Ryan Cumley runs an online business, Numbers For Startups. He went to the local coffee shop one day to work and realized his wife had taken the car with the laptop and so all he had was his iPad. A few purchases from the App Store later and he found out he was able to do all his business related work (track sales, update his company weblog, communicate with customers, transfer funds) right from his iPad.
Month: November 2011
Email Addresses It Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone →
Speaking of giving out your email over the phone…
Saying Your Email Address Over the Phone →
Matthias McGregor intentionally set up his email address so it would easy to give out over the phone or in person. Clever. It’s like a custom short URL, except this one is for those times when you have to tell someone your email.
The $150,000 Icon Bronco →
Drew Phillips profiles Icon 4×4’s new, gorgeous, amazing, drool-worthy, custom rebuild of the Ford Bronco. (Via 512 Pixels.)
Crafting the Blue Marble →
Robert Simmon shares how he and his NASA colleague, Reto Stöckli, made the image of Earth which Apple picked to be the default Lock Screen wallpaper on the iPhone.
The image is based on 10,000 satellite scenes and is inspired by the iconic Apollo 17 photograph. And, appropriately, it was made on a Mac.
Wolfram and Siri →
Some great use-cases demonstrating just how helpful Siri’s integration with Wolfram|Alpha actually is.