Posts tagged ‘iphone’
The return of TaskPaper
November 14th, 2011 at 8:05 am by Dr. Drang
Several months ago, I got so sick of TaskPaper asking me for my password so it could sync that I stopped using it entirely and went back to keeping my to-do lists in Markdown files synced via Dropbox. On Halloween, a new version of TaskPaper came out that—finally!—drops the homemade syncing system and uses Dropbox…
Savior of the Universe
November 9th, 2011 at 9:13 pm by Dr. Drang
Following a link from Michael Tsai (who’s been my go-to blogger recently on the OS X sandboxing controversy), I read this post by Jeff LaMarche on Adobe’s announcement of the end of mobile Flash. The key passage is this: I missed a huge factor in the demise of Flash. I assumed the performance issues they…
Dash it all
October 23rd, 2011 at 7:45 pm by Dr. Drang
I wanted to type a dash in a text message today and saw something I thought was new—two types of long dash in the hyphen popup. I know iOS 4 had a popup on the hyphen key, but I would swear it had only one long dash on it—the em dash, I think. It’s hard…
Eliminating doubled iPhone calendar entries
October 19th, 2011 at 8:23 am by Dr. Drang
I upgraded to iOS 5 last Thursday, and it went pretty smoothly. The only exception was that most of my calendar events showed up doubled on the iPhone. After a weekend of hoping it was a temporary iClould glitch that would resolve itself, I decided on Monday I needed to do something to fix it.…
iMessage
October 15th, 2011 at 10:12 pm by Dr. Drang
Maybe someone can tell me different, but I see the new iMessage feature as completely useless for me. Apple’s description touts it this way: If you’re a texter, you’ll love Messages on iPhone. Now it comes with iMessage, a new service that’s even better than texting. Because it’s between you and anyone using an iPhone,…
JotNot
October 13th, 2011 at 9:46 pm by Dr. Drang
A weird quirk of my job is that I often find myself away from my office—or any office—needing to make a copy of a piece of paper. Sometimes the paper is printed, sometimes handwritten, but either way, I can’t take the original with me and I don’t have a handy way to make a copy.…
3½
October 12th, 2011 at 10:30 pm by Dr. Drang
With iOS 5 out today and the embargo on 4S reviews lifted, I suspect the weeklong blog argument about whether the iPhone’s screen is too small or just right is over. And when the interest in a topic has waned, that’s when I finally get around to blogging about it. I was surprised by three…
Family iPhone upgrade policy
October 4th, 2011 at 11:23 am by Dr. Drang
My wife didn’t want an iPhone. All of her friends had those side-slider things with physical keyboards, and she was sure that she’d never get the hang of an onscreen keyboard, so we got her whatever side-slider AT&T had at the time. It was a pain to set up its home screen and menu system…
Integrality of the game
September 22nd, 2011 at 11:35 pm by Dr. Drang
I started using the Yahoo! Sports mobile site a few days ago to keep track of scores and standings. I’ve been using SportsTap for ages, but its server connection has been unreliable lately, so I thought I’d try something else. Overall, Y! SPORTS1 is a snappy, easy-to-navigate mobile web app with a nice layout. But…
Right
August 24th, 2011 at 11:45 pm by Dr. Drang
The unique thing about Steve Jobs isn’t his attention to detail, isn’t his incredible focus, isn’t his good taste in product design. These have all been a part of his success, of course, but lots of people are focused and detail-oriented. Relatively few, especially in the tech business, combine that with good taste, but they’re…
