It’s surprising hard to find a good shopping list app for the iPhone. You can use a note-taking app, or a to-do list app, or one of the many shopping list apps out there. There are tons of options, but I’ve still yet t...
Gamers of a certain generation love a good dungeon. There’s something eerie and exciting about this fantasy game staple, from tabletop games to classic 8-bit titles. The App Store has seen a great number of new dungeon crawl...
There are some app genres on the App Store that have only a few entries, while other app genres inspire countless numbers of similar apps. If the App Store was a physical place, I bet you couldn’t take two steps without bump...
I’m not a huge Lance Armstrong fan. But just because Lance’s reputation is not what it once was doesn’t mean that the Livestrong brand is on the decline. I still see it everywhere. For example, when I got tired o...
Sticking to a schedule can be tricky. Unfortunately, navigating the ins and outs of a new scheduling app can be just as complicated. As much as they promise to make your life easier, a lot of the UIs in scheduling apps are kind of...
Passwords are a tricky thing. You need to be able to remember them, but the human brain has a tricky time with the best passwords: seemingly random combinations of letters, numbers, and symbols. Passwords can also be cracked with ...
PDFs are great. They’re easy to view, and their clean look makes them ideal for sharing reports, articles, images, and more. You can password protect them, use to them to share read-only documents, compact, and self-containe...
The very word “diary” conjures up images of pre-teen girls writing about their “crushes” in a sparkly pink notebook. In reality, however, people of both genders (and all ages) have the desire to write down ...
For most people, some kind of task manager is a must. For some people, that tasks manager is a PA or an executive assistant. For others, it’s a simple pen and paper to-do list. For iPhone fans, the task manager is often an a...
I do pretty much all of my shopping online, save for groceries and the occasional shirt. Actually, a large chunk of my tshirts do come from online, shirt-of-the-day kinds of sites. Even with shipping, online retailers offer up som...
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 ...
