April 19, 2010
There are a few added features in the iPad version of Safari, the default web browsing application. Most of these features and tips will not be useful to veteran Safari, iPhone and iPod touch users, but for you newbies out there, these are key features of Safari that you need to know about. Most notable [...]
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April 13, 2010
The new iPad (as of right now) and the iPod Touch have some things in common. Among other things, they rely on WiFi for native apps such as the App Store to work, and they both have some overlapping apps like Mail and Calendar. The big-screened iPad works as a great e-book reader but when [...]
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April 12, 2010
Are you one of those people who’ve asked, “Can I print from my iphone?” There were some rather optimistic rumours that one of the features of the new iPhone OS 4.0 would include the ability to print from your iPhone. Now that we know that isn’t the case – we will just have to make [...]
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April 10, 2010
Push-to-talk is available on a few Nokia and Motorola handsets, and this feature has come to the iPhone for free in the form of two apps, iPTT and HeyTell. iPTT allows you to talk with anyone who has downloaded the push-to-talk iPhone app, whether with friends or complete strangers. HeyTell allows you to talk only [...]
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April 5, 2010
Taking a look at the top commercial iPhone photography apps, there is an array of great apps for adding effects to your photos, editing photos taken on your iPhone and shooting videos on an iPhone 2G or 3G. We’ve chosen five of these, and found a few iphone app alternatives for free that will achieve [...]
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April 3, 2010
iPhone apps and sites for watching movies and TV shows online are few and far between, mainly because of the iPhone’s lack of flash support. That said, if you find yourself with a WiFi connection, an iPhone, and some time to kill, there are a few interesting choices out there that will allow you to [...]
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March 31, 2010
There are plenty of Internet search apps for iPhone and iPod touch users (if you’re looking for an interesting search app, check out my previous article Dragon: Two Free Voice Recognition Software For The iPhone), but if Yahoo happens to be one of your favorite search engines, the company offers three Yahoo iphone apps that [...]
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March 30, 2010
Last week Digg rolled out their much anticipated application for the iPhone/iPod Touch. Since its release the Digg iPhone app has received hundreds of positive reviews from users. Wait, what’s Digg? For those of you who don’t know, Digg is a community driven news website that allows its users to pick the top stories on [...]
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March 26, 2010
In recent years, YouTube has become a popular place for music. While they have signed licensing agreements with all four major record labels, YouTube has not yet been optimized for those interested in music. Muziic hopes to solve this problem. Muziic is an application for the iPhone/iPod Touch that was developed by the father and [...]
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March 24, 2010
If you want to get serious about digital photography, you will eventually need to learn about how to shoot beyond Automatic mode on your camera, and understand how to meter your shots using various camera exposure settings. I’ll be honest and say that it took me a while to really understand the triangular relationship between [...]
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March 20, 2010
Let me paint you a picture (no pun intended): You’re about to move into a new place but have yet to paint the rooms to your liking. How do you know which colours will suit you best? Colour swatches are handy but they leave a lot to the imagination. Think of the distraught when you [...]
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March 19, 2010
There are oodles and oodles of free GPS apps floating around in the iTunes mega-store. Which ones are great? Which ones are crap? I must admit; I am a GPS addict. As an avid geocacher, I rely on a Garmin Nuvi, a Garmin eTrex H, an iPhone, and a compass to locate tupperware in the [...]
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March 16, 2010
Free GPS apps are a dime a dozen in the iPhone app store, but, surprisingly, there aren’t a lot of free iPhone compass apps out there. Perhaps people don’t use compasses any more, as orienteering is made easy with GPS capabilities, but it is still useful to have a compass if you are walking around [...]
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March 1, 2010
If Apple”˜s default audio recorder, Voice Memo, were in the boxing ring with Blue Microphone’s Blue FiRe [iTunes link] iPhone and iPod app recorder, Apple’s Memo would be TKOed in the first round. Even though you may not need a lot of advance features in an audio recorder for iPhone, when a company like Blue [...]
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February 19, 2010
Many advanced computer users have long used voice recognition programs to both voice navigate their computers and for dictating writing. Both Windows and Mac have voice commands programs installed in their software systems, and there are two popular programs on the market, Nuance’s Dragon Naturally Speaking (for Windows), and the Mac version of the voice [...]
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