April 7, 2011
Are you ready to try something a little new? How about a social network designed with smartphones in mind, rather than one based on desktop computer principles? Well, that's what Color have put together. It's a nifty little app for Android or iPhone which lets you take photos and share them with your friends.
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April 4, 2011
The deadline for filing tax returns in the U.S. is right around the corner (April 15th). If you have already filed it or if you still need to get your W-2 forms completed, a few iPhone applications can come to your aid. A few of these apps help you get an estimate of your refund or what you might owe, while others simply give you a status of your return.
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March 23, 2011
In my constant quest for the best note-taking environment, I’ve used Evernote, SpringPad, SimpleNote, reQall, and finally, Toodledo‘s Notebook, which unfortunately only takes formatted text at best, which still remains a text-only note application and thus doesn’t allow me to take more advanced notes with graphs, and what not. Between web apps, I’ve found Catch [...]
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March 20, 2011
Now that Instagram has released a public API, sites that were formerly shut down, have the chance to re-open, and are competing with the many third party sites that are popping up around one of the most popular iPhone camera apps to hit the iTunes store. While Instagram’s popularity is undeniable, one of the main [...]
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March 9, 2011
With SXSW coming up, the race to become everybody’s favorite group chat application is on in full force. I wrote an article entitled 3 Fun & Simple Phone Apps That Will Change The Way You Text Message back in November in which I shared Kik, GroupMe, and Fast Society with you, but the game is [...]
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February 22, 2011
It’s very easy to lose track of time, especially when you are absorbed in doing something that you really love. As an extreme example, I know someone who had to be hospitalized after playing a strategy computer game non-stop for three whole days – without sleeping and supported only by light snacks. He managed to [...]
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February 17, 2011
My6sense, the “digital intuition” company who I have mentioned briefly here, has just released a Chrome extension which helps you to sort out the irrelevant tweets from the relevant twitter posts you should be noticing. As people tweet more and more, this app will help a great deal in increasing your productivity levels by [...]
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February 14, 2011
If you have ever waited anxiously for a family member or friend to arrive at your airport after a long flight you will understand the need to receive reliable, up to date information about where a plane currently is located and when they are estimated to arrive. I covered some sites for tracking flights back [...]
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February 12, 2011
We recently published an article explaining what a Virtual Private Network (VPN) is, along with a list of free VPN services that allow you to anonymise the Internet browsing experience on your computers. If you want to do the same on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touches, there are a couple of free options that [...]
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February 10, 2011
Welcome to the era of information overload. We are bombarded by lots of information everyday and going through it one by one in real time is too hard for a normal human to handle. That’s why modern society invented tools to help them save the important information to be read later. Examples of such tools [...]
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February 9, 2011
To be honest, I’m not much of a chatter. I don’t have chat buddies from all chatting platforms. The only IM client that I’ve tried on my computer is Yahoo! Messenger (because it offers free text messages to mobile phones). So if you asked me what the best IM client is out there, I wouldn’t [...]
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February 9, 2011
Sending text messages is still the most popular thing you can do with your phone, which is leading app developers to figure out new and creative ways to capitalize on that behavior. Back in November, I introduced you to 3 Fun & Simple Phone Apps That Will Change The Way You Text Message. In that article, I [...]
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February 8, 2011
How familiar are you with apps like Shazam and SoundHound? If you haven’t heard of them, what they essentially do is allow you to hold your iPhone or iPad up to a speaker that’s playing music and they will “listen” to the song and be able to identify the name of it for you. These [...]
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February 7, 2011
The portability of the iPad makes it a great communication device, whether it’s keeping up with your friends via chat, email, Twitter or Facebook. With the free iPad app, Whistle Phone, you can also turn your iPad into a telephone. Your iPad is never going to replace your mobile phone, but for people who live [...]
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January 31, 2011
I’ve recently made many trips to the supermarket as a result of not writing down the items I needed, which is why I’ve set out to go back to good ol’ writing a grocery shopping list. Since I own an iPod and would rather not use more paper than I need, I started to look [...]
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