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Mobile app echoecho makes check-ins personal
Written on 3 Sep, 2010 at 19:10 in BoyGenius | viewed times | 0 Comments
This week, we inadvertently stumbled across a pretty neat, cross-platform, geo-location mobile app titled echoecho . ... (Continue reading)
WSJ: T-Mobile wants to sell Huawei Ideos
Written on 3 Sep, 2010 at 19:10 in BoyGenius | viewed times | 0 Comments
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that T-Mobile is “in talks to distribute Huawei Technologies Co.’s new Google-powered smartphone this holiday season.” The phone in question, dubbed the Ideos, was revealed yesterday in Berlin . The phone is an... (Continue reading)
Analyst: Apple producing more iPads
Written on 3 Sep, 2010 at 16:24 in BoyGenius | viewed times | 0 Comments
Analyst Katy Huberty from Morgan Stanley tells All Things D that she believes Apple is ramping up production on the iPad , aiming to build as many as three million a month by the end of this year. That... (Continue reading)
iTunes 101: Using the Album Art widget
Written on 3 Sep, 2010 at 14:44 in BoyGenius | viewed times | 0 Comments
Here's a cool new feature in iTunes 10 that we haven't mentioned yet: when listening to any song in your library, you can double click on the album art window in the lower left hand corner to detach it... (Continue reading)
Apple awarded new patents
Written on 3 Sep, 2010 at 14:44 in BoyGenius | viewed times | 0 Comments
This past week, Apple had a host of new patents officially approved by the US Patent and Trademark Office. From streamlining the way images are rendered to preventing the accidental opening of applications, a large chunk of the patents... (Continue reading)
How Apple’s newest iPods prove (and disprove) that it learns from design mistakes
Written on 3 Sep, 2010 at 14:44 in BoyGenius | viewed times | 0 Comments
When Apple released the third-generation iPod shuffle in 2009, I saw it as a perfect example of the design hubris that many Apple detractors point to. From a usability perspective, there really wasn't anything wrong with the second-generation iPod... (Continue reading)
Flick this! Croke puts Crokinole on the iPhone
Written on 3 Sep, 2010 at 14:44 in BoyGenius | viewed times | 0 Comments
Crokinole is a beautiful, simple game with a long history. ... (Continue reading)
Apple trailers page adds showtimes and theater maps
Written on 3 Sep, 2010 at 14:44 in BoyGenius | viewed times | 0 Comments
Since people still seem to want to leave their houses and go to the movies (despite Apple's best efforts to keep them firmly on their couches), the iTunes Movie Trailers site now features a sophisticated Showtimes view. This HTML5-savvy... (Continue reading)
Fixing broken iTunes Automator workflows in iTunes 10
Written on 3 Sep, 2010 at 14:44 in BoyGenius | viewed times | 0 Comments
If you depend on Automator workflows for managing music or other tasks in iTunes, the upgrade to version 10 may have come as a bit of a cold shock. Macworld pointed out that most available workflows for iTunes simply... (Continue reading)
Samsung ups 2010 smartphone sales target by 7 million units
Written on 3 Sep, 2010 at 14:43 in BoyGenius | viewed times | 0 Comments
For those of you wondering whether or not the Galaxy S family of phones has been a hit, we present you this story. Today, at IFA in Berlin, Samsung Mobile President J.K. Shin told reporters that his company is... (Continue reading)