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iOS users are fortunate to have a number of choices for Twitter that work quite well. There’s no shortage of Twitter apps, including Twitter’s own official app, that let you read others’ tweets and compose your own. The Twitter client …
Hello everyone. Thanks to all our wonderful customers who ordered “Apple Watch Without Watching”. The key point in this post is to let you know that I am now not able to complete this book in a timely manner, and …
The book “Apple Watch Without Watching” has been cancelled for now. Refunds being issued Read more »
Over the last couple of months, I’ve changed the apps I use for interacting with RSS feeds. That’s a big deal for me, since my RSS readers are apps in which I spend a great deal of time. I use …
I Super-charged my RSS Experience with Feedly, ReadKit and Lire Read more »
Public relations 101. What do you do when you have unpalatable news that you’d like to stay under the radar as much as possible? One of the oldest tricks in the book is to release it just ahead of a …
New Zealand’s Lack of Accessibility Options A Good Reason to Beat Geoblocking Read more »
Apple has today concluded an event they called “Spring Forward” – a somewhat odd name given that Apple does have a large number of customers for whom autumn, not spring, is just beginning, and our clocks are falling back. The …
Does an Apple Watch have a place in your life, and on your wrist? Read more »
Following Audioboom’s decision last week to prevent those who go to its website from hearing content unless a user has an account and logs in, I deleted my Audioboom account today. It’s been a gradually souring relationship, to be honest. …
Life After Audioboom. There’s Still a Need for Social Audio Read more »
Simon Morton hosts a great show on Radio New Zealand National called This Way Up. It’s an eclectic weekly programme with a science and technology focus. Simon paid me a visit earlier this week, and I talked about and demonstrated …
On Radio new Zealand, I talk Be My Eyes, TapTapSee, and KNFB Reader Read more »
It looks like I am about to say goodbye to a service on which I’ve created content for around four years. I first became aware of the service known until recently as Audioboo, when British broadcaster Tony Blackburn began posting …
Unless they reverse course, I’m done with Audioboom Read more »
A client of mine is a student who uses iBooks a lot. He was getting frustrated with not having a method to listen to iBooks without locking the screen and without notifications interrupting the book. After I showed him how …
iOS 8’s Speak Screen Feature. Listen to iBooks with your Screen Locked and More Read more »
In January, I was pleased to see some excellent opinion pieces by, among others, two people named Marco. Marco Arment, creator of Instapaper and developer of the superb Overcast podcast client for iOS, finally confronted the iElephant in the iRoom. …
iOS Public Betas a Great Start, but only Part of the Solution Read more »