With iPad applications flooding the App Store, there is no shortage of choice. To help you sort through the clutter, let me show you the apps that are currently living on my 32 GB WiFi mode. iBooks – Great for reading but new releases are bit expensive, coming in at $12.99. The UI is very visually appealing, but the catalog is limited. Kindle – Amazon loaded the gun that is going to...
If you’re the highly organized type who likes to have things all sorted out before your new gadgets arrive, you better hit up iTunes before your iPad arrives tomorrow to download those all important apps so they’re ready for the moment you sign for your tablet. Apple has made public their library of iPad applications that can now be downloaded to iTunes before you’re supposed to get...
It has only been a few months since eBay sold Skype back to its original founders, but oh what a difference a few months can make. Back in December I wrote a piece here at TechnoBuffalo entitled “With eBay Out Of The Picture, Can Skype Get Its Mojo Back?”, and I think the clear answer is that it indeed can. Under eBay’s leadership, the company seemed to lose all sense of direction, it...
As the New York Times showed off the iPad application they had been working with Apple to produce, the future of traditional print saw a glimmer of hope for its new platform. Publications like the NYTimes and WSJ crave a means by which they can charge readers, just as they've done in years past for their subscription model. If this thing was supposed to play a role in saving all old...
In the days leading up to the iPad announcement, a passionate tech crew thought that we’d see the future of computing within Apple’s tablet. Steve Jobs was vaguely quoted as saying it was the most important project he’s ever worked on and hysterical rumors of motion sensitive tracking with a custom UI would help Apple succeed where others had failed. While we weren’t given anything...
There used to be a time where you either had to go out and buy an expensive image editor or be saddled with some poor excuse of a program that lacked a full set of features. Thanks to the wonders of the Web, there are now many free alternatives that will allow you to edit photos the way you want, and where you want as you can use them from any computer with an Internet connection. As...
Even though Windows 7 is still rolling out to customers who get their first taste of the latest operating system from Microsoft when purchasing a new computer, a lot of people are already wondering what Windows 8 will hold for us when it appears a few years from now. Never let it be said that technology enthusiasts aren’t a curious lot. While some sources vary on when we will see...
You know how they say cockroaches can survive a nuclear war? How they are the most reliant species on Earth, and can survive just about anything to go on annoying us for years and years? Apparently Internet Explorer 6 is the Web browser version of a cockroach. Launched on Aug. 21st, 2001, Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) was a decent browser for its time. However, it is now 2010, and this...
Since the debut of the first device to run the iPhone OS (iOS), there’s been a substantially loud community calling for the inclusion of Adobe Flash. Nearly three years later, there’s been no progress made and none in sight. With last week’s announcement of the iPad and it’s glaring Flash omission came a backlash that’ll affect sales through multiple hardware revisions. So what’s...
Reports earlier this month mentioned that developers had already begun building apps with an SDK tailored towards tablet applications. Now Flurry, a popular mobile app analytics company, has identified applications being used on unreleased Apple hardware. As Wednesday’s event draws closer, here’s a look into Flurry’s findings. Using their analytics tool, they have detected about 50...