-book Christmas classic. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Polar Express. You can download this award-winning, holiday staple for $2.99. Come back tomorrow for day 7! Read this one aloud while your little ones sip on Polar Express Hot Chocolate. »
Today’s surprise offer from Google Play is a personal favorite of mine. You can get the digital book, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, for $0.99. It was originally $2.99. This digital book features professional narration, background audio, and enlarged artwork for each scene. It has three ways to read it, Read to Me – Listen to story with the words highlighted as they are read, Read It ... »
Now today’s gift is one for the libation loving adults (or those naughty college kids). Google Play is giving us a free enhanced edition of How to Make Drinks by Jerry Thomas with videos by James Beard award winner, David Wondrich. The original guide was written in 1862. This is an interactive e-book that even comes with some step-by-step videos. You can even learn to make drinks with flames... »
Day 3 of Google Play Store surprises brings us, not one, but two new things to discover. The first is the The Elf Adventure Calendar. It’s free fun for kids and adults! You have 24 days of doors to open with 24 exciting episodes. You solve a puzzle each day to help the Elves on their journey to arrive at Christmas day. There is a full version with no ads but it will... »
The official Twitter application for Android devices got itself a pretty sweet update earlier this evening. If you’re a shutterbug, it’s one you’ll want to grab as soon as possible, even if only to check it out for a few minutes before going back to your daily driver photo editing app. The new version is labeled 3.6.0 and it brings along with it native photo editing from within t... »
So BodyGuardz already went nuts on the Black Friday thing by doing 40% off anything they sell, which is pretty sweet. So now we have Cyber Monday today, which is the online version of Black Friday so to speak. Apparently it’s not enough to just match up the sale they just ran, so they’ve decided to take it up a step and go to 50% off anything site wide. No annoying rest... »
