iOS Music App vs Track 8: Two Radically Different Music Players for iPhone Compared

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Music is, for a lot of users, perhaps one of the most important aspects of their smartphones. On the iPhone this is no exception, and in fact, the iPod aspect of the iPhone was the very first feature to be demoed by Steve Jobs when the iPhone was revealed in 2007. Since then, the native [...]

How To Enable, Use and Make the Most of Dictation on OS X

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One of the least-known features in the most recent release of OS X, Mountain Lion, is without a doubt the newly-revamped dictation tool. Of course, nowadays there is an abundance of dictation apps for the iPhone and other smartphones, and even for the Mac there have always been a couple of solid third-party applications. Still, [...]

YouTube and Jasmine: iPhone YouTube Apps Compared

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As you surely know, YouTube is by far the most popular video sharing website out there, with its popularity only increasing even more with the arrival of mobile devices like the iPhone and the iPad. Naturally, after Apple excised the native YouTube app from iOS, the healthy app ecosystem of the App Store started brimming [...]

Twitter vs Tweetbot: Two Popular iOS Twitter Apps Compared

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There is no doubt that Twitter in itself is a phenomenon. However, with the ease of access that mobile devices bring, it has truly exploded to become an entirely new way of communicating. As a result of this, Apple decided to embed Twitter in iOS, making it an essential part of the mobile operating system [...]

A Review of EasilyDo, a Useful Task Assistant for iPhone

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Time management methodologies never get old. People want to be more productive and to accomplish more things in less time. We already covered some to-do apps for the iPhone (in this post and in this one as well) that use these methodologies. However, the great advantage but also the great flaw of to-do apps, is [...]

iMessage vs WhatsApp: The 2 Most Popular iOS Messaging Apps Compared

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By default, the iPhone and other iOS devices come with the iMessage app installed. This application, as its name states, allows iOS device owners to send messages to other users who own Apple devices. However, there are other applications in the App Store that provide iOS device owners with other features, like being able to [...]

Convertbot vs Amount: Best Paid iPhone Conversion Apps Compared

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Being a small, portable computer more than just a phone, the iPhone has become a true multipurpose device that can perform even complex tasks like image editing and spreadsheet management. However, its is with simpler, more straightforward tasks that it really shines. A clear example of this is how popular weather, calculator and exchange apps [...]

Phone vs Dialvetica: Can the Native iOS Phone App be Replaced?

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During the introduction of the iPhone in the January of 2007, Steve Jobs said: What’s the killer app? The killer app is making calls!” He was of course, referring to how difficult it was to actually make calls on most smartphones of that time. Then, the iPhone’s interface for making calls (now known simply as [...]

Instapaper vs Readability: 2 Popular Read-Later Apps For iOS Compared

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Nowadays, with all the information available on the web, it can become a bit overwhelming to try to cover all of it in a short period of time. This is especially true for written articles, since reading takes longer than just any other form of media consumption. Because of this, and the boom of smartphones [...]

ATP/WTA Live for iPhone: Easily Follow Tennis Results Live and Schedules

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One of the great things about tennis is that it is a sport that has something going on almost all year round. Also, contrary to a lot of other popular sports out there, if you are a fan of any big tennis player, chances are you can follow him (ATP) or her (WTA) all throughout [...]

Top 10 Free Archivers For Windows, Mac and Linux

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No matter how powerful your computer is and how much room there is on your hard drive, be sure you still need an archiver. Because as soon as you open your email and decide to send a batch of files you’ll realize that sending them as they are will require you to attach every file [...]

Clear vs Reminders: Which One is the Better iOS Task Manager?

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In past entries we have already discussed the importance of task managers, which is why there exists a number of them in the App Store ready for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users to download. We’ve also reviewed a few of them and even compared one of the most popular free ones (Any.Do) to Apple’s [...]

How to Manage Your Mac’s Fonts With Font Book

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Among the several different characteristics that define the Mac, fonts are perhaps one of the oldest and most differentiating ones. In fact, the Mac was the first computer with beautiful, varied fonts that were proportionally spaced and came preinstalled on every Mac as a result of Steve Jobs fondness of typography. At the time though, [...]

A Review of Turbine: A Minimal iPad Email App for Regular Users

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In the past few months, the number of alternative iOS email apps has steadily increased, with Mailbox and Triage as the newest releases and others, like SquareOne Mail and Mochila Mail lining up on the horizon. However, with just one exception, all of these alternative iOS email clients are (or will be) available exclusively on [...]