I think it’s safe to say we’re all disappointed with Siri. Yeah, she can help you with some small tasks, but she’s hardly the helpful virtual assistant we were all hoping for. Sometimes, she just doesn’t wo...
You’d think after owning my current iPhone for about 18 months, I would have finally settled on an email app that I like. And while I have flirted with other mail apps, I still return to the native Apple Mail app on my iPhon...
Way back in January, I took a look at an app called TouchPal Keyboard. That app reduced the number of keystrokes you needed to type something by 80 percent. In addition, TouchPal Keyboard featured a cool “sliding” inpu...
You know, I have both rulers and a tape measure kicking around my apartment, but I’ll be darned if I can actually find the darn things when I need them. Just a few weeks ago, I was listing an item on eBay. I wanted to includ...
One my all-time favorite authors is Warren Ellis, of “Transmetropolitan” and “Gun Machine” fame. In a recent edition of his email newsletter, Ellis drew my attention to an app that sounds really cool. Even ...
I don’t know about you guys, but in our neck of the woods, summer is peak yard sale season. Whether it’s a cramped garage filled with knick knacks and electronics, or a yard festooned with old paperbacks and kid’...
In the last two years, my mom has had something like half a dozen eye surgeries to counteract both glaucoma and cataracts. The doctors only operate on one eye at a time, so the procedures had to be stretched out over months and mo...
In any social network, it can be hard to stand out from the pack. For the most part, everyone’s status updates look the same, and everything can sort of blend together. If you want to add a splash of color (and a dash of per...
After playing Magic as a kid, I’m kind of a sucker for card games of all kinds. I’m a huge fan of the way an iPhone lets you play a collectible card game: there’s nothing worse than lugging around a box of cards,...
I am absolutely bloodthirsty when it comes to bargain hunting. I almost never buy apps at full price. Heck, I almost never buy ANYTHING at full price. So when an app that usually costs about as much as a large, fancy cup of coffee...
It’s probably safe to say that we’re experiencing a national fascination with cooking. Between cooking how-to shows, reality cooking competitions, and cooking-focused travel programs, TV fans have never been so obsesse...
I’m a sucker for a good puzzle. There’s just something about the iPhone format that is the perfect display for puzzle games, and puzzles are the best way to kill time between meetings or on the way to catch a train. So...
I have some less-than-fond memories of dealing with built-in camera timers on old-school cameras. There was nothing worse than trying to take a family photo and having the timer malfunction. Whether I was trying to take the pictur...
If you looked at my phone, you might think I have too many fitness apps. I have two different running apps, plus a walking app. It seems totally stupid, because I have three apps that do the exact same thing. But I really need thr...
For many of us, our iPhone is a device that we use to track the minutiae of our everyday lives. Not only do we update Twitter and Facebook with what we ate for lunch or what we saw on our commute, but many of us are also constantl...
