Copyright © 2013 jhrogersii. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2013/01/09/ibattz-mojo-hi5-powerbank-case-review/. While it’s always fun when you get that brand new, latest gen Apple device in your hands on launch day, one of the frustrating things is the lack of third party accessories available to protect and serve your new toy. This
Copyright © 2013 Thomas Wong. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2013/01/08/moshi-keramo-ceramic-in-ear-headphones-review/. I was excited to get my hands on moshi’s Keramo in-ear headphones because of their ceramic construction. The advantage of ceramic is its relatively neutral acoustic properties (as compared to the plastic or metal housing in other headphones), so I put the Keramo through [...]
Copyright © 2013 Jay. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/12/31/fitness-app-recommendations-for-2013/. With the calendar flipping to 2013, there’s also been the annual noticeable shift to focus on self-improvement, weight loss, and all-things exercise related. So of all the apps out there, which are worth their weight (pun intended) in gold- Keep reading to find out the [...]
Copyright © 2012 Thomas Wong. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/12/29/mujjo-sleeve-for-ipad-mini-review/. The Mujjo Sleeve for iPad mini is made out of wool and leather and a generous helping of European flair. It’s a gorgeous, high-class little container for an 8″ tablet. The main compartment fits the iPad mini. There is also room for a Smart [...]
Copyright © 2012 Thomas Wong. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/12/27/my-iphone-4s-battery-troubles/. My iPhone 4S has begun to do a strange little dance with me. When it gets below 30%, it can sometimes shut off and require a charger to bring it back to life (despite the battery indicator still showing 10-30% of battery life left). [...]
Copyright © 2012 PatrickJ. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/12/22/so-long-its-been-big-fun/. Hopefully some of you lovely iSource readers still remember way back in the day when this site was called Just Another iPhone Blog. I founded that site back in 2007, sold it in 2010, and have carried on here as Editor in Chief afterwards and [...]
Copyright © 2012 Jay. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/12/22/any-do-update-adds-location-reminders/. We here at iSource certainly love our list-making apps and have written about both the loves and hates of many of them. The list-making bug bites me hard and I look high and low for the ease of creating a categorized to-do list with reminders, [...]
Copyright © 2012 jhrogersii. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/12/21/review-zaggkeys-mini-7-and-mini-9-keyboard-cases-for-the-ipad-mini/. After taking most of ZAGG's larger keyboards for a spin over the last two years, I was very interested in checking out their latest creations for the new iPad Mini. At the time I saw ZAGG's press release, I already knew that I would [...]
Copyright © 2012 Jay. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/12/20/camera-lastest-update-adds-high-quality-option/. A favored alternative to the iOS Camera app from Apple has been recently updated to include higher picture quality option. Camera+ (last updated and reported here) remains above its competitors among iOS photo shooting apps. Specifically, update 3.7 includes moving from 2 settings of picture [...]
Copyright © 2012 Thomas Wong. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/12/20/imdb-3-0-lands-on-ipad/. IMDb 3.0 is a big update for the app’s iPad interface. It’s darker and more svelte and does more to convince you that the design team took the iPad’s screen size as a more serious opportunity. The app used to look a lot more [...]
Copyright © 2012 Thomas Wong. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/12/19/waterfield-cityslicker-for-ipad-review/. I love my Tucano Workout Vertical for storing my iPad mini and MacBook Pro, but when Waterfield told me about their new CitySlicker for iPad, I still jumped at the chance to review it. I liked how compact the whole package looked in pictures [...]
Copyright © 2012 Thomas Wong. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/12/18/mailbox-for-iphone-coming-early-2013/. I’m happily using Gmail 2.0 on my iPhone and iPad, but that doesn’t mean that I haven’t found the recent teaser of Mailboxapp.com intriguing. I already work off of the idea of using my inbox as a kind of to-do list, so having an [...]
Copyright © 2012 Thomas Wong. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/12/18/bookbook-for-ipad-mini/. TwelveSouth recently released their newest BookBook case case for iPad mini. It comes in black or brown red, seals with a dual set of zippers, includes two built-in stands (for viewing or typing), and protects the iPad mini with a rigid book-like design that [...]
Copyright © 2012 Thomas Wong. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/12/17/youtube-capture-for-iphone/. Google’s latest app, YouTube Capture, is pretty self-explanatory. You launch the app, rotate your phone to landscape mode, record your friends lighting firecrackers/skateboarding/saving orphans, add a title and a few adjustments, and then upload straight to YouTube. There are options to share immediately on [...]
