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Michael Koby’s Top Used FREE iPhone Apps
It’s been about 6 months since I “sold out” and joined the cult of the iPhone. Over that time I have used a lot of various applications that you can get from the famous App Store. Today I’m going to be looking at some of the most used FREE applications. All the apps below can be downloaded from the App Store and cost a whopping zero dollars. Continue reading
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Michael Koby's Top Used FREE iPhone Apps
It’s been about 6 months since I “sold out” and joined the cult of the iPhone. Over that time I have used a lot of various applications that you can get from the famous App Store. Today I’m going to be looking at some of the most used FREE applications. All the apps below can be downloaded from the App Store and cost a whopping zero dollars. Continue reading
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Where Are My Windows Virtual Desktops?
I was just thinking about the fact that most window managers on Linux have had virtual desktops for as long as I can remember. Apple released something similar in a recent OSX version. Most cell phones have multiple “screens” (see Android and iPhone) for organizing your apps and views. Heck, even some recent Nokia smartphones have a “work” and “home” screens. But why on earth has Microsoft not implemented similar functionality into Windows? We’re coming up on the release of Windows 7 and we are still without features other operating systems have had for well over a decade. Microsoft, where are my virtual desktops on Windows? Continue reading
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Google’s Chrome Broswer on Linux
The past few weeks I’ve been making a real effort to use Google’s Chrome broswer on all my computers. On my work laptop, which runs Windows, it has been a mostly pleasent experience. The browser is fast, responsive, and it seems to handle most sites that I visit quite well. I decided to install the Chrome on my home PC, which runs Linux (Ubuntu 9.04). The experience there has not been so great. Continue reading
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Google's Chrome Broswer on Linux
The past few weeks I’ve been making a real effort to use Google’s Chrome broswer on all my computers. On my work laptop, which runs Windows, it has been a mostly pleasent experience. The browser is fast, responsive, and it seems to handle most sites that I visit quite well. I decided to install the Chrome on my home PC, which runs Linux (Ubuntu 9.04). The experience there has not been so great. Continue reading
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Why Apple Should Fear (But Also Embrace) Google
And with that in mind, there is this one simple fact: mobile application developers can survive without Apple and it’s iPhone. The did for years before there was an iPhone. With more mobile platforms now than before, a mobile application developer has a lot of choices: Android, Windows Mobile, Palm’s WebOS, and even Symbian. What Apple can’t do is support the App Store without it’s application developers. Continue reading →