Apps: Five Siri alternatives that give your older iPhone a voice

After last week’s iPhone 4S unveiling, Siri was one of the most talked-about features. With Siri, the iPhone 4S will be able to answer just about anything you ask it, from the weather report to nearby points of interest. It can also read messages and notifications aloud and even let you dictate messages of your …

For winter’s storms, a stay bag

For those without power after Hurricane Irene, the sound of a neighbor’s generator was a loud, grating reminder that some people were actually ready for the storm. My family fared well enough during our weeklong outage, although we could have used some anti-anxiety medication. but the chug of my neighbor’s generator still nags at me …

GhostGuitar app for iPhone, iPad now live

Yonac, a mobile application developer, has developed a new GhostGuitar app that allows users to play air guitar, which means that you can create guitar tunes without really holding a physical guitar. This has been made possible with augmented reality. the GhostGuitar app works with iOS 4.2 running devices that have a front facing camera …

iPhone 5 on Oct. 4? Smartphone War to Heat up with AT&T Samsung Galaxy S2 Coming on Oct. 2

Like us on Facebook Given the emergence of Samsung Galaxy S2 on different carriers it will be interesting to see what Apple has to offer when iPhone 5 is released. Both these devices from Apple and Samsung are capable of setting their own individual benchmarks, and hence a vicious battle is on the cards. just …

Digital Business Card Apps Tested: The Future Is Not Quite Ready

Do you have your business card on you? do you have your phone with you? no and yes? That’s what I thought. of course you remember to carry your business cards for trade shows and industry events–but what about on a daily basis, for those random coffee-house encounters, or for those times when you want …

The Fine Art of Ganging Up on Apple

The Apple blogosphere gets together and decides, based on rumors, what Apple should do. They entice readers with these predictions. Then Apple goes its own way, bound by its own realities. Then the bloggers get all upset and bash Apple. Then Apple sells millions of fill-in-the-blank. will it ever end? I am a bit disappointed …

iPhone 4S: Five missing features

Today’s iPhone 4S announcement has not gone without controversy. many of the expected features we had longed and hoped for have not come to fruition. While the iPhone 4S has been boosted on the inside with hardware modifications, including a dual-core processor and memory upgrades, it lacks a physical change of any kind on the outside. …