Any website called Beautiful Pixels has my attention. Mikhail Madnani, reviewed the new 2.0 release of the iPad app from eBay. Sometimes it’s surprising that companies don’t support the latest features of the iPad, like the retina display. Sometimes it’s surprising when they do. Company of design? eBay isn’t exactly known for it’s impressive design. [...]
Google *beta* Play goes through growing pains
Earlier Google Play had a bug. That’s vague, sorry. Google Play has had bugs on mulpitle recent occasions. Not much less vague I guess. March 26th bug Would you like a random Russian MTC Mobile Mail app installed on your device? Oh you wouldn’t? Too bad, there was an automatic update for a carrier-installed app [...]
OneReceipt, smartly uses your emails to help track your spending
OneReceipt is a simple and convenient app that helps you track your finances. Here’s what they have to say about themselves: We keep all your receipts, and we mean ALL (paper and digital), in one convenient place. Automatically track your digital receipts OneReceipt links to your email account. It automatically pulls the financial information out [...]
Developer @ttscoff created a website to help you pick an iOS text editor – iTextEditors
Silly plaintext lover I’m always typing on my iPad or iPhone, and it seems like there are so many text editors out there, I never know if I’m using the one that is the best for me. I don’t know if you’ve ever shopped for text editors before, but there are quite a few. I [...]
New apps from Topps bring baseball cards into the 21st Century
It’s no secret that baseball cards are less popular today with kids than they were in the olden days. Young baseball fans used to love ripping open a new pack of cards, seeing if they had their favorite players, players from their favorite team, or heck, just any good players that they could trade to [...]
Report: Mobile App Developers Losing Interest in Android
I’ve talked to a lot of Android users over the past two weeks. We’ve talked about hardware, operating systems, and apps. One thing that I’ve been told repeatedly is that it’s ‘only a matter of time before Android apps are more popular, profitable, and well designed than iOS apps’. A Steady Decline Unfortunately for the [...]
Top-Secret Texting Apps
Planning a surprise party? Keeping a secret? Sending someone bank or credit card information? Just plain avoiding nosey coworkers or friends? Lucky for you, no matter what mobile device you’re using or what secret you’re keeping, there’s an app for that. Here are a few apps for top-secret texting. 1) CoverText for iPhone: CoverText allows [...]
Pair: An App for Long Distance Relationships
My husband “lives” in the same city as me but works in an entirely different state. And no, it’s not a “drive across a state boarder right up the road on the way to work” kind of thing. It’s more of a “fly twice a week” kind of thing. So, naturally there is a lot [...]
“Do Android tablet apps really suck? Yes. Yes, they do.” -PCMag.com
If you haven’t looked at PC Mag’s recent article on how badly Android tablet apps suck, you should go read it. Here is a link to the slideshow for the article: pictures of crappy Android apps and awesome iPad apps. Don’t let Andy Rubin and Eric Schmidt convince you that eventually developers are going to [...]

















