iTunes Ping is dead to me! Literally!
I tried it. Really, I did. However, the more I used it the more I hated it. Recently, Apple updated iTunes to add the ability to “Like” individual songs from your music library, which is a huge improvement over having to search for the song in Apple’s song catalog. The “last straw” for Ping was [...]
Xmarks ending service
After quite a run, Xmarks is throwing in the towel. They just were not able to make the service profitable. I used to use the service myself. I started using FoxMarks way back in late 2006. They changed their name to Xmarks at some point later. It seemed to work pretty well. It was only [...]
Apple finally approves Google Voice app
After many months (hasn’t it been like 18), Apple finally approved Google Voice. Google’s application for the iPhone to access it’s Voice service. It will be appearing in the App Store just as soon as Google updates it for iOS 4 multitasking, the iPhone 4′s Retina display and other minor changes. So after Apple publishes [...]
Apple finally updates Remote and makes it Universal
It’s been quite some time now, but Apple finally updated their Remote app and made it Universal. The iPhone version has been updated for the iPhone 4′s Retina display and the iPad version takes full advantage of the iPad’s screen real estate. Remote also now supports iTunes’ “Home Sharing” to locate iTunes Libraries so you [...]
Hog Bay Software releases a DropBox based Text Editor for iPad
Hog Bay Software recently released a great FREE iPad text editor app that allows you to work in DropBox. Similar to ELEMENTS which I mentioned as one of my Top 5 iPhone/iPad apps not long ago, PlainText is pretty much the same thing, but absolutely free. It’s got a very clean interface and one thing [...]
Podcast Episode #034
hargrove sold his iPhone 3G. Yay. Even More iPod touch Bad News Nanosegmentation — Marco More Transparency From Apple iOS 4.2 Will Transform Your iPad’s Screen Lock Switch Into a Mute Switch
Even more iPod touch bad news…
iPhoneHacks.com is reporting that iFixIt.com completed its teardown of the new iPod touch and has found some rather disturbing facts. First off, they verified that the new iPod touch has a measly 0.7 megapixel camera for its rear facing camera. 960×720 is just piss poor considering that even the original iPhone at least had a [...]
Podcast Episode #033
New Apple Stuff iPods Apple TV Ping iOS 4.1 Hargrove’s update didn’t go cleanly – And boy, did checking Convert higher bit rate songs to 128 kbps AAC kick him in the ass Gmail Priority Mail Hargrove’s All-Time Top 5 iPhone/iPad Apps Dave’s All-Time Top 5 iPhone/iPad Apps
Ping: Advertising Shill
As someone who frigging loves music, I was (overly) excited by Apple’s Ping announcement, their foray into music social networking. With 160M registered credit cards all set to 1-click purchase, that’s an impressive base for starting a social networking site. Sure, most people won’t give a shit, but out of 160M people, even if only [...]
Dave’s All-Time Top 5 iPhone / iPad Apps
This is my list of iPhone/iPod touch/iPad apps: Elements (Universal – $4.99) This is pretty much the best text editor for the iPhone/iPod touch/iPad. It uses DropBox as its file system which is pretty much the best way to deal with storing files being edited. Reeder (iPad – $4.99)Reeder (iPhone – $2.99) A very well [...]
