Monthly Archives: September 2012

When Apple shipped the first version of their own Podcasts app a few months back, I lambasted it for its strange reel-to-reel tape deck skeuomorphic design. There were many problems with the app though other than just the design, such as: sluggish performance, stability, and no option to auto-download new episodes. Apple of course followedContinue reading “Apple Ships Podcasts with iCloud Syncing Support”

I’m sitting at my computer on a very rainy Sunday. The summer seems to have come to a close and fall is encroaching quickly. August was a relatively quiet month as far as big announcements in the technology sector. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t an interesting month though. I finally got access to App.net, andContinue reading “Reflecting on August”

The Nokia Lumia 920 has been announced, and it will ship with Windows Phone 8. Everything I’ve read and heard so far about the operating system itself sounds great, and it seems like it might do for Microsoft what Android 4.1 did for Google — continued refinement and filling in feature gaps. Although the deviceContinue reading “Microsoft’s Core Problem”

I’ve been trying to get back into iOS gaming lately. I found a few good ones which fall into different categories, so I thought I would share them. Galaxy on Fire 2HD ORC Vengeance Flip’s Escape Random Heroes Dead Trigger RealMyst The most visually impressive game that I’ve ever played on iOS thus far isContinue reading “Games I’m Playing This Week”