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Apr 4, 2011

Motorola Bluetooth Headset

Have I turned into a gadget and app reviewer all of a sudden? Nah, don’t worry. It’s just that after a day full of academic paper writing (not my favorite past time), I need to crank out some text where I can be me. Not adhering to any rules but my own — where I can start a…

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Apr 4, 2011

Podcaster: Great iPhone Podcasting App

Over the past months I’ve been using [Podcaster](http://podcaster.fm/), a pretty good podcasting application for iPhone. Before I used iTunes to download podcasts and sync them to my iPhone, but it is fairly annoying to have to plug-in your phone every morning…

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Jun 22, 2010

iOS4: Upgrading Hangs; and How to Fix It

Yesterday evening, the evening before my birthday (which is today, yes, thank you!) I tried to upgrade my iPhone to the newly released iOS 4 (formerly known as iPhone OS 4.0). However, when after an hour and a half the upgrade was still at around 60%…

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Apr 26, 2010

The Future of Mobile is the Web App

It was January 9th, 2007, a highly anticipated date for many. Steve Jobs got on stage of MacWorld and, for the first time, pulled an iPhone out of his pocket. He showed off the device and spoke: “We figured a really great way to develop applications for this amazing…

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Apr 19, 2010

Nexus One Days 5–7: Goodbye Android

So, this weekend I was offline, or at least off-computer. Met with old friends and family. My brother couldn’t wait to try out my Nexus One because his Nokia is switching itself off every few minutes at this point so he’s dying to get a new phone. He doesn’t like…

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Apr 16, 2010

Nexus One Day 4: Applications

It often is said that even if Android would be best operating system in the world, that wouldn’t matter much if nobody is developing applications for it. If I remember correctly iPhone’s application count is around 160,000 and Android’s is around 40,000 (although I wasn’t able…

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Apr 14, 2010

Nexus One Day 2: Discoverability and Text Input

Today was a busy day at work, lots of writing to do, so I did not use my Nexus One a whole lot. However, this does give a more realistic idea of what the battery life of the phone is like and I must say, it seems not bad at all. I charged it…

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Apr 12, 2010

On 3.3.1

I’m away for a week and all hell breaks loose. There’s a lot of fuss about the modified section in the iPhone development agreement you have to sign before you’re able to release iPhone applications to the App Store. Here it is:

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Feb 1, 2010

Using Screen Estate

One of the more interesting UI features that the iPad exposes is its use of screen orientation. A good example of this is in the e-mail application. In Portrait mode your screen is long and narrow, so you see one e-mail. This is convenient for reading longer pieces of text:

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Nov 2, 2009

Apple Support Experience

A couple of months ago I bought an iPhone. One of the features that I enjoyed most compared to my 1st gen iPod Touch (other than that I can actually call people) was the little remote/mic that’s in the ear phone wire. It’s great, I use it to stop my music, forward, increase and…