Archive for December 2012
What’s on your Flipboard?
Always curious to see what apps people have, what tools and hardware they use, and what sites or publications they like keeping up with. I figured I’d share my Flipboard screens (after all, Flipboard is one of the iPad apps that I can’t live without) and see if some others wanted to share theirs.
Read MoreThe best new app I’ve seen in a long time
It takes a lot for a new app to break through the clutter and feel instantly like something I’d use quite a bit. Slice is the app I kinda always knew I needed but now that I have it, I can’t think of how I went without it. The premise of Slice is that it…
Read MoreDelta updates their website and in the process makes me feel kinda inadequate
Delta made some really nice user interface changes to their website recently. One such change, however, is a big pet peeve of mine. They changed from requiring a 4 digit PIN to requiring a password. But that’s not the peeve, I’m fine with a password. However, the password they require has to have numbers AND…
Read MoreNew iOS WordPress and Snapseed apps
WordPress recently updated their iOS app – which is great because its never been a very good experience – and I wanted to give it a quick test run. Also yesterday Google made the photo editing software they acquired, Snapseed, free on iOS and I wanted to try it as well. I created this photo…
Read MoreYup, News Corp’s The Daily was the antithesis of what “digital magazines” should be
I wasn’t at all surprised to read on Monday that News Corp’s The Daily was shutting down. The thing was doomed from the beginning. Digital or tablet “magazines” were never meant to be daily updated sources of news. That isn’t a problem we needed fixed. We have things like CNN, The New York Times, Google…
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