Category: Gadgets
Create Great iPhone Photos: Apps, Tips, Tricks, and Effects
At first glance this book seems like another of those “guide-to apps” books that probably started appearing some time before the one-hundred thousand and one app was uploaded to Apple’s app store, but it’s a bit more than just a grand-tour of photo-related apps. Continue reading
Learning Android: Building Applications for the Android Market
What sets this book apart from the growing number of Android books on the market today are: an actual full-featured application to work on, coverage of the newest versions of Android and of the Native Developer Kit. Continue reading
BlackBerry: The Inside Story of Research In Motion
The book is the story of Waterloo, Ontario-based Research In Motion (RIM) best known as the creator of the BlackBerry. Continue reading
Zoom H2 Handy Recorder
you could think of this thing as the world’s greatest stereo recording device and if we just left it at that we could end the article here (but what would be the fun in that!). Continue reading
CrackBerry: True Tales of BlackBerry Use and Abuse
“CrackBerry” can best be summed up as a semi-serious book about curbing over-use of one’s Blackberry or more broadly any mobile device that allows you to check your email at a funeral or other inopportune times. Continue reading
Motorola W233 Review
This writer would like to say that he got this phone because it’s the ‘green’ option but that wouldn’t exactly be true (I dropped my previous freebie – an awesome Sony Ericsson model – in the bathtub and having no real cash and being on the Fido plan I pretty much had to go with this one). Continue reading
Sony NWZS-544B
On the eve of the upgraded iPod nano release this writer was lucky enough to have access to this wonderful little machine. Despite being a die-hard iTunes/iPod disciple for some time what I found here was the first really good reason to consider switching brands and rollin’ with the gang that once brought us the mighty yellow Sports series audio tape units. Scandalous sayeth thou – I thinketh not! (and will ramble on thusly)
Best iPhone Apps: The Guide for Discriminating Downloaders
Josh Clark’s Best iPhone Apps is a collection of 200 of what the author figures will make readers, “more productive, more creative, more happy”. The format of this book is simple: there are seven broad categories like “At Work” and … Continue reading
Sony Ericsson w380a review
2 years after purchasing the amazing w300i (which I still contend is probably the best introductory all-in-one whiz bang phone out there) this writer is once again the proud owner of a brand spankin’ new Sony Ericsson beauty. Continue reading
Taking your iPhone to the Max
This book does cover a lot of material that can be found in the iPhone’s manual but this means that the phone itself and each software application is given a pretty thorough coverage over the approximately 180 pages in the book. Continue reading
