User Experience

Unstick the Greyed Out Apps on Your iPhone 6S

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I was very excited to get my Apple iPhone 6S. But, I knew it could take me a while to get it going. Even though Apple is excellent at the out-of-box experience sometimes things can get dicey. A month or so ago I had an issue upgrading my 64GB iPad and when I had to [...]

International Voice over IP

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A long time ago, when I was in high school, I did a summer language program in Valencia, Spain. Back in those days, when you wanted to make a phone call to the United States it was a big ordeal. You had to go down to the Central Telephone Office, slap your ten Pesetas on [...]

Will your car be the next big tech battleground?

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Why can’t you simply plug your smartphone into your car and have it become the brain, taking over your audio entertainment and navigation? Why do even high-end cars treat a smartphone as an accessory rather than the main feature? A few years ago, I was on vacation looking for an In-N-Out Burger in LA and [...]

Five Observations Five Weeks In Using the Apple Watch

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI_rsi8b8TY&rel=0 Rather than jumping on my first impressions of the Apple Watch, I figured that I would give it a few solid weeks of use to see how I felt about it. So, here are my highlights: 1) Notifications Shine: For those of us who are too lazy or too slow to actually dig our [...]

4 Ways and 1 Hack to Get Addresses Into Waze

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I’m a big fan of the navigation app Waze. For a weekly business trip I take, Waze picks a route 20 minutes shorter than my Garmin, which is a lot for a 1:50 trip. Plus, the traffic avoidance beats anything out there. I can hardly wait until the dashboard display in my car is nothing [...]