September 20, 2008
Some of the most popular questions I get over at AskTheAdmin involve being caught out without a backup. Normally when we talk about backups you immediately think about the PC or the laptop, but nowadays PDA’s, especially Windows driven ones, are becoming more and more important in the workplace and in our everyday lives. It’s [...]
September 15, 2008
Do you need to get away from it all? Well if you’re taking a fabulous vacation or just tooling around town, here’s a few Apps you should definitely have on your iPhone! First, you’re going to need some gas (even if you’ve got one of those classy hybrids). Well say no more: Gas Bag (iTunes [...]
September 9, 2008
I’ve had my iPhone 2.0 for just shy of two months now and I feel comfortable in telling you that I think it’s the best phone/PDA/pocket computer that I have ever owned. However, there are some things about it that irritate me and I feel that Apple missed the mark on. After I tell you [...]
September 8, 2008
September has just begun and, in my part of the world, it brings with it the first autumn winds and the grumblings of students as they head back to school. For my part though I can’t help you with your exams or your math homework (I’m only one humble blogger after all). I can however [...]
September 5, 2008
One of my least favorite kinds of iPhone App is the “web clone.” Typically these are little more than a mobile version of a web page kept within the skin of a downloadable App. The premise of a web clone is that encapsulating the website in the App will make it more convenient to the [...]
September 1, 2008
If you’re an iPhone user you’ll know why it’s such a knock-out device. It has email, browsing, calling, texting, and tons of other functions. Now with the addition of the App store, it has the potential to be much more than any prior incarnation. Here are a few great utility apps to turn your iPhone [...]
August 25, 2008
Clearly iPhone users have a serious need for instant messaging. After the App Store launched it seemed like everybody and their brother created an AIM client (including the protocol’s creators, AOL). Since then, I’ve been looking through the list and sorting the good from the bad. As it turns out, the 3rd party developers really [...]
August 18, 2008
If you’ve played a video game console in the last couple of years, there is almost a 100% chance you’ve come into contact with a color-matching game. Dance Dance Revolution (DDR to the initiated), Guitar Hero, and Rock Band are all games in this genre. Guitar Hero in particular has been reproduced or cloned on [...]
August 17, 2008
A quick search in the iPhone App store can return you more than a dozen to-do list apps. If you can’t make up your mind over which to-do list app to choose, here are five of the best free to-do list apps that I have reviewed. 1. Dobot Todos If you like simplicity and just [...]
August 8, 2008
With the hustle and bustle of the new iPhone 2.0 firmware, the App Store, and the 3G iPhone, it can be easy to forget the foundation that got the whole ball rolling: iTunes. Yes, Apple’s jukebox from the first days of Mac OS X has undergone many changes over the years, but the tight integration [...]
