I downloaded the Messages app beta for OS X today and have been using it for an hour or two. I’m really glad they have released this beta prior to the actual launch of Mountain Lion, as it should have been built into Lion from the start. But it doesn’t seem like it’s quite there […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today Apple announced the release of iBooks 2 and their $14.99 high school textbook program. That’s kind of interesting, but what’s a lot more interesting and getting buried in the press coverage is the release of the iTunes U app in the iOS App Store. The iTunes Store has included an iTunes U section for […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I recently signed up for Path, a mobile-only social network that is meant to be used for more intimate sharing than something like Facebook with an inherently smaller and more intimate social graph. Path was initially only available on the iPhone but apparently now has an Android client as well. Given its historical close ties […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve written a lot here about the iPhone Sync in a Blink application. Recently Google has released their own mobile sync solution. It masquerades as an Exchange server from the iPhone’s perspective and offers automatic wireless over the air syncing. While running Sync in a Blink to manually sync contacts is not a huge burden […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I figured out my problem with Sync in a Blink. It turns out that my five mystery different contacts had no name or company name – only email addresses. I never could find them in the Contacts app but I happened to install the iPhone Peeps app (sort of a Coverflow for contacts thing – […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I downloaded version 2.1 of Sync in a Blink last night and to my delight, the app now supports editing contact groups. I had written about my somewhat complicated procedure for putting contacts into a specific contact group and then sycning with Google contacts. Having this capability integrated into the app is definitely better. Unfortunately […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I wrote the last entry on my iPhone using the WordPress app. Everything went fine until I inserted the WordPress post break to cause only the introduction to appear on the site index. After I saved that change, it looked on the iPhone app as though the post were truncated to that point and the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
With several Twitter apps on my iPhone I’ve found that lately I’m on top of tweets but not reading blogs any more. I find that I have down time in my day to catch up on reading but not necessarily when I’m in front of a computer. So I thought I’d check out the RSS […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest version of the Sync in a Blink iPhone app supports Google Contact Groups. This is a wonderful feature addition, as Google adds all correspondents to its “Suggested Contacts” group which then sync down to the iPhone which probably isn’t desirable. I don’t really want all the mailing lists and support email addresses I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As I’ve written before, I am a big user of Google Apps for Domains services. This includes e-mail and contacts, but also calendar services. I have tried a lot of online calendar services, but Google’s calendar meets my needs the best. The big down side has always been the lack of proper mobile support. Google […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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