Bluetooth headsets are becoming increasingly innovative as their popularity increases, with each brand finding unique ways to distinguish its products. My previous review of a bluetooth headset, the Jawbone Icon, introduced the truly unique idea of being able to “program” your headset with voices and features, and the ability to add and remove features such as A2DP via the use of “apps” made for your headset – all from your Mac or PC! This time around, the standards are set, and SoundID’s newest offering takes software control of your headset to a whole new level. Click the jump to find out more! Read the rest of this entry »
iPhone Apps
A common struggle in having both an iPhone and a Mac is in exchanging information between the two devices. Many times, I’ll find something great while browsing on my Mac, only to have to email it to myself to read it on my Mac. Alternately, I’ve often found wanting to copy something I’m working on on my Mac to the iPhone’s clipboard, or vice versa. Even having to deal with the clipboard limitations on the iPhone (only one thing can be copied at a time) can be taxing. Thankfully, TapBots has a solution: PasteBot for iPhone and iPad. Read the rest of this entry »
Imagine, you are sitting in a coffee shop, miles away from home when you realize you need to email your colleague the presentation you both are working on, then you simply open an app on your iPhone and send it. Here, File File! makes this and much more possible. Read the rest of this entry »
The iPad is truly a magical device with a great browser, the power of iTunes, and thousands of apps delivered with the App Store, but does it really replace a laptop? The answer for me is no. I tend to want ways of getting back to my desktop to access applications that are not available on the iPad (Excel, Garage Band, Etc), but how? Currently there are many different apps out there that act as a VNC (Virtual Network Computing) client, but in this review I will focus on two: iTeleport and LogMeIn Ignition. Read the rest of this entry »
It has been discovered this morning that Apple has unveiled the much-hyped iBooks app for all iOS devices running iOS 3.2 or later (meaning iPhone users will need to be running the 4.0 developers beta to take advantage). Now all you early adopters can have your Winnie the Pooh and read it to – courtesy of Steve! Engadget’s tipsters have pointed out that they get a notification that encourages them to download the previously iPad-exclusive App. They’re also reporting that they have to use desktop iTunes in order to make it work – it wont download over the air. Engadget has not been able to get the app running on the iPhone 3G, so perhaps this is another of those features you’re not going to be able to enjoy on older hardware – hopefully this turns out not to be the case. Read the rest of this entry »
There are a lot of password apps out there – some for iPhone, some for Mac, and some trying to fill both niches. Today, we’re going to take a look at one of the newer offerings: Password Caddy for iPhone. Password Caddy is a well-designed app that seems to work well. It provides tutorials to teach you how to store and recall apps, the interface is appealing, it provides a great level of encryption, and has some pretty useful features. We’ll look into and discuss a few of those below.
Bento for Mac is an extraordinary application that allows for a completely customizable user experience in database creation. In other words, Bento allows you to take just about everything on your Mac further, from iPhoto to Numbers spreadsheets, as well as pre-created templates for inventories, party planners, to-do lists, and a lot more. Bento is also available in a native iPhone app that allows for database creation just like the Mac version. Now, Filemaker – the people behind Bento – have released Bento for iPad, an amazing app that takes advantage of just about everything on the new “magical and revolutionary” device. Read the rest of this entry »
