My wife and I were going through our morning routine, eating breakfast and reading the newspaper when suddenly she said “I can’t believe Apple!”. We share many core beliefs—especially on politics—so I usually give her a nod, offer…

Okay so I found Evernote in my latest handy dandy copy of Real Simple- a magazine I subscribe to in hopes that one day I will be more organized than not. I am getting there. The article started of with a warning that these apps may become addictive. I had no idea they were serious.

I’ve always been a big fan of iStat menus , the freeware system monitoring utility. It’s a great way to quickly see what’s going on with my Mac, whether it’s CPU, disk or memory …

Ever since I switched from Windows to Mac over 9 months ago I’ve been obsessed with making myself as productive as possible in OS X. Without question one of my favorite features is Spaces, the …

I had anticipated that I would be writing a lot about my wife’s experiences using her “new” MacBook. After all, it’s been two weeks since I got her the machine, yet she has barely touched it by my standards. The reality is that computers are just not t…

One of the cooler aspects of writing this blog has been the people that have come around to not only give advice but tell me about some of the cool stuff they are working on. Hendrik Kueck has been commenting on this blog for a long time now. Hendrik i…

Big Stone Phone today released Gesture 1.0 for iPhone and iPod Touch. Gesture is an amazing app which lets you turn your photos and snapshots into digital paintings just by dragging your finger over the photo. Bringing a popular artistic technique from the desktop to the iPhone and iPod Touch, Gesture makes creating stunning works of art a breeze for the artist and non-artist alike. Create masterpieces for your gallery and share with the world in Stone’s online Public Gallery.

iVerse, creators of the Comic Reader software, is looking for submissions from comic book hopefuls as well as established pros to post their comics to the iPhone/iPod Touch.  All of the work published through iVerse …

I’ve now had my 3G iPhone for just over a month. It has become my constant companion, even though my use of it as a phone is relatively light. I’m one of those people that has to have a phone handy, a habit I picked up from a decade of being deeply inv…

TweakerSoft today introduces AroundMe 1.0, their new application for the iPhone. Via GPS, AroundMe quickly acquires the users location and allows them to choose the nearest Bank, Bar, Gas Station, Hospital, Hotel, Movie Theatre, Restaurant, Supermarket, Theatre and Taxi. The selected listing is then displayed on a Map and plots the route to the nearest address. The chosen information can be added to the contact list or even emailed to a friend.

As I get older I find myself forgetting things that I really should remember and remembering details that I wish would simply clear from my brain’s cache to make room for more useful data. I …

I’ve had my iPhone for a little over a week now and figure it’s a good time to settle in and talk about what I like and dislike about it. I have not really changed …

I’ve mentioned before that my lovely wife of 22 years is both brilliant and technically challenged. Whenever there is the slightest problem with technology—whether it’s switching the inputs on our TV or dealing with the …

There are a couple of things I’ve noticed about the iPhone 3G that I didn’t mention in my original post that I would like to cover. First off, the iPhone comes with what look at …

Last week the proverbial last straw was placed on my back by Sprint. Though they have tried like crazy to retain my business over the years and I still had 4 phones under contract I …