michaelmayer

http://www.techi.com/2010/09/three-lessons-apples-competitors-are-yet-to-learn/

Though the technology world is admittedly a bit obsessed with Apple, it’s hard to blame them.After all, the Cupertino-based company wouldn’t inspire so much chatter if their products and services were merely ordinary or everyday. Apple seem to have a knack for creating things – both technology and services – that provoke discussion.

http://www.techi.com/2010/09/why-gmails-priority-inbox-needs-to-get-off-the-web-and-why-its-the-future/

The introduction of Google’s Priority Inbox in GMail was hailed by many as a step forward for email. Here finally was a way to not simply filter email in to spam and regular email, but a way to filter on what you read and replied to most.

http://www.techi.com/2010/09/with-instant-does-google-have-our-best-interests-in-mind/

Over the past few weeks, some changes at Google and some comments from its CEO have gotten me thinking about the effect the company is having on culture.

http://www.techi.com/2010/09/desktop-applications-dying/

It’s the year 1936. The first freely programmable computer — the Z1 — is being produced. With the ability to run programs from punched tape, the idea of desktop applications is forever solidified. This is now the stepping stone for all future computing, and nothing in the foreseeable future can stop it.

http://www.techi.com/2010/09/how-youtube-just-saved-the-internet/

Last week, when rumors broke that YouTube might finally become profitable, most of the response was actually pretty snarky.

http://www.techi.com/2010/09/first-depressions-itunes-10-as-told-by-an-audiophile/

More than a few times, Techi readers have called me out in the comments section about my abuse of the word ‘rad’. Indeed, some have even refused to believe my endorsement or recommendation of a service, product or idea unless I say it. Suffice it to say, it seems to be my catchphrase.

http://www.techi.com/2010/09/who-will-own-the-living-room-apple-google-sony-or-microsoft/

Though recently it has been the smartphone market that has garnered the most attention in the tech world, the arrival of a revamped – if slightly disappointing – Apple TV is a reminder that the living room is the next big play for digital transformation.

http://www.techi.com/2010/08/three-things-digg-needs-to-fix-in-v4-and-three-it-doesnt/

Regular readers of Techi know that we love Digg and that, most of the time anyway, Digg loves us.So when Digg rolled out version 4 of its social aggregation site – or v4 as many have called it – many, including us, were excited, particularly because there have been rumors of Digg’s waning influence.

http://www.techi.com/2010/08/if-the-rumors-are-real-apples-itv-will-be-a-runaway-success/

Now that we’ve been hearing about a revamped AppleTV – dubbed iTV – for some months now, it seems safe to say that something is coming down the pipes.

http://blog.appboy.com/2010/08/i-dont-know-about-you-but-i-have-a-facebook-app-on-my-ipad/

I have speculated with friends and colleagues as to why Facebook has not yet released an iPad app, but no one really knows.

http://www.techi.com/2010/08/the-3d-craze-is-in-full-effect-still-cant-find-a-way-in-peoples-homes/

Been to the movie theaters lately? Well then you probably have heard about Avatar, Piranha 3-D, Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D, Despicable Me, Saw 3D, Titanic 3D (yeah, they are bringing back Titanic in 3D), and so on. It’s pretty clear that 3D is the movie industry’s selling point right now, and people are actually buying into it. But are these people buying into the 3D experience at home? Not...

http://www.techi.com/2010/08/apple-vs-motorola-who-can-lock-it-down/

Apple has been fighting hard against the jailbreak community for years now. Every update Apple dishes out feels like its a direct punch to the kidney to those wishing to install third-party applications to their device. Another heavyweight, Motorola, is taking large steps to lock down their new devices as well.

http://blog.appboy.com/2010/08/facebook-and-its-500-million-users-join-the-location-game/

Just in case you have not yet noticed, no one wants privacy anymore. Facebook is dominating the Web with its whopping 500 million users, Twitter is flourishing with people sharing every last detail about their lives, Foursquare and Gowalla are booming in popularity, and now, this whole lack of privacy is reaching totally new levels.

http://www.techi.com/2010/08/why-nothing-will-save-print-media/

That, I freely admit, is a controversial title. Unfortunately, that doesn’t make it any less true.

