Seriously trivial thoughts
After the nightmare of restoring my iPhone 5 backup to my new iPhone 6S, I noticed a couple apps were missing. I downloaded and installed them, but an odd thing happened. The icon became dark and it said “Waiting…” beneath the icon. I tried deleting the app and reinstalling but the same thing happened over …
I was up until 4AM getting my new iPhone 6S up and running. It was the worst kind of nightmare: the kind when you’re awake and thus can’t wake up out of it!
If you are a long-time user of Apple products, their switch to the Lightening connector probably left you with orphaned 30-pin connector devices, like iPhone/iPad powered speaker docks. Well, this handy $15 adapter will turn those into useful Bluetooth speakers! (Even if you still live in the 30-pin world, this would be a great thing …
This is a fantastic 2-in-1 cable with Apple Lightning and micro-USB connectors. I’ve got two and just ordered a couple more. It’s great for my Mophie Juice Pack Plus iPhone 5 battery case. For iPhone 5 iPod iPad USB Data Charging Cable Lightning Connector Micro USB | eBay.
I ponied up $115 to Kickstarter on April 23, 2012 for the Pebble ($150 now). It was expected to ship in September. Here we are just about one month shy of a year and the Pebble watch finally sits snugly fastened to my wrist. :-) It’s definitely on the large side, but not overly so. The …
Tunelink Auto from New Potato Technologies is a very cool device. Basically, it allows you to connect an iOS device via Bluetooth and broadcasts the audio to an FM station. The entire device plugs into your car’s cigarette lighter plug. The station you use to broadcast can be set using a free app that you …
Sometimes I want my iPhone to vibrate when I get something like an email, but I don’t want a ringtone to play. Moreover, I don’t want the iPhone to be in Silent mode overall. Unfortunately, there’s not a straight-forward way to do it. If you have ringtone Vibrate option enabled, but set, say, the New …
Ok, I know this set-up looks stupidier than heck, but I never realized how much I missed old-style phone handsets. We’ve gotten so far away from that with our flat cellphones. Even newer land-line phones are moving in that direction. However, if you haven’t noticed, your face isn’t flat! You can comfortably hold the Moshi …
When you share a link using Facebook.com, it scans the page and lets you set a thumbnail image for the post. If you are on a webpage that you want to share, you can save a step if you have the Facebook Share Bookmarklet installed on your browser. Basically, a bookmarklet is just a bookmark …
Just got my Kindle 3! The screen is pretty cool. When I first got it, I couldn’t decide if the picture was printed on a covering sticker or actually the screen…it was the screen. It is amazing and the refresh is not annoying at all–this was one of my biggest fears. It’s actually really easy …