Archive for the ‘Smartphones’ Category

Review: OwnCloud 3

Unhappy sharing contacts, calendars and files with different persons and via several electronic devices? You try to avoid using services where you could not be sure what happens with your personal data? I searched some time to find a software that could be installed on my own server (it´s my data!) while so easy to [...]

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Waiting for an Update for your Android device?

Have you ever been waiting for Android Updates for your Tablet or Smartphone? The new firmware from Google is available since several month but you have no information when it will be available for your device – or if it ever will be available for it. The manufacturers need some time to do customizing for [...]

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Voice Recognition on Mobile Devices

How to enter information when travelling, when on the road, while driving, walking – away from the keyboard? If you did not take your notes in the moment when the ideas appear – they could get lost. The easiest way seems to be to use two things that are available in most cases: Your voice [...]

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Are Apple’s restrictions really necessary?

I really like the iPhone. The design is great, the user interface makes it easy and intuitive to work with the unit. It was a great step to help unexperienced user to use a terminal for more than only telephony or SMS. In the meantime I have some doubts about the philosophy and the way [...]

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iPhone: Call and SMS blocker/blacklist

It’s hard to believe but there seems to be no configuration or app available to handle black lists to block unwanted calls or SMS on an iPhone that is not jailbroken. That is a functionality that you could get for most smartphones and I don’t know why that is not possible for the iPhone. For [...]

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Why an iPad?

I have seen the presentation of the iPad and the show and the list of features couldn’t convince me. The price seems to be OK but there is no feeling that says: Buy it. I wrote an article about webapplications and said that I believe that we will see a move from data and processing [...]

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Review: 2do for iPhone

This review is based on version 1.2 of 2do for the iPhone I was working with several software products to handle tasks and calendars. What I really like is an easy and well-arranged user interface together with the possibility to enter ideas, projects and task in a fast way. I was surprised how good 2do [...]

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