Ever get the feeling you’re being watched by someone? At Bookshop Santa Cruz, that someone is Steve Jobs. The Walter Isaacson biography keeps popping up in unexpected places all over the store, spying on patrons and employees.
Archives for October 2011
This Week’s Best Apps #8
This week: 16 brand-spanking-new apps! Games, interactive books, music, a unique alarm clock, one of the most popular board games of all time comes to the iPad, and everybody’s favorite: zombies!
How To: Rename Your Mail Flags For Better Prioritizing
Apple made some huge changes to Mail with the release of OS X Lion. Some of its lesser-known features can make your life a lot easier, but you may not know they’re there. Here’s one of my favorites.
What If iPads Wore Clothes?
The iPad: it’s sleek, it’s hip, it’s awesome. But is it fashion? One startup hopes to make clothes for computers and tablets as popular as Gap or Abercrombie.
Spook your friends with HauntedFace and ZombieBooth this Halloween
Every year we try to find ways to spook our friends and this time I cracked it with HauntedFace Lite and ZombieBooth Lite for the iPhone. Yeah sadly no universal version yet but it works fine on the iPad. The app is similar to Photo Booth effects but turns your face into a horrendous mistake […]
Snarky Siri
Apple gave Siri a lot more than intelligence — she has a sense of humor, too. iPhone 4S users have been asking Siri all sorts of esoteric questions, and Siri’s not shy about showing off her sarcastic side, as you can see from these Siri answers collected from around the web.
Review: Squids
Tablets are slowly easing portable game consoles are the preferred platform for gaming. Tablets offer convenience (you don’t need to carry an extra device to play games) and a literally more hands-on way for controls. At this point, one of the factors where portable game consoles edge tablets is with game selection. But this fact […]
Review: Man In Space
Confession time: I’m a serious space junkie. Since I was a kid, I’ve loved everything about the space program. So try as I might to keep my review of this interactive book objective, I can’t deny that this is a subject very near to my heart.
This Week’s Best Apps #7
Download these 15 brand new apps, just released this week, that you shouldn’t live without.
How To Access Facebook’s New HTML5 Web App On The iPad
In today’s competitive world, every company is working very hard for experimenting new things to stand out in the crowd. Facebook is also engaged in the same. Facebook is becoming an important part of almost all the mobile companies. Facebook has about 800 million users but among all about 350 millions are logged in by […]
5 Unusual Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About Steve Jobs
Apple recently lost visionary leader who was the master behind the ionic products like iPad, iPhone and iPod along with the personal computing. Steve jobs, was no doubt one of the most significant industry leaders of his generation. This legendary industrialist died after his long battle with pancreatic cancer on 6th October, 2011. All the […]
iOS 5 Now Account for 20 Percent of iOS Traffic
To say that deployment of Apple’s newest mobile operating system iOS 5 is a success may be putting it mildly. Apple’s hotly anticipated new operating system may have just been released last October 12, but in just a little more than a week, iOS 5 is already accounting for 20 percent of the web traffic […]
Steve Jobs Portrait Made of 3,750 Apples
An artist in Quebec used 3,750 apples (relax, he just used apples that had started rotting!) to create this incredible portrait of Steve Jobs. I have a feeling Apple’s late CEO would approve.
10 Features We Want For iPad 3
Is it too early to start talking about the iPad 3? We don’t think so! Apple announced the iPad 2 in January of this year, so it follows that iPad 3 will make headlines in just a few months. Here are the 10 upgrades we want most.
Learning from Apple’s advertising landmarks in the 80’s
I came across some scans of some of Apple’s advertising material for print. Though from the 80’s they clearly define an emerging Apple trying to break free from the conventional ways of doing things, clearly defining their ‘Think Different’ campaign. Personally, I do find Apple circa 1980’s to have been a more interesting one as […]
