Tim (Surfbits) on March 22nd, 2013

I’ve been a self-taught HTML writer since the early 1990s. During that time I designed hundreds of websites for local businesses and online businesses throughout the world. But in the past 10 years HTML has become much more difficult and i find that when I need to write a website I’m using a WYSIWYG editor [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on February 26th, 2013

There are times I want my iPhone case to be mean and lean, then there are times I’m looking for total protection. Since I’ve owned an iPhone, there’s only one case company I felt confident in trusting my precious with when times were tough, iSkin. iSkin make a lot of different styles of cases, but [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on February 19th, 2013

Last weekend was an exciting weekend for me. My last contract ran out on my iPhone 4 and I could finally purchase a new iPhone 5. (It’s these little Apple things in life that make me smile some days) . After picking up my new iPhone I had to find a case I liked. I [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on September 13th, 2012

I love the TiVo Premier that I have on the HDTV in my living room. I can control recording via my iPhone or iPad apps and it has a great interface compared to my local cable company DVR. Owning a TiVo Premier just got a little sweeter. Now you can take your shows anywhere you [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on September 5th, 2012

The problem is you live in Germany but you want to watch NetFlix, maybe you live in Canada and you want Spotify. Maybe you live in the US but you’re traveling abroad and you want to watch shows from your Hulu account. The solution in the past has been to use a VPN which can [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on June 19th, 2012

Today and tomorrow Sparrow for the iPhone is on sale for $.99. After Thursday it goes back to $2.99. What better reason for me to download it today than a sale. I use Gmail’s client for the iPad, but I was still using the Mail app on the iPhone. That has now changed. I am [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on May 29th, 2012

Last week I received my Logitech Clock Radio Dock S400i to replace an old clock radio I’ve had since the 90′s. I am very impressed and quite satisfied. I’m using my iPhone 4 with the dock and for the price tag of $79.99 retail, I’d recommend it for anyone that needs a clock radio, charging [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on May 24th, 2012

OrganiDoc HD from Wenjoy is a great addition to your iPad’s utility folder. OrganiDoc HD is a single app that allows you to share files from your Dropbox, Google Docs, iDisk, iCloud, or Box.net accounts. It makes the transfer easy and fast, almost as if you had an external drive connected to your iPad. But [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on May 23rd, 2012

When I purchased my new iPad last week I was wondering if the iPad warranty from Apple was the best choice, or if a third party company such as SquareTrade might be the best route to take. So I contacted Vince Tseng from SquareTrade and asked him a few questions. I’ll let you make your [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on May 17th, 2012

Last year I looked at the SRS iWOW 3D Audio Adaptor. It was an amazing improvement on audio quality for the iPhone, iPod, and the iPad devices. The idea was that it connected to the docking port of the device and used the devices power and their own software application running on the device to [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on May 11th, 2012

The last week I’ve been testing a business card scanning and cataloging app called WorldCard Mobile. The app is part of the entire WorldCard family of business card scanners and software including, WorldCard Pro, WorldCard Color, WorldCard Office, and the software, WorldCard License. WorldCard also makes document scanners and the iPhone app, Snap2PDF. The idea [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on April 26th, 2012

Last week I sang the praises of a new application in development for searching your Mac and your cloud called Found. The problem is that Found is still in a beta stage and to even use the application you have to get on a waiting list. I was contacted by another developer that told me [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on April 24th, 2012

In case you’ve been locked away in some Apple-less environment for the last few months, you’ve probably heard about Scanner Pro from Readdle. This iOS app allows you to scan any document, receipt, whiteboard or paper note with your new iPad or iPhone. Then upload your scans, saved as PDF files, to Dropbox and Google [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on April 20th, 2012

A Guest Post from John Page: Family, work and daily routine may become a challenge by messing up time perception and destroying all plans if you got used to be involved in few activities simultaneously. However, if you life is too busy to let you actually live you should take an advantage of popular time [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on April 11th, 2012

Yes, I understand your concern. Adobe Reader on an Apple product is somehow, just not right. But give this one a try before you bash it. Adobe Reader of iOS is free and I found it painless to use. It does signatures and and basic annotation on PDF documents. Here is a review from today [...]

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