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Wearable UX Critique: Jawbone UP
By John Wayne Hill, Dec 05, 2011

Jawbone UP device

Jawbone UP is a fantastic wearable device which aims to make people healthier through data tracking. Can it succeed?

Editorial Note, December 30

Jawbone has issued a full no questions asked refund if you bought the UP, citing significant charging and syncing failures even after a few days of use. We can't help but applaud Jawbone's forthright, and maybe unprecedented...

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Critique, Design, iPhone, Jawbone, Wearable
Apple v. App Developers: Beware of Innovation
By Joe Pemberton, Jun 15, 2011

Good news for users means trouble for developers.

As Apple has demonstrated, one of the dangers of innovating in the smartphone app market is there are no guarantees Apple won't borrow your innovations and bake them into future iOS versions. (To state the obvious, there's nothing stopping Google either.)

We exchanged a few sideways glances here as we watched Apple show off the "read later" feature in iOS 5. It was obviously a direct answer to the Instapaper service. Then there was the camera feature that uses the volume keys as a shutter button, a duplicate of the third-party app Camera+ that Apple blocked from the App Store in 2010. The New York Times has gone deeper...

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Apps, iPhone
The Apps We Love
By Joe Pemberton, Feb 18, 2011

February calls for a roundup of the precious little apps we would not want to live without.


We end up trying a lot of mobile apps — an occupational hazard of sorts. However, these iOS, Android, Blackberry and WebOS gems are the apps we keep, use and recommend.

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Android, Apps, iPad, iPhone
Brands in the Mobile Space: A Response to Appvertising
By Joe Pemberton, May 10, 2010

App-vertising is emerging as a means for brands to engage with consumers through downloadable mobile apps. Marketing and advertising professionals herald the growing app trend as a more sure entrance into the elusive mobile landscape. The pre-iPhone landscape of fragmented mobile platforms and mobile OSes had previously confined marketers to the lowest common denominator options: WAP sites and SMS campaigns.

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Android, Apps, Device, Experience, iPhone, LBS, marketing, mobile, UI
Yelp’s Monocle: Augmented Reality Comes to iPhone
By Joe Pemberton, Aug 27, 2009

This is what you get when you add a compass to a data and GPS-enabled handheld device that has a camera – an extremely useful concoction of sci-fi proportions. Leave it to Yelp to deploy this type of AR to the iPhone first.

I’m not s...

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Accelerometer, Augmented Reality, compass, Handheld, iPhone, mobile, Monacle, Yelp
Create any ringtone with iPhone 3.0
By Jared Benson, Jun 18, 2009

The iPhone 3.0 software introduces a new app, Voice Memos, into the Apple canon. It’s function is simple enough: Tap one button to record, tap another to stop, tap one more to share via email. This is where the fun can begin.

To create your own ringtone from the audio of your choice, simply use Voice Notes to capture your soundbyte. The sky’s the limit, but you’ll need to keep the duration to 40 seconds or less. Use the share function to email yourself the file. You’ll notice the file will be saved as an .m4a, a format Apple has popularized as a flavor of Mpeg-4. But I digress.

Converting an .m4a into a ringtone that iPhone recognizes is dead simple. Simply change the filename extension to .m4r and drag it into iTunes. Next time you connect your i...

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Apple, iPhone