iPhone Is On Its Way
This is the guy that Apple sued because he always get it right. So this is probably the real deal: Apple iPhone to be Cingular-exclusive at launch By Ryan Katz, Senior Editor September 26, 2006 –...
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Cell Phones on Air Planes
I just read this on CNN that Emeritus Airlines will allows people to talk on their cell phones throughout a flight. I think this is great although it would be pretty annoying when you’re trying to...
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Holy Crap the iPhone is AMAZING
Granted, i haven’t seen it in person or used it, but i watched the Macworld speech by Steve Jobs about it and let me tell you – the phone looks incredible. The phone looks awesome but more than that,...
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Put A Pedometer on my Cell Phone
I think it’d be a good idea and it would interesting to see how far i go every day and how many calories i’m burning through. Of course the application would have to be running at all times which...
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iPhone will take down Blackberry eventually
I had a Blackberry Pearl and loved it. I was planning to keep it – until i saw a friend’s iPhone. It was just so frackin’ slick that i couldn’t stay away. Does Blackberry do email better? Yes....
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Blogging from iPhone
I just downloaded the WordPress iPhone application. I’m pretty excited because now I can do some blogging from the road. I’m not exactly how it’ll work. I’m thinking I’ll send the text up from the...
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Mobile World Congress wrapup
I spent the week at MWC in Barcelona this past week. I made my way to a bunch of booths and companies. It was a huge show. Here are some thoughts: Phone Operating Systems There were many new phones...
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iPhone Usage
pescatello on Flickr It was interesting to see in a report yesterday that the iPhone, even though it represents only 1.2% of the total mobile phone market, represents 66% of total mobile web traffic....
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The iPhone and the world of computers
I’m an iPhone users and i love it. It has transformed my mobile phone usage and dare i say, my life. With the internet at my fingertips, i no longer go more than 10 seconds without knowing the answer...
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Where’s the Android?
Image via CrunchBase Why no Android phones? I love Android as a concept but every time i hear about a new manufacturer releasing new handsets they are always on Windows Mobile. I went to Mobile...
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I Want a Real Apple TV
Apple keep talking about a tablet to be released sometime soon. What i really want is an AppleTV – and i don’t mean the box that attaches to the TV. I want an actual TV created by Apple that’s an LCD...
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Things we’ll say to our grandkids
In the Oct. Wired magazine they had a small blurb about things we’ll say to our grandkids. Some of the good ones were: Back in my day, we only needed 140 characters There used to be so much snow up...
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Google Crushes Its Complements
Image via CrunchBase Just was reading about Google Maps, specifically their turn-by-turn, and its impact on the maps market. As many people know, there are 2 main players in the map market: Tele Atlas...
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Droid vs. iPhone Grudge Match
Raduchel recently did a post that inspired me to speak up as I’ve been carrying around both an iPhone and a Droid for the past few weeks (since Droid’s launch) and comparing the two. I’ve set the...
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My Moments of 2009
2009 was a fun year. I traveled to 42 cities, 4 countries and logged over 100k miles. I also found time to stay at home and do stuff. Looking back on the year, some things really stand out. For...
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Reflections from CES
I spent a few days at CES and while i didn’t get to walk the floor as much as i had hoped, i did get around enough to figure out what the themes were this year. Here are my thoughts: Televisions. The...
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Cool Green Stuff
As Kermit used to say, “it’s not easy being green,” which is why i thought these items were pretty cool… First there’s a new Puma phone that was announced this week at MWC (the largest mobile...
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Microsoft vs. Apple
There’s been lots of talk about how Apple’s market cap is about to equal Microsoft’s. People love to discuss this because of the battle the two companies have fought over the past 3 decades....
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Gearbox is Rolling
The future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed. - William Gibson I did see the future this summer – just in bits and pieces. Let me explain…. As many of you know, i had an amazing...
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Fitbit App, Where Are You?
I love the Fitbit service. I’ve been using it now for 8 months.It’s a great little service that allows you to track your activity. The UI is also quite slick so entering in your weight and food is a...
