It’s happened to all of us. There’s someone special in your life, maybe a parent, maybe a significant other. It’s their birthday/bar mitzvah/parole hearing and a gift is called for. You love them to pieces, but you don’t have the faintest idea what they might want. Instead of getting them something they actually want, you […]
Last Friday was a monumental day in my life. As an ardent anti-Apple advocate since my purchase of a second generation iPod touch way back in 2008, I have declared Apple products overpriced, showy, and too locked-down. I believed iPhones, iPads, and MacBooks were for the yuppies of the world, the hipsters, and those who […]
Every year at SXSW, a new social media platform becomes the darling of the hipster/techie set. This year, the app blowing up in Austin is Highlight, a location-based social media friend finder. Think of it like Grindr, but without the inherent gay dating aspect. Or like Blendr, except without the ick factor of every media […]
Raise your hand if you’ve ever bought a phone only to find a cheaper one on sale right after the return period lapses. Anyone? Yes? Yeah, me too. Like just now. After recently purchasing an iPhone 4 on Sprint, I see Amazon is offering any Sprint 4G phone for a penny. On top of that, […]
I started using Android’s Google Music app in place of my iPod about two months ago. While I haven’t missed carrying around an extra piece of hardware in my pocket, here are a few details keeping the Google Service from eclipsing Apple’s gold standard iPod. (For our purposes here, I’m specifically talking about the Android […]
Apple’s Siri application and her Android competition have been on my radar for a few months now, but somehow I managed to miss the commercial that Apple released several weeks ago. [yframe url=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G8fG1bKgQo’] Smart of them to go for the youth market, but somehow this tongue-in-cheek (and a bit NSFW) remix by Matt Binder does […]
It looks like Fox News reporter Shepard Smith has discovered what most cell phone power users have known for some time now. Namely, that just because your cell plan says it’s unlimited doesn’t mean it actually is. The TV personality’s home WiFi is down, so AT&T went and throttled his data connection. Check out the […]
When Sprint added the venerated iPhone to their mobile lineup, analysts were a bit nervous about what it was actually costing the company. After all, while a consumer pays $199 for their Siri-packing iPhone 4S (or $99 for just the iPhone 4), Sprint is actually subsidizing those costs. The goal is to get people locked […]
Frank Warren, proprietor of famous blog/community art project PostSecret announced late last week that the site was permanently pulling the best-selling app from the Apple App Store. In a post on Sunday, Warren explained, saying that the decision was based on abuses of the app and threats from anonymous users. Like the PostSecret Blog, the […]
With a year left on my Verizon contract, I’m right at that sweet spot in the two-year-contract life cycle. I’m far enough from the decision on my current device that I’ve forgotten most of the research I did last November, and I’m far enough from my next purchase that it’s not nearly time to start […]
