by Jeffery Battersby | Dec 7, 2011 | Commentary, Featured
Justin Williams continues his thoughts on the state of magazine publishing on iOS. He nails it and points, once again, at the best example of how it should be done: Flipboard. By the way, if you haven’t used Justin’s Elements as a text editor on your iOS...
by Jeffery Battersby | Nov 26, 2011 | Commentary, Featured
Reading magazines on the iPad is an exercise in frustration. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. As great a device and, more importantly, a platform as Apple has made, magazine publishers have done nothing short of fumble the snap. Justin Williams on how the...
by Jeffery Battersby | Nov 16, 2011 | Featured, On miPod
A brand new EP by Abby Frenes, an SF Bay-based singer/songwriter who is also the daughter of two of my very good friends. The Kangarouge EP is a stunning collection of well-crafted tunes that Abby backs up with a gorgeous voice, great arrangements, and excellent...
by Jeffery Battersby | Sep 27, 2011 | Featured, Macworld, Reviews, Wanders
My review of QuickBooks 2012 is now live at Macworld.com. QuickBooks is definitely an improvement over earlier versions of the application, but it still lacks some very important features, chief of which is file level compatibility with the Windows version of...
by Jeffery Battersby | Sep 25, 2011 | Asides, Featured, On miPod
My brother Jacob (aka Celsius 7) just had a new release drop yesterday. I know I’m biased, he is my brother after all, but this is by far the best disc he’s released yet. And that’s saying something. Pick up your copy at the iTunes Music Store,...
by Jeffery Battersby | Sep 20, 2011 | Asides, Featured
I just updated the Blogsy App and was pleased to find that, like Mars Edit on the Mac, Blogsy now offers a Java scriptlet that lets you take something you’re viewing on the web and create a new blog post with it.Pretty slick stuff and another reason why Blogsy...