October 27, 2008
Last week I reviewed “YouAre” and dropped a little hint about an emerging technology called “QR Codes”. What are these rather strange looking 2D codes? Let’s take a closer look at them and see if there’s anything interesting you can do with them. What are QR Codes? You’re probably already familiar with the bar code. [...]
September 30, 2008
I am one of the people who stood in line for six hours on July 11th for the privilege of buying the new iPhone 3G. My wife, friends and co-workers wondered about my sanity, but they all agreed that as geeky as I am, I really didn’t have a choice! There have been many articles [...]
September 27, 2008
I have had just about enough of my Metro application having to be updated and getting caught out there without updated subway directions. Sure Metro is great for when I am underground and can’t get online but when I am in front of a computer there is this great new website to help me get [...]
September 22, 2008
One of the biggest gripes about the iPhone is the lack of voice dialing. Almost every other phone I have ever owned, even the cheezy flip-phone, has had some kind of voice command feature. I’ll be honest, I was never a huge user of this feature, but sometimes it was nice to be able to [...]
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 13, 2008
These days the internet has transformed itself into a large source of media content (apart from other things), be it video, audio or images. However with so many media formats, it often becomes necessary to be able to convert from one type to the other. FormatFactory is one such tool that can assist you in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