Copyright © 2012 Jay. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/12/15/review-rha-ma450i-earphones/. Let me begin by saying that there is at least one Apple product I cannot stand. Despite their initial cool look, the original stock earphones were a literal pain in my ear. Even adding the mic and remote on the cord of the second generation [...]
Copyright © 2012 Thomas Wong. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/12/14/mujjo-touchscreen-gloves-review/. My ideal pair of gloves would have these characteristics: thin and flexible enough to handle cards and keys, small enough to be stored easily in a single coat pocket, and yet warm enough to handle winters in Toronto. Mujjo sent me two pairs of [...]
Copyright © 2012 Thomas Wong. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/12/13/foldify-for-ipad/. I live in an almost paperless house. I don’t mean that in the look-how-green-I-am kind of way. I mean it’s actually ridiculous because when an app like Foldify comes around, I’m simply unable to take bask in the glory of its coolness. Foldify offers [...]
Copyright © 2012 Thomas Wong. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/12/13/google-maps-for-iphone-is-back/. You there, iOS 5 user hiding in the bushes, it’s okay to come out now. Google Maps for iPhone is back. It’s safe to upgrade to iOS 6. If you’re tired of the lack of transit instructions, the nuclear-wasteland satellite pictures, and hilarious misplacements [...]
Copyright © 2012 Thomas Wong. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/12/12/photojojos-iphone-wrist-straps/. If you really want to keep your iPhones naked but are still a little paranoid of dropping it, these colourful iPhone wrist straps from Photojojo I found through Cult of Mac could be the perfect solution. They screw onto the bottom of your iPhone [...]
Copyright © 2012 Thomas Wong. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/12/11/more-gmail-2-0-impressions/. Gmail 2.0 is great on iPhone. I have no complaints. The buttons are big and easy to tap. Threads are compact when I need them to be, but expand nicely when I want to catch up on a conversation. The extra From: addresses that [...]
Copyright © 2012 Thomas Wong. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/12/11/instagram-3-2-for-iphone/. I don’t use Instagram for the bulk of my photography because I don’t like cropping everything into a square and having it only accessible through one web service, but there’s no denying the app is a lot of fun to use. This newest 3.2 [...]
Copyright © 2012 Thomas Wong. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/12/10/tube-socks-on-my-ipad-mini/. I had been wondering if the iPad mini would be the first Apple device that I’d use without any sort of skin or case – a device that would accumulate little dings and scratches to “add character” to the aluminum. But after a few [...]
Copyright © 2012 Thomas Wong. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/12/08/mumbling-at-siri/. Now that I have dictation across my Mac, iPhone, and iPad mini I’ve been making a lot more use of the feature. One of the things I’ve noticed over the past few weeks of mumbling at my machines is that they do a pretty [...]
Copyright © 2012 Thomas Wong. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/12/07/pages-1-7-for-iphone-and-ipad-now-track-changes/. I can’t speak for Numbers and Keynote, but I have played with the Apple’s Pages 1.7 word processor with added MS Word compatibility. The app still changes almost all of the fonts in any imported Word document (probably due to font licensing), but the few [...]
Copyright © 2012 Thomas Wong. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/12/06/minigore-2-is-here-but-lost-co-op/. Minigore was one of my favourite iPhone games. It was a simple dual-stick shooter with a lot of personality, lots of enemies to kill, and some seriously savage and explosive power-ups. When the game finally added co-op, I thought it had really hit its [...]
Copyright © 2012 Thomas Wong. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/12/06/twitterrific-5-for-iphone-and-ipad/. Twitterrific 5 for iPhone and iPad was released last night. It is not a free upgrade for previous owners of the Twitterrific app, but the current $3 asking price is well within reason for such a gorgeous bundle of pixels. The unified, colour-coded timeline [...]
Copyright © 2012 PatrickJ. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/12/05/recommended-8-great-mac-app-bundles-for-under-50/. I have really not been looking for any reason at all to spend any more money, what with a few purchases for Black Friday / Cyber Monday and now the holidays coming up and a kiddo with a Christmas list that seems to get longer [...]
Copyright © 2012 AliciaB. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/12/05/giving-gifts-from-apple-beyond-macbooks-ipod-nanos-and-ipad-minis/. Although I reside firmly in the camp of those who believe in gift giving throughout the year, right about now I acknowledge that many many people are looking for gifts, for many price points and for many different types of people. Some think that Apple’s [...]
Copyright © 2012 Thomas Wong. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/12/04/youtube-is-back-on-ipad-as-a-free-download/. The Google hits just keep on coming. The native YouTube app — which was removed during the upgrade to iOS 6 — is back on the iPad as a free download on the App Store. It looks a lot like the updated iPhone version, [...]
