Amp for Iphone: I wanted to love you

A yet to be released product for the iPhone really sparked my interest as it addressed one of the major short comings of the iPhone as a media, particularly video, consumption tool.

McTube Pro for YouTube removes caching

Today Software Line Inc pushed out an update to my favorite YouTube app for the iPhone. This update is apparently removing the coveted caching feature at the request of Apple and YouTube. This is one of the two reasons I use McTube as my primary YouTube client. As for now, I’m not downloading this update.…

Mailbox: iOS app review

After waiting weeks to get into the exclusive club that is Mailbox I am unable to continue using the app. Where Mailbox excels: The single action UI is brilliant and innovative. It allows me to do the two or three most common actions with a single swipe. These include Archive and Delete but also a…

Low-cost web hosts: they’re all fine, until they’re not

What I have learned over the last month or so, through first hand experience and secondary research is that all low-cost web hosts are essentially the same. The product they offer is adequate for small time players like me. The performance is good to great at first and seems to deteriorate over time, whether it…

First-world problem: The iPhone home screen

Since upgrading to the iPhone 5, the added row of applications has almost been more of a curse than a blessing. With my iPhone 3G (AT&T), which I kept for almost three years waiting for a Verizon iPhone, then finally an iPhone 4 (Verizon), for a little over two years, I had nearly five years…

Open Discussion: The Definition of Agile

This morning I sent an email to my development and QA team leads. It was a response to a discussion we had all had a couple weeks ago about the definition of Agile Software Development and whether my plan for next year (2013) was more Agile than our current approach. Below is the bulk of the email.