Monday
Jan262015

MakerBot releases Android app

MakerBot has finally made its way to Android. This means you can control your 3D printer right from your Android device. The app is pretty similar to the iOS version. It lets you choose a design from the collection on Thingiverse or from your own library. You can scale and adjust them and then send them to the printer.

You can even monitor the progress right from the printer’s built-in camera and pause and resume printing as needed. The app is available for free on Google Play and works with MakerBot Replicator, MakerBot Replicator Mini, and MakerBot Replicator Z18.

Source: MakerBot | Via: The Verge | Download: Google Play Store (Free)

Sunday
Jan252015

Flush Toilet Finder helps you find public toilets

Traveling in a foreign city and have no clue where the public toilets are? Flush Toilet Finder is here to help. The iOS and Android app helps you locate public toilets in your area as well as how to get to them. You’ll get the directions to them via Google Maps or Apple Maps, depending on the OS you’re using. The app also lets you know if the toilet has a fee, needs a key to use, or if there is access for the disabled. Their database currently covers over 100,000 public toilets around the world and that number is growing.

Source: Lifehacker | Download: Apple iTunes App Store (Free) + Google Play Store (Free)

Saturday
Jan242015

Canadian Reviewer Weekly Roundup 1/18-1/24

Saturday
Jan242015

Track smartphone use with QualityTime

Hoping to boost productivity or at least find out how much time you spend staring at your smartphone? QualityTime for Android is an app that will help monitor your smartphone habits. It can let you know how much time you spent using apps or how much you use your phone in general. The more you use it, the more you find out about your smartphone habits. It can let you know which days you use your smartphones the most and what apps you use at different times of the day.

If you want to control your particular use of an app, QualityTime can even warn you if you’ve used up the boundaries you’ve set. It has a “take a break” mode that will lock you out of certain apps for a given amount of time. But in case you need to use an app because of an emergency, you can do so with pre-approved apps.

Source: AndroidCommunity | Download: Google Play Store (Free)