iPhone Users Won’t Care Much About Google Voice
Google Voice came to the iPhone last week. After a few posts it was just a little blip. Today it doesn’t feature in most downloaded or what’s hot in the App store and I’m not surprised. GoogleVoice...
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FaceTime: VoIP Product of the Year
I’ve been meaning to write a few blogs for awhile. However, this one can’t wait. With the year running out… the question is. WHAT WAS THE VOIP PRODUCT OF THE YEAR? In a year 2010 where there have been...
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Buying your Soft-Sim mobile. Who’s taking control? Who should get it?
This post talks “Sim-free” or “soft-SIM” solutions and implications. At one time it looked like iPhone 5 would launch with a soft-sim. Today that seems unlikely – although it certainly isn’t off the...
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Ethnographer’s Mobile Tools – Audio Note
I’ve decided to publish a short series on mobile tools that can be adapted effectively for the ethnographers craft. Today let’s think about recording the discussion/observations. Typically I use a note...
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Ethnographer’s Mobile Tools: Coach’s Eye
Another in a series…. identifying useful mobile tools we can use on the job that help us share better later. Most of us have used our mobile video function at some time. Yet when it comes to editing,...
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Ethnographer’s Mobile Tools – Document Scan – Flipchart Capture
Another in this Ethnographer’s Mobile Tools series… making your SmartPhone your best friend in the field… and how to do the job a little better. You have probably used your smart phone to take pictures...
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Ethnographer’s Mobile Tools – Dot and The Looker – 360 Degree Video
Now this is one experimental product I’m hoping to make use of… rather than just having it sitting here. Here’s the problem. You are running a small group interview. Typically the camera or cameras are...
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Apple #iPhone – Please let us upload Photo’s / Videos via iOS Safari
Time to complain about Apple’s highly restrictive iOS Safari policy. Here’s my example – you be the judge. I am visiting a website on my mobile. It has a form that asks for a photo. However the choose...
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Siri – What Will You Do For Me in 2012? #iphone #developers #api
As 2011 closes it is becoming more obvious that Siri really changed the perspective on how we communicate and use smart phones. Siri is beta for a reason. It doesn’t always work and you still have to...
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Air Dictate: Using Siri on your Mac
I’m creating this post using air dictate a new application which allows you to use Siri on your Mac. Let’s just say it works fine. Many years ago when I first started working I used a Dictaphone . Now...
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2012 The Year for App 2.0 – Your Current Apps are Obsolete – Thumbs Down...
I’ve been reviewing my app usage and writing about some of the ones I use. I’ve come to the conclusion that many apps are now out of date and ready for the scrap heap. Flipboard really pushed me to...
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What App Do You Wish You Could Design Today? – My Safeway Shopper
Time to consider a place I shop at least once a week and ask “Why isn’t there a Safeway App for that?” That’s right there’s been no real advance in Supermarket shopping in ages. Well a some stores have...
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Dear Apple, Why I want a Bluetooth mic enabled for video on my iPhone 4s.
Dear Apple, I’m really impressed with the latest iPhone 4S video camera. It’s close to passing my on the move motorcycle torture test. Yet fails at the most basic level. In video mode it won’t let my...
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iPhone 4 Resale – Trading Up – Economics? Or Just Pleasure?
I’ve been selling iPhones as each new generation comes along. In December I upgraded to an Apple unlocked iPhone 4S. So I had a spare iPhone 4 32GB to sell. I thought about taking it to India, as I’ve...
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Day One Notes from Apple #WWDC – It’s got me thinking.
I’m sitting down at the end of the day reflecting on what I heard or thought about today at the Apple WWDC or World Wide Developer Conference. It’s my gig for the rest of the week! Lucky me as tickets...
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Will a Camera get you to leave your iPhone or Galaxy for a Nokia Lumia 1020?...
The announcement of the Nokia Lumia 1020 apparently takes miniaturized camera’s ahead in ways not easily followed. This post in The Register outlines the technology and what’s been achieved. So the...
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Apple’s iPhone Launch Stirs Questions and Observations
Well fanboy blogs are full of Apple’s iPhone announcements today. Apple stock price is down slightly. Generally most will yawn and then more iPhones will be sold than ever before. A quick review left...
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When Stats About Kids and Tablets Require Context
I like stats however, these are telling us what we already know, and can guess at with a high degree of accuracy just by observation and extrapolation. When you consider the context of kids lives and...
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FaceTime Audio – Are Phone Favorites a Mess on Purpose? Apple Changing Our...
iOS 7 brought Facetime Audio to iPhone and a slew of little changes to contacts, favorites and a new “FaceTime” icon. In all the commentary no one has analyzed how Apple is actually encouraging the...
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iBeacon comes to MLB – Great Venue for Testing New Technology
Apple very smartly along with MLB announced another iBeacon initiative. Unlike the AppleTV discovery this one is all about entertainment. That’s a lot better than being introduced with too many tacky...
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