Last year, I reviewed an app called Deliveries that makes it easy to keep track of packages that you sent or that you should be receiving. Like most Amazon Prime members, I buy lots of items on Amazon, and I've been using the Deliveries app almost every week since I reviewed it last year, not only for Amazon but also with other online retailers. This week, the app was updated to version 7, which adds lots of new features. For example, you can now select a tracking number in an email and add it directly to the Deliveries app from within the Mail app, making it faster and easier to add items to the app. And if you have an iPhone 6s or iPhone 6s Plus, you can use 3D Touch actions to press lightly on an item to get more details. It's a nice update to an already great app, and since I suspect that lots of iPhone J.D. readers buy items online, I encourage you to check it out if you don't have the app yet. Click here to get Deliveries ($4.99):
And now, the news of note from the past week.
- California attorney David Spark is also a fan of the Deliveries app, and he explains what he likes about the new features added this week.
- Sparks also discusses the latest update to the Microsoft Office for iOS apps, stating: "It seems to me that Star Wars isn't the only place where we've had an awakening. Microsoft has been upping its game for the iOS Office suite."
- Ed Silverstein of Legaltech News talked to me and a few other attorneys about iPhone sales in 2016.
- Farhad Manjoo of the New York Times explains that, even though some analysts had hoped for more from Apple's earnings call this week, Apple is doing just fine.
- Fast Company has a short interview with Angela Ahrendts, who runs the Apple Store.
- Zach Epstein of Fox News discusses 25 less obvious features of the iPhone.
- Security expert Glenn Fleishman discusses a court case from last month that relates to the security code on your iPhone.
- Joe White of WachAware reviews the updated Shazam app for Apple Watch, which now runs much faster.
- For $50, you can get an Apple Watch stand on Etsy that looks like the original Mac. Evan Killham of Cult of Mac has details.
- And finally, there is a new solitaire game on the App Store from an unlikely app developer, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. The app is called Churchill Solitaire, and it is based on the version of solitaire that Winston Churchill used to play. In an article on Medium, Rumsfeld explains why he decided to develop an app at age 83. After Obama leaves office, I wonder if he or any of his cabinet members will create iOS apps? Here is a video showing off the game:
