Almudena Galán

Editor

About me…

With a degree in Law and Journalism, I specialized in criminology and cultural journalism. Mobile apps, especially Android apps, are one of my great passions. I have been testing dozens of apps every day for over six years now, discovering all their secrets and ins and outs to share them with Malavida users. Although I write reviews of almost any kind of app, I especially like interactive novels, puzzles, and kawaii games. In addition to reviewing apps, I also write guides, news, and tips about software and technology to make people's lives a little easier.

Currently, I combine my two careers through two very different career paths. On the one hand, I work as a legal handwriting expert, and on the other hand, I write for several digital media about software, economy, video games, and other topics. Books, human resources, companies, cinema and television, tourism, criminal law, animals, sports... there is nothing I cannot write about. I tried to keep technology at bay, but in the end, it caught up with me and I ended up becoming an expert in mobile apps. Whatever application you are looking for, I am the right person to ask.

But there is life beyond work. Some people have the soul of a dreamer, I have the soul of a geek. Journalist, jurist, criminologist, eternal student, cinephile, restless reader, clumsy sportswoman, and hopeless dreamer. Resident in Hobbiton, somewhere south of Oz and north of Shangri-La, I now come to these lands to narrate my adventures and witticisms about bits and technology.

Where will wants not, a way opens.

Some short questions…

What operating system do you prefer or use the most?

Windows, I think Apple is the evil.
In your opinion, which is the best mobile operating system?

Android, I still think Apple is the evil.
What application is a must on your computer?

Spotify, can you imagine a world without music?
And on your smartphone?

My must have apps are the camera, Fitbit and Netflix. And now also Disney+!
Do you have a favourite game?

Terranigma, for SNES. And almost any Kingdom Hearts.
Fond of social networks? Which is your favourite?

We just manage to get on with each other. I would go for Instagram because of all the posing going on there.
If you had to choose, which would you say has been the greatest technological invention of the last century?

The Super Nintendo. And as a very worthy runner-up, coffee capsule machines, instant suppliers of caffeine.
Who do you consider has contributed most towards the development of software?

Would it be geeky to say Shigeru Miyamoto?