Blake Helms | Birmingham, Alabama

I haven’t writ­ten many iOS app reviews lately but every now and then and app comes along that I just have to tell peo­ple about. That app is called Down­cast, a pod­cast down­loader. Now I know many read­ers are prob­a­bly think­ing “Why do I need a pod­cast down­loader? I have iTunes.” I thought the same […]

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I wanted to cre­ate a playlist which included both “Blues” and “R&B/Soul” but I didn’t think it was pos­si­ble until I learned this trick. When you cre­ate a Smart Playlist in iTunes you are able to add rules to build it. The playlist can either match all or any. This setup does not allow you […]

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A few days ago Google re-released their highly antic­i­pated Gmail iOS app. After open­ing it you’ll quickly real­ize that its not the highly pol­ished app that peo­ple were wait­ing for. Infact it’s noth­ing more than a wrap­per around the stan­dard web inter­face. Granted Google is a web com­pany but they should make a com­mit­ment to […]

While using Siri on my iPhone 4S in the car today I inad­ver­tently dis­cov­ered a secu­rity hole. I use a pin code lock on my phone and for some func­tions Siri hon­ors the lock but for oth­ers it does not. I am able to send and read new unread texts, place call, cre­ate and read cal­en­dar appointments […]

Few peo­ple have had such a last­ing imact on the world as Steve Jobs. Some of my fond­est mem­o­ries in ele­men­tary school were going to the com­puter lab and learn­ing on Apple IIs and later on the Mac­in­tosh. Those early expe­ri­ences shaped who I am today. It instilled in me a love of tech­nol­ogy that […]

Ever­note, you are so close to per­fect yet so far away. I am still search­ing for the per­fect all in one note app and I keep falling short. Every time I think I can make this my go to app I find another flaw that moves it out of the realm of my work­flow. I’ve […]

I really like NASA’s photo of the day so I threw together a quick Automa­tor Action to make it easy to set your back­ground. I thought some other peo­ple might find it use­ful. Download