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TeleNav Coming to Verizon iPhone

TeleNav, my favorite iPhone navigation app, is headed to Verizon. And, unlike its AT&T brethren, it’s coming in at a reasonable price point. Assuming I make the jump in the next week or so, this will be one of my first purchases. The AT&T Navigator branded TeleNav app currently runs $10/month or $70/year, whereas an … Read more

Join.me Screen Sharing App Available For iOS

Join.me is a dead simple scree sharing utility that lets you share your Windows or Mac desktop with other users. Just download and run a 1MB file and the app will give you a code that you can share with anyone. They can visit the join.me web site and enter the code to see your … Read more

The Best Netflix Hardware Experience?

ZNF friend Tech of the Hub has round up a variety of Netflix streaming hardware for comparison. They’re not the first to go down this path, but they are the most recent. Although I’d have liked to see an Xbox 360 in the mix, the Roku, Apple TV, Wii, PS3, and TiVo analysis is thorough… … Read more

Do We Need The Daily?

After a decent amount of buildup (and delay), Rupert Murdoch’s iPad-only “newspaper” launched yesterday. The Daily is a brand new publication, delivered uh daily, designed to leverage Apple’s tablet experience and the new App Store subscription service… once our two week free trials have expired. The concept is progressive and the pricing is reasonable ($0.99/wk, or … Read more

Xfinity iPad App Now Streams Video

Mere hours after announcing new studio partnerships for mobile content, Comcast went ahead and flipped the switch on their Xfinity iPad app — enabling tons of on-demand selections. So if you needed one more reason to question the longevity and business model of Hulu Plus, now you’ve got it. Engadget says video, from the likes … Read more

Deals Of The Day (but not today)

It just goes to show you, there are penalties to be paid for even the slightest time off the grid. Two pretty awesome deals hit Techbargains yesterday… Yet both are sold out as of this morning. However, I do expect them to come around again and so we must stay vigilant. First up, the Apple … Read more

XBMC Turns Jailbroken Apple TV or iPad Into 1080P Media Center

XBMC is a highly customizable and powerful media center application that can run on computers and a number of other devices. In fact, the project started its life as Xbox Media Center, thus the acronym. But my how XBMC has grown in recent years. Last night the developers announced that the app has been ported to … Read more

Researching the Galaxy Tab… From an iPad

You’ve probably noticed I’ve got an iPad in the house. And, along with the loaner, comes some mixed feelings. It still doesn’t really solve a problem I have, falling as it does between my smartphone collection and MacBook Air. In fact, the first few weeks I possessed the iPad, I only pulled it out when my iPhone was on empty. On the other hand, the software (apps), features, and new use cases are beginning to catch up to the promise of the form factor.

With that in mind, I’ve said all along I’ll probably pick up an iPad 2 whenever Apple chooses to grace us with one. I expect the next iteration will be a bit more practical, hopefully lighter weight and with a SD card reader as rumored. Paired with a Bluetooth keyboard case of some sort, I could see possibly retiring my laptop (and picking up an iMac or Wind0ws 7 equivalent).

Yet we’re not there. And who knows when we will be. But Apple isn’t the only game in town…

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