While most of us have moved on from our PDAs and smartphones of yesteryear, some of our clients love a specific device, and we consider it our job to figure out a way to let them use it if that's what they want to do. We have a client who still uses a Palm organizer, because its calendar view ...
How to download an album on your iPhone with Spotify or Rhapsody
If you're unfamiliar with Spotify, it's a subscription music service that lets you listen to all the music you want with either Pandora-like "channels" customized to your taste based on the music you like, or almost any specific album you can think of, without having to purchase it. There's a free ...
Good Googling
Love 'em or hate 'em, Google is an inextricable part of our lives. While they have many compelling and interesting services (many not always fully baked), the best thing they do, in my opinion, is the same thing they originally did: search. Here are some tips for good searching: You shouldn't ever ...
Great, great speakers
I bought AudioEngine 2 speakers for my desk here at IvanExpert world headquarters, and they are awesome. They're small, great-looking, and above all, incredible sounding for their size, at least when you're sitting in front of them. I recommend the little wedge stands as well. I have these plugged ...
Apple II forever, at least around here
As many of you know, my first computing love was the Apple II, which I was introduced to when I was approximately half my current height. It was Apple's first mass-market computer, and it came with tapes (but we got a floppy disk drive as soon as it was available). Many people think that Apple means ...
Raspberry Pi right now!
A computer I sort of think of as the Apple II of today is the Raspberry Pi, a tiny $35 computer designed for education. It's just...inspiring and fun. If you've got a Pi, you can check out this stuff I've made for it. (Some of these can actually be useful for non-Pi purposes too, if you know what ...