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Outbox seeks to bring postal mail to your iPad, iPhone and desktop

by Steven Sande (Feb 26th, 2013)

Starting today, people living in San Francisco have an opportunity to never handle another piece of "real" mail again. Outbox is an Austin, Texas-based company that has figured out a way to digitize all of that snail mail and present it to you in a virtual mailbox on your computer, iPad, or ...

iPhone receives push notifications from real-world mailbox

by Steven Sande (Jan 20th, 2011)

Sure, push notification is nothing new for iPhone users. But when was the last time that you received notification that real-live mail -- the kind made of atoms, not bits -- has shown up in your mailbox? One of the new evil geniuses at Make Magazine online, Matt Richardson, decided he'd like to get ...

Widget Watch: the Jack of All Widgets

by David Chartier (May 25th, 2006)

The Jack of All Widgets widget could perhaps be better named as the Jack of All Searches. It allows quick access to what I would guess is around 50 different searches and services, including Amazon, gas prices, people searches, package tracking (including the only widget I know of that searches the ...