Archive for the ‘apple’ Category

How to Take iPhone Screenshots

Friday, March 27th, 2009

My company uses salesforce.com for our CRM. The other day I installed the Salesforce Mobile app on my iPhone so that I could access our customer data on the go. I had enabled mobile access in our account, so I thought everything should work pretty easily. I launched the app, typed ...

Remember Everything with Evernote

Monday, January 19th, 2009

While visiting family and friends in San Francisco for Christmas and New Year's, my friend Tim was raving about a Web app called Evernote -- how it was allowing him (and his boss) to remove all paper from his life, when he combined it with a new high-speed scanner (though ...

Ocarina: Play Music on Your iPhone

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

The versatility and all-around awesomeness of the iPhone continues to amaze me on a near-daily basis. Last night while sitting in my living room, I was playing one of the all-time best video games around: Pac-Man. I then downloaded (another) weather app for the iPhone: The Weather Channel's iPhone app, ...

Google Earth for iPhone

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

I haven't really written much about the iPhone or any apps since I finally got one (iPhone 3G) on July 22 -- 11 days after it was released. Since then, I've downloaded lots of free apps and have even bought a few (Scrabble, TriCalc, Election '08). Some are must-have apps (Facebook, ...

How to Hack Your Nano / Nike+ Run Data When iPod Freezes

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

Today was my weekly Team in Training run -- I'm training for and planning to run a marathon to raise money for blood cancer research -- and 6.61 miles into the run, my iPod Nano froze on me for the first time in the month that I've had it (yes, ...

Use Your iPod Nano & Nike+ to Track Mileage

Monday, February 25th, 2008

You've probably seen the commercial. You may even know someone who runs. But you probably wonder: Does that whole iPod and Nike+ thing really work? Oh yes. And it's even better than you might think. I started running in late December 2007 when a group of friends decided to run ...