Monthly Archives: December 2009
Six iPhone productivity applications for busy people
The iPhone has taken the mobile world by storm, allowing users to browse the full web, send pictures, converse, instant message and much more! While there are over 100,000 apps available for Apple’s flagship phone, I’ve focused in on the Top 6 iPhone Apps that can help increase productivity. This list includes both personal productivity applications and business productivity programs.
Best iPhone Note Taking Application
The App Store Expense Monitor: Be scared. Be very scared.
It’s scary how all those innocent little $.99 US charges add up, but it might not be as bad as it seems. Regardless of what you paid for an app, the Monitor finds the current price and uses it to total up your cost. If you have a bunch of apps that you got when they were free and they were later were changed to a paying basis, your total won’t be accurate. That should be okay for most people. But if you want to make your accounting perfect, and you remember what you really paid for an app, you can edit the prices; quite a nice feature.
Earn It Stars: a motivating little app
Rumor: iPhone 3GS coming in 8GB size?
This morning’s report from Electronista suggests that we may be seeing a slimmed-down capacity on the iPhone 3GS soon, taking over from the 8GB spot currently maintained by the $99 iPhone 3G holdover. A refurb buyer in Hamburg, Germany got a mixed-message box that contained the promised 3G phone but said “iPhone 3GS v2.2, 8GB.” on the product label.
Packaging mix-up, or hint of things to come? Rumors were circulating of the 8GB 3GS back in early November, but didn’t materialize. It may be another case of a stealth storage bump, which is exactly what happened back in 2008 with the 16GB units… so we’ll keep an eye on those refurb pages and an ear to the ground.Rumor: iPhone 3GS coming in 8GB size? originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
NPR’s iPhone app helps doctor recommend treatment for stroke patient
I have been a huge fan of NPR’s News app [iTunes link] since it was initially released in August, and so seeing the following item was especially heartwarming. Right before Christmas, NPR published a story on how a Los Angeles doctor utilized the NPR app to obtain the information needed to get the right stroke treatment drug for his sister.
Tanya Gill, a Chicago art instructor, collapsed while shopping, and word went out to her family members that she had been rushed to the hospital. Her brother, Dr. Joe Hastings, told his wife about his sister’s illness, who commented that it sounded like a story she heard about stroke treatment on NPR. Hastings accessed the story on the NPR app and e-mailed it to the rest of the family. He then contacted the doctors treating Gill and urged them to utilize the drug, tPA, mentioned in the story.
Gill has since made a complete recovery. While tPA is not a ‘miracle drug’ for stroke (it can only be used on a subset of patients, in a very narrow time window, and carries with it a substantial risk of severe bleeding), in this case it may have made a big difference.