Category: Blog
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On Banning Apps and Care-taking: Apple vs the World
BGR reported on Tuesday about an application that attempted to trick users into setting a passcode identical to the pin used to lock their iPhones. The app then transmitted the PIN numbers in the background to the developer — albeit anonymously — who used them to publish a report covering the most commonly used iPhone…
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RIM Stock Drops to a Four Year Low
From TechRadar It seems that investors have got the jitters as Apple nabs yet another key BlackBerry USP; iMessage is an instant messaging service for Apple devices on iOS 5, just as BlackBerry Messenger is for BlackBerry users. On Tuesday, RIMs stock fell to below $37 for the first time since 2007, a tumble of…
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BlackBerry’s PlayBook Fail: Two Weeks Later
I’ve now been using the BlackBerry PlayBook for over two weeks now and to be quite honest its a terrible device but it has yet to win me over. I’m still not too sure if it’s all of the previous years of being a BlackBerry handheld user or the short time I have been using…
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G is for Goodness
From secret shoppers to website evaluators, user experience (UX) research exists to solve problems. When you’re preparing to roll out a new product or you’re trying to pinpoint where users may be dissatisfied with an experience, there’s a lot to consider. Visual design, content and usability, information architecture, interaction design, user research, and more play…
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BlackBerry’s PlayBook Doesn’t Play Fair
Once again this morning, I arrived at work and yet another tablet device was thrown onto my desk with a post it saying: “I want my mail on this“. This has become a regular thing over the past couple of weeks and as usual I jump at the challenge of trying to see how a…
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TomTom iPhone app vs Garmin nüvi (rental car edition)
It feels like yesterday that I wrote the TomTom Go 720 vs Garmin nüvi 255 article (http://www.2fatdads.com/2009/06/tomtom-go-720-vs-garmin-nuvi-255/). Our editor JohnnyCanuck has been hounding me to come up with a follow up article. I’ve left a few on the shelf, waiting for a more current spin. As life would have it, I’ve been traveling a lot…
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The iPhone Goes Where No Mac Has Gone Before
After a year of using a MacBook full-time in the workplace, my new job has placed me in a position where I am using a Windows Lappie again. There are some good things that are worth giving up for even better opportunities. No matter how humbling it is for a developer to suddenly have his…