Category: Apps
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Buying a Bus Ticket in Switzerland with Your Watch
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA company in Switzerland called Fairtiq has an iOS app with support for the Apple Watch that lets you pay for transit tickets using your Watch. The way it apparently works is you start the trip on your Watch as you board the bus (they also have partnerships with rail carriers),…
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A High School Drummer Keeps Drumming, Defying Degenerative Disease
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEthan Och plays in the high school band in Swanville, Minnesota (USA Today article that includes video from KARE-TV), despite spinal muscular atrophy– thanks to an iPad. The imagination of the band director and the commitment of community sponsors that support the band is pretty incredible. [ via LoopInsight.com ]
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Motigo is a New App for Runners That Provides In-Race Motivation
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMotigo is currently an iOS-only app that was initially released in June 2014 to provide in-race motivation to endurance athletes. This app allows you to record, manage, and play at specific points in your race motivating audio clips from family or friends. I know I’d get a big kick out of…
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Apple Focusing on Storage and Sharing of Photos by Deprecating Aperture and iPhoto
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis morning, Jim Dalrymple of The Loop reported that Apple is stopping development of Aperture and iPhoto, and will focus all photo management development moving forward on the new Photos app demonstrated at WWDC. As I said in a comment I posted to Jim’s article: Since iOS 7 was released, I’ve…
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What Does Adobe Pass Do, And Why is it Critical to Live Sports Event Streaming?
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the aftermath of some gitches that happened when people were trying to tune in to WatchESPN to watch Team USA play Germany in WorldCup 2014, I talked to some people who have streaming infrastructure experience. A few of those people told me that in order to understand the issues with verifying…
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Will the FAA Succeed in Banning Drone-Piloting Using First-Person View?
Reading Time: 2 minutesI had never read the website called Motherboard before, but I stumbled on to an article called The FAA Is Trying to Ban First-Person View Drone Flights and the information they provided about both the FAA’s attempts to regulate the use of drones, and the FAA’s apparent lack of authority to regulate…
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Watching the World Cup Online If You Are Outside of the United States
Reading Time: 2 minutesOperation Gadget is a U.S. website, and a lot of what we talk about is focused on the products and services that are available in the United States. But some of our readers are outside the United States and Canada. Therefore we try to present information relevant to international readers whenever possible.…
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Watching the World Cup on the Univision Deportes App on iOS
Reading Time: 4 minutesFor the 2014 World Cup games up to the Quarterfinal Round, the Univision Deportes app for iOS can be an alternative to paying for a cable television subscription to watch the World Cup on the networks of ESPN or the WatchESPN app. (Univision Deportes means “Univision Sports” in Spanish.) Operation Gadget decided…
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Flurry Sees Fitness App Usage on iOS Growing Faster Than Overall App Market
Reading Time: 2 minutesFlurry just released a great study that says health and fitness app usage on iOS is growing at double the rate of the overall app usage growth. This is a cool insight on its own, but I was most interested in the persona research– in other words, who is driving this usage…