While Android phones and the Android market certainly haven’t caught up to the iPhone and the iTunes App Store when it comes to games and mobile gaming, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t some great games available for Android devices. Being a proud Droid by Motorola owner, I can tell you that there are some really great free titles out there for Android phones (games like Replica Island, Jewels, and Robo Defense Free.)

If you’re an Android phone owner and you’re looking for some free games to help you pass the time, Mashable has this excellent rundown of 10 free games that will work on just about any Android phone, from text games to puzzle games to shooters, and they even include Replica Island, one of my favorites. Check out the full list and start downloading!

[ Mashable :: 10 Great Free Games for Android ]

If you’re looking for an excellent time-waster, look no further than this little flash game based on the hilarious TV show The IT Crowd, currently in its fourth series (what the UK call seasons) on channel 4 in the UK. If you’re a fan of the series, you’ll absolutely adore the game – if you’ve never watched it before, head over to Amazon and buy The IT Crowd: The Complete Series (Seasons 1, 2 & 3) immediately.

If you’re already a fan, the game should be amazing for you – it puts you in the shoes of a new IT temp working with Roy, Moss, and Jen, keeping a watchful eye on the network, zapping spam and viruses as they appear, whether from the Internet or wireless access points, responding to complaints from users, and making sure the network stays free and clear for the flow of information. As the game proceeds, you can upgrade your network with spam slurpers or antivirus injectors to lend you a hand when you’re not looking – all you have to do is make it through your shift to get through the level and to the next day.

Head over and give it a try!

[ Channel 4 :: The IT Crowd Game ]

If you’re a big Hulu viewer (like I am) you’ll probably be bummed to hear this, but Hulu is planning a subscription service to view older episodes and back-catalog shows that it currently hosts for free. Hulu announced that they were moving to a subscription “freemium” type of model several months ago to the dismay of people who had grown dependent on the service for their regular television viewing, but I think most people assumed that this was coming.

Now though, Hulu has solidified its plans, and has proposed a $10 per month subscription to access all Hulu videos, including old archived episodes that it has in its library and to access old episodes of shows like Lost that it currently posts as soon as the new episodes air. New episodes of currently tracked shows will continue to be free, it’s just that episodes more than a few weeks old or episodes that “expire” will require a subscription to access.

What do you think? Does this throw a wrench in your plans to get rid of your cable or satellite company in exchange for IPTV, or is the money reasonable for you? Are you planning to just seek your Web video elsewhere (through legal or illegal means?) Let us know in the comments!

[ PC Mag :: Hulu Plans Subscription Service to Access Old Episodes ]

The fine folks at PC Mag caught this demo of Spotify running on an Android phone at SXSW, given by Spotify’s Daniel Ek. His phone is based in the UK, where (along with the rest of Europe) Spotify is amazingly popular for its ability to give you music-to-taste and on-demand whenever you want it, based both on your own local music collection and a massive database of music to stream online – Spotify isn’t available in the United States yet because of the licensing and royalty fees the service would have to pay the RIAA in order to license music to stream.

In all honesty, I don’t see any huge benefit to Spotify over a similar service I know and love called GrooveShark, which I’ve written about a couple of times. Still, competition is good, and Spotify is incredibly popular in Europe for a reason. The app already works on Android – could it be a hop, skip, and a jump away from landing on Android phones in the United States?

[ Gearlog :: Spotify Demo on Android Phone ]

If you know me, you know I’m a huge fan of products that do more than one thing; solve more than one problem. If you know me you also know I’m dead set against bulky belt-clips for mobile phones that do nothing but make your precious phone easier to steal and let the world know what kind of device you have. Seriously, I even wrote an article over at our sister blog The Classy Geek about the fact that if CES 2010 taught me anything, there’s no excuse to walk around with a belt clip for your phone.

To that end, the fine folks at Malcolm Fontier were kind enough to send me one of their newest products, the iMojito, a combination wallet and mobile phone holster, that’s designed to not only be stylish, but also keep all of your important items like your phone, your ID, your credit cards, and a little bit of cash even, securely tucked away in your pocket without looking like you’re carrying a massive weight in your pants pocket. I really liked the iMojito, and I’d reccomend it not just for people who have iPhones, but anyone who’s tired of carrying a mobile phone case and a bulky wallet and wants to lighten their load. Read more of my impressions behind the jump.

I carried the iMojito around with me for a couple of weeks to get the hang of it, and once I was over the feeling of missing my wallet in my back pocket, I found the iMojito to be remarkably useful. I can easily see myself becoming one of those people who carries around their phone and their cards in the same case, and I’ll freely admit that having your phone in the same carrying case as your credit cards and ID make it much less likely you’ll leave it in a rental car or a cab when you grab your stuff to leave.

The iMojito has a soft fabric interior where your mobile phone goes, and durable polyurethane exterior that has a smooth feel. (Meaning it feels smooth like leather but without that whole dead animal skin thing going on.) It’s designed for the iPhone, so if you slip your iPhone (or in my case, for a while I used it with my iPod Touch) into the iMojito, there’s an opening at the bottom for your dock connector. This means you can plug in any peripherals you may use while you’re traveling like a car kit or an FM receiver or transmitter without taking your phone from its case. When I used the iMojito with my iPod Touch, I just left it in the case while charging it on my desk at the office.