Copyright © 2012 Thomas Wong. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/12/04/gmail-2-0-for-iphone-and-ipad/. Multiple accounts, sending e-mails from different addresses, and a cleaner design – these are just a few of the reasons to pick up Gmail 2.0 for iPhone and iPad. They’re also featured I’ve been wanting to see for a very long time. The ability [...]
Copyright © 2012 Thomas Wong. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/12/03/modifying-the-adonit-writer-plus-keyboard-for-ipad-mini/. I’ve always wanted to take advantage of the detachable keyboard on the Writer Plus, but it was only recently that I was forced to figure out how to really make use of it. Typing on the iPad mini’s software keyboard is far more comfortable [...]
Copyright © 2012 Thomas Wong. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/12/02/ecoute-for-iphone-now-shows-missing-lyrics/. Ecoute for iPhone my current music app of choice now looks up the lyrics for songs, if you haven’t already added them yourself. The app uses Gracenote to find missing lyrics and displays them as a webpage (complete with ads, unfortunately). The solution isn’t [...]
Copyright © 2012 PatrickJ. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/11/30/oh-yeah-this-just-arrivedhirise-for-macbook/. I didn’t do a ton of Black Friday / Cyber Monday shopping this year. And my favorite purchase wasn’t even a big deal item, it’s one I paid regular price for. It’s the HiRise for MacBook – and it just arrived at my house a [...]
Copyright © 2012 Thomas Wong. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/11/30/fantastical-for-iphone-review/. Fantastical for Mac wasn’t the first app to parse text like “meeting at 7 am next Monday” to create a calendar event called “meeting” and schedule it for 7 AM on the following Monday – but it was the first app to do it [...]
Copyright © 2012 Thomas Wong. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/11/29/apps-ive-rediscovered-on-my-ipad-mini/. After purchasing the iPad mini I was curious to see what kind of apps I might “rediscover” on this smaller tablet. Over the past year-and-a-half of iPad ownership I’ve encountered a lot of gorgeous, innovative apps, but some of them I simply couldn’t put [...]
Copyright © 2012 AliciaB. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/11/29/itunes-11-finally-makes-its-debut/. At their event this past September, Apple announced that a new redesigned version of iTunes will be coming in October. October came and went. Then we were promised the update in November. With November almost already gone, it did not take a genius to [...]
Copyright © 2012 Alex Jordan. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/11/28/will-i-am-introduces-new-iphone-accessory-complete-with-camera-and-slide-out-keyboard/. The Telegraph is reporting that Will.i.am has introduced a new “i.am+” accessory. The accessory comes in several models: £199 C.4 “contemporary” and £299 V.4 “vintage”, which both work with the iPhone 4/4S. The device also comes with a slide-out keyboard and launches on December 6th. [...]
Copyright © 2012 Thomas Wong. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/11/27/beatdown-review-for-iphone-and-ipad/. Beatdown! is good, old-fashioned button-mashing fun. Having just been unfairly relieved of your job by your villainous CEO, it’s up to you to do what any self-righteous pixellated office worker would do: hand out some beatdowns. Remember that four-eyed dork from the I.T. department [...]
Copyright © 2012 Thomas Wong. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/11/27/do-icloud-tabs-ever-expire/. iCloud tabs are quite useful because they show you the open Safari tabs across all of your iOS 6 and Mountain Lion devices. It works almost like a passive bookmarking system, allowing me to load up big websites on my iPhone and come back [...]
Copyright © 2012 Alex Jordan. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/11/27/touch-and-go-apple-reportedly-back-on-top-in-smartphone-sales/. Kantar Worldpanel, a research firm, has released data on US smartphone sales. They found that the iPhone 5 managed to boost Apple’s numbers enough for the company to retake the lead, surpassing Android. For August through October, Apple took 48.1% of the market, with [...]
Copyright © 2012 Alex Jordan. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/11/27/itunes-gift-cards-now-available-on-facebook/. Facebook announced yesterday that they are now offering iTunes Store digital gift cards on the company’s Facebook Gifts initiative. It goes without saying, that this makes it that much easier for users to give iTunes Store credits to their network of friends. AllThingsD chimes [...]
Copyright © 2012 Alex Jordan. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/11/27/new-imacs-will-be-available-friday-november-30th/. Apple has announced that the new iMacs that they introduced last month, will go on sale this Friday, November 30th. The smaller, 21.5-inch model will be available immediately, via a variety of retail channels. The larger, 27-inch model will begin shipping in December. In [...]
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