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One of the most useful features/services of today’s smartphones is the ability to take advantage of the integrated GPS chip in combination with an always-on data connection, facilitating location-aware apps. Priced at $1.99, “Allstays Truck & Travel” is an app that is available for Apple iOS and Google Android. It’s part of a larger suite of different types of location-aware
Making the switch to Mac OS/X a few years ago as my primary computing platform was not without its sacrifices. Among these was Adobe Audition. Sure, I could use Audition in a Windows virtual machine, but it just wasn't the same thing and entailed its own sacrifices. Sacrifice no more. Adobe finally heeded the call for Audition for Mac OS/X,
Before she retired, my Mom used to be a nurse. She typically would always keep around a few current medical books describing diseases and other books listing prescription drugs and their uses. While these sorts of books can make for rather dry reading, they can also be extremely interesting to thumb through from time to time. They can be particularly
dtSearch recently distributed a review copy of version 7.65 (build 7907) which I have been using for a few days. If you aren't familiar with the product, it's a desktop search engine on steroids. It does, not just the desktop, but your entire network. The idea is to make any text document available to you in a flash, not matter
Have you ever downloaded some data off the 'net only to find it's in a compressed or archive file format that your PC doesn't have a helper app for? Or you're fixing up a friend's PC, you download some drivers and ditto, you can't get them unpacked? If so, you'll be interested in WobZIP. It's a web site where you
Adam Curry is a clever guy. Back in 2004 he was working on the concept of podcasting. Now he is pioneering smartphone apps. About 6 months ago, Adam Curry came out with a free iPhone application called “The Big App Show.” Each day, day in and day out, Curry records a new video of himself demonstrating an iPhone app. The
I’ve been using Android for a while now and feel I’ve been using it long enough to make some meaningful observations. I like Android. It’s quick. It’s powerful. It has some astounding voice recognition capability built right in that even the iPhone can’t touch. For example, hold down the search button and when the voice search box pops up say