If there’s one thing “the cloud” is good for it’s for sharing notes and messages with others in an asynchronous manner, meaning I can make a change at my end that you can view later and vice-versa. Email and text messages can be used in a collaborative way, but tend to get out of control [...]

Since Apple is apparently allergic to including an actual to-do list in iOS, we’re all left to our own devices to figure out how to remain organized and stay on task. A new app from Scirocco Consultants called Primo Do tries to fill that gap with a full-featured to-do list that includes the standard features [...]

Years ago I had a cheap Motorola flip-phone that had extensive voice-activated features. The iOS platform has yet to come anywhere close to what my old “dumb phone” could do, including only some very basic calling and music-playing commands in the baked-in voice function. Voice Actions from developer Pannous attempts to fill in the missing [...]

If there is anything we can learn from the final closure of the remaining Borders Books stores, it is that we hate reading. Eye strain, use of your brain’s left hemisphere, learning: the list of annoyances attributed to reading actual words yourself goes on and on. So why not let your best friend do it [...]

If you’re a die-hard productivity addict, a road warrior with a need to access your files from anywhere and want to try leaving the bulky laptop at home, or just someone who doesn’t trust the big cloud sync players and wants to keep tighter control over their files (without having to learn to set up [...]

Anyone selling anything online these days faces the technical challenge of connecting their services and inventory to their customers. You must allow your customers to easily order and pay for goods and services in a way that is convenient, trusted, and flexible. This is not an insurmountable problem to be sure, but I think there [...]

Remember memorizing your multiplication tables, or important dates in history, or a few useful phrases for that vacation in Italy? Studying pairs of information can be a challenge, the main difficulty to overcome usually being how boring it is to sit down and go over static information. The iVocAudio app tries to make studying information [...]

It’s an old goal-achieving maxim that peer pressure is the way to enhance your chances of achieving your goals. Tell your friends, tell your family, tell your coworkers; tell everyone what you’re trying to accomplish, the thinking being that you won’t want to fall flat on your face in front of your entire peer group. [...]

For some reason there seems to be no shortage of browser alternatives for the iOS family of devices. While I recognize that mobile Safari isn’t the sexiest, sleekest, or fastest browser in the world, it certainly gets the job done. And in a mobile device that fits in the palm of your hand, what more [...]

There are over 225,000 apps in the iTunes App Store, and the number is growing each day. While the apps available are neatly divided into categories and you can browse by several different criteria, finding anything good in that morass of mediocrity is almost hopeless. Add to that the fact that developers change their prices [...]