Play Stephen Colbert's New Story Game 'Escape From The Man-Sized Cabinet'

Stephen Colbert still has a couple of months to go until The Late Show With Stephen Colbert begins on September 8th 2015 on CBS. In the meantime, Stephen and his team has been keeping busy with all the plaining of the studio, the show, and other fun material for fans like; Podcasts, web videos, an App, and more.

The latest from Stephen Colbert is a new choose-your-own-adventure style story game titled, "Escape From The Man-Sized Cabinet."

Stephen Colbert jokes in a 'press release' on the Late Show website:

“It’s no wonder people love Escape from the Man-Sized Cabinet so much. It’s the world’s greatest Stephen Colbert simulator… unless my whole life is some kind of elaborate Matrix-like virtual reality.” 

Escape From The Man-Sized Cabinet is a text based story game with some cartoon images. The story begins with Stephen getting trapped inside a man-sided cabinet, like the title suggests. It's then up to the player to choose from different options as to what Stephen will do next and how the adventure will unfold. However, while there are different options to choose from - you'll end up picking the option the game wants you too in order to progress in the story.

All Colbert fans (and everybody else) should definitely check out the story game on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert website.

Wattpad - 20 million+ Free eBooks / Create & Share Your Own Stories - iOS & Android

Wattpad is a popular eBook sharing app, with millions of users who are enjoying over 20 million free ebooks & stories, including all genres like; sci-fi, romance, humor, teen fiction, fan fiction, action, fantasy, and more...

Wattpad is a free eBook reader. You can download from their library of millions of stories. Wattpad is also a social app: You can share, comment, chat and vote on stories.  You can connect with writers, and best of all - you can also create and share your own stories.

While not all Wattpad stories are complete - you can read the stories in the real time that the writer submits them. You'll be alerted by notifications as new chapters are added to your subscribed stories. You can then give the authors live feedback as their story progresses.

Wattpad also has classic stories like: Alice in Wonderland, Sherlock Holmes, Moby Dick, Romeo & Juliet, and more...

Wattpad is easy to use - just browse the library, choose some stories you want to read - and add them to your library.  Wattpad will also work in offline mode, which is great for when you don't have a internet connection.

Wattpad is free, and available for iOS (iPhone/iPad) and Android devices. 

'Redd' The iOS App Client For Reddit With The Best Visual Interface - App Review

For a while now I had been using the app client Alien Blue for Reddit, until I came across a recently gone free app for iOS (designed for iPhone & iPod Touch) called, Redd - Reddit client by Craig Merchant. Redd is actually a really great app for Reddit. A a recent update has made the app, even better.

Redd has a really nice clean interface. It looks the part for iOS 7. The app divided by tabs on the bottom of the app. There's: Hot, New, Rising, Controversial, and Top. These also work for each category you enter. The categories can been accessed from the three line "hamburger menu" on the top left corner.

The Features of Redd:

- Search and browse your favorite subreddits
- Add and reply to comments and stories

- Upvote and Downvote stories and comments

- Share stories to your favorite services

- Add your own text, link, or photo stories

- Upload single or multiple photos quickly and easily straight to imgur

- Browse photo galleries in our built in photo viewer

- Night mode

Redd, in a recent update included a really useful feature - Night mode. A dark interface, consisting mainly of blacks and grays, that helps eyes read a little better at night. This mode can work without any user interaction. Once switched on, just set daily times (i.e: 10pm - 6am), and Redd will automatically switch Night mode on for you.  

My dislikes with Redd: There are a few things that I would change. I'd add a share button. You can share things like photos that other users have uploaded, but you can't seem to share the whole posting. Not a big fan of the gray writing in the posts and comments, could be a shade darker. Adding Reddit Messages is an important feature that should be added, too. Another thing that Redd may want to add is a native iPad version. As a lot of people now do there reading on iPad's, I'm sure they'd appreciate this feature. And if I'm going to really nitpick, I'd make the logo on the app icon a bit smaller. It's not evenly boarded.

In the Settings, you can of course login with your Reddit credentials. You can switch on 'Hide NSFW Content'. And change text size.

Visually, Redd is the best app client for the Reddit website. It may not contain all the features for the pro' Reddit users, but I'd still recommend you check it out.


Redd - reddit client is currently priced at FREE, and is available to download for iOS devices (Designed for iPhone). 

Download For FREE Note Taking App 'TopNotes Pro' for iPad

Today's app pick, that has gone free for a limited time is, TopNotes Pro - Take Notes, Annotate PDF & Sync Notebook with Dropbox By Appxy.

TopNotes Pro, which claims to be "...the best note taking app ever built for your iPad is a powerful note taking app."  Has currently gone free, a saving of $5.49. Download the app now before the price goes back up!

In TopNotes Pro, you can use handwriting to take note, draw diagrams, drawings, and more.

TopNotes is a well designed app. Supports multiple notebooks.  You can drag and drop notebooks around. You can set a password to protect your work. There's highlighter pens, erasers, import pictures, different type of pens, and so much more.

A really useful app, great for students, check it out.

- Download TopNotes Pro for iPad.

Blogger App For iOS and Android - App Review

Sometimes you need to blog on the go, and you might not have a laptop with you, and since it's 2013, you shouldn't need one. With devices like iPad's, some of us don't even need big computers anymore.

If you're using Google's Blogger service, Blogger does have an iOS app available. And I thought the ultimate test would be to review the app by writing the review on the app!

On the Blogger app Home Screen, you have:
- Your blog and ability to switch between, if you have multiple.
- Posts,
- New Post,
- View Blog,
- and Settings.

In Posts, you can: Edit, View, Share, and Delete.

New Post: you can obviously write your post. Then add labels, pictures and location data. You can publish from the app or save it as a draft for later.

View blog, is exactly that - view your website.

And there's not much going on in Bloggers Settings: If you have multiple blogs you can switch between them. Set sort posts order by, 'Last Update Date', or 'Created Date'. And you can choose a default setting for images.

Okay, so that's what you can do, what about what can't you do on the Blogger app? A lot. For example, there's no stats data, no Page / post view data. You can't place an image where you'd like. Can't access Pages. No direct access to comments. No rich text options. No layout options. And a lot more...

To sum up, Blogger's app won't be a replacement for a computer. Unless you try using Blogger through Safari or some other web browser on a iPad or tablet.

The Blogger app is okay if all you want to do is write a quick post and add an image or write a draft to edit later when you're at your computer.

Blogger (app) is free and is available for iOS and Android devices.

Oh, and you can post links, but they'll look like this:

https://itunes.apple.com/app/blogger/id459407288

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.blogger&hl=en