8tracks app review

Remember back in the day when you used to make mix tapes or CDs for trips or your buddies?  8tracks is that but in the new age. It's a website that allows you to upload songs and makes playlists then share those via the app or Website.  I know there are a good amount of these sites out there but I honestly don't know of any that do it like I want it other than 8tracks. This has become my go to for new music. Nearly every time I look up a band and find a mix with them in it I find at last 2 bands that I wouldn't have heard of otherwise.

The good:

New music everywhere!  People put their own bands or local bands in the mixes so you hear a lot of new stuff.  You can search for tags, artists, genres, and mixes so you can find all kinds of crazy new and sometimes unexpected music. I enjoy seeing what other people have for summer mixes, etc. I've heard people go from Will Smith to bands like shadows fall, so is always interesting.

The bad:

The only bad things I can see so far are the small amount of skips and the lack of mix creation from mobile. 

Final thoughts:

If you're looking for a new music app and new music this is one of the best. Find me and send me mixes! I'm mapexonly and I'm ready to rock.

Final score: 4/5

Play store link:

8tracks

How To Fax From Your Android Smart Phone For Free!

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So a while back I needed to fax my resume every which way I possibly could being a new guy in a new town I needed a job. Job = Found, but getting there was kind of rough. I often found myself searching the web and finding places I'd love to work at but just didn't have the fax machine to fax a resume (in some cases they needed things faxed rather than email and I'm not sure why). I was without hope until I realized I have one of the greatest (at the time) smartphones of all time in my pocket. So i whipped out that OG Droid from Motorola and spent hours hunting for some sort of apps to maybe fax stuff that I took a picture of to a fax number. This turned into a 3 step process.

Step 1: Find an app that will allow me to scan a document for clear reading. Step 2: Find an app that will allow me to fax said document. Step 3: Air high five myself for being so awesome.

The scanning app wasn't hard to come by there are a number of apps designed to scan documents. The fax was a little harder, actually it was a great deal harder. I must have spent well over an hour scouring the Play Store (Android Market at that time) before actually finding a free app to fax with. Don't get me wrong there are a lot of great apps out there that will fax for you but it usually costs 25 cents or so every time you fax and I was throwing down some heavy packs of paper. This brings me to where we are now I finally found Files Anywhere for my faxing needs and Cam Scanner for my scanning. Both are free but there are paid versions of at least Cam Scanner and you can pay to make Files Anywhere pro which would be awesome if you use it a bit.

Cam Scanner:
Great app with a newly updated interface that allows you to take a picture of a piece of paper or whatever and have it scanned to send however or just to keep to read later. It turns whatever you have into a PDF file which is good for most of the world. Don't worry about getting the shot perfect but try to get it close. Cam Scanner comes with some editing tools to crop perfectly and stretch that baby out to perfection so it looks awesome. Examples are below.

The finished product doesn't look the best but looks pretty good considering it's from a phone. Point is don't replace that scanner just yet.

Part 2 of this app adventure is...

Files Anywhere:
Files Anywhere is the fax portion. You have a set amount of space via Files Anywhere that is cloud based so you can upload whatever you need to be faxed. This is not enough space to fax a book so unless you want to pay extra for space keep it simple. It does what it is supposed to do fax wise and actually gives you a space for a cover letter to be added which I loved so you don't have to actually include a cover letter you can just type it on the fly ( great option in my opinion ). Its interface hasn't changed since I got it but it is still simple and one of the most useful things I have on my phone.

Final Score: N/A

Play Store Link: CamScanner

Play Store Link: Files Anywhere

New Web Address Monday, Hold on to yer Butts...

So to my few Subscribers or people who actually care enough to read what I say I will be moving this blog to another address as of Monday which should be http://manalanche.blogspot.com  so point those browsers, flipbook, pulse, or whatever you have in that direction.  This new address will come with a new post if not a few.

Why the name change? 
Well to be honest I for some reason was thinking about graphical work I did a while back and realized what awesome stuff I had before my computer was stolen at my house in what I will call the "Hillbilly Heroine" capital of the United States.  I remembered before I signed up for xanga way back in the day I used to code html and make my own blog sites.  I had intentions of doing this then but was somewhat disheartened when my computer was stolen with my graphics for the new site.  My Manalanche v1.0 graphics were all gone all drafts and layouts I had saved to throw out at the world (not like anyone really cared but it made me happy) were gone and I'm assuming the person who stole my computer probably didn't even know how to even get into my computer or wipe it.  My graphical work, mp3's, and a good deal of my pride was lost to a thief whom probably either broke the computer (because they couldn't figure out the password) or just sold it for a few oxys and moved on which is just sad.  Anyway when I named the blog to begin with I couldn't really think of anything that I liked so now I have something that I like which is whats really important... to me anyway.

Why manalanche?
Why not?  An old friend of mine used to say I was fat back in the day when I was much skinnier than he and to most a normal size.  We joked at this often until he decided he wanted to get out a guitar and make a song about it.  The title manalanche an avalanche of man. To this day I still laugh at that song mostly because of the name but the lyrics were stellar as well. At this point in my life yes I happen to be quite overweight in my opinion.  I'm fine with it and at some point I'm sure I'll do some things to get into a little better health but its not on my top things to do at the moment.  Manalanche is very catchy and one of the funniest things I've ever encountered in my life. Other than drunk boxing a golden gloves champ and winner of tough man when you have no boxing experience ever I can't say I've ever laughed at myself so hard.  So the name stuck.

Why not just keep the imovechickens.blogspot.com and change the name?
New beginnings my friend and I'm looking to expand my blog into a 2 or 3 person blog so a few of my friends that enjoy the same things as I can post about stuff as well and maybe one of those will let me throw out some manalanche  shirts or an oldie but goodie "Drunk Team Go" shirts (I've lived a weird life).

Hope to see you all on the new one.

Short review of Madden for Android!

So I saw this game was available for cheap and I remember playing it a while back on my RAZR.  I thought I liked the game before so I decided to give it a go again since Madden 13 just came out. Every single person in the United States of America knows of this game in one form our another but this version its a bit different.
The good: There are lots of plays to throw at your opponent. Quick passes, runs, some blitz d and pretty much everything you'd expect from Madden. Switching people on d is as simple as pressing them. The best thing about this game is drawing out custom routes for the receivers. You just click a receiver and change the route by drawing one! So awesome!
The bad: The Game play is very slow choppy and just bad. Forget a running game it's pointless. Scoring is this simple: pick pass play, wait to throw, launch a Hail Mary and touchdown. This game could be good and hopefully with updates it will be but buying it full price, no.
Final score: 2.8/5 (for future updates if not is a 1.3)