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Eight takes on what to do with your last iPhone home screen

February 26, 2010

The last home screen: what do you use it for? Depending on how many apps you have installed and how you have them organized, the last home screen can be a simple three swipes away, or a very long “are we there yet” 10 swipes away from your first one. The following is some quick [...]

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They Say There’s an App for Just About Everything, but this one Still Surprised Me

February 25, 2010

My dog’s name is Newton. Much as I love my big oaf of a Lab, I really don’t need an app that has anything to do with his ‘bits’, especially not in 3D.
Oh, apparently this one has a different purpose:
Newton’s cradle, named after Sir Isaac Newton, is a device that demonstrates conservation of [...]

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iPhone Textperiment: Simplenote vs Simpletext, WriteRoom, and Taskpaper

February 25, 2010

Last night I ended up picking up a copy of Taskpaper to compare notes with Patrick and accidentally stumbled upon a very cool, very free syncing service called Simpletext.ws, run by Hogbay Software.
Simpletext.ws is a lot like Dropbox, but for small text files. This means that you can use just one Google App Engine service [...]

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Recommended: Steve Jobs Birthday Post by Jesus Diaz

February 24, 2010

You can praise him, disagree with him, quote him, disbelieve him, glorify or vilify him. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore him.

That’s just a small slice from a great short happy birthday post (Steve Jobs turns 55 today) by Jesus Diaz at Gizmodo. Check out the short, sweet tribute post [...]

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Your Friendly Neighborhood iPhone Repair Service

February 23, 2010

For most iPhone users I know, it is a real crisis when their baby has any sort of hardware failure or problem. Water damage or a drop and a broken screen are just two common problem types that I’ve heard numerous horror stories about over the years.
Sadly, especially when damage to an iPhone [...]

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The most compelling argument for the lack of wireless syncing on the iPhone thus far

February 22, 2010

Nick Cernis runs a site called the Modern Nerd with a very, very cool logo and a lot of great content. He’s also the developer of Put Things Off, the “let’s be realistic” task manager that Patrick reviewed a little while back. Cernis recently published a post titled “That Syncing Feeling” that lays out his [...]

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New iPhone TV Ad Shows off Multitasking – Oh The Irony

February 22, 2010

One of Apple’s two new iPhone TV ads highlights its multitasking ability. It shows off what you can do while on a phone call – checking email, buying a game in the App Store etc.
On the one hand, OK, this is a sort of an answer to those who say it can’t multitask at all. [...]

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How Many Orange Slices Does It Take to Charge an iPhone? About 2,380 Apparently …

February 17, 2010

Great trivia question for whenever they bring out a special iPhone Edition of Trivial Pursuit. And a helluva fun video. Click the image to check it out.
Via: TUAW

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My Name Is Patrick and I’m a Lazy App Updater

February 17, 2010

They say the first step to conquering an addiction is admitting that you have it. Now I realize that being a lazy app updater is nowhere near as serious as most addictions, but it is a very annoying habit and one I have trouble getting past.
What brought this to mind is that last night [...]

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Three things the iPhone could learn from Windows Phone 7

February 16, 2010

The announcement of the Windows Phone 7 series yesterday was surprisingly exciting. I’m quite happy about how Microsoft decided to nuke their old Windows Mobile OS, and there were quite a few times I’d see new WP7 features and mutter “holy crap I want that on my iPhone”. Windows Phone 7 will ultimately create its [...]

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