Posts Tagged ‘iPhone’

Over the weekend concerns about Facebook oversharing was the topic of posts on Google+ and on blogs. The concern is over Facebook’s new “frictionless sharing” with apps that automatically share information to the service. An example is Spotify, which will post the names of the songs that you are listening to on your Facebook newsfeed [...]

My memories of Thanksgiving as a child includes watching Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Besides being pretty much the only thing on TV at that time in the morning, I was pretty much forbidden to change the channel when the parade was on TV. As seems to be the case for almost every major event these [...]

Layar, which first popularized the concept of Augmented Reality (AR) on mobile phones, now has something they call Layar Vision that takes the real-world object scanning features associated with barcodes, QR codes and Microsoft Tag to a new level.

You know about Black Friday and Cyber Monday. How about Small Business Saturday? That’s what Foursquare and American Express are promoting this coming Saturday, November 26. What’s in it for you? Perhaps $25 credited back to your card.

Kodak Gallery added several new features in an update to its free Gallery app for the iPhone. The most important of the new features is the ability for multiple poeple to upload and contribute to a single shared online album. This new feature is called Group Albums

Sixty-five of the apps for my iPad &/or iPhone were updated in the past week. Apps that do not have comments in the list below indicates that the update is simply a bug fix release or an Apple iOS 4.x compatibility update with, perhaps, some bug fixes.

My earliest memories about listening to music involve my favorite local radio stations and disc jockeys. Each DJ had their own style that they showed with the songs they selected to play on air. I remember creating my own mix tapes in high school and college, which were the first way one could create their [...]

Google is a believer in the saying, “If at first you don’t succeed, try try again.” Google released the first Gmail for iOS app a little over two weeks ago. It was pulled within hours of its release because of a major bug. As Frank McPherson noted here: Google Rushes Gmail App For iOS And [...]

Youtoo is more than just a cable TV channel where you can find old TV shows like Batman, Green Hornet and X-Files. It is, as their slogan says, social TV. The release of the new Youtoo iPhone and Youtoo Android apps may also let Youtoo be your ticket to 15 seconds of fame (“15 minutes” [...]

Get Satisfaction provides businesses a third-party web-based customer support service. The service got an HTML5 mobile makeover this week. Businesses with paid plans now have a mobile Get Satisfaction presence for customers who use an iPhone or iPod touch.