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Aug 10, 2012 6:00 PM   Here's your new edition of the best Android apps of the week. This time we're giving you a wintertime game, a tool for managing your social networks, and so much more. It's about time to fire up Google Play. Current Caller ID : You know who's calling, but do you really know? This app from White Pages will tell you everything you want to know about the person on the other end and then some. It combines info from the phone book with Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. You'll have no shortage of conversation topics. Free Gallery Lock : It's probably a bad idea to keep naked pixxx on your phone. In the event you have some snapshots you don't want falling into the wrong hands, you can hide them within different folders in Gallery Lock. Free Scope : You tweet, you Facebook, you tumble, and you even do a little Instagrammin'. Rather than check every separate app fifty times a day, you can look in one place, Scope, a hub for all your socia...

Back when I was growing up in the 1970s, we fully expected that, by 2012, we'd all be driving flying cars to our condos on the moon where robotic butlers awaited, ready to bring us the cure for cancer from the bathroom first-aid kit. How's all of that working out? Sure, we now have faster, smaller computers, smartphones that talk back to you, and smart TVs, but in so many areas of technology the pace of change is slower than Windows Vista booting off a floppy disk. A few months ago, I wrote an article about 15 technologies that will be gone by the time my infant son is old enough to use them. However, barring a zombie apocalypse, there are plenty of mainstays that my son will still be using when he enters college in 2030. Laptop Magazine may know which computers are great now, but they also have their head in the future. Here are 15 predictions they have for the technologies we'll still be using. Though voice recognition, handwriting recognition and gesture control will al...