Tech Spinning

The wearable market is still fairly new and while others have tried to penetrate the market, many in the industry are waiting for the Apple Watch to help bring mass adoption of such a technology. Apple usually brings an awareness of a product on a mass scale and this can yield additional sales for competitive… — read more

If you’ve been using Google Calendar on your iPhone, you may have experienced the GMT bug. This is where your calendar entry shows up in GMT time zone, including when trying to edit the item. If you add an appointment for example for 1pm in New York City, click save, then go back to view… — read more

Perhaps you’ve heard of the recent hacks on people’s accounts for a variety of different online services. Having a secure password still proves to be difficult for many people, perhaps for the simple reason that we access our online accounts so often that easy passwords provide convenience. The good part about 2 step verification is… — read more

www.apple.com/red/ I’ve been supporting (RED) since launch a few years back by Oprah and Bono. Apple has been one of the early supporters and now is making its biggest commitment to date. Check out the site for details, and the App Store on your iPhone for the (RED) apps. I find this fundraising model is… — read more

Facebook today has launched another standalone app, this time for their Groups service. The app has a nice clean interface with opportunities to discover additional groups based on interests and area. You can also create new groups, configure all of your group alerts from within the app and join and leave groups. It also displays… — read more

http://9to5mac.com/2014/11/09/how-to-deregister-imessage-phone-number/ Apple link to deregister iMessage If you’ve left your iPhone for another platform but have missed text messages, it’s most likely because your mobile number is still registered to the iMessage service. If you still have your iPhone, this is probably the easiest way to turn off iMessage. Most people unfortunately don’t realise this… — read more

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/microsoft-makes-office-free-mobiles Microsoft Office on mobiles is now free. The previous version of Office Mobile allowed you to view Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files but to create a new document, an Office 365 subscription was required. Now the one Office Mobile app has been replaced with three individual apps, and they all allow you to create… — read more

It’s been just over a week with my iPhone 6 and have only just begun to explore the Health app on the device. Now it should be noted the app just added functionality to work with third party apps with the updated iOS 8.0.2. This means that the Strava app can add data into the… — read more

I’m going to try this experiment to see if my news feed can be less promo and more friends. Perhaps there should be a setting to not allow likes for certain posts. How to make Facebook work better for you: Quit the ‘Like’ — read more