software

More on the UP.

November 7, 2011

We mentioned earlier that we were interested in doing a side-by-side comparison of the Jawbone UP’s sleep analysis and that done by the Sleep Cycle iPhone app. Well, user alexw at the official UP forum beat us to the punch with a sample one-day analysis. As expected, because the UP is attached to you, it’s [...]

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First take on the Jawbone UP.

November 7, 2011

On Friday, we drove by two Targets, a Best Buy, and an AT&T store to see if anyone was selling the Jawbone UP early. None were. The reports we heard about UPs selling early must have been very isolated experiences, though it seems people had more success at Apple stores, who apparently are more likely [...]

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Dealing with several iOS 5 updates.

October 31, 2011

With the release of iOS 5, we had a chance to try out the upgrade on several devices belonging to us and family. The process, unfortunately, was rather inconsistent across devices, with some going smoother than others: iPad 2 w/3G, 64GB: This was the first device we opted to upgrade. We did a sync first, [...]

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Noteshelf rises to the top.

September 29, 2011

Following up our post on handwriting apps for the iPad, we recently revisited some of the apps we tried, and replaced, with Notes Plus. We’ve been waiting for the new version of Notes Plus to hit the AppStore, but it’s likely still some weeks off, and in the meantime, the competition has released point releases [...]

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Two features to keep Instapaper afloat.

June 29, 2011

Instapaper’s developer, Marco Arment, seems sure that Instapaper has a future despite Apple’s sherlocking of the idea. At WWDS, Apple announced that all future versions of Safari would support a Reading List function in which people could “save” articles to read later, by grabbing the article’s text and presenting it in a streamlined fashion outside [...]

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Where Pages and Numbers fall short.

June 15, 2011

We make a lot of impulse buys on Apple’s AppStore, usually because we figure that we’ll use a given sale-priced app eventually, so we may as well pick it up now at a discount. Other impulse buys are apps that we figure we’ll eventually use, which we don’t expect to go on sale soon. These [...]

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