Archive for the ‘iPhone’ Category


The case for iPad as a business portable

Wednesday, Jul 21st, 2010 by DaveK | 0 Comments
Filed under: Facebook, Games, iPhone, Small Business, Social Networking, Work Tools

We picked up an iPad for our social media, Web consulting and copywriting business based largely on positive feedback from many people we trust on Twitter and our own great experiences using iPhones for the past two years. It’s a remarkable device, but expensive for what you get and very limited for many usage scenarios. … Read more

Social media and travel: How to protect your privacy

Tuesday, Sep 8th, 2009 by JacquiK | 0 Comments
Filed under: Blogging, Facebook, iPhone, Social Networking, Twitter | Tags: , , , , ,

When you post details of your day-to-date life on social networking services such as Twitter and Facebook, you run the risk of exposing too much information. For instance, sharing your travel plans could provide a thief with the ideal timing to break into your home and clean you out. By default, Twitter posts are viewable … Read more

I’m tweeting this: Twitter is this year’s hot marketing tool at San Diego Comicon

Friday, Jul 24th, 2009 by JacquiK | 0 Comments
Filed under: Community, Customer Focus, iPhone, Marketing, Social Networking, Twitter

Based on media coverage alone, Twitter would appear to be mainstreaming to the tune of a MySpace or Facebook. In reality, the Twitterati remains a small but vocal segment of the Internet, identify trends and riding them for brief cycles. This week represents the motherload of all Twitter cycles, as the Twitterati descend upon San … Read more

How I finally got an iPhone 3G S – and the joys of migration!

Wednesday, Jun 24th, 2009 by DaveK | 0 Comments
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You’d think it would be easy to buy a $500 iPhone upgrade, but the combined efforts of AT&T and Apple made this exceedingly painful. Let me briefly share my experience should you choose to follow in my footsteps. I’ll also offer a few pointers for transferring the contents of your prior iPhone to a new one and enjoying … Read more

iPhone 3.0 is here (if you can get it)

Wednesday, Jun 17th, 2009 by DaveK | 0 Comments
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The new iPhone 3.0 firmware is out, and it’s free for iPhone users ($10 if you use an iPod Touch). With some 40 million people hitting the Apple servers nearly all at once, getting it may take awhile. I made the mistake of putting off an iTunes update last week, and it was required for this iPhone update. … Read more

TweetDeck gets all iPhone-y (and adds multiple accounts!)

Wednesday, Jun 17th, 2009 by DaveK | 0 Comments
Filed under: Community, iPhone, Social Networking, Twitter | Tags: , , , , , , ,

Back in April, I deconstructed what I thought was wrong with TweetDeck. Now I only do this sort of exercise with products I think show real potential. I did the same on BusyGamerNation.com for the Nintendo Wii user interface and twice for the Xbox 360 (but never got around to the PS3). I critique because I … Read more

WordPress Plug-in Watch: iPhone theme, sharing, auto-Twitter and not-so-Simple Tags

Tuesday, Jun 9th, 2009 by DaveK | 0 Comments
Filed under: Blogging, Community, iPhone, Social Networking, Twitter | Tags: , , , , ,

After years grappling with Movable Type for our gaming site blog, I’ve recently come to really embrace WordPress’s simplicity and extensibility. One of the things that makes it so great these days is the ease with which you can add and update plug-ins used to improve the features of your blog. In most cases, you … Read more