Rumor control: $149 high power tablet Well we know its just a matter of time before we have a sub $100 tablet, but most of us expect it to be a race to the bottom for creating a tablet powerful enough to be useful, but only ‘just’ powerful enough. Well break out the rumor books, looks like Google is pushing to… Read More
Tip #192 By pass the splash screen in windows8 with a click One thing that bugs me about windows 8 is I have 2 screens I have to get pass to get to my desktop. First the splash screen, or whatever its called, then the login screen. Well I just found out by accident that if you click on the spacebar, that will execute the ‘slide open’… Read More
Some more games go Free in the iTunes store Just saw this in my email so thought I would put a quick post up. Enjoy! It’s Jouni, from Tuokio – Finnish multiplayer games dev: King of Opera, Raiding Co, BvB Racing for iOS. Tip from Tuokio to you: All Tuokio games are FREE NOW on the Apple AppStore until end of the day… Read More
The coolest and most practical iphone battery case I have every seen – Video I have no idea why this has taken so long or why I did not think of it. There is a new project on kickstarter called juicetank that is an iphone4, 4s case that has the AC plug built it! Yes, make perfect sense when you think about. New to recharge your phone? No adapter,… Read More
Does the ‘new’ ipad HD 3 display really make that much of a difference? I only got to see it for a short time, but I was pretty impressed when I saw it. I can’t wait to spend some more time with the new iPad and see just how much of a difference it makes once I’m in the middle of doing something. However, as I described in my… Read More
An ‘ok’ guide to rage faces. Smelling a shark Rage faces have been around a long time starting with 4chan, then reddit, then, copycat outlets like funnystuff. Yesterday Ars Technica put out a post explaining what Rage Face Comics are. Its an good enough post, missing some information and fluffing up other bits, but fair enough, you get the point. However, it got me… Read More
Tether your iphone to your laptop without Jailbreak.. again This has been a running battle between Apple, the phone companies and those who want to tether their phones to other devices. Well, here is latest update in the battle, and this time, its a tether that not only does not require jailbreak, but does not even require the installation of an app! THIS is… Read More
Can you jailbreak iOS 5.1? Well, kinda, if you have an older device iOS 5.1 dropped last week and of course there were 0-day jailbreaks out there. Redsn0w was kinda ready but not fully. It’s a tethered jailbreak which means every time you power off your device, you need to connect your device to a computer to boot it up again. Pain. But if you messed up and already… Read More
How to know if you should upgrade to the new iPad 3 HD or whatever its called So whats new with the ipad 3, or ipad HD? Unless you have been under a rock, you know that ‘The New iPad’ launched yesterday. There were no surprises this time, pretty much what the rumor mill said would be there, was there and nothing more. So, should you upgrade to the new iPad, and… Read More
By the time you read this, iOS 5.1 will be on iTunes; too late jailbreakers If you are like me and have not bothered to update to 5.0.1 because 4.x.x is working find and you do not feel like re jailbreaking your phone and installing and setting up things, well you just missed your easy bus. I decided to do that iTunes update, *yes I know I will lose unlock,… Read More
SimCity 2013!! Here is the Vid As you can tell from the video, SimCity 2013 is going to be nuts! From the Press conference this SimCity is going to be deeper and more person then previous version. Imagine mixing SimCity with some aspects of ‘the Sims’ and you got the new SimCity. BTW, dont call it SimCity 5. Not sure why… Read More
The Best F**king Razor Blade Commercial EVER! And it seems like a good deal Credit Jolie at VentureBeat for this one. Her story on the Dollar Shave Club, mostly focus on the fact these guys raised money in silicon ally for what is a pretty simple not tech idea. And it seems like a good idea too. As someone who does shave… ok, ok, every now and again I… Read More
Jailbreaking the iPad HD – It ‘should’ come within a few weeks. Wed the iPad HD should be out and in a few days or a week, we should have a working jailbreak. Although there has been evidence that there is an iOS6 out there somewhere, I’m not sure they would want to release a new OS on a non number release. Odds are we will see… Read More
XKCD – tumbler.com replaces band names Normally I would have just read this XKCD comic and thought, yea that’s true and moved on. But something about this made me think, yup here is another sign that the interweb is changing things. I do remember using the expressing ‘ that would make a cool band name’. And now when I hear things… Read More
A Fix for brightness, sleep and other keyboard controls not working in Windows 8 This is just a consumer preview, so do not expect everything to work right of the box. This morning I got an update for windows 8 and that loaded a few drivers (I expected) and suddenly my keyboard control keys started working. Also I finally got the Sleep option! Finally. So if you having any… Read More
The new Video Trailer for Assassin’s Creed 3 show this CAN work during the Revolution The word has already broke that the next Assassin’s Creed will take place during the American War of Independence. And I have to admit that when I first heard the rumors a few months, back I thought it was going to be a bad idea. I mean, where are you going to find tall building… Read More
How to create a bootable USB Drive to install Windows 8 I want to install Windows 8 on my tablet but do not want to dig around to find my DVD player, so I decided to grab an old 4gig USB key and creating a bootable install for Windows 8. There are two ways to do this. The easy way is to simply download the Windows 8… Read More
How to Dual Boot Windows 8 on your Windows 7 machine This is mostly a repost from teknobites. I took a few screenshots out, edited a few things, add a few others. The instructions for setting up dual boot for windows8 is pretty easy. If you have every setup a dual boot system before, you will see there is not much new here.. Before you start,… Read More
Google Hyper web tracking starts tomorrow, and how to stop it.. if you care to. Well stop it is not exactly the word I want, but I cannot find another one. Basically starting tomorrow Google will track everything you do across everyone Google property you are logged into and share it with anyone they want. Wow, sounds scarey right? Well, actually, they are pretty much doing that now, just not… Read More
rage comics, pokemon and meme drinking game boards. With Pics! These have been popping up all over Reddit and other places in the last 2 weeks. Pretty cool really. Odds are there will be plenty more showing up in the coming weeks as people make, oh say, Star Wars drinking games, or LOL cats board games, etc… Most of the images are pretty good quality… Read More