iPhone OS 4 Backup Taking Forever
Device: iPhone 3GS with 32GB. 29GB of data. Plan: Install OS 4. Attempt 1: 1.5 hours to backup till halfway. Aborted due to exhaustion. It was 4am last night. Attempt 2: Today at 5pm. At 645pm when we left for dinner, it was halfway. When we returned at 9pm (4 hours from start), it had [...]
Read MoreMorse Code in SAS Survival iPhone App
The SAS Survival iPhone app is probably the most useful and interesting app you’ll ever download. In its latest update there is even a morse code translator which can transmit (in flashes) if you are ever in distress. Instructions are clear and concise. Type your message. Press Transmit and it will flash the message. Alternatively, [...]
Read MoreScrAPPBook Review Update
ScrAPPBook is an iPhone scrapbook app. It was reviewed previously and has since added an update. Cool new themes were added but the 2 usability issues of the blurred zooms and remembering the last frame chosen for ease of use were not added. Still pretty blurred when zoomed. I’d like to try and print out [...]
Read MoreHow to Sell your iPhone App
So you’ve got an amazing app all ready to be posted to Apple for approval. How do you present it so that people will buy them? Simple. Include as many meaningful screenshots as you can. Show screens which users actually use. I don’t read the text, to be honest. With so many apps in the [...]
Read MoreWhen You Need Dial-up
Having been around for almost as long as the Internet as we know it, the one thing I can be sure of is that the stability of our Internet connection is not something we can count on. Back when broadband first came about, connection was intermittent and annoyingly slow and unreliable. I remember having 2 [...]
Read MoreFind a New Search Engine
Tired of Google, MSN, Yahoo, and that other new one no one seems to remember, something “cool”, launched by 2 ex-Googlers? Here’s something that will stick. Find.com – catchy and memorable no? I won’t forget this in a hurry. The most important marketing tool for any website is its name. No matter how great the [...]
Read MoreGoogle Still Best Search Engine, Firefox 3 Best Browser
After using Flock for several months now, I realised something was awfully wrong. While using Firefox for the past few years, I had taken for granted the Google search engine bar on the top right and used it without a second thought. Since switching to Flock, the Yahoo search results I got were just not [...]
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Christina Sng worked as a web developer, information architect, account executive, producer, technical writer, and usability consultant in the 10 years (that's 30 years in Internet time!) she brought bread home. She has since retired to raise her children but still spends most of her waking hours on the net, no thanks to Apple. Here are some of her adventures.
