I first started using Instagram in November 2010, and it's one of my favorite photo apps. The fact that it's on my iPhone home screen is a testament to it's draw. The clever filters designed to make photos look old-timey draw the ire of many photographers, but people love'em. One of the … [Read more...]
Comic: Cell Phones
So true... Is it true for you? Leave a comment! via xkcd … [Read more...]
Gamifying Health and Fitness: Five iOS Apps
I am a huge fan of gamification and quantification. What is it? Simply put, gamification leverages game mechanics to make something routine seem more like fun, therefore encouraging you to do it over and over again. And quantification employs tracking your activities, statistics and other data over … [Read more...]
Steve Jobs, Apple Visionary, Dies at 56
Steve Jobs, the visionary leader of Apple has died at the age of 56, just a few months after announcing his retirement as CEO. Jobs had been battling pancreatic cancer for eight years. The Apple website has been replaced with an memorial for the man who not only co-founded the company, but helped … [Read more...]
Skype Purchases GroupMe
Group messaging startup GroupMe has agreed to be acquired by Skype. GroupMe was started just a year ago by Jared Hecht and Steve Martocci and has already raised over 11 million from investors. What is GroupMe? GroupMe allows you to create on the fly private phone groups with others, and then … [Read more...]
Trillian for Blackberry Beta
The popular and venerable multi-network IM program Trillian is now available in an open beta test for Blackberry devices. Like the other versions of Trillian, this supports the major instant messaging networks including AIM, ICQ, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, MySpace and … [Read more...]
Blackberry Email Outage
Blackberry users throughout North America faced long delays receiving email on their devices this Thursday. Research In Motion said they were aware of the problem and that engineers were working to solve it as soon as possible. RIM noted that customers could still make and receive phone calls, text … [Read more...]
The Truth About Sexting
Sexting is all over the news these days. Whether you find it risky or risque, Joy of Tech's Nitrozac and Snaggy share the truth about sexting in this week's Sunday Funny. … [Read more...]
Google Goggles for Android
Google has done some interesting things with mobile search in the past year, introducing voice search and local search using the location awareness capabilities of today's smartphones. Today, they are introducing visual search called Google Goggles. Google Goggles let's you take a picture of … [Read more...]
Nimbuzz Intros IM for BlackBerry
Nimbuzz has created the first multi-network IM app for BlackBerry smartphones available in the RIM App World store. Because it's design as a native BlackBerry app, it can run in the background and push notifications to the phone much like their iPhone and Android apps can. This is the first … [Read more...]