The black finish on the exterior is actually really attractive, and the blue stitching of the Malcolm Fontier logo rectangles on the front adds a nice modern design feel to the case. It would have been easy to leave them off and let the case stay bland black, but with the stitching added it just looks classy.

I don’t have an iPhone; I actually have a Motorola Droid, but I found the iMojito worked just fine for that as well. The soft interior protected the screen nicely, and there’s an elastic band at the top that you pull over the top of your phone once it’s in the case to hold it securely and keep it from slipping out.

The iMojito held my phone and my ID and debit card easily, and I had plenty of room to add another couple of cards if I needed them or if I wanted to carry my credit cards around with me. The rear of the iMojito has three pockets cascading down the back that you can use to carry your cards and cash.

I found myself using the top two since they offered the most protection for cards and bills, but I liked the fact that all three pockets were placed above the middle of the case: this means you don’t have one or two pockets that are actually useful and a pocket at the bottom that’s so shallow you don’t want to put anything in it. The iMojito’s pockets are all deep and tall, so you could store credit cards or bills in any of them without worrying they’d fall out.

It’s important to note though that the iMojito doesn’t have the same volume as a traditional billfold wallet. Don’t expect to carry your ID, your benefits cards from work, your grocery store club cards, your photos of your kids, and everything else in the iMojito. If you have that much stuff in your wallet, stick with it, and snag the iMojito when you’re about to head out or a night on the town and want to carry your phone and your ID and a couple of bucks but nothing else. If you travel light on a regular basis, it’ll suit your style perfectly.

All in all, the iMojito is a great case for your mobile phone, whatever it may be, and it’s even better if you own an iPhone. It feels solid in the hand, it’s easy to get in and out of your pocket, and it’ll keep your phone safe and your cards in one place. It’s not the biggest case or combination wallet/phone holder out there, but the up side to that is that you can slip it in your pocket without everyone wondering why you have a brick in your pants.

You can snag one of your own directly from Malcolm Fontier for $35 USD. They’re available now.

Everyone has probably heard about the Boxee Box by now, but it was up there as one of the coolest things I saw at CES this year, and I had a chance to speak with Casey Pugh (creator of Star Wars: Uncut, a crowdsourced project to re-shoot Star Wars scene by scene with fans in place of the actors!) about the Boxee Box, it’s really interesting remote, and the way the Boxee Box works.

The Boxee Box was amazing to use, the interface was really clean and easy to use, and CES was the first time a lot of people had a chance to actually play with the Boxee Box, which has been anticipated for months but released and unveiled for the first time in action at CES. The Boxee Box is clearly a media extender, and while it doesn’t have storage of its own, it can reach out across your home network and out to the Internet to pull in music, movies, and other content that you own or have rights to watch and bring it in to your HDTV effortlessly.

When you watch that content and you like what you see, you can rate it using the Boxee software, share what you’re watching and what you thought about it with your friends, and do it all without inturrupting the media you’re watching. The D-Link hardware and the NVidia chipset under the hood makes for a really powerful set-top box as well, and the fact that it can play just about any audio or video codec or format you throw at it helps as well.

Boxee is a completely open platform as well – the software is still available for you to install on any Mac, PC, or even XBox you choose, and speaking with Casey he pointed out that Boxee has no plans to close off the software just because there’s a hardware platform on the market that comes with it too – so you can still roll your own Boxee Box, but if you don’t want to, you can buy one.

The remote was also interesting: on the front it works just like any remote – complete with a d-pad and selection buttons, but on the flip side it has a full QWERTY keyboard for typing in updates to your social networks, writing short reviews for the media you’re enjoying, rating things you see, and searching your media library without having to click down a hundred times to find something you want to watch. All in all, the Boxee Box was as impressive in action as it is to read about, and I’m seriously considering getting one.

Check out a video I shot while playing with the Boxee Box:

And head over to Boxee.tv for more information on the box and details on how to get one:

[ Boxee - Boxee Box by D-Link ]

Building a Hackintosh is really no big deal, and there are tons of guides out there to help you do it if you want, you just run the risk of the thing not working the next time Apple releases a patch for Mac OS X. That being said, this particular Hackintosh is a killer.

Will Urbina decided that his old classic XBox wasn’t doing too much useful around the house these days, and it would make a good case for his Hackintosh – so what does he do? Picks up the required parts, then gets his hands dirty taking the Xbox apart and makeing it the perfect case for his new build. The whole thing is documented in the glorious video above, where you can watch step by step as Will goes through the motions of making his vision come to reality. It’s absolutely mindblowing – and not just in that “He fit a Mac in that Microsoft device!” way, either.

