While the USA and the UK have been swanning it up with music subscription services like Spotify, Pandora and Mog, we Australians have lived it up with iTunes and record stores. We’ve been teased with the promise of all you can eat music for a monthly subscription and that’s the way it still stands except for one of the big overseas players. Rdio. I’ve had a peak and, for the most part, I like what I hear. Read the rest of this entry →
For the spontaneous among us, the Nike+ SportsWatch featuring TomTom technology is the proverbial ducks nether regions. As your everyday watch it makes for a classy, if not a little garish, talking point – but don the runners and it transforms into the easiest to use GPS run tracker on the market. Featuring only three buttons, it’s perfect for simpletons like me. For the rest of you it’s just about everything you’d need for a day on the trails. Or is it? Read the rest of this entry →
You know, it really is getting way too complicated when it comes to choosing a pair of headphones. Just like some sort of turf war you’ve got the purists on one side bearing witness with impressively spec’d faux aluminium cans by Bose and Beyerdynamic. Over the back fence, spitting, are the boys from Beats and Sennheiser. They are the ASBOs. The nair do wells. Full of colour and one bearing the three stripes of a footwear company. Then there’s House of Marley.
Whereas their opposition spruik street cred or frequency response curves, House of Marley has chosen to create something unique. Their push appears to have been to make a range of audio equipment that stirs both your creative side but also your social sensibilities. Read the rest of this entry →
With my life careering out of control like a chicken riding a skateboard, I’ve tried to wrangle back control without harming said chicken. Enter the iPhone and its menagerie of apps for organising your life.
First I tried the super comprehensive Awesome Note. I envisioned myself creating an epic tome of organisation with maps and pictures, syncing to Google Docs, and shielding all of this highly classified data with pass codes. It didn’t happen. The thought of adding images to a task called “get some milk” just seemed a little absurd and tinged with a little over kill.
Keeping it truly simple. Seriously.
Enter GoTasks.
This free – yes free – app does exactly what it advertises and it does it well. Instead of aiming to be the be all and end all of task management and life organisation, GoTasks simply organises your tasks.
GoTasks lets you do all of the usual:
But overall the killer feature is its elegant simplicity. This app has simply organised my daily work-flow. Its integration with Google has meant that any tasks added by iPhone appear on the iPad and online. Just beautiful.
I say forget the milk. Say no to making awesome notes for yourself and grab the app that dares to keep it simple stupid.
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