Posts tagged iPhone
My Most Used iPhone Apps
0I love using my iPhone. When my wife got me the original for Christmas back in 2007, it literally changed how i used a mobile phone. I had used smartphones for years as well as PDAs, but while impressed with the technology their ease of use was always problematic.
Then Apple introduced apps and changed my life, especially my digital life. Apps opened a new world of mobile computing I had only dreamed of as a child and an adult.
Today I don’t leave the house for so much as a gallon of milk without my iPhone and often my iPad. The apps on them have become stitched into the fabric of my life more so than any computer I’ve ever used. That simple fact is due primarily to apps. (more…)
My Online Tools – Websites Are Easy
If you are curious as to how I keep up my online presence, then check out this page on my site: My Blogging Tools. I quickly explain my methodology and then list out all of my hardware, websites and software that I use to update not only this site but all of my social networking accounts.
It’s really easy to create your own website. You can use tools like WordPress or SquareSpace that are totally web based; or you can use tools like Rapidweaver for the Mac that allow you to edit your website locally on your Mac and then upload to your personal domain. You don’t even have to have a personal domain. You can use tools like WordPress.com or Blogger.com and have a totally free and very personal web presence that’s easy to maintain.
You don’t need powerful hardware. You can use your personal computer (Mac or PC). You can use your smartphone (Android or iOS). My preference is for Apple products, but you don’t have to go down that road. Getting started is very easy and really quick. All you need is a little imagination and a bit of desire. In less than 30 minutes you too could have your very own website!
If you have any questions, please drop me a line. I would be happy to give you some pointers.
If you have an iPhone, time to do an update…
If you have an iPhone, time to do an update. Google+ just got a “little” better. It’s still not universal (read that “not iPad ready”), it doesn’t support landscape keyboard, and you still can’t start a hangout. That being said you can +1 a photo, updates to Messenger and of course “bug fixes.” I didn’t say it was a major update. You can get it here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google/id447119634?mt=8.
Thoughts On iCloud
Tonight I got into a rather heated debate with several of my buddies on a podcast we recorded (TechFan). The debate centered on iCloud and it’s functionality, or more to the point lack of functionality or working functionality. Mark Greentree, Dennis Freitas, Jeffrey Bradbury basically took the point of view that Apple just didn’t deliver on the promise of iCloud. My contention was that iCloud is a work in progress and what it does, it does well. What it doesn’t do, it will probably do in the next 6 to 12 months.
I can see why they were and are frustrated. The début of iCloud was met with huge demand. So much demand that Apple obviously couldn’t keep up. The demand to switch to iCloud also put more pressure on Apple servers as the move required no less than 3 major downloads: iTunes 10.5, Mac OS 10.7.2 & iOS 5. Each iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch needed its own independent download of iOS too. The smallest of the downloads was iTunes, but both 10.7.2 and iOS 5 were relatively large; and due to demand took many hours to download.
Once a user had the software download, they had to install the software and then run the update on their iOS device; which required checking into Apple’s over burdened servers. Ouch, that took some time. Once that was done, there was a conversion from MobileMe to iCloud that had to take place; again more pressure on Apple’s servers. For many the process took hours. I was spared this pain as I had a developer account and my wife opted to wait to do her upgrade until later in the weekend. So maybe that spared me the pain and kept me from being as jaded about the rest of the experience. (more…)
Reshared post from Mark Greentree
Good article. I do though think that two automatic backups could be a bit much for most. I’m telling friends to use iCloud backup all the time and force a manual iTunes backup.
Excellent info.
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Everyday Mac Support – Warning: iCloud BackUp In iOS 5 – Tip Of The Day #488
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