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Dave’s All-Time Top 5 iPhone / iPad Apps

September 1, 2010

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 done RSS Feed Reader [...]

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Hargrove’s All-Time Top 5 iPhone / iPad Apps

August 31, 2010
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Okay, here’s my All Time Top 5 iPhone / iPad Apps. While they’re listed in no particular order, they’re coincidentally listed in the order that I use them the most.

1Password Remember The Milk Reeder Instapaper Pastebot

We’ll discuss these in more detail in the next podcast, so be sure to check it out!

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Times and The Future

August 12, 2010
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We discussed Times on the iPad in the most recent podcast. It looks awesome, and while I would never use it for a full-fledged “drinking from the firehose” newsreader, it looks like a fantastic app for keeping up with my top 10-20 news feeds. My primary complaint is that, while it has a great [...]

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EU Joins Fray Over Missing Flash On Apple Devices

August 11, 2010
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The latest news in the conspiracy that Apple is trying to take out Adobe by not allowing flash on it’s iOS devices is that the European Union is joining the investigation. AppAdvice.com has the article about this.

I’m a little confused here. Since when is it illegal for a company to decide what software goes on [...]

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The state of twitter clients

August 5, 2010
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I have to say that I’m really disappointed in the state of Twitter clients for the iPad. I have quite a few; Twittelator for iPad, Twitterrific for Twitter, Osfoora HD, HootSuite, and TweetDeck. Yet, last night when I needed to do a specific task, I wound up using Twitter (previously known as Tweetie 2) for [...]

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PDF Security hole allows jailbreakme.com to work

August 4, 2010
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Update (2:30PM): Apple says it is investigating… Good idea Apple!

Thanks to an unpatched hole in Adobe’s PDF file format, the jailbreaking community has been given a gift. Super easy jailbreaking. Just point your iPhone/iPod touch/iPad’s Mobile Safari to jailbreakme.com, slide the “Slide to jailbreak” slider and in less than 5 minutes, your device is jailbroken [...]

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Yet another ridiculous lawsuit…

July 27, 2010
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Bloomberg has an article about yet another Apple lawsuit. Apple is such a beloved target of lawyers and lawsuits. Now, a lawsuit has been filed and is looking for class-action status, for overheating when in direct sunlight/warm weather conditions.

Apple clearly states in it’s Environmental requirements:

So, I’m not entirely sure what people consider “reasonable consumer’s expectations”, [...]

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Impact of iPad sales graphed

July 22, 2010
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MacStories.net has a a great graph showing Apple’s product sales over the last 3+ years. The most interesting of which is the newest product to their lineup. The iPad.

It’s very interesting to see Mac sales pretty steady throughout the entire graph. The iPhone is just an astounding bulk of Apple sales these days and the [...]

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The $0.69 iPad Stand

July 15, 2010
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I read about the $0.69 iPad Stand a while back but didn’t post about it because I hadn’t tested it. However, if you read the post, Andrew DeVigal says:

Bought a wireless keyboard today to eventually replace the iPad Keyboard Dock I ordered online with my iPad. One really should try out a [...]

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iPad user demographic breakdown

July 14, 2010
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AppAdvice.com has an article about a Yahoo! User Analysis article, ain’t the Internet grand!

The Yahoo! article describes a bunch of demographics and how the iPad fits into them. What I found rather interesting was the rather even distribution of US sales over the age groups selected. Granted, the ?20 age group was smaller, but the [...]

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