Author Archives: PatrickJ
Ping. Does Anyone Use Ping, Ever?
Have you been doing a lot of Pinging lately? Not pinging like ‘ping google.com’ to test your connectivity, you know using Ping to tell all your friends about music you’re listening to. You remember Ping right? Apple’s ‘social network for music’ launched back in September of 2010. Honestly, I had …
BlackBerry’s Wake Up Campaign Reveal Is Just As Terrible As its Beginning
Remember the comical, stupid ‘guerilla marketing’ Wake Up stunt outside an Apple store in Australia? That’s the one everyone initially suspected Samsung was behind; but it turned out that it was yet another hairbrained scheme from the marketing geniuses at RIM. The ‘campaign’ behind the stunt has now been revealed, …
Penultimate Just Became a Must-have App
Penultimate, one of the most popular handwriting apps for the iPad, has become part of the Evernote family – as in, Evernote has acquired the company that makes Penultimate. Cocoa Box’s Penultimate, the beautifully simple handwriting app for iPad, has been one of our favorites pretty much since it came …
Joy of Tech Offers Perfect Wake-up Call for RIM
Brilliant stuff as ever from Joy of Tech. This one is particularly spot-on given that we found out earlier this week that RIM, makers of Blackberry products, were behind the ridiculous and embarrassing ‘Wake Up’ marketing stunt outside an Apple Store in Australia. I agree with Joshua Schnell’s take on …
The Daily Now Has an iPhone App
The Daily – the first ever iPad-only newspaper – has now got an iPhone version. The new iPhone app is available now in the App Store. It’s a free app but The Daily are still touting that existing iPad subscribers get the app for free. I’m a subscriber so I’m …
Mac App Store Hit 10,000 Apps Last Week – How Many Have You Bought?
The Mac App Store reached a milestone last week – 10,000 apps available on the store, after about a year and a quarter since its launch. Compared to the iOS app stores – with over 500,000 iPhone apps and 200,000 iPad apps available – this doesn’t seem a strikingly impressive …
Google Drive’s Lack of iOS Love = Nonsense
So this week Google launched what looks to be a major new product for them – Google Drive. It’s a cloud file sharing / storage solution that’s set to rival Dropbox, iCloud, Box.net, Skydrive and other similar services. It’s a rare Google product that is paid for (at all but …
Crazy Apple Numbers & Maybe a Little Hint from Tim Cook
Apple’s Q2 2012 financial results announced yesterday were as impressive as we’ve come to expect, and then some. Here are just a few of the incredible numbers reported by Apple and others like 9to5Mac: $110 billion in cash reserves 600,000 iOS apps (200,000 iPad apps) 365 million iOS devices sold …
Does the ‘This Desktop’ Setting for Apps in OS X Lion Work for Anyone?
Back in the olden days of OS X Snow Leopard I was a big fan of Spaces – those virtual desktop sort of places for apps. So I could have Mail in a space of its own, and Chrome, and Parallels Desktop, and Evernote, and OmniFocus – you get the …
When Will the People of Apple Website Launch?
Image Source: People of Walmart As 9to5Mac reported earlier this week, Apple has recently helped to create a store within a store Apple area inside a Walmart outlet in Arkansas. Apparently the concept may be coming to Walmart-owned Sam’s Club outlets as well. I see lots of stories about Apple …
Celebs + Siri = Latest iPhone 4S TV Ads
The latest TV ads for the iPhone 4S feature two big stars putting Siri to use. Samuel L. Jackson has her helping him with his date night preparations and Zooey Deschanel uses Siri on a rainy day to order soup and play her some dance music. Both ads are well …