Tag: IOS

  • 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…

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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… http://flip.it/WU03e Goodbye Sparrow: 8 Alternatives to Sparrow for Email Related…

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  • 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… RT @FastCompany: Is your doctor’s iPad good…

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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… RT @nealunger: iSpy: Inside the #NSA’s best practices…

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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. Apple’s Passbook Is a Surprise Success for Developers http://flip.it/CjHIO http://flip.it/vOHyS Apple’s Passbook Is a Surprise Success for Developers Related…

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  • 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…

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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… http://flpbd.it/OS1sT Related articles…

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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.…

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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…

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