It looks like the brand-new shininess of millions of new iPhones has lost a little luster since the holidays. After a big holiday and iPhone 4S bump, the number of daily app downloads in the U.S. took a big nosedive in March, according to Fiksu. Read More »
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Apple’s Siri ad featuring the jolly old elf was 2011′s most effective holiday advertisement according to viewer reaction as measured by Ace Metrix, a TV ad analysis firm. The Apple spot featuring Santa Claus using Siri also exemplified a trend this year: specifically, “Santa sells.” Read More »
If you are your family’s resident geek, you get a lot of tech-related questions. Embrace it, and learn to love it. Here are a selection of questions of holidays past, present, and future you either have already or will encounter. Read More »
Seeking to better manage the holiday deluge of visitors to Apple retail outlets, the company is now offering customers the option of ordering online and picking up purchases at their local store. According to the new webpage, you can reserve an item “online today and it … Read More »
Sometimes, like today for instance, I think Apple’s PR department is given only one mandate: to confuse and titillate. Why today especially? They just contacted Gizmodo to notify them that while Gizmodo has Phil Schiller saying there won’t be any new Apple products this … Read More »
As a new writer here, let me give you the File → Get Info on me. For my day job, I own a computer repair business here in Lawrence, Kansas. Drawing on my support background, I focus on practical technology from the user perspective; If I can’t … Read More »
If you’re like me, sending holiday cards is one of those “necessary evils” of the holidays. A new service, Ecardlets.com, hopes to make the process a little easier — at least for your friends with iPhones. Ecardlets.com is a San Francisco, CA startup founded by … Read More »
Macs are definitely not all-work and no-play machines, and this fact is made even more evident via a nifty little application called Poladroid. With holidays coming up, nostalgia will most likely be at an all-time high and Poladroid helps you inject some into your modern … Read More »
If you don’t want to wait until June for the iPhone, CallWave gives you the ability (sort of) to have visual voicemail now. CallWave essentially replaces the standard voicemail service your cell carrier uses, in order to provide added functionality. Among the added … Read More »
