Archive for the 'iPhone' Category

My longtime flickr contact minato has posted a wonderful image of ornamental maple leaves with iPhone with ornamental maple leaves in Japan.

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Introducing Memo Touch, a tablet designed for elders with short-term memory loss While the implementation may not be the best, this is a killer good idea and it allows family members to log into the account and set up reminders. Of course, someone might write an app like this for iOS and then one could [...]

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The future of retail

Square update Watch the video, it’s quite spectacular. I have a Square account. It’s free. Highly recommended. Works on iPhone or iPad. Amazing. PS: Thanks Edward.

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AssistiveTouch

Apple’s AssistiveTouch Helps the Disabled Use a Smartphone David Pogue is pretty worked up over AssistiveTouch and I can see why. After reading his piece I just played around with it and it’s quite fantastic. Settings/General/Accessibility/AssistiveTouch. Try it (iOS 5), it’s quite interesting. I’m most interested to see if it might make the iPad more [...]

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In my last report on this I noted that an Apple phone support person (Patrick) had me completely reset my iPhone: back it up to iTunes, reinstall iOS5, then sync my stuff back onto it. When I did this yesterday it seemed to be helping, a single full charge lasted all day and while I [...]

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I’ve only had my iPhone 4S for a week but I noticed early on that it was sucking battery juice much more rapidly than my iPhone 4 with the same apps and iOS 5 on it. Unfortunately, we lost power for almost a week so it was tough to get it charged regularly to test [...]

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I’m back at the Danbury Mall to charge up our electronics and be online for a bit. Today I brought a power strip and I’m sitting on the floor near enough to the Apple Store to get on their network which is fine and far enough away from the mall walkers so I’m not distracted [...]

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Informal e-reader library comparison Marco Arment (creator of Instapaper) has done a very nice comparison of the Kindle, Nook, Kobo, and iBooks on the iPad. He’s comparing availability of content (books and periodicals) less usability of the various tools. By the way, Instapaper on the iPad is an incredible way to read articles that you’ve [...]

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Google Reader and Mac/iOS RSS readers that sync Brent Simmons has written an excellent piece on proposed changes to Google Reader and how they might affect clients like Reeder which piggy back off it. I use Google Reader to catalog and organize my various RSS feeds and have been since I dropped NetNewsWire (which Brent [...]

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Ask Different Ask Different is a brilliantly built discussion site that allows people to ask questions about their Apple products and get a variety of answers and tips from others. I first heard about it back here and I decided to subscribe to its RSS feed for a while to see what kinds of questions [...]

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B&H Photo app

B&H Photo has a free iPhone app that’s quite good and if nothing else allows you to check out your wish list(s) while browsing around the store, instead of printing them out as I usually do. Tip: consider making wish lists of things you buy often, like ink and paper for for your printer. That [...]

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Android Beam

Google announces NFC-based Android Beam for sharing between phones Watch the video, it’s very cool. Since the old days of Palm Pilots I’ve wanted a way to beam a single address to a nearby iPhone, or, any single piece of data that I want to share. The Palm had IR for this and the iPhone [...]

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I just read on Shawn Blanc’s site about a new field in iOS 5′s Contacts app for adding a phonetic pronunciation of a name so that Siri gets it right. That same field is in the Address Book in Mac OS 10.7.2 so you can add those phonetic equivalents for your iPhone 4S and Siri [...]

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Jason Snell who’s the editorial director of Macworld Magazine demonstrates Siri on the new iPhone 4S. This is an excellent demo and commentary. [via Daring Fireball]

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The spread of Siri

Why Siri should (and probably will) come to iPad 2 Excellent speculation and discussion by Chris Rawson on how Apple’s new voice control and dictation system called Siri might or might not spread to other iOS devices. Since the iPad 2 has both a microphone and the same A5 as the iPhone 4S, there shouldn’t [...]

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How about a nice Easter egg in Siri exemplifying that the spirit of Steve Jobs lives in every apple product: Question for Siri: “Where does Steve Jobs live?” Siri answer: “Steve Jobs lives in iCloud.” Next time you query Siri: Question for Siri: “Where does Steve Jobs live?” Siri answer: “Steve Jobs lives in iPhone.” [...]

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Apple has posted the video of yesterday’s October 4, 2011 Special Event. I really like Tim Cook’s style, I think he did extremely well in this new role. No doubt the pressure was on. I loved his pauses to underscore some of this points. He’s not Steve Jobs and that’s just fine. Here’s the iPhone [...]

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Today Apple released the new iPhone 4S which looks similar to the iPhone 4 on the outside but has a new processor, antennae, and more. It will be running the new iOS 5 which will also run on iPhone 4s and 3GS models. I didn’t see or track today’s big announcement from Tim Cook at [...]

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Assistant

Apple’s ‘Assistant’ Seen as Key Feature for New iPhone Hardware Apple has been thinking about virtual assistants for years. Some of you may remember their mock up called Knowledge Navigator that included a visual person in the form of a guy with a bow tie. That bow tie guy is an assistant who understands natural [...]

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Public Library Books for Kindle You can borrow Kindle books from more than 11,000 libraries in the United States to read on any generation Kindle device, free Kindle app, or in your browser with Kindle Cloud Reader. Public library books for Kindle provide the same unique features as Kindle and Kindle books, including Whispersync technology [...]

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