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Steve Jobs: Designer First, CEO Second
I recently read a great interview by John Scully where he talks about Steve Jobs. Scully was CEO of Apple for almost a decade. It’s just a great read. For anyone in the tech business, this is a...
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A Genius Ad
When you click on the Movies app on your iPhone, you get this popup advertisement: The only way to get past it without being taken to the Living Social site is to click “I Hate Cupcakes” Sure, it’s...
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Apple is Crushing It
Say what you will about Apple’s product and their company culture. They can be closed (vs. Google’s “open”) and the company can be arrogant, but you have to admire how successful they are right now....
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How i get stuff done
A few people asked me this week how keep track of things i need to get things done. So, let me tell you. First, I keep an ongoing Task list. I have a big list and then i have a line in that list that...
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Steve Jobs Biography was Great
I just finished the Steve Jobs book and it was probably one of the most enjoyable books i’ve read in a long long time. I might say the past 10 years. Here’s why: Steve Jobs really cared about his...
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Steve Jobs on the Post-PC World.
I listened this morning to a podcast where Steve Jobs was interviewed at the All Things D conference. He talked (around 45 min mark) about the post-PC world. I thought it was a pretty interesting...
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Thoughts on the iPhone 5
At the Kapost office yesterday, about half the company was glued to live-blogging of the iPhone 5 announcement. What we saw was only a blog but watching it was quite a show. A few things stood out...
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Tap-Essays & Getting from Likes to Love
Read a great essay today. It wasn’t a typical essay but it was a “tap essay.” What is that? Well it’s an article optimized for a device and makes it easy to give it your full attention. Not only was...
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iPhone5: 3 months in
I wrote a post about 4 months ago about the iPhone5 and what I thought about it. This was before i had purchased it or even used it. I have now been using my iPhone 5 for over 3 months and really...
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My Pebble Watch
About 10 months ago, I watched this video on Kickstarter and was really intrigued about the thought of having a watch send me updates from my iPhone. I put some money down in May 2012 and waited. And...
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Apple Maps vs. Google Maps: A Rant
I recently heard someone talk about what a bad move it was for Apple to release their own Maps app on the iPhone. I’ve heard this maybe half a dozen times lately and I couldn’t disagree more. We...
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I wrote a post a few years ago about cognitive surplus and how we’re all doing more and more stuff on the web. One of the stories in that post was: I was having dinner with a group of friends about a...
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Yahoo! is on it’s way back
I had pretty much written Yahoo off. I thought they were dead. They hadn’t done anything new and interesting for over 5 years. Their webpages looked like crap. They were just treading water. That...
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Earn Points with Grandma: The Postgram App
I was visiting my grandmother last weekend. This is the same grandmother that was spotted on the streets of Manhattan at age 90 and asked to be a model for GNC (blog post: My Grandmother is Amazing)....
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My New Favorite App: PaperKarma
My brother-in-law (aka TheBoss) tipped me off to this wonderful app the other day. It’s called PaperKarma and here’s how it works: Get your mail from the mailbox Get a bunch of crappy catalogs in...
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Foursquare Swarming and the death of the Mayorship
I’m a big FourSquare user and i have been since they launched. I think I was one of the original 10k users to sign up for the service. Looking at my profile, i can see that i’ve done over 5700 checkin...
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Thoughts on Apple’s iPhone 6 & ApplePay
I listened to the announcement last week and have a lot of thoughts on the upcoming iPhone. Apple’s launch event came, and delivered (mostly) what had been leaked and/or expected: a larger iPhone...
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Bezos Interview: Publishing and Fire Phone
I recently read this interview of Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos. It’s pretty interesting. Some thoughts: eBooks / Publishing I had always assumed that the print/book industry was really struggling – similar...
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Apple’s No Jack City
Apple announced the new iPhone 7 yesterday and announced that they are removing the headphone jack. Some quick thoughts on that… Short Term Pain It’s annoying to have to live in a world where my...
View ArticleEpic Tweet Storm about Apple’s Development Process
This is an epic tweet storm about Apple’s development process by Steven Sinofsky. If you don’t know him, he ran the Microsoft Office business unit for over a decade. This rant touches on how to balance...
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