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Category Archives: Gadgets
Pastebot: Incredible Copy/Paste Utility for iPhone and Touch
You’d think that with over 100,000 apps available for the iPhone that all the good apps had been invented long ago. Not so. Great new apps are coming out all the time, with one of the best I’ve ever seen … Continue reading
Big Phone News: Fake Steve Jobs, The Real Best Carrier, and Google Phone
There has been some big phone news within the past few days. This article by Fake Steve Jobs is hilarious: A not-so-brief chat with Randall Stephenson of AT&T. It contains a lot of profanity, so if that turns you off, … Continue reading
Why I Am Not Buying Barnes & Nobles’ Nook
I have not even seen one myself, but my friend Judie Lipsett has convinced me to not bother getting a Nook. Her article, How I completely wasted my Saturday on a piece of over-hyped software, is a damning indictment of … Continue reading
iPhone Speech to Text App, Dragon Dictation, Now in iTunes
Just moments ago, I downloaded Dragon Dictation and began using it on my iPhone. It was not perfect in converting my short message to text, but it did pretty good: This e-mail was created with dragon dictation and amp for … Continue reading
Reader Tip: Moving from Palm to iPhone/Touch
Howard recently sent the following tip to me: After days of asking and searching I was given a very slick way to transfer Calendar/Contacts. Back up Palm data somewhere safe. Uninstall Palm completely. Reinstall and choose Outlook as your sync … Continue reading
Loving the Competition Between the “App Phones”
What do you call phones like the iPhone and the Droid, which have gone beyond what we have traditionally called smartphones? Steve Rubel notes on Twitter that his iPhone has become his computer: @steverubel I spent 17 out of 31 … Continue reading
Mr. Bezos, Please Pay Attention to Kindle
I am a huge fan of e-books, and have generally been pleased with Amazon’s e-book reader, Kindle, and its e-book supply system. I’ve bought close to 40 Kindle e-books. So, at a savings of several dollars per book, I’ve pretty … Continue reading
Back to Backups
We’ve talked before about the importance of having recent backups of all your data. But some recent data-loss incidents, along with some other related news, made me think it’s worth talking about again. Recent data-loss events that caught my attention … Continue reading
Lessons from My iPhone Outage
As noted in a recent post, I damaged my new iPhone 3GS and had to do without for about a week, until a replacement arrived. During this “outage time” I used my BlackBerry Curve, which I am now glad I … Continue reading
Waterlogged iPhone? Try Using Rice
If you drop your iPhone into water, as I did recently, you may think you killed it. Well, you may have. But, putting it into a box of rice for a few days might bring it back to life. While … Continue reading