Tag: iOS

Free Scrabble Derivative for the Masses

Another quick blog for tonight. If you like scrabble but don’t feel like forking out for the paid app on your iOS device there is a similar version called “Words with Friends”. There is one difference compared to Scrabble (presumably to avoid litigation) which is the placement of the bonus tiles on the board (for …

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Phone Disk – Use Your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch as a Portable Drive

Phone Disk - Device Root Folder

Ever since the original iPhone came out, people have complained about Apple’s decision to prevent its use as a portable drive. Apple’s original iPods (excluding the iPod Touch) all supported the use of the device as an external drive which would show up in Windows or MacOS as another disk drive. There have been a …

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Google Engineer on Windows Phone 7: The World Doesn’t Need Another Mobile Platform

In a PCMag interview, Andy Rubin (a Google Engineer) made a statement in response to Windows Phone 7 in that “the world doesn’t need another mobile platform”. Of course, a statement like that is like rattling a hornets nest for fun and has certainly created some conjecture about the topic in general. What has drawn …

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Workarounds for iPhone and Daylight Savings

After seeing some complaints from family and friends about woes with the iPhone and alarms going off an hour early after daylight savings began on the weekend. Until Apple pulls its finger out and releases a fix there are a couple of things you can do in the meantime. Use one off alarms (which sucks …

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Windows Phone 7 RTMs

Microsoft officially released its new mobile phone operating system (which it called “release to manufacturing” or RTM) today in what marks a potential comeback for the company. For a long time, the Windows Mobile market had stagnated and vendors had to resort to skinning the aging OS to try and make it keep up with …

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Exchange ActiveSync for Hotmail Almost Upon Us

Smartphone users may have been frustrated by the inability to access their Hotmail accounts using POP3 whilst other services such as Gmail and Yahoo have allowed the use of IMAP and, in the case of Gmail, the use of Exchange ActiveSync technology to synchronise your mail, contacts and calendar and enable the use for push …

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Jailbreaking Made Easy with JailbreakMe

If you have an iPhone or know someone that does have one, you may have heard of the term “jailbreak” brought up in discussion every now and then. For the uninformed, a jailbreak provides the ability to run applications unapproved by Apple on your device and make other modifications otherwise impossible with a factory default …

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Exchange on the Cheap – Google Mail + ActiveSync = Google Sync

With the release of iOS 4 for iPhone (with iPad users still waiting patiently) the ability to have more than one Microsoft Exchange account (or similar through the use of ActiveSync) has been a long time coming. Those of us that use Microsoft Exchange at work know how handy it is to have push mail …

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