As an owner of an Apple iPad, I have found so much utility for this device. The iPad is great for web browsing while on the go, reading and to responding emails, being entertained with movies and music and everything in between. Additionally, as a result of having an iPad, my daughter has become absolutely…
As an iPad and iPod Touch owner, I’m using these devices all around the house. In fact, one primary utility of these devices is to control and master my Sonos home audio system. Sonos, for those that don’t know, is a fantabulous (new word, just made it up!) way to listen to your favorite music…
A story came out last week during the Where 2.0 conference hosted by O’Reilly that, unbeknownst to most iPhone owners, that iOS tracks your location and keeps this valuable information in a file. The unencrypted file is then housed on the computer in which you back your phone up to and can be utilized to…
Sonos announced their intent to build a controller application for Android months ago. This welcome news comes to Android users who want to utilize their phone to control music throughout their house, much like iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch users can do now. The Android app has been released and is not available in the Android Market. To…
Tout is a new application that I can finally talk about. I’ve been trying the application for the last week or two via an iPod Touch. Tout starts their press release (available below) as being the Twitter for the video crows, but I think it’s much more. Tout has a simple proposition – via your…
Apple is promoting a new donation program that gives you the opportunity to donate an old iPad to an educator. If you have an original iPad and are updating to an iPad 2, consider donating your old iPad to the Teach for America Program. What is Teach for America? The program takes well-trained teachers or…
TechCrunch posted an intersting article today regarding a new startup called Yobongo. In a few words, Yobongo is a group messaging app that allows you to stay up to date with a group of folks while on the go. Think of the power of text messaging, but with a group of folks in the same…
Sprint’s claim to fame is that they had the first 4G wireless broadband network. Since they launched the network, a plethora of new devices have come out including tablets, the iPad, eReaders and other Wi-Fi devices that need a way to get online. Enter the MiFi, a little device that connects any device to the…
Now that it’s winter, many owners of touch screen phones are finding out why having a touch phone sucks sometimes. If your finger is the main way of interacting with your phone, what do you do when you’re wearing gloves and it’s 10 degrees outside? A new app called NoseDial is here to help. Even…
The iPad is quite an amazing device. It’s 9.7″ screen gives you enough real estate to do many functions you’d do on a typical computer. I use my iPad all the time for email, web browsing, listening to music and so on. However, there’s another use for the iPad that an amazing piece of software…