Friday, December 10th, 2010

Is Your Mobile App Cool And Fun?

It is so interesting to look at the wide range of quality that exists with mobile apps.
It resembles the early days of web pages when most people thought about their page as another brochure or piece of collateral.  Some took advantage of the new form factor, browsing, graphics and publish on demand capabilities.  This was [...]

Saturday, May 15th, 2010

Taking Control Of Files In The i-Era

I have posted many times on this blog that I have become a big fan of the Apple suite of products.  My route to this Apple support though is not typical.
I adopted iTunes early and have consolidated our media library there.  We loved the iPods and still have one of the original white iPods working.  When [...]

Friday, April 9th, 2010

Amazing Stats From Apple

Yesterday Steve Jobs talked about the “i-universe” that includes the new iPad, iPhone, iPod, iTunes and now iAds.  Apple is on a roll.  These stats are amazing.
—On Saturday, 300,000 iPads were sold. As of yesterday, 450,000 were sold.
—4 billion apps have been downloaded from the App store, and there’s 185,000 apps in the store. There’s [...]

Sunday, April 4th, 2010

Top iPad Launch News From Blogosphere @ Geek.com

Yesterday was iPad Launch Day…not an official holiday…but I am not sure that there has ever been as much enthusiasm about a new consumer technology product.  The iPhone launch was big but this was “inside baseball” mostly for the legions of Apple-devoutees.  I remember going to wait in line…late…at the local AT&T store on that [...]

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

Wall Street Journal Confirms Apple Acquisition of LaLa

Wall Street Journal confirmed the acquisition of LaLa by Apple a few hours ago.

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Over 2 Billion iPhone Apps Downloaded

Apple Inc said on Monday that downloads from its iTunes applications store had passed 2 billion.  The number of apps has also ballooned to more than 85,000 apps available for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
It was just April that I posted about 1 billion apps dowloaded.
There are some great apps available that is for sure, [...]

Sunday, July 12th, 2009

Runkeeper On iPhone Outruns Nike+

The iPhone GPS functionality is opening up a whole new set of opportunities for applications that track location, speed, time and more.  The opportunities are powerful to enhance the life of runners, cyclists, hikers, boaters, walkers and so many more outdoor enthusiasts.
Last Summer I posted about Nike+ and Apple.  This is a great collaboration where [...]

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

You can now have your HP calculator on your iPhone

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

iPhone vs Pre…Its About The Apps

What a week in the smart phone market.
The Palm Pre on sale Saturday and the excitement was iPhone-like.  Functionality looked great.  Nothing revolutionary but a great looking smart phone.  One little problem…only nineteen applications though.  What?
The new iPhones were announced yesterday at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco.  Some new functionality like video, more [...]

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Jeff Bennett Blog Top Posts For April 2009

Top posts on JeffBennett.Org for April 2009:
1.  NHL Scores With Twitter
2.  Patriots Day Big For Boston
3.  Verrill Farm In Full Swing For Spring
4.  Celtics Pride
5.  Ice Out For Winnipesaukee
6. Baseball Star Mark Fidrych Found Dead
7.  Apple Approaches 1 Billion Downloads
8. Time To End Non-Competes In Massachusetts
9. Pandora Internet Radio Is Cool
10. Social [...]