Free or near free tablet keyboard

Remember when I told you to pick up this keyboard when it was free on the Amazon app store? Well, I hope you listened to me. I received this e-mail today:

Hello!

Today is one year since we first launched a SwiftKey beta on the Android
Market. Wow, what a year it's been!

To mark the occasion, we're launching two new apps out of beta -- SwiftKey
X, for Android phones, and SwiftKey Tablet X, for Android tablets. Making
these apps wouldn't have been possible without all the incredible feedback
we've received from you all. Thank you.

To celebrate SwiftKey's 'first birthday', we're giving SwiftKey X for
phones away as a free upgrade to folks who bought SwiftKey on the Android
Market in the last year. We're also making SwiftKey X and SwiftKey Tablet X
available for just $1.99 to new customers -- over half off each app --
until Saturday at 6am PDT.

Please share these fantastic new apps with everyone using the link
http://skx.me/apps and help us make this launch as successful as possible.
We rely on our most important users like you to continue to make SwiftKey
and the technology behind it such a great success.

Kind regards,

Joe Braidwood
Chief Marketing Officer,
TouchType

Free Glow Hockey Pro today

I talked about this game before but the PRO version is FREE today @ Amazon. It is like Air hockey for your tablet.

Sexy Water Live Wallpapers from Ruvort

Ruvort over at the XoomForums has made some hot looking live wallpaper that level with your battery percentage. Check it!

Grape:


Download: http://db.tt/Re3x7u1

Scotch:


Download: http://db.tt/3qf3GZq

Mountain Dew:


Download: http://db.tt/lppcZ8J

Black and white:


Download: http://db.tt/NJ3NneB

Black and white v2.0 (Pepsi)


Download: http://db.tt/MuBJg4H


Shirley Temple:



Download: http://db.tt/BzPDENf


Submarine V 1.0



Download: http://db.tt/43IpyMz


Miller Time



Download: http://db.tt/LKyFJBZ


Update (5/28/11):
Message in a bottle



Download: http://db.tt/OUpbki0

Updated beer!



Download: http://db.tt/6P8KxAC

PacMac - Free App of the day

While not "optimized" for a tablet this still plays nice and is the "original" Pacman from Bandai. Download here

New Dolphin Browser

They dropped a new beta browser today.

• Upgraded User Interface
• Speed Dial Tabs
• More Powerful Sidebar
• Subfolder Support
• Faster Browsing

If you are interested in checking it out you can read all about it here and download it ;)

New Flash player

What's in this version:

Flash Player 10.2.157.51 – Features and Enhancements

• Hardware accelerated video presentation (requires Android 3.1)
• Enhanced browser integration for Honeycomb tablets (requires Android 3.1)
• Important bug fixes and security enhancements

The complete set of release notes can be found here

ScummVM - Monkey Island and more

For the oldtimers who picked up a Motorola Xoom, ScummVM will provide months of enjoyment. While digging through the web, I tripped over ScummVM again, and figured I'd give it a go on my Xoom. And it worked great :)

What Is ScummVM?

ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed!

ScummVM supports many adventure games, including LucasArts SCUMM games (such as Monkey Island 1-3, Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max, ...), many of Sierra's AGI and SCI games (such as King's Quest 1-6, Space Quest 1-5, ...), Discworld 1 and 2, Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2, Beneath A Steel Sky, Lure of the Temptress, Broken Sword 1 and 2, Flight of the Amazon Queen, Gobliiins 1-3, The Legend of Kyrandia 1-3, many of Humongous Entertainment's children's SCUMM games (including Freddi Fish and Putt Putt games) and many more.

I grew up during the golden years of PC gaming. Before all the 3D shooter extravaganza, people played classic point and click games like Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade/Fate of Atlantis (they should made that into Indiana Jones 4), Monkey Island, Sam & Max, Full Throttle and the Dig. Even decades later, these games still hold up the true gaming experience for me.

Anyway, I figured I'd try a few of my old games, and see how they play on my Xoom

While ScummVM supports many more games, these are the ones I tried, and they run great. They look a little "blocky" because they are older games (back from the DOS days) so the low-resolution is scaled to run full-screen on the Xoom, and when the game scrolls/pans the camera view a bit, there is a light stutter, but the games are perfectly playable and voices run smoothly.

You can download the ScummVM build that works on the Xoom from here:

http://anddev.at.ua/load/scummvm_svn55436/1-1-0-7

and if you do not have any of the games it supports, you can download some free versions (demos as well as a few released as freeware) from here:

http://www.scummvm.org/downloads/#extras