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Posted on October 31, 2015 at 9:45 pm

Mophie Juice Pack Plus seeks home

Having upgraded to an iPhone 6s and selling my 5s to Gazelle, I have a two-year-old (Product)RED-colored Mophie Juice Pack Plus that I no longer need. Fair disclosure—there’s a fair bit of cosmetic wear on the case, particularly parts of the rubber ring that have worn away. But the case is still very usable and […]

Posted on August 6, 2015 at 8:09 pm

I ate an olive

Many of you who read this post will look at the title and not realize its significance. You probably eat olives all the time and are thinking, “So you ate an olive—big deal.” And then there’s the handful of you who have known me long enough to realize the statement is, in fact, a very big […]

Posted on June 26, 2015 at 2:04 pm

Freebies you didn’t know you already had

This blog post is something of a how-to for doing something that may be a little unethical, so proceed duly warned. For obvious reasons, I won’t divulge exactly which iOS app I’m referring to. Let’s just call it the XYZ Social Sharing Video Editor. Honestly, I hate XYZ Social Sharing Video Editor. It’s a pitiful […]

Posted on May 8, 2015 at 9:46 am

Instaflash before and after

If you follow me on social media, you’re probably aware that Instaflash is, almost certainly, my very favorite iOS app. Every time the developer puts it on sale or, on rare occasion, gives it away for free, I’ve always reposted the news. I’m taking this moment with my blog—completely of my own doing (no compensation […]

Posted on March 4, 2015 at 12:29 pm

Safari best practices: shortcut your bookmark favorites

Although ATPM.com is no more, every once in a while I get a hankering to write something that would have been well suited to the late e-zine. That hankering hit me recently when a coworker saw the bookmarks in my Safari web browser’s Favorites bar and wondered why I had numbers in front of each […]