People Like Us podcast

People Like Us Prefer Assistive GPS

uzerpodcast — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 02:32:29 +0000

Discussion of physical notebooks vs digital notes, mind mapping to solve technical problems, inefficiences of Photo Stream in iOS 5, Salt and Fat restaurant in NY, Mapquest for iPhone, assistive GPS vs conventional, an Apple mapping service and what a molskine is made of.

Direct download: plu3.mp3

People Like Us #2 : The HAARP of the NOOK

uzerpodcast — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 03:19:45 +0000

This week’s show with hurricanes, earthquakes, and the BN NOOK.

Direct download: PLU2.mp3

People Like Us#1: Hierarchical

uzerpodcast — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 01:15:12 +0000

This week on the show: Jobs, office heirarchy, gettings into passionate tech debates at work, starting a business with the $99 TouchPad, hating the Blackberry playbook, screen gestures & keyboard shortcuts, buying the iPhone 5, cutting the cord with iCloud & Instacasts for podcasts, multi-touch trackpad VS Magic Mouse, iOS UI development discussion for our application, Facebook messages flaw, best “pull to refresh” implementations, Google’s plan with Motorola, and ethnic banks!Follow us on twitter @UZERshow

Direct Download: PLU1-UZER35.mp3

iOS UZER #33: iCloudy Understandings

uzerpodcast — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 02:03:10 +0000

This week on the show:

iOS 5 feature YAYS and NAYS

iCloud thoughts.

Deconstruction of Engadget’s iCloud editorial.

The emergence of communication services and Nelay Patel’s anti-phone number editorial.

Apps: Nebulous Notes, Reeder for Mac, Pages for iPhone.

Direct download: iouzer33.mp3

iOS UZER #32: Ring Ring Ring Ring BananaTunes

uzerpodcast — Wed, 04 May 2011 01:48:11 +0000

This week on iOS UZER:

iPhone 5 design rumors, courtesy of Josh Topolsky @ This Is My Next.

Geniuses don’t know how iOS multitasking works.

New game uses Javascript engine.

iPhone 6 rumors.

Android VS iPhone marketshare.

Apps:

FastEver Snap, BananaTunes

…and as always deconstructing the week’s iOS news cycle.

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iOS UZER #30: Factually Delayed

uzerpodcast — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 01:26:11 +0000

The white iPhone is finally upon us, or so it seems. More rumors coming out from suppliers about how the iPhone 5 will be coming out later than expected. Apple hires a carbon fiber expert, what does this mean for its products? Adobe releases three photoshop companion applications for iPad. A component supplier states they are having problems with their chips and some speculate what effect this will have on Apple. The Flip is dead and what does that mean for the industry?

App Picks: WWE Slingshot, SleepUp & Tweetbot.

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iOS UZER #30: NFC: Will it Dominate?

uzerpodcast — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:11:33 +0000

This week on iOS UZER we discuss a top 12 list of the best user interfaces this year and the list includes some of our favorite apps from the iOS ecosystem. The iPhone 5 rumors just won’t stop these days and there’s more chatter this week about the potential NFC capabilities of the next iPhone. Google appears to be having a change of heart on how open it really is with the newest releases of Android. We talk about the evolving looks of Reggie Fils-Aime the President of Nintendo of America. Does Nintendo have the mojo to compete with the iPhone in the mobile gaming arena?

Our Apps this week are GV Mobile+ (again), and Time Warners latest cable app.

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iOS UZER #29: Free Rumors!

uzerpodcast — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:48:12 +0000

This week Reece and Mike discuss some iOS 5 and iPhone 5 rumors that keep pouring in every week. iPhone 5 to have a bigger screen? No NFC technology? Mike also gives his impressions of Garageband for iPad now that it’s out. iPad 2 smokes the graphics benchmarks on anandtech.com. Microsoft stops making the Zune and nobody will miss it. Windows Phone OS updates don’t seem to be going smoothly at all. We discuss how to get mulitouch gestures on your iPad with Xcode. Is hot spot tethering plans on your iPhone worth it? We discuss the pros and cons. Twitter decides it wants to be more like Apple with it’s new developer rules. We also discuss some rumors about Motorola Xoom sales in Verizon sales. iOS data sharing is discussed as a frustration to iOS users.

Updated iOS apps we talk about this week include: Infinity Blade, Real Racing 2 HD, Flipboard, The Daily, & Instapaper.

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iOS UZER #28: More iPad 2

uzerpodcast — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 19:13:07 +0000

This week on iOS UZER we discuss the official announcement of the iPad 2: Mike doesn’t understand weight, iMovie and Garageband for iPad, Photo Booth, and Smart Covers. We discuss the validity of some early iPad 2 benchmark claims. Was the idea of the Smart Cover stolen? Random House is now on the iBooks Store. iOS 4.3 details, does personal hotspot make the iPad 3G insignificant and will the Verizon iPhone ever get iOS 4.3? We discuss human versus computer multitasking and the idea that people have no idea what specs mean. We also discuss pants. Yes pants.

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iOS UZER #27: iPad 2 Predictions

uzerpodcast — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 04:18:56 +0000

This week on iOS UZER we predict what will happen at the already past Apple iPad 2 announcement. We also discuss the possibility of an iOS 5 announcement. We also discuss new methods of notifications on iOS using MobileNotifier as an example. Why Mike thinks the iPhone 5 is the iPhone Nano, and Tim’s Cooks discussion on a cheap iPhone. All that and more this week on iOS UZER!

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