software

Apple web apps need to stay.

June 8, 2011

With Apple’s iCloud on the horizon, TUAW’s Steven Sande is speculating a death-knell for Mobile Me’s offerings, even though Mobile Me is supposed to transition over to the new iCloud. One of the features Sande thinks will disappear with iCloud is web-based apps: I’d speculate that the web-based versions of Mail, Contacts, and Calendar will [...]

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Positioning to dominate.

June 8, 2011

A little over half a year ago, we reported on our experience using an iPad as our go-to computing device, after an iPad replaced our MacBook Pro. That wasn’t the first time we addressed the issue of the iPad being a tethered device, but it framed the issue with real-world experience in mind: Right now, [...]

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Apps that tell you where the po-po is.

May 11, 2011

Apple is being asked by the U.S. Senate why they haven’t removed iOS apps from the AppStore that report on the location of sobriety checkpoints. That may be a reasonable question to ask if safety is on your mind, but the issue quickly gets muddled when you consider that what many of these apps are [...]

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Order & Chaos, initial impressions.

April 29, 2011

As a former World of Warcraft (WoW) gamer, we found ourselves intrigued when Order & Chaos (O&C) was announced for iOS. Gameloft titles are known for cloning gameplay, art, and themes from blockbuster titles, and O&C is no different. The title offers to do one thing that no one else hasn’t, however, and that’s delivering [...]

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On iPhone weather apps.

April 28, 2011

Ben Brooks wrote a solid review of various weather apps for the iPhone, which is quite handy considering how populated this app category is. Marco Arment’s comment on the weather app spectrum is perfect: The problem here is similar to any other general app category with a lot of potential for customer dissatisfaction, like to-do [...]

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UltimateWalls.

April 15, 2011

For most people, customizing an iPad involves simply changing its wallpaper, and this means relying on photos they’ve taken themselves, or what they’ve found online. Unfortunately, this means that a really great wallpaper image requires keen photography skill, else a lot of web-browsing to find just the right picture. UltimateWalls by indie developer BLUE BOX [...]

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