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Pokémon Go Battery Life Saving Strategies

July 14, 2016 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

The good news: Pokémon Go is getting gamers out into the real world; exploring neighborhoods; and making new friends. The bad news: Players have stumbled onto a dead body; been robbed; and driven a car into a tree. Oh, and there’s that privacy issue… Just one week after its release, Pokémon Go has torn up […]

Filed Under: Gadgets & Mobile Tagged With: apps, battery, mobile

Banned! Apple nixes conflict mineral-y, e-waste-y Phone Story app

September 15, 2011 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Game maker with a message, Molleindustria (NSFW), may have stumbled on a sure-fire way to shine a light on the dark side of the electronics industry: create an iOS app about it and get it banned by Apple. Long story short, the company created a game called Phone Story based on the unsavory practices surrounding the […]

Filed Under: E-Waste & Recycling, Gadgets & Mobile Tagged With: app, Apple, apps, conflict minerals, e-waste, electronics lifecycle, electronics recycling, iPhone, Molleindustria

ecoSocial Spotlight: Save the Redwoods League

April 29, 2011 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

My inbox and press releases do not get along… at all. So it’s a minor miracle that an alert today from Save the Redwoods League wasn’t trashed at first glance. What spared it from my ruthless delete key? An intriguing mobile tech angle that incorporates crowdsourcing in the form of the League’s newly-released Redwood Watch […]

Filed Under: ecoSocial Tagged With: apps, California, conservation, crowdsourcing, Google, Google Maps, iNaturalist.org, iOS, iPhone, location-based, nature, social media

Got an iPad? Two must-download apps to kick the paper habit

December 25, 2010 by Pedro Hernandez 4 Comments

iPad

This year, waiting under the tree for me was an iPad. (Happy Dance!) After the ritual updating, tweaking of settings and connecting online, it came time to download apps! The form factor, particularly all that screen, was new territory for me. The only other extensive time I’ve spent with iOS is the iPhone 4, which […]

Filed Under: ecoSocial, Featured, Gadgets & Mobile, Green IT Tagged With: Apple, apps, Facebook, Flipboard, green, Instapaper, iPad, paperless, social media, social networking, software, Twitter

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