Category: Reviews
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Harry McCracken on the iPad Rivals of 2010
Spoiler: If you like happy endings, you should stop reading now. It really is as sad as it sounds. Read on for the an in depth and complete run through of the class that never quite made it. via Whatever Happened to the iPad Rivals of 2010? | Technologizer.
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Smartphone Messenger Apps Compared
A very interesting comparison on various new messenger apps for smartphone: Facebook Messenger, Google+ Huddle and Apple iOS iMessage. The only other important one missing from the list is BlackBerry’s BBM. GigaOm.
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Apple Store Opening 3km from RIM Waterloo Headquarters
Seriously, The new store is literally down the street from the RIM Campus where Mike and Jim have been trying to get QNX to fit into a BlackBerry or PlayBook device that actually works. What would be great is if the line-ups from the hopefully soon to be announced iPhone 5 manage to reach all…
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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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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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Why I Love Indie MAc.Apps!
This little snippet of conversation, which I hope Julien Smith doesn’t mind me using to prove a point here, is exactly why I love the slew of awesome indie apps available for Mac OS X. Whether, it’s other apps from Ambrosia, Rogue Amoeba or Panic, reactions and immediate feedback from the likes of Daniel Jalkut…
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Skype for Mac 5.0 Goes Gold, Only Deserves Bronze
My biggest complaint is that it’s still too big and adding users to a call is still a bit of a dark art. Skype also seems to be in a real hurry to ditch audio calls in favour of premium video conference calls which just seem to make everyone involved feel awkward. The reality is…