Archive for the ‘iphone’ Category
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
Aardvark is like having a social network-powered librarian in your pocket (though less qualified than an actual librarian). Both an easy-to-use iPhone app and a website, Aardvark is a question-and-answer service that was acquired by Google for $50 million in February.
Aardvark leverages the power of worldwide social networking to ...
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
reMail is like X1 for the iPhone.
As I've written here in the past, X1 is a must-have tool for anyone who's serious about archiving and finding Outlook email -- its instant search works so fast and so well partly because it keeps a copy of emails in its search index.
I ...
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Saturday, October 31st, 2009
One of the simplest yet most useful iPhone apps I've come across is Instapaper, which offers a simple way to bookmark something so that you can read it later.
It solves that problem where someone sends you a link or you stumble across an article online that interests you, but you ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
I've long been a Quicken user and still use it for the primary management of mine and my wife's finances (currently on Quicken Deluxe 2007). I've also tried out just about every online financial management tool out there, including Wesabe and Mint.com.
Since my first interaction with it during its beta ...
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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, ...
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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, ...
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Hi, I'm Gabe Anderson. I've published more than 2,000 personal and professional blog entries on my other blogs since 2000.
