La Tour Eiffel [Review]

La Tour Eiffel is a free app on the Android Market which automatically updates your wallpaper every 30 minutes from a live webcam at the Eiffel Tower. I have happily been using it for the last few weeks without a single problem and they have just released a nice update so I thought I would write a review of it. The update now adds an additional 10 webcams to choose from, which all update every thirty minutes.

The extras cams are:

• Penguins in Antarctica
• Basilica di S.Pietro
• Downtown Montreal
• St Louis
• Space Needle
• View from Sears Tower
• Lake Arrowhead
• Statue of Liberty
• The Earth (Europe)
• The Earth (America)

If like me you are always changing your wallpaper to keep it fresh then this comes highly recommended. The Eiffel Tower itself really is a great wallpaper as it looks outstanding at many different times of the day and they often add additional lights on special occasions! Since the latest update I have now settled with The Earth from space for a while, the lighting of the planet from the sun changes as the day progresses.

Doom for Android

Last night a port of Id Software's extremely popular Doom first person shooter was released onto the Android Market. It seems like the devs are serious about updates as a new version 1.01 was released today.

First impressions are excellent aside from it being pretty difficult to set up the controls. Looks like the devs weren't aware that the G1 doesn't have arrow keys! The framerate is superb and everything was fully playable for me once I configured the keys. Well worth the download.

First major addition needed is proper vertical sync as there is a fair amount of screen tearing when moving quickly. There is also no sound as yet. After that anything else will be a bonus. Wifi deathmatch anyone?

It is widely expected that hot on the heels of this port a version of Quake will be released on the Market very soon, following Android and Me's second bounty competition offering donated cash to the first dev to port it. The first bounty they offered saw the development of Torrent Droid which I have yet to try.