Tag: ios

  • Ars Gets Hands On With Diet Coda

    Ars Gets Hands On With Diet Coda

    >The Diet Coda application seems to have been tailored [..] for quick editing on the fly. The application gives you a frictionless way to get into your Web content and start making changes without having to jump through a lot of hoops. It’s especially effective for users who are working with a lot of static…

  • BlackBerry Maintains Major Canadian Market Share, iPhone Still No1 Device

    Juice mobile claims: >“RIM’s death may be exaggerated and Android is taking a bite out of Apple.” For now. The iPhone is the #1 selling phone, but RIM maintains 50% of Canadian market share. As for the source of the research: Neil Sweeney, President and CEO of Juice, stated their reach covers >“hundreds of applications…

  • My backup ate my password (or did it?)

    My backup ate my password (or did it?)

    Imagine the situation, I’m hurtling down the highway and I’m walking through the Carbonite iPhone app with my wife, looking for data we know is sitting on a password encrypted file back at home. Carbonite offers the options to log into your filesystem via a computer browser, or to access your files directly via the…

  • Path vs. Instagram on Android

    Path vs. Instagram on Android

    I recently went through the exercise of finding a replacement for Instagram, when they sold-out to Facebook. Path wasn’t on my list of replacements at the time because they didn’t offer filters or lenses like Instagram does – at least on Android, iOS users have had that feature for some time. Now that Path has…

  • Papermill and the Blight of Android Play

    Media coverage and sales of Papermill have already far exceeded my expectations and I can’t envision either increasing. With this in mind, it’s easy to conclude that the the application, with its current price and need for a subscription, will never generate a profit, especially when costs like fonts still need to be incurred. If…

  • Reboot in Motion: Licensing BB 10 vs BB Messenger

    There is a lot of chatter in the Technospere about Jim and Mike stepping down from their co-CEO roles  at RIM and making way for the COO Thorsten Heins (the first?) to helm the good ship BlackBerry out of troubled waters and back into clear seas. It’s interesting that one of small pieces from this…

  • So You Want To Use That New iPad at Work

    So You Want To Use That New iPad at Work

    It’s the first week of January and you are just settling back into your workflow and you’re thinking of using that new iPad 2 that you got for Christmas in the office. With internet et securite you can make sure you navigate the web safely. But you don’t really know where to start or if…

  • Data Congestion Warnings for 2012

    In fact, according to a new report from network management firm Arieso, iPhone 4S owners use twice as much data as their iPhone 4-using brethren, and nearly three times as much as iPhone 3G users. The data is part of an overall trend of growing data usage among smartphone owners, with Arieso warning that data…

  • Building a Better Tablet

    “In 2012, XYZ Co have to build a better tablet [..] A REAL iPad competitor” I hear this far too often, and for all the wrong reasons. Whether it’s from die hard Google-Lovers like Gina Tripani, BlackBerry-centric tech-blogs or Apple haters, the top item on everyone’s agenda is to release an iPad level tablet at…

  • Happy Holidays from The Dads

    Happy Holidays from The Dads

    Those in the know understand the draw of the East End of Long Island. The Hamptons, sitting on the South Fork of the island, are a group of hamlets, villages and towns lying along the Atlantic Ocean. The area is a perpetual playground for the rich and famous, and for city dwellers who appreciate a…