Can’t get enough Katniss Everdeen? The next movie, “Catching Fire,” won’t hit theaters until November, but you don’t have to wait until then to return to Panem. The Hunger Games Adventures takes you there, after a fashion, challenging you to explore, battle, and, well, make money. It’s kind of a quest-oriented FarmVille, and in fact …

I like digital photo frames. I think the reason most people don’t is that it was always a hassle to add new pictures. The Kodak Pulse solved that problem nicely, as it could receive photos via e-mail and pull them directly from your Facebook account — but, alas, it’s a discontinued product. But here’s a thought: Why not turn a …

It costs me around $80 per month to operate my iPhone 4S, which will soon be out of contract. When that joyous day comes, I will very likely ditch AT&T in favor of something like Solavei, one of a growing number of companies offering cheaper, no-contract mobile service. Specifically, Solavei gives you unlimited voice, text, and 4G data for $49 …

I’m a magazine junkie. And these days I tend to read a lot of mags on my iPad, especially now that I can get most of my favorite periodicals (Men’s Health, Entertainment Weekly, Wired, etc.) in tablet form. Just one problem: Few, if any, magazine apps let you print. What’s the big deal about that? Well, suppose you’re perusing the …

I first laid eyes on the Archos Family Pad at CES. And I needed both eyes to take in this behemoth of a tablet, which sports a whopping 13.3-inch screen. At that size, you don’t really travel with it — though you could, no differently than you would with a 13.3-inch laptop (minus the keyboard, natch). No, the Family Pad …

Remember Stratego? It’s the classic capture-the-flag boardgame. And it’s now available for iPad. Why just iPad? I’m not entirely sure. Granted, the board would be cramped on an iPhone or iPod Touch screen, but I’ve seen plenty of other games work around that. (Monopoly, anyone?) That curiosity aside, Stratego for iPad does a fine job recreating the original while adding …

Feeling the storage crunch on your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad? A free utility may be able to help. Last summer, CNET’s Matthew Elliott took iMobie’s PhoneClean for a test drive. The utility provides a “digital colonic” (Matt’s words), cleansing any iOS device of useless and unnecessary files that might be consuming valuable space. However, Matt wasn’t willing to subject …

There’s not much to explain the timing behind Beeline Interactive’s new Ghostbusters game for iOS. It’s not like there’s a new movie coming out, nor even a Blu-ray or 3D re-release of the original. But here it is all the same, a cartoony but complex resource-management sim that’s reminiscent of other freemium games like Men in Black 3 and The …

Talk about an inconvenient truth: right around the 12-month mark, your iPhone battery will start to wear out. You’ll notice that it doesn’t last quite so long between charges, a problem that just gets worse as more time passes. By 18 months or two years, you’ll be lucky to get half a day of run time. Apple famously (make that …

Top reasons you skipped your workout today: It was too dark or cold outside to run. Your hotel didn’t have a fitness center. You’re sick to death of the treadmill. You let that pricey gym membership expire. Here’s an easy fix for these and other excuses: Obstacles XRT, which bills itself as “extreme reality training” — a fancy way of …