When it comes to networking for business, LinkedIn is generally considered to be the go-to service. But LinkedIn doesn’t always help you stay in touch as well as it might. A clever app called Here On Biz uses your LinkedIn c...
I wasn’t always a design junkie. But a short stint helping to design and edit infographics at a social media company really opened my eyes to the wonders of great design…and the utter awfulness that is bad design. I do...
I was lucky enough to meet a lot of people in college who came from all over the globe. I had a couple of friends from Japan, a roommate from Germany, and a buddy who split his time between Brazil and the US. He introduced me to a...
Every once in a while, I stumble across an iPhone app that stops me in my tracks, an app that really surprises me and impresses me with its concept and execution. While I don’t often have the need to do complex calculations ...
You learn something new every day. In my case, I heard the term “magic hour” for the first time on Sunday night, when I accompanied my BF and his friends to a press photo shoot for their band. The photographer schedule...
They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. It’s also worth a thousand thoughts, emotions, and memories. Photography is a stellar way to capture precious moments, and it also makes a stellar gift to family and friends...
People love to play old arcade and Atari games on their iPhones. And from what I’ve seen on the App Store, the second-most popular retro game after Tetris is Breakout. There are a ton of Breakout-style, brick-breaking games ...
At every office job I’ve ever had, communications failures were to blame for the biggest problems between the staff (or between staff and their clients.) People forget how hard it is to communicate, to express oneself clearl...
I’m lucky enough to live in a part of the world where I can see the stars at night, every night. But every once in a while, I get to visit parts of the country where the view is even better: more clear, more stunning, and le...
Swiper, no swiping! If you’re a parent, or the eldest child of a big family, there’s a good chance you’ve been exposed to that most odious to children’s TV show characters, Swiper. The “villain”...
3D printing is all the rage these days, and eBay isn’t wasting any time in hopping on that bandwagon. The company just launched a brand new mobile app (currently available exclusively for iPhone users) that lets shoppers buy...
If there’s one thing the iPhone does well, it’s puzzle games. From falling blocks to hidden objects, physics puzzlers to tile-matching, the App Store is littered with great puzzle games for iOS. One relatively new puzz...
So, I came back from a lovely long weekend in the middle of nowhere and was delighted to discover that the App Store is offering a ton of free game and app downloads for iOS. Apple’s making these games and apps available as ...
Over the long Fourth of July weekend (that’s American Independence Day, for our international readers), I was lucky enough to spend some time at a lovely lakehouse in Maine. However, I was unlucky enough to become a snack fo...
If you’re one of the lucky people out there who has never needed glasses, I am SO jealous. I’ve been wearing mine since grade school, and my vision seems to get a little worse every year. If you’ve got poor visio...