http://blog.appboy.com/2010/08/9-ipad-apps-to-justify-your-purchase-and-wow-your-friends/

If I had a dime for every person who asked me whether the iPad was nothing more than a large iPod Touch, I would probably have a small fortune by now. Truth be told, in theory, there is something to that claim. However, once you have used an iPad, you know that in this case, size matters.

http://blog.buysellads.com/2010/08/the-secret-of-selling-banner-ads-when-less-is-more/

Minimalism can be viewed as a trend, akin to “lean startups” these days. If you are an “against the grain” type of person as I am (maybe we didn’t rebel enough as kids?) these trends can start to feel cliche and overdone, but there is a lot of value in their principles.

http://www.techi.com/2010/08/will-sony-ever-become-tech-leaders-again/

This week, after teasing it with a countdown, Sony America announced the release of their Android smartphone, the Xperia X10.

http://www.techi.com/2010/08/five-ways-rim-can-save-the-blackberry/

After an unusual amount of buildup, Research in Motion finally revealed its latest Blackberry this week. The Torch, as it has been named, is a touchscreen-keyboard combo that also ships with Blackberry’s new OS 6.

http://blog.appboy.com/2010/08/gps-tracks-geotagging-for-your-slr/

Recently I discovered Geotagging, this amazing feature that allows a user to display on a map, in iPhoto, Aperture, or Flickr, exactly where a photo was taken.

http://blog.appboy.com/2010/08/new-facebook-app-for-android-the-number-one-mobile-os-in-the-us/

The newest member of the Android tribe is none other than Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, who replaced his iPhone for Android just one month ago.

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2010/08/09/essential-reading-on-content-for-your-blog/

The newest member of the Android tribe is none other than Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, who replaced his iPhone for Android just one month ago.

http://blog.appboy.com/2010/08/stick-fu-for-iphone-video-review/

Looking to bring stick figures to life? Stick-Fu for iPhone allows you to do just that, at 99 cents. It features a highly addictive gameplay, one not often seen on the iPhone platform (it’s not a doodle app I can tell you that). Check out our video review below.

http://www.techi.com/2010/08/five-easy-lessons-to-beat-apples-ipad/

Whatever you may think of the iPad – whether you believe it to be the savior of old media or simply “a big iPod Touch” – there is one thing that cannot be denied: the thing has been a massive success.

http://bundlehunt.com/

Bundle Hunt is a premium resource pack aimed at empowering the creative community, offering more than $1,400 worth of outstanding apps, templates, icons, eBooks, hosting plans and premium memberships, all for less than $50. The design bundle will only be available for 14 days, from Aug. 2-16 and includes some of the most prestigious brands in the business.

http://blog.appboy.com/2010/08/iphone-4-jailbroken/

And it begins. Let me just say that I am yet to jailbreak any of the various Apple devices that I own, but I will not say that the thought never crossed my mind, it has.

http://www.techi.com/2010/08/how-amazon-just-trumped-apple-and-ibooks-in-the-ebook-wars/

To the surprise of almost no-one, Amazon updated the Kindle recently. It’s thinner, more sleek looking – and, most importantly, cheaper.

http://blog.appboy.com/2010/07/7-lessons-app-developers-should-learn-from-flipboard/

This Flipboard thing is a true phenomenon. If you have an iPad or are interested in the wild success of this new computing platform, you have most likely heard of Flipboard.

http://www.techi.com/2010/07/five-websites-that-will-make-you-a-better-smarter-geek/

Let’s face it, internet chums. For all the wealth of incredible, mind-expanding content there is online, we spend a lot of our time looking at junk. Celebrity gossip. Mindless updates about that new camera that now has 20x optical zoom. Video clips of people embarrassing themselves. There’s no shame in this. We all do it.

http://www.techi.com/2010/07/are-the-economics-of-the-web-making-us-stupid/

Whenever someone talks about how the internet is making us stupid, I tend to get a little skeptical.

http://www.techi.com/2010/07/does-flipboard-represent-the-future-of-media/

To say that the media world – particularly print media – is in a bit of a state right now would be a gross understatement. The arrival of the web and its impact on advertising, reading habits and people’s expectations happened so fast and so suddenly that people are still reeling from it.