When the iOS App Store first went live there were only a few standout apps among the first releases. I should know, after all I got very familiar with each of them within the first 72 hours after it went live. At the time I was launching one of, if not the, first iPhone app review sites. We didn’t yet have a code for automatically importing new apps so, I loaded every one of the first crop manually. And among all of them, just a few were standouts  that made me go “Wow!”. Among those standouts was Evernote’s iOS app; it let you add text, voice and image notes, sync them to your Evernote account… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

The robot’s even green! St. Patrick’s Day means a lot of different things to different people.  To some, it’s the day Chicago dyes the river green (don’t ask me why).  For me, it’s the day I steadfastly refuse to wear green–I’m Irish already; I don’t need to advertise it one day a year, you know?  I’m stubborn, me. But for most people, it means, “Let’s have a party!”  And in that vein, Gear Diary wants to clue you in to some gear that, while maybe marginally St. Patrick’s Day oriented, might still come in handy in a hard-partying environment.  (Consider the waterproof power strip, and then think “My 20 best friends, my living… Continue reading on Gear Diary …