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Saturday, September 25, 2010
My most common problem with apps based on websites is that they're not much of an improvement over viewing the site in your mobile web browser, and in certain cases, they're actually worse.
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Loopt is a location-aware app that allows you to share status updates, including your current whereabouts, with selected contacts, and via Twitter and Facebook. It also displays nearby events, businesses (and sometimes coupons) and friends. The interface, composed of eight finger-friendly soft keys, is simple and straightforward to use, but the location accuracy is not always very precise. I also encountered a few snags with initial setup of the service.
Friday, July 2, 2010
Kindle for Android provides another way to access and read your purchased Amazon Kindle ebooks, but it lacks key features and is awkward to set up.
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Monday, October 5, 2009
RIM is finally publicly releasing the free BlackBerry Desktop Manager v1.0.0 (build 89). The BlackBerry-maker was nice enough to send me the official build a few days ago, and I've been putting it through the paces ever since.
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Don't get me wrong, there was no dancing in my cubicle, and I wasn't under any misapprehensions about sitting on sunny beaches getting hours worth of work done on my little iPhone screen. What I was thrilled at was the prospect of resolving those office tech support calls that come at the most inconvenient times: The soccer field, the Yankee game, in the car on the way to dinner--anything that required me to politely excuse myself so I could drive back to the house and log in to the office.
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Does the iPhone really need a dedicated app for reading PDFs? After all, you can download them right from the phone's Safari browser or when you receive a PDF attachment. Still, these methods have limitations--namely, that you need to use either the browser or the mail client to access them.
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Qype is an online entertainment and shopping review service, and Qype Radar is the phone app to bring the power of local user reviews to your mobile.
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Monday, July 6, 2009
iPodRobot iPod Video Converter is a utility that's designed to get around one of Apple's most annoying limitations.
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
World Cup Ping Pong is a feature-packed Apple iPhone game that looks great. Unfortunately, it's just not very fun.
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Monday, June 22, 2009
Flight Control wouldn't exist without the iPhone. The unique gameplay is perfectly suited to the device, and I'm hopelessly addicted.
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A shootout between this spring's BYOD favourite the Samsung Galaxy S4 Android phone and the best BlackBerry yet, the BlackBerry Z10. read more...
Dell XPS 12 convertible Ultrabook, is supposed to be a laptop/tablet hybrid, but it's clutching at straws when claiming to be a tablet. Think of this more as a decent laptop, that can sort of be used as a tablet. read more...
A 10.1in tablet running Windows 8 and aimed at business users the ElitePad is smart and stylish. Here's our HP ElitePad 900 review. read more...
Cool styling combined with power make the 2Big NAS a great, SME-friendly choice for network storage. read more...
It’s a record-breaker! And that’s official. read more...
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