Posted in Canon EOS 5D, iPhone, iPhone Photography, Photographers, Places on Dec 6th, 2011 No Comments »
My longtime flickr contact minato has posted a wonderful image of ornamental maple leaves with iPhone with ornamental maple leaves in Japan.
Posted in Disability, Ideas, iPad, iPhone, Social Software on Dec 2nd, 2011 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Ideas, iPad, iPhone, Video on Nov 15th, 2011 No Comments »
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.
Posted in Disability, iPad, iPhone on Nov 10th, 2011 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in iPhone, Tech Stuff on Nov 4th, 2011 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in iPhone, Tech Stuff on Nov 3rd, 2011 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Adventure, iPhone, Our Place on Nov 1st, 2011 3 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in iPad, iPhone, Opinion, Reading, Tools on Oct 29th, 2011 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Social Software on Oct 26th, 2011 8 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Apple, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Oct 22nd, 2011 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in iPhone, Photo Resources on Oct 22nd, 2011 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Gadgets, iPhone, Tech Stuff on Oct 19th, 2011 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in iPad, iPhone, Macintosh on Oct 17th, 2011 6 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in iPhone, People, Video on Oct 11th, 2011 7 Comments »
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]
Posted in iPad, iPhone on Oct 9th, 2011 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Apple, Ideas, iPad, iPhone, People on Oct 7th, 2011 No Comments »
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.” [...]
Posted in Apple, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, People, Video on Oct 5th, 2011 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Apple, iPhone, Video on Oct 4th, 2011 9 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Apple, iPhone, Tech Stuff on Sep 26th, 2011 6 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in iPad, iPhone, Reading on Sep 21st, 2011 No Comments »
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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