Category: iOS

New Weather App points to everything that is wrong with iOS

Two things came together that motivated me to write this article, something I wasn’t planning on doing until the new year. The first was the upgrade to Weather Au from Shiftyjelly and the other was an article by Liz Gannes that appeared on the All Things D website. Shiftyjelly have been producing a weather application for …

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Gmail will no longer work on your iPhone (sort of)

Google announced today that they are discontinuing Active Sync services on their gmail service. This is a very geeky way of saying that Push notification on Mail applications on the iPhone and Windows phones will  not longer work making gmail useless on those devices. While this can be described as diabolical on the part of …

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Turn by Turn arrives on the iPhone

You might recall me standing up for Apple Maps when they first arrived. Poo Pooing the howls from the popular press about how inaccurate they were. How half baked they were. How unApple they were. I still hold onto that view, despite finding some errors in the maps, but for the most part it has …

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My tyre is flat so I am selling my car. Wait!, What?

If you have recently upgraded to iOS6 you might be wondering if you’ve done the right thing because according to the press it is a disaster. There is a lot of whining but the majority of it seems to be focused on the replacement of google maps for Apple Maps. One Lunatic spent a good …

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We need to start Yelping!

If you ever watch Apple promoting Siri you will see them asking her for the “nearest coffee shop” or “any good steak restaurants nearby”. This is all very cool but I bet when you try you only get  two suggestions and one of them was gutted by fire ten years ago. As an example my …

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