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Gamifying Health and Fitness: Five iOS Apps

November 3, 2012 by Jeff Hester 2 Comments

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...]

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Steve Jobs, Apple Visionary, Dies at 56

October 5, 2011 by Jeff Hester Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: iPhone Tagged With: Apple, iPhone, Steve Jobs

Yahoo Updates iPhone Messenger

December 3, 2009 by Mark Andrews 1 Comment

Yahoo has released an update to Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone. Version 1.3 fixes some bugs, adds support for several languages and adds some nice new features. What's New in 1.3? Finally Yahoo has added the most-requested feature -- the ability to change your display pic right from your iPhone. … [Read more...]

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iPhone MMS: 3 Days In

September 28, 2009 by Mark Andrews 6 Comments

Last Friday, AT&T added multimedia messaging (MMS) capability to the iPhone 3G and 3Gs, allowing customers to send and receive video, pictures and audio messages in the same way they could send text messages. Start Messaging To enable MMS messaging, connect your iPhone to your computer and … [Read more...]

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UPDATED: Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone

August 25, 2009 by Jeff Hester Leave a Comment

Last week, Yahoo! Messenger product manager Sarah Bacon put her foot in her mouth when she complained on the Y! Messenger blog that Apple was taking so long to approve their updated Yahoo! Messenger iPhone app. Somehow she missed the fact that the app has been resubmitted with some changes, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: iPhone Tagged With: Instant Messaging, iPhone, messenger, Mobile, yahoo

Trillian for iPhone Screenshots

July 2, 2009 by Jeff Hester 3 Comments

Cerulean Studios has begun beta testing Trillian for the iPhone, and BigBlueBall has new screenshots. The closed beta began tonight, and requires the iPhone OS 3.0. I've been running this Trillian beta on my year-old iPhone 3G for less than an hour, and I'm already impressed. Trillian for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: iPhone Tagged With: beta, instant messaging, iPhone, trillian

Enable iPhone Tethering

June 18, 2009 by Jeff Hester 4 Comments

Yesterday, Apple officially released the new iPhone OS 3.0 software update, which supports a slew of new features including the long awaited push notification and "catch-up" features such as support for MMS and tethering. Unfortunately, AT&T has said that MMS won't be available on their network … [Read more...]

Filed Under: iPhone Tagged With: AT&T, hack, iPhone, tethering

iPhone 3G Ass

June 14, 2009 by Jeff Hester 5 Comments

A hat tip to the Joy of Tech for skewering the latest Jesus phone -- the iPhone 3G S -- available beginning Friday June 19th. And if you want the iPhone 3G (not 's'), you'll be able to pick one up from AT&T for $99 with a two year commitment. I'm not eligible for a subsidized upgrade on my … [Read more...]

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Skype for iPhone Arrives Next Week

March 26, 2009 by Jeff Hester 4 Comments

I love a good rumor, especially when it's about two great products. In this case, the rumor involves the popular VoIP messenger Skype (which has been downloaded over 400 million times) and the iPhone. GigaOM has it on good authority that an official Skype app for the iPhone will be showing up at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: iPhone, Mobile Tagged With: iPhone, skype, VoIP

Nimbuzz Adds 3G VoIP to iPhone

March 19, 2009 by Jeff Hester 9 Comments

Nimbuzz today released an update to their VoIP application for the iPhone. The new version adds the ability to make VoIP calls to landlines and mobiels via Skype-Out and Nimbuzz's major SIP partners, including Gizmo5 and SIPgate. Nimbuzz also works on an iPod Touch via wifi, essentially turning it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: iPhone Tagged With: instant messaging, iPhone, nimbuzz, VoIP

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