Because of our mobile nature, we rely much less on local storage than your average computer user. Instead, we dump our digital junk into the cloud. One such app that we constantly use (and recommend) is Dropbox. It’s a great free + paid service that has storage options for all types of users. With that said, a new update (1.4) has hit the App Store. Most notably, bulk video/photo uploads are now possible. For power users like us, bulk uploads are most likely...
The long awaited “digital lockers” that music junkies and mobile aficionados have been begging for has finally been delivered. But it isn’t Apple who has long been the #1 focus on such a service/feature — it’s Amazon. Dubbed “Amazon Cloud”, this new streaming service is pretty enticing on paper. Music, video, photos, and documents can all be uploaded to an initial 5GB chunk of online storage space. Purchase a single song from...
If you’re one of the hundreds of millions of Gmail users logging in this morning only to find missing items and/or being greeted as if it’s the first time you’ve logged in, you’re not alone. A check with Google’s apps status dashboard confirms that the email provider and search giant is in fact having some pretty serious issues. If you have offline copies of your email, consider yourself one step ahead of the game. Otherwise, it’s all...
The quest for Spotify music streaming services in the U.S. just inched a little closer to reality today. Sources of AllThingD’s Peter Kafka have stated that Spotify just recently closed a deal with Sony in the U.S. market, finally putting to rest countless rumors over the last several months indicating such a deal was actually being hammered out. While good news for Spotify hopefuls, the road is still long and treacherous. Sony is but one label in a country with 4...
While some of the bigger features of iOS 4.2 such as AirPrint and AirPlay dominated the limelight, Apple snuck in a few other gems. As it just so happens, a development company by the name of Occipital happened to stumble upon one of these so called secret features: Augmented Reality. You can check out the AR capabilities within Mobile Safari by pointing your browser to the live demo the developers at Occipital set up here. With all the talk of the web being the future of...
