A new Twitter client called Birdfeed was just released in the App Store. There are lots of Twitter clients for the iPhone so I was skeptical on what Birdfeed could do to stand out from the crowd. But being priced at 38 SEK ($4.99), it was bound to have some unique features and a well [...]
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Flight Control – revisited
I recently tried out Flight Control, a game for the iPhone which puts you in charge as an air traffic controller. It is your job to route the different planes to their respective runway. With iPhone OS 3.0 came a feature for Bluetooth PAN (Personal Area Network), which means that the iPhone is now capable [...]
iPhone App: Flight Control
I recently bought Flight Control from the App Store, hoping to find an easy, yet challenging game. I found it.
Flight Control puts you in the air traffic controller spot, and it is your duty to route the various planes and helicopters on a safe landing route. You have to watch out for crossing trajectories, different [...]
Safe document writing using Dropbox
Lots of people who write articles or create content in any form, often find themselves generating lots of files. A writer will for instance probably have lots of article drafts laying around. Everyone have different solutions for revision control and backup, ranging from a simple manual file copy to using a full-fledged revision control system [...]
Book Review: Getting Things Done by David Allen
I have discussed Getting Things Done, or “GTD” here for a long time, but I have never actually read the famous book Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen. I recently decided to read it (or actually listen to it), and I’m glad I did.
While I have embraced principles from GTD before, [...]
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
After listening to This Week In Tech earlier, they spoke about a book called Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely. It is a very interesting book on human behaviour, which is very hard to put down once you start reading it. I decided to pick it up.
The book discusses the [...]
Instapaper, or how to read stuff later
I recently came across a service on the great web called Instapaper. It solves the ancient internet problem of wanting to read long articles when one just haven’t got the time. Everyone has probably thought:
I’ll just save it and read it later…
It’s not easy to manage all these links and texts without any kind of [...]
Postbox — a new take on email?
Postbox is a new application for managing email. It has some serious competition to deal with, like Outlook, Thunderbird and Apple Mail. Postbox does mail in an intuitive and fast way, which makes it easy to manage messages and actually get things done. Their website sums it up quite well.
“Postbox is a new way to [...]
iPhone app: Joost
Joost a internet based TV service, which has been available for Mac and Windows for a long time now. It has now come to the iPhone, bringing a wide variety of contents from many places around the world.
The interface itself is quite nice, with the standard Joost graphic and colors. There are five different [...]
iPhone app: Tap Tap Revenge
It’s time for the first iPhone game to be featured here. The game is called Tap Tap Revenge and is a music game in the spirit of Guitar Hero. The graphics are great and with the recent update, the game has become far more stable and a lot faster.
The most welcome feature in the game [...]