Category Archives: Apple

Apple Watch ready iPhone app updates appearing

I’m not planning to buy an Apple Watch this year. But, if I do, it looks like a number of the apps I use are ready for it.

MobileViews Podcast 111: Apple Watch. Why all the haters?

Observances

Pi Day
Einstein’s Birthday
30th anniversary of the first domain name: Symbolics.com

Apple Watch

Notes

Oracle adds crapware to the Mac OS/X Java installation process.

Mobileviews Podcast 102: Microsoft Office for iPad & iPhone

News

Microsoft Office for iOS free. No need for Office 365 subscription.
Microsoft Office Sway? Ref: Microsoft Office Blog announcement.
â€œMaterialsâ€ Android apps appearing: Google Play, Gmail, Camera
Swype for iOS free app of the week

MobileViews Mailbag

Todd: Google Inbox as an Android battery killer
Jon: Get true push Gmail on an iPhone

MobileViews Podcast 99: New iPad/Mac speculation, connected devices, tips

Recorded: October 11, 2014

News
– Apple Oct. 16 announcements. New iPads – sure. iMacs – maybe. Mac mini – ? What happens to the iPod touch?
– Connected health devices. Ref: Mobile Health News & NPD
– Background content for Google Chromecast Ref: Google Chrome Blog
– AAA hands-free voice cognitive distraction ratings. Ref: AAA

Tips & Product Picks
– LEGO mini-figs to hold Apple lightning and other thin cables
– MMS support added to Google Voice. Enables support for, for example, Fandango movie tickets and other image based text messages. Ref: Google
– Diaries – the kind you might actually keep up with. Or for the young crowd: a social network of 1
— Day One (Mac OS / iOS; ). Reminds you to write entries, gives you prompts to get you thinking (i.e. â€œWhat was your favorite game in childhoodâ€)
— Evernote (Especially emailed with tags – shorthand: @notebook #tag in email subject to auto categorize
— Automating your life: Hazel & Keyboard Maestro for Mac OS X, IFTTT, Dropbox as a go-between

Konspiracy Korner
Ref: Wall Street Journal – IRobot Introduces System to Help Machines Think for Themselves