Archive > July 2009

Apple releases MobileMe iDisk app

If you subscribe to MobileMe, you can now use your iPhone or iPod touch to view and share Pages documents, Keynote presentations, Microsoft Office documents, PDFs and more. To view documents, simply select them. To share them with others, just tap the share icon and choose your recipients. iDisk will send them an email with [...]

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Taking care of business on the App Store

Salesforce Mobile, RoamBi Visualizer, the eBay Profit Calculator, Invoice Makers, Day Tracker, Bid Estimates — they’re but a few of the growing number of apps now available for small business owners on the iPhone App Store, according to Riva Richmond (online.wsj.com). Says iphonebootcampnyc.com dveloper Jonathan Sarno, “For the road warrior, the iPhone is perfect.

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App of the Week: Rolando 2: Quest for the Golden Orchid

Ready for a sequel that outplays the original? Rolando 2 breaks new ground, taking you underwater and up in the sky, offering new vehicles and weapons, and featuring a new 3D look and 45 levels of play. Like the original, it encourages you to touch, tilt, and slide your Rolandos to new levels of achievement. [...]

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Un-Humble Opinions

Remember the piece I linked to earlier this week on research suggesting that people prefer advice from a confident source, regardless how accurate the source has been in the past? Davin O’Dwyer had a good piece on the same subject in The Irish Times last month:

At first, this quirk of human psychology sounds like an [...]

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David Pogue’s Take Back the Beep Campaign

David Pogue:

Last week, in The Times and on my blog, I’ve been ranting about one particularly blatant money-grab by U.S. cellphone carriers: the mandatory 15-second voicemail instructions.

Also interesting:

iPhone owners’ voicemail doesn’t have these instructions — Apple insisted that AT&T remove them.

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Brent Simmons: ‘Anatomy of a Feature’

“Oh, it’s easy.”

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WSJ: Never Mind

The WSJ has posted an update to Ben Charny’s “Apple at CES 2010” story:

Correction: It is not clear whether Apple will attend the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show. This post previously stated that Apple would attend.

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Security Researchers to Unveil iPhone SMS Exploit

Elinor Mills:

Researchers have discovered a way to take complete control over an iPhone merely by sending special SMS messages and demonstrated it on my iPhone at the Black Hat security conference on Wednesday.

Spooky, to say the least.

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The Windows 7 Upgrade Story

Walt Mossberg on the differences between the many versions of Windows 7, and how to upgrade to them:

However, there’s another complication. For each of the three main consumer versions of Windows 7, there are actually two editions. One is meant for PCs with standard processors, called 32-bit processors, and the other for PCs that sport [...]

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iPhone Application Design Patterns

Mike Rundle’s thoughtful analysis of the most common iPhone app design patterns.

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