[ Engadget :: OS XBox Pro Casemod Build Video is Mesmerizing ]

If you’re looking for some really slick apps for your mobile phone, look no further than PC Mag’s massive roundup of 100 awesome free apps for your mobile device, no matter what operating system it’s running. If you have an iPhone, you’ve got 40 great free apps in the list to choose from! Using a Motorola Droid (like me) or an Samsung Moment? There are 20 awesome apps in there for Android mobile phones to! Even if you’re all business and rocking a Blackberry Storm 2, you can find 20 apps in the list to help you pass the time on those long business flights. There are even some generic free games and 10 Windows Mobile apps for those of you with Windows Mobile devices!

Because the roundup is strictly free apps, you’ll miss out on some of the high-end apps that may require you to pay to download them, but the list is incredible comprehensive and has a ton of useful applications that can help you do everything from shop on the go to check your travel plans at the drop of a hat to compare prices on an item in the store to items online to stay in touch with your friends while you’re out and about town.

If you read the roundup and you’re itching for some more great apps for your mobile device, or if you’re a Symbian user and don’t see yourself represented here, head over to Popular Science and check out my roundup of Must Have Mobile Apps to help bolster your list!

[ PC Mag :: Top 100 Free Apps for Your Phone ]

MotionBox is well known as one of the leading video sharing sites that already has support for true HD streaming video, downloadable media, and the ability to control who sees your video. Whether you want to share your videos with the world or you want to keep some of them private to friends and family, MotionBox has plans and tools to help you do that. Additionally, if you’re looking for a way to add some flare and spice to your blog or business, MotionBox can host your video somewhere that isn’t YouTube, for example, or one of the other popular video hosting services, and you can re-post and embed your content anywhere you choose.

The beauty of MotionBox is that even though other video hosting services have their hooks into mobile devices and camcorders, they still manage to make it easy for you to upload, edit, and share your video with the world whenever you choose.

MotionBox previously had both free and premium accounts: the free accounts give you the option to give the service a whirl, store and upload a limited number of videos, edit them online, and create DVDs and eCards using your own video for an added cost. Premium accounts allow you to upload virtually as many videos as you choose, securely share the ones you want to keep private with only the people you want to see them, upload and stream movies in HD, and even allow certain people to download the videos you allow them to.

Last week, MotionBox announced a new account type: MotionBox Pro, which allows commercial and business users to sign up for the service, and offers them unique streaming and editing tools to make video sharing work for their organization. Pro users also get priority video encoding, so you don’t have to wait as long to upload your video and have it be available for people to see, and you get all of the benefits that the premium accounts provide as well!

To celebrate the announcement, MotionBox is giving away a few Roku digital set-top boxes to select users who sign up for MotionBox this month – all you have to do to enter the contest is sign up for an account and e-mail their contest address with the subject line “Roku Giveaway!” Yes, before you ask, the contest includes the free accounts – so whether you’re a business user or a personal user looking to post your videos to the Web without dealing with YouTube commenters, you can get in on the action as well!

For more information, head over to MotionBox to learn more, see how much the premium and new pro accounts cost, and sign up today!

[ MotionBox ]

This gorgeous laptop has been making the rounds for a while now, with WoW Insider even giving one away last week. This gorgeous Dell XPS comes in two flavors, one Alliance and one Horde, with a beautifully designed case that lets the world know that you’re a WoW fanatic. Under the hood is a pretty impressive laptop, to boot, with specs more than good enough for a decent WoW experience, and definitely enough for some of the best graphics the game can offer:

Full Specs:

* Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T7500
* 2GB Memory 667MHz
* 17inch UltraSharp TrueLife WUXGA
* 512MB Dual NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT w/ NVIDIA SLI
* 200GB HDD
* Blu-ray
* Intel Pro Wireless 3945 a/g Mini Card
* Vista Ultimate
* Logitech Game Panel
* Ageia PhyX Accelerator
* 1 year warranty.

Included in the prize package:

* World of Warcraft game retail box
* The Burning Crusade expansion retail box
* Warcraft Battlechest retail box which includes Warcraft III & Brady Strategy Guide, Warcraft III: Frozen Throne Expansion Set & Strategy Guide
* World of Warcraft: Tides of Darkness novel
* World of Warcraft: Rise of the Horde novel
* World of Warcraft TCG: Heroes of Azeroth starter deck box
* World of Warcraft TCG: Through The Dark Portal starter deck box
* World of Warcraft: Behind the Scenes DVD “The Making of WoW”
* World of Warcraft Soundtrack on audio CD
* Brady Games World of Warcraft Master Guide 2nd Edition
* Brady Games World of Warcraft The Burning Crusade
* 1 World of Wacraft Beta Club card that can be used to access 5 future, unannounced WoW expansions
* 1 upgrade Certificate to flag your account as Collector’s Edition (both WoW & TBC) and allow you to claim the in-game pets from each game
* 1 Golden Ticket redeemable with FigurePrints to have a 3D action figure of your in-game character created
* 1 XPS backpack

If the specs don’t get you, the schwag will definitely win you over. The laptops are expected to go for over $4500, which will be more than enough to dim the sheen on all of the schwag and the impressive specs. But if you’re willing to spend the money, you absolutely love World of Warcraft, and you need to have your hands on some of the best portable gaming hardware on the market, then this laptop is for you.

[ ExtremeTech: Dell XPS Laptops for World of Warcraft Fans ]