Knock knock. Who’s there? An interrupting notification. An interrupting notif… TWEET! Apparently Apple is going to buy a company to redo their notifications for them. I’m not sure why they don’t just have the devs who did the original system fix it, but then again, I don’t really care. As long as they care of [...]
Also taggedIn an effort to vie for your attention in the Check In Wars, Gowalla now lets you check in on Facebook and Foursquare. In an effort to vie for your attention in the TV and Movie Watching Wars, Netflix is willing to shell out big bucks for in-season TV shows. Good thing because the prospect [...]
Also tagged Check In Wars, Gowalla, Location, NetflixI learned: That I can type on my phone for about 8 minutes in 40 degrees before my hands get cold enough that I want to stop. Of course I could do better if it was an emergency. You know, a typing on your phone for extended periods in cold weather emergency.
Also tagged Weather, You Learn Something New Every DayMaybe they make more off the BlackBerry since they don’t have to give as much back to the manufacturer of the phone?
Also tagged AT&T, BlackberryBut none of the recently announced innovations are making my eyes light up like a kid first gazing on his Easter basket. First, from the Gmail Blog: Nested Labels and Message Preview. The Nested Labels thing actually did have me excited as though it were a chocolate egg or perhaps a Peep. But then I [...]
Also tagged android, Droid, Gmail, Nexus OneReadWriteWeb says it’s already common in Asia. I told me wife when we got our iPhones last year that some day we’d be paying with our phones instead of credit cards. She wasn’t entirely convinced, but I think the only real argument she had was that if you lose your phone you lose not just [...]
Also tagged NFC, The Future is ComingIt’s funny that the these two posts both appeared on TechCrunch just yesterday… First: Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt on the Magical Potential of Mobile Cloud. I will re-blockquote: The mobile platforms, Android and the others, are so powerful now that you can build client apps that do magical things that are connected with the cloud. [...]
Also tagged Google, Lala.com, Mobile WebThe need to call my brother-in-law when I was out and needed access to a computer ended when I got my iPhone, but now Aardvark has taken that sort of help and said “Hey, you can ask hundreds of people’s brothers-in-law at the same time!” I’ve been a fan of Aardvark for some time now, [...]
Also tagged AardvarkI don’t know how this is going to work once we start Waving everybody, but for now, this is how I populate my To Read List without using Delicious or Instapaper or {Your App Here}, but rather with a tool that requires no additional sign-ups: Email. Okay, I lied a little. You’ll need an RSS [...]
Also tagged Getting Things Done, Gmail, Google Reader, Offline Apps, Productivity, To Read