Shared Paper is a lovely iPad app for making and sharing presentations on a huge scrollable canvas. It’s one of those apps with wide appeal. Anyone who needs to present information – students, business people, academics – could put it to use. The name,...Review: Powerbag by ful is a device-charging backpack that looks too good for a geek
Over the past month, I’ve been carrying around a Powerbag backpack from ful. The idea is pretty straight-forward. They put a 3000 mA battery inside a backpack complete with adapters for just about any device you’d ever want to charge. On heavy usage days, I have a mobile charge with me at all times. Instead...
Review: Three months with the Logitech Wireless Solar Keyboard K750 for Mac
Logitech first started producing solar wireless keyboards for PCs earlier this year but didn’t make a Mac version until a few months ago. The PC version got incredibly solid reviews at Amazon so I thought this would be a good pick up for my Mac workstation when it was released. As a veteran of Apple’s...
Twitterrific 4.4.4 Gains Support for Readability
In light of the Twitter news yesterday, we missed a small but important update for Twitterrific! Fans of the Readability subscription service will find an update (4.4.4) waiting for them in the Mac and iTunes App Stores. Readability can be chosen as a read later services from the Services tab in Preferences on the Mac, and...
TweetDeck for the Mac: A Shorter Review
TweetDeck has always been looked up to as the power-user’s go-to Twitter app thanks to a huge feature set, its multi-column layout, quick filtering, and its availability across platforms thanks to Adobe Air. When Twitter acquired TweetDeck back in May, many questioned whether Twitter would continue to maintain the client, and whether Twitter would rebrand...
Review: Twitter 4.0 for iPhone
That gorgeous app up above? That’s the next-generation Twitter app. Twitter 4.0 melds Twitter’s brand new web experience with your mobile phone, making it easier to discover and share information that matters most to you. Conversations, your activity feed, stories and trends have now been given focus in four new tabs that make Twitter more...
Light, fast, a little unstable: hands-on with a Toshiba ultrabook
Toshiba's entries into the ultrabook market, the Portege Z830 series, falls on the less expensive end of the spectrum. The internals of our test model, the Z835, are robust and we had no issues with...
Sparrow 1.5 Hits the Mac App Store with Dropbox Integration and Search Tokens
Sparrow, last updated with CloudApp integration (for large email attachments) and pull-to-refresh with version 1.4, has reached a milestone this morning with their 1.5 update now available on the Mac App Store. In this release, Sparrow continues to integrate Gmail natively with optional loading of remote images and token based searching for messages. New to...




