Welcome.
Welcome to The Axx. Starting this blog is something that I have been planning for quite some time. Over the past few years I have become increasingly interested in technology (mostly that of Apple),...
View ArticleFocus.
Focus is something that I often lack. I have little focus at school, and almost no focus at home. Realizing this last year, I set out to find a setting in which I could retain an attention span and...
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On Tweetbot 2.7.2 and Twitter Display Guidlines
A few days ago, Mike Beasley wrote a blog post on how the updated Twitter display guidelines were going to affect Tweetbot. Oddly enough, Tweetbot just released version 2.7.2 to "meet Twitter's new UI...
View ArticleTwitter implements Ads API
In other Twitter related news, Twitter today released its API for advertisers.From The Verge:Twitter has released it API (application programming interface) for advertisers today, initially allowing...
View ArticleApp.net.
I joined Twitter in October of 2011. For a long time, I failed to find any use for it in my life. After a while though, I settled in to using it as a news aggregation service, and a way to keep up with...
View ArticleFreemium.
Today, App.net introduced a free tier, effectively "going freemium." From the blog post making the announcement:Although App.net has had only paid account tiers thus far, we initially conceived of...
View ArticleiOS Automation
The History. Automation of everyday tasks with scripts and interapp communications has been a tool for power users on computers for years. However, iOS has always been sorely lacking in the area. Apps...
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The Due Later Action Series. Idea adapted and modified from an article on I Miss My Mac by Jeff Kishner, who first adapted it from this article by Nathan Henrie. Import any of the actions from the Due...
View ArticleLaunch Center Pro 1.1
Launch Center Pro 1.1 was released Friday morning, and it was a very impressive update. To those uninterested in advanced URL schemes and automated workflows the likes of which I cover on The Action...
View ArticleGood Company.
I have posted my thoughts before on the quality of people who frequent the realm of App.net on a regular basis. However, in light of recent events providing more examples, I've decided to acknowledge...
View ArticleFantastical 1.1.1
Last week the popular iOS calendar app Fantastical released version 1.1.1. The most interesting aspect of this update (in my opinion) was the implementation of x-callback-url. This means that we can...
View ArticleFacebook Home
Facebook yesterday announced their "Home on Android," or a new blanket layer over the standard Google Android UI, called Facebook Home. The biggest features of Facebook Home are Cover Feed and Chat...
View ArticleFacebook Home for Facebook as a Company
I posted my thoughts on Facebook Home a few days ago, but to clarify, I was only talking about the user experience, which I find terribly disruptive and distracting, and would hate to use. In terms of...
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Ron Johnson fired from CEO position at JC Penney Reiterating what everyone else has been saying, perhaps Apple will pick him back up. He did a great job initially creating their famous retail...
View ArticleOn Teens and iPhones.
The results of Piper Jaffray's latest teen survey: "We believe that despite the push from competitive products, particularly from Samsung, it appears Apple has solidly remained the platform of choice...
View ArticleEcoute 1.2
Ecoute is a beautiful music player app by PixiApps. It's my favorite music app on iOS, and Ecoute 1.2 is a fantastic update. The biggest feature is one that I have been craving on iOS since I first got...
View ArticleMailbox opened to all new users.
The popular iOS email client Mailbox has finally removed the reservation system to gain access to the app. Now any new users can download Mailbox and use it immediately, hopefully without fears of...
View ArticleTurning Off Your Devices During Takeoff is Unnecessary
A first officer for a major regional airline: Flight attendants everywhere will hate me for this, but ... having your electronic device on below 10,000 feet is not an immediate danger to the flight....
View ArticleiBeetle
A new car by Volkswagen with a custom docking station specifically built for your iPhone which allows it to draw information from the car and perform various other functions with the iBeetle iPhone...
View ArticleFacebook Home Foolishness
Jordan Crook for Tech Crunch: [...] the app has garnered over 100,000 downloads a day since launch. Still, these aren’t blow-out numbers. Remember when Instagram launched on Android and hit over 1...
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