Our buddy Andrew over at Androinica introduced us to this game yesterday called Stupid Zombies and we haven’t been able to put it down.  The idea is similar in a way to Angry Birds, but it involves guns, zombies, blood and even more “strategery”, which is exactly why we love it.  Your goal is to kill off all zombies on each level with as few shots as possible, but you have to utilize angles and bounces, so the game becomes much harder than say, just pulling back on a slingshot and letting a bird fly.  You are awarded up to 3 stars for each level, can unlock new ones, and will probably spend countless hours of today trying to beat it as there are 60 to get through in stage 1 alone.

It’s also free.  

Though the business of journalism is in flux right now, people are taking chances in order to fix it. Whether it’s trying new methods of content delivery, or new methods of payment, the important thing is that people are trying.

PressReader is one of those attempts. Essentially, when you pay a subscription to their service, you are free to download newspapers from over 79 countries around the world. These newspapers are updated daily, which means you’ll always be up to date; you can download them on a per-issue basis or set up a subscription, so issues are downloaded daily.  

I just want to start this off by reminding everyone that Honeycomb is never coming to your smartphone, at least not officially.  Even after you read this post and play with a half-baked version that looks like it was made for a phone, know that Google has already told us that we’ll be seeing the real thing in Ice Cream (Sandwich?) and that’s it.  This is really just for the geek in all of us that wants to waste a good 15 or 20 minutes.

So yeah…all you have to do is download the new Honeycomb SDK, set up an emulator with a resolution of 400×600 and watch Honeycomb switch over into phone mode.  And really, it just ends up looking like Gingerbread, but you will still see the Honeycomb-blue highlights around menus, HC icons, and even those beautiful 3D screen transitions.  Have fun!

Screenies after the break.  

Just a couple of hours ago we were talking about the gold Motorola XOOMs that would be going out to Oscar nominees this Sunday and now Moto is giving two people the chance to win one as well.  They just announced the simplest contest on Twitter and I highly recommend you jump on this immediately as it ends February 28.  Our readers usually come out with something in most of these contests, so let’s see if we can do it again.

All you have to do is head to this page and retweet.  [contest rules]

Cheers Mark!

A set of 9 beautiful wallpapers were pulled out of the new Honeycomb SDK last night for everyone to enjoy on their small-screened devices.  All are hi-res and at a resolution that should fit on most phones from what we can tell.  Can’t think of a better way to start a Wednesday than by giving you a little taste of your XOOM before you pick it up tomorrow morning.

Download:  honeycombfinalwalls.zip

Or you can download them individually below…  

If you are living the luxurious life of a Hollywood celebrity and are headed to the Oscars, then feast your eyes on the gold masterpiece pictured above because that will be resting comfortably in your Prada bag come Sunday.  Word on the tech streets suggests that hosts and nominees in the Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Director categories will be handed one of these special edition Motorola XOOM devices to take home to the kiddies.  Tough life.

Via:  Engadget

With news breaking this afternoon that the Motorola XOOM’s bootloader will be unlockable, we seem to be seeing a change in attitude towards the device on Twitter and through comments.  Does this news mean that more of you are inclined to pick up the device this Thursday?  Remember, it will still cost you $799 without a contract or $599 with one, but now you’ll essentially have complete control over it.

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