Something must’ve frozen over. Because Apple has been loosening up their app restrictions lately, leading to what is now an official approval of Google Voice for the Iphone. There have been a couple of third-party apps in the app store approved recently (i.e. GV Mobile+), however Google now has the green light for an official Voice app. So, Google is now...

This resource was submitted to PCMech via the “Got A Tip?” form by Reina, who calls herself “an avid reader”. For all I know, she might work for the resource she submitted to us, but that’s fine. It looks interesting. It is called Cardmobili. Basically, it is a way to store all those loyalty card programs on your smartphone rather...

PCMech reader, Mary, wrote in via our tip form with the following: I like to keep things “in house”…still don’t feel comfortable throwing much info/docuements/photos out to web sites but I have found this neat site (makeuseof.com) titled CreatePDF (http://www.createpdf.in/) It is wonderful if you want to print a website in PDF and for the...

Google made a pretty significant announcement today: Google Instant. In a nutshell, it is instant search results. As you type into the seach box, it will begin pre-populating search results. It will also predict (as close as it can) what you may be trying to search for and give it to you. A few bullet points:It is rolling out starting today in the U.S. It will...

So, my wife was using her laptop one day to look up a word. She Googled the word and was taken to a dictionary site of some kind. Up pops a warning message saying her computer was infected and that she needed to run some scan or something. Not knowing that she was about to be taken by a classic “bait-and-switch” scam, she clicked it. Laptop = infested with...

So, Steve Jobs released a bunch of things. And one of them is Ping. What is it? It is a social network. About music. Inside of iTunes. Today, I went and upgraded to iTunes 10. Now, right there, you look at that version number and you have to wonder. Version TEN. Like a lot of things where there are that many incarnations, they just keep tacking more and more...

Apple held their traditional September “Stevenote” this afternoon. In the “something different” department, Apple decided to live-stream the event online. In a suprising move, you had to be tuning in using an Apple device to see the live stream. Windows users were SOL unless they found some kind of geeky workaround. The theory was that...

This is a full recording of PCMech’s first ever LIVE, INTERACTIVE workshop. This is the first of many such workshops we will be holding inside of our PCMech Premium program. All of our workshops will be either instructional, interviews, or open Q&A where you can talk to us and we’ll discuss your matters of interest and answer your questions. To...

I have been a self-proclaimed “Google whore” for awhile now. I use it every day in more ways than one. In fact, if I step back from it and compare my usage of Google to my usage of the computer a few years ago, an argument could be made that Google is my new operating system. A cloud-based OS. Let’s look at the Google apps that I use all the...

Seth Godin is a pretty well known book author in the business market. His books are prolific and most people interested in business have probably heard of him. He has written 12 best-selling books. Well, he made some waves this week by publicly declaring he would no longer publish books in print format. In his upcoming interview with MediaBistro, he...

Not sure if you’ve heard the news. Blogging is dead. Social media is dead. Oh, and the whole damn world wide web is dead. Oh, and I heard about it on blogs, social media and the world wide web. Ironic, I know. The truth, though, is that… Creativity Is Dead When you have nothing else to say as a tech blogger, just declare something dead. People will...

I am a big fan of Dropbox. I use it all the time. If you’re not familiar with it, it is an online storage service which integrates directly with your computer. Once you set it up, you have a folder on your machine called “Dropbox”. File operations on that folder are done locally so it is super fast. Then Dropbox auto-syncs everything to your...

A few weeks ago, Google began rolling out a feature which allows you to be logged into more than one Google account at the same time without using any incognito browser hanky-panky. As a person who has more than one Google account, this is pretty handy. I used to, instead, just use different browsers when I wanted to check another account. For example, I’d...

You want free text messaging? Free visual voice mail? The ability to screen your calls and have custom voice mail greetings?Then you really need to check out Google Voice. It is now completely wide open (and free) to sign up for anybody in the U.S. I’ve had a Google Voice number for awhile. In fact, my main business line is now a Google Voice line. But,...

A few weeks ago, my wife and I decided to ditch our Iphones and head over to the other side – Android. Bye Iphone – Hello Android. We had to wait almost 2 weeks to get our two phones. My wife picked the Motorola Droid X and I went with the HTC Incredible. The Droid X is a nice phone, but it was simply too big for my taste. The Incredible took the...