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The best free iPhone apps. #1: MapQuest

Posted in iPhone apps, iPhone on July 9th, 2010 by Chris

MapQuest 4 Mobile
Free
Version reviewed: 2.0.2
Get it here

Remember MapQuest?  That website you used to go to to try and figure out directions on their tiny little black-and-white map with the big red stars on it?  Then you’d print out the maps and the directions on thirty or forty sheets of inkjet paper?  Y’know, old school turn-by-turn directions.  You know, back before Google came out with Google Maps, and you never went back to MapQuest ever again, cz Google was so much prettier and bigger and easier and better?

Yeah, MapQuest!  You remember now.

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The main event! iPhone vs. Windows Mob–oh, Windows Mobile is down already

Posted in iPhone, HTC Touch Pro, Reviews of unlikely subjects, Computers on February 10th, 2010 by Chris

Yeah—-it wasn’t even close.

I have been a victim user of Windows Mobile for a few phones now. 

I moved up over to Windows Mobile after a brief but happy fling with a Kyocera 7135 running Palm a decade or so ago—-my first smartphone.  (See, I even remember the model number.  You never forget your first.) 

(sigh)
(single tear)

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Classic reviews of iPhone apps #1

Posted in iPhone, What the heck, people on January 24th, 2010 by Chris

What a keen eye for detail you have

It sure isn’t, is it.  You tell them.  And go ahead, put in a little bit of sarcasm.

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