Lifehacker top iPhone apps

Most Popular iPhone Apps and Posts of 2012
Thorin Klosowski, lifehacker.com

2012 was an interesting year for Apple’s iPhone and iPad. We got a new operating system with iOS 6, and that came with a fair share of problems. Still, lots of new features, apps, and fixes came along. Here are the most popular iOS-related posts o…

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Goodbye Sparrow: 8 Alternatives to Sparrow for Email

lifehack.org

So, you were look­ing for a great alter­na­tive to Apple’s Mail.app on OS X and iOS and stum­bled upon Spar­row. It was fast, han­dled mail in a com­fort­able and famil­iar Gmail fash­ion, and was full fea­tured. It was all good until you heard th…

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Goodbye Sparrow: 8 Alternatives to Sparrow for Email

iPads swarm healthcare

Is Your Doctor’s iPad Good For Your Health?
By Neal Ungerleider, fastcompany.com

Surgeons, doctors, nurses, residents, and other medical professionals all regularly use iPads on the job. The practice has inspired a cottage industry, health care innovation, and privacy concerns.

Slow­ly but sure­ly, iPads are chang­ing the fa…

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Intelligence agencies use iPhones and iPads–in top secret mode

How America’s Spies Use iPhones And iPads
By Neal Ungerleider, fastcompany.com

Deep inside the NSA guidelines for iOS, warnings about “juice-jacking,” “hot mikes,” and requirements to cover iPad cameras with tape.

Years ago, when spooks and gov­ern­ment employ­ees need­ed a secure smart­phone, they turned to Research in…

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Apple’s Passbook Is a Surprise Success for Developers

Christina Bonnington, wired.com

It’s been a few months since Passbook was announced, and talk has died down to almost nothing. Is anyone even using the service? It turns out, yes, and we’re using it a lot.

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Apple’s Passbook Is a Surprise Success for Developers

Better mail apps for the Mac

From The Makers Of Orchestra Comes Mailbox, The Best Email Management App You’ll Ever Use
Ryan Lawler, techcrunch.com

Every now and then, I get my hands on an appli­ca­tion or a piece of tech­nol­o­gy that I can’t wait to tell the rest of the world about. Some­thing that is a joy to use, tack­les a major prob­lem in a total­ly intu­itive way, and makes oth­er­wis…

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Why Apple maps debacle was actually a success

Is Google’s New Maps App Actually a Big Triumph for Apple?
Frederick E. Allen, forbes.com

Last Sep­tem­ber when Apple ditched its Google Maps iPhone app and replaced it with its amaz­ing­ly inept home-built Maps app, the move was so round­ly denounced as a step back­ward and a weak­en­ing of the iPhone envi­ron­ment that chief exec­u­t…

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People Are Literally Allergic To BlackBerry phones

People Are Literally Allergic To BlackBerry Phones
By Colin Lecher, popsci.com

Like, an actual itching allergy. But, come on, there are lots of other reasons to dump BlackBerry.

Black­Ber­ry has been hav­ing a rough go of it late­ly, slow­ly slid­ing into irrel­e­vance as Android and iPhone cor­ner the mar­ket. Now add one…

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Why your body is the next target for social technology

Smart Body, Smart World: The Next Phase of Personal Computing
Sarah Rotman Epps, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research, allthingsd.com

In the past half-century, com­put­ing has evolved from the main­frame to the desk­top to the shoul­der bag to the pock­et, and now it’s tak­ing over new fron­tiers: our phys­i­cal bod­ies, and the phys­i­cal envi­ron­ments that we inhab­it. The ne…

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Belkin’s NetCam WiFi Camera is Mac compatible

Belkin’s NetCam WiFi Camera with Night Vision keeps an eye out for ghosts while you’re out, hooks up with iOS / Android
Ben Gilbert, engadget.com

Out of town for Hal­loween and wor­ried that your empty house is get­ting filled with ethe­re­al cat­bur­glars? You can’t even see what they’re tak­ing! Belkin’s got a solu­tion for you with its new Wi-Fi Net­Cam, feed­ing your iOS or Android devi…

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