Phone, Tablet, and keyboard combined into the 3 in 1 ASUS PadFone. Living the Dream! Yes I want this. This device was announced last year, but no one could seem to get their hands on it. Until today. The core of this 3 part system is an high end Android smartphone. Sporting a 4.3-inch AMOLED display, a Qualcomm dual-core processor, running Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0), Bluetooth, a 8-megapixel camera,… Read More
How to Create Rage Face (F7U12) comics on iPhone iPad Ok you rage comic writers, Rage Comic Generator is now in version 1.1 with the added ability to paint you comics as well. (I have a bad feeling about this new feature) However, since I missed 1.0, I thought I would at least post it now. This does the basics you would expect; take the… Read More
OnLive Desktop Plus lets you have a full featured browser / desktop on your iPad OnLives desktop plus has been out a few days and I finally got to try it. If you do not already know, OnLive Desktop Plus give you Window 7 Touch Desktop on your iPad. It’s like remote desktop a.k.a. VNC except was smoother. So smooth you can watch video, flash video. Yes that’s right, you… Read More
No, your Telsa will NOT brick if you leave it uncharged A story broke a few days back from a blogger named Michael DeGusta saying that if you let your Telsa’s car battery full drain that you have effectively bricked your car. He gave 5 examples of cars that were fully drained and thus ‘bricked’. He reports one example of a user who took his car… Read More
Microsoft, Google Docs and now onLive Desktop plus. The rush for business on the tablet is on and MS is at a disadvantage Yesterday, there were rumors of a Microsoft project to create apps for tablets that will allow greater access to MS Office applications. Next comes the release of an upgraded Google Documents for Android that provides document editing and real-time collaboration, and now comes onLive upgraded iOS app that provides a windows 7 desktop on the… Read More
Edit Google Docs in Android – New and Improved! Android business users rejoice. You can now edit your Google docs in your tablet, and not just edit, but you can see those edits in real time just like on the desktop. Nice. Now this news by itself may not seem like big news, but in fact, its quite interesting when you consider that Microsoft… Read More
Download, Store, view and share documents on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch I have not tried this myself, but its looks pretty good. Not only can you download and read major document types, you can transfer them from a PC or a Mac, Nice eh? At $2.99, its a pretty good deal especially if you are on the road quite a bit and need to get to… Read More
Tablets will be like calculators when I was a kid. But it wont be an iPad Late last year when the Kindle Fire came out, pundits were saying, ‘oh this is going to be an iPad killer’ To which most of us in tech with 1/2 a clue basically ignored them and instead asked who was going to win this new market and how long will it be till Apple looks… Read More
You thought Siri was slanted, Iris is FAR worse We all remember the dust up around Siri and its refusal to give directions to an abortion clinic. Well Iris, (siri spelled backwards) which is suppose to be an somewhat Android equivalent powered by ChaCha is far worse. Never mind not giving directions; ChaCha will quote scripture when asked if abortion is wrong. Q: Is… Read More
Silicon Vally and San Francisco Housing prices and Rents are up and still climbing. Although many will still argue that we are not in a tech bubble, those numbers are decreasing as more and more evidence point to the opposite. I wrote a post back in July of 2011 saying that I have noticed moment in the housing prices in Palo Alto and Mountain View California. And now I… Read More
High Quality HD movies of Aquarium Aquatic life If you really like beautiful and interesting aquatic life , then this app is for you. Real Aquarium HD. At the basic level, its a series of HD videos of various sea creatures chill’in (sorry) in the sea. However, this app provide a second layer where you can learn about each sea creature you are… Read More
Record a conversation on skype or other VoIP application Simple enough, you are talking on skype or some other VoIP app and you realize, you need to record this since if you are talking on your iphone, odds are you are not at your desk to take notes in the first place. Do keep in mind that you have to let the other people… Read More
Automatically get or send a message based on location with an older iPhone One of the cool things about the iphone4s, is the ability to send a message based on location. A great feature although a primary culprit for the battery issues when the iphone4s came out. There are a few other app that do something like this so I decided to give them a try. First is… Read More
Mark up and edit a PDF on your iPad Got this in the email and have not tried it but it looks useful. The app is called Dar-Soft’s PDF Forms for iPad and is designed to support annotating, filling out and signing forms and documents. I can say that more then once I have looked at a PDF and would have liked to dash… Read More
Depending on where you live, your tweets may be censored As so it is; Twitter will now censor tweets based on censorship laws of the country the user is in. Now before you think this is only bad news for those people who live in repressive resigned, keep in mind there was a proposal by Joe Lieberman to have Twitter delete the accounts in order… Read More
Why I hate Final Cut Pro X, plan to dump it, but may come back in the future This is not a new story, but most video editors I have talked to really hate Final Cut Pro X (FCPX). I started using it just as it came out and love and hate it at the same time… Mostly hate. My projects are normally not that complicated, and I publish to the web, so… Read More
Jailbreak for iphone4s and ipad2 is out, but its not ready yet Yes Absinthe is out, however as normal, there are a few bugs that need to be dealt with so dont jump on it yet. However, the reports I have been reading seem to be fixable, so I would give it a week and it should be solid as a rock by then. Right now this… Read More
POLITE_ALLCAPS_GUY HAS STEP DOWN FROM MODERATING F7U12 This will be one of the most inside baseball posts I have ever done. If you read reddit, and the rageface comic infested subreddit /fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu you will know of the moderator POLITE_ALLCAPS_GUY. Well, he decided to step from for modding F7U12 and focus on other things like R/BOOKEXCHANGE AND R/SHITTINGADVICE. And fair enough. Having to… Read More
How to edit the language in your iOS app This is more of an FYI then anything I guess. I just got this in my email box from Apple, so I figured I would pass it out. Although as I type this, I’m sure everyone who is already coding got this too. 🙂 You can now edit the default language of your app’s metadata… Read More
Collection of old time radio shows for your iphone. Vintage Radio With more and more non young people getting on the iphone, I guess it was just a matter of time before some decided to put a collection of older radio shows together for the older iphone users, and those who still recognize the brilliance of some of those old shows. The app is called Vintage… Read More