iOS 5, iCloud, and Lion Updates Will Start Really Changing Things

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The griping about the iPhone 4S—which the more I think of it is a great update to the iPhone 4—has overshadowed the real stuff that is going to make us love our iOS devices more—iOS 5, iCloud, and the Lion updates to support them. By all accounts, iOS 5 fixes how freakin’ annoying notifications are [...]

QuikView for iPad: Real Potential for News Junkies

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I got an email this morning from Zod. No, not the arch-nemesis of Superman, but Michael Kirlew of Toronto-based Zod Studios who want to tell me about their new newspaper-style app for the iPad called QuikView. Now, you folks know that I’m a sucker for news apps. I tried Flipboard straight away. I really liked Zite (but haven’t touched it in a while for some strange reason). Now QuikView offers similar functions as both these apps, but the real twist is in adjusting the layout of the pages you create.

My (a lot more than) my top 5 fav iOS apps

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From my post on the Future Shop Tech blog: A Lot More Than My Top 5 Awesome Apps for iOS – Future Shop Community Forums.

Tablets Aren’t Instead of Devices, They Are With Devices

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Another school (this time in the U.S.) announced that it is requiring iPads for all students which is cool (I’m not sure on the requiring part as much as the using part), but before people really start thinking about iPads as replacements for other technologies (well maybe paper textbooks) I wonder if it’s better to [...]

Apple, Don’t Kill Newspapers! Offer In-App Subscriptions

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I’m a huge fan of the Vancouver Sun (Postmedia, really) iPad app, it is (as I said initially) part of my daily routine of reading the news. Now, I know that Postmedia doesn’t push all the articles from the Sun (or other papers) to the app, but that’s okay. Kobo came out with real subscriptions [...]

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