Apple made a few announcements this week… And like many I had been hoping that the fingerprint reader would be added to the iPad … Like others, I was hoping that Apple would announce a Retina version of the iPad mini. So I guess I should be 50% happy. Realistically, I think the fingerprint reader […]
While I was at the Google Glass event a few weeks back, I met the developer of G-Wizz! Plus (Google Apps Browser Plus). He has written this app a while back, before all the really great Google apps were made available for iOS. We had a nice / brief discussion and I decided to see […]
A couple of months ago I was given a PressurePen by Chuck N, from the local Triangle Mac Users Group. The idea was to play with it and write up a blog entry. I had been running iOS7 most of the summer, and the app didn’t seem to work with iOS 7 on either my […]
Ok, well not really improvements to auto layout on iOS, but improvements in my understanding of Auto Layout. The biggest thing I learned is that it is easier to setup and manage constraints in code, then to try and use Storyboards to define and modify the constraints. If you have not used AutoLayout, Apple recommends […]
It’s been over a year and a half that I’ve been working this blog. Not a long time, compared to some of my podcasts, but still a lot of posts, and some good traffic. What I’ve not figured out how to do is to get comments in any significant number. So here is a request […]
In my last post I asked, rhetorically, was Google Glass a view of the new interface to come. I didn’t answer the question, nor even really think thru it, as I wanted to thinking on the question overnight. So is it? I think Google Glass does a great job of changing how you interact with […]
I had a chance to head over to Google’s Google Glass tour this morning. They are starting their tour of the US with a stop in Durham. Durham has a great startup community, and being surrounded by multiple colleges, universities, and tech companies, it is the home of great app developers. So it was a […]
I picked up a new iPhone 5s yesterday. I had been using an iPhone 4S, and have consistently been on the “s” upgrade path, so it was time. So what do I think of it. It is certainly fast. I don’t mean blow your hair back, screaming fast, I just mean noticeably faster than what […]
I’ve been working in the IT business for a very long time. I started as a computer operator on main frames and super computers as an undergrad, and even had a home computer years before that (and long before home computers were normal). With that preface, I started thinking recently about the terminology that is […]
So yesterday Apple officially revealed their latest new phones – iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s. While much of the announcement had long since been leaked by the supply chain (so much for the secrecy of Jobs, welcome to the openness of Cook), there were still a few surprises – really only on the iPhone5s. The […]
