Apple’s App Store, founded in July of 2008, has today reached a milestone: 10,000,000,000 downloads of software. The fact that the apps are exclusively sold/distributed for Apple’s iPhones, iPods, and iPads only makes the landmark more impressive. Apple also will soon award the prize[...]
Posts Tagged ‘iPhone’
January 20th, 2011 - 5:54 PM § in Web
Starbucks Card Becomes a Mobile App
Starbucks has released a mobile app (“Starbucks Card Mobile”) for iPhone and Blackberry devices which allows a customer to keep their Starbucks “Card” in digital space. You can keep track of purchases, check your balance, and reload your card with the new app. Perhaps mos[...]
Quick Scan for Safe, Healthy, and Sustainable Products
You want to get lost for a few minutes in an enlightening and overwhelming mass of everyday product data? Welcome to Good Guide. Not only can you look up a plethora of info on anything from baby food to deodorant, it has a great rating system to give you an instant guide for whether or [...][...]
January 17th, 2011 - 10:12 AM § in Culture
Jobs to take medical leave
Steve Jobs took a medical leave today and left Tim Cook in charge. Steve survived pancreatic cancer and a liver transplant last year. We at Default Route are big fans of Apple. We develop iPhone/iPad applications, and most of us own several Apple desktops and laptops. Here is the memo he sent this m[...]
November 29th, 2010 - 1:58 PM § in Gadget
Do not txt
I received a couple of spam txts which really pissed me off. How did I get these? Who the hell put my number in a database? If I had more time, I’d raise hell and sue these bastards. I called AT&T and they told me to forward the txt messages to 7726. The system then [...][...]