Product Reviews

Handoff simplifies sending things from your computer’s web browser to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. It supports all sorts of content that you might want to take with you, including web pages, Google maps and phone numbers.

REWORK | A Book you need to read NOW

by Chris Foley on January 24, 2011

I’ve just finished reading REWORK by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson; by far one of the best business/workflow books I’ve read in years; heavy on the real world wisdom, light on the B.S. platitudes, centering on executive leadership and team management in a time when almost all of the tried and true methods are [...]

Time Flies | Innovative Time Tracking for iPhone

by Chris Foley on January 23, 2011

Every so often, someone writes a very useful program which addresses our issues in a radical new way. I’ll be the first to admit that there are already plenty of task management apps on the market. Some of them are very very good, and some of them are downright unusable. I’ve tested many of them, and I have my favorites, but essentially, they all operate along the same lines;

You have a to-do list, you create new items that you need to accomplish sometime in the future, set up reminders so that you don’t forget to do those things, and if you’re lucky, your task management app will sync in and out to your calendar software.

The Five New Features of Skype 5.0 | Why I’m excited

by Chris Foley on November 4, 2010

Skype has been a daily-use tech tool for me for years, and like many tech professionals, I have Skype open all day long whenever I’m sitting at my desk.  I use Skype on my iPhone, and I sometimes even use Skype on my iPad, though not as often.  I also use Skype to record conference [...]

Another reason Apple’s Ping is just plain Stupid

by Chris Foley on October 8, 2010

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I’m really trying to give this Apple Ping thing a chance.  I really am. No, really. I normally have iTunes open and playing on shuffle while I work throughout the day.  It helps keep me focused, and moving.  I should also mention here, that I have an unusually large music collection.  It’s a collection born [...]

Jawbone ICON Bluetooth headset Reviewed

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by Chris Foley on September 22, 2010

I despise Bluetooth headsets.  I’ve owned at least 20 of them over the past decade, and the only one I was ever sort of happy with was lost in a freakish accident whereby my headset fell out of it’s perch on my dashboard, bounced on the road several times, and disappeared down a curbside drain.  [...]