Technology is all around us, in our refrigerators, our shoes, even our bodies (still waiting for an artificial brain, btw). The products we use and the world we know are constantly changing and innovating. Our cars are a prime example of technological innovation at work.

An automobile is pretty simple as a concept. You push the pedal, it goes. You hit the brake, it (hopefully) stops. You turn the wheel, the car turns, and so on. Inside that hulk of metal, however, there’s a lot going on.

I’ve been thinking about and planning this post for some time, because this topic is near and dear to my heart. In our busy, crazy, bumbling lives, we tend to take little mental shortcuts to try and keep the noise down.

One convenient shortcut that I think hurts a lot of people in the long run is the tendency to make purchasing decisions based primarily on price without acknowledging or considering the intangibles offered by the different options.

Perhaps an example is in order. kRemtronicz offers web design, graphic design, and search engine optimization services. So do a lot of other companies. On the outside, it may seem like kRemtronicz and Provider B do the same thing, therefore the main differentiator is price. For the harried consumer, it makes sense to go with the lower bid. It’s the same product after all, right?

I know you’ve been waiting on the edge of your seats for me to complete my top ten list of my favorite Android apps. Don’t worry, salvation is here.

Here are my absolute favorite Android platform apps—at least for this week!

Apps were recently gifted unto the human race by the gods of technology to make our lives easier. I have no idea what we did to deserve apps, but I’m sure not giving them back now that we’ve got them.

In case you’re just waking up to the wonderment of the app world, or, you know, are randomly interested in my choice of apps, I will be listing my top ten favorite apps for the Android platform (Apple can wait its turn) in two posts.

Now before you go and scream “YES!” at the top of your lungs, let me give you my opinion on the matter: Yes.

But with caveats.

I think Twitter is highly overrated for a large majority of the population. The truth is that most of us are just not interesting enough or clever enough to justify posting regular 140-character updates about our lives. I’m sorry to break this to you, but I don’t really care what you had for lunch, or that you are stuck in traffic, or that it’s cold in Minnesota today. I certainly hope you would pay the exact same lack of attention to the minutia in my life.