iPhone
What’s On My iPhone — Part One
As I’m sure many of you are now aware, I recently caved and bought myself an iPhone. Gone are my days of Windows Mobile mediocrity — I now join the movement of Apple users — at least until I get bored of their proprietary whims and move on to the questionable privacy of an [...]
2 Ways to Get TV on Your iPhone – Slingplayer vs. OrbLive
Have you ever wondered what it would be like if you could use your iPhone to watch the same television stations that you watch on your television at home? Wonder no more, for television on your iPhone is a reality, with the right setup. Today we’re going to look at two methods for getting all [...]
Bypass Blocked Media and Browse More Safely with Hotspot Shield
Many people are annoyed by the country-blocking that is imposed by massive multimedia companies regarding their content; especially since the rise of sites like Hulu, Pandora, and Last.FM. The lure of legitimate, free, and easy to access streaming content is a hard one to pass up! If you happen to live outside of the [...]
My Phone Dillemma: I’m Ready for a Change and I Want Your Opinion
Well, that time is finally here. My 3 Year (bloody) Contract with Bell Mobility (one of the Big 3 rip-off artist/cell phone & communications companies on the northern half of the North American continent) has less than a year left and I’ve been presented with a $100 hardware upgrade and about $300 in data [...]
Apple Neuters OrbLive, After Users Pay For It
Update: As of today, February 24, 2010, I’m seeing an update in the App store that restores 3G functionality. This is about 2 weeks after Apple allowed Sling to include 3G functionality in the SlingPlayer app.
We’ve previously written about Apple’s capricious App Store review process, which has caused great frustration for users of Google [...]
The Impending Death of Apple’s App Store?
Apple’s App Store has been a smashing success. Last week, Apple announced that more than three billion apps had been downloaded from the App Store since its inception 18 months ago. It’s almost hard to imagine the time when there were no third-party apps. But have Apples’ actions, coupled with web technologies, threatened the [...]
7 Creative Uses of Evernote on the iPhone
One of the benefits of Evernote is that you can use it almost anywhere, thanks to the multiple platforms on which it is available. Over in the official Evernote forums, a new topic has just started brewing that discusses creative uses of Evernote on mobile devices. Inspired by that thread, here are seven creative [...]
Push Gmail for iPhone and Windows Mobile: Not Pushy Enough
A few weeks back, Google unveiled the long-awaited push Gmail for iPhone and Windows Mobile. Push Gmail is part of the Google Sync package, which is still in Beta and previously offered only Google Calendar sync and Google Contacts sync. The calendar and contacts features have been working fairly flawlessly for some time now, [...]
Buyer Beware: Postseason Baseball on the iPhone
Major League Baseball just doesn’t get it. Archaic blackout rules, postseason game times that alienate potential future fans, and an economic system that allows some teams to serve as farm teams for a few big market teams, leave many outsiders scratching their heads. Add baseball’s latest internet offering, Postseason.TV, to the list of baseball’s [...]
Screw You iPhone! Stop Stealing All Our (Windows Mobile) Apps…
In the beginning of August, Microsoft released a detailed case study intended to help developers actually port their iPhone apps over to the Windows Mobile platform, a move that has many Windows Mobile customers, myself included, a bit giddy with hope. We have been turning various shades of green over the past two years, watching [...]

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