A few deals for tech this black friday I just got this in an email, so just posting for the heck of it. SENSOGLOVE: 10% off SensoGlove digital golf glove and FREE shipping at www.sensoglove.com from November 25th – December 2nd. Use promo code: Christmas2011. IBIKE: $100 off any iBike Dash Power (Black) bicycle trainer computer systems: iSport ($299, normally $399),… Read More
And yet ANOTHER Scam email, this time, Yahoo I do not know what it is about his week, but lots of scam messages seem to get getting through. Normally, I just report these things as spam and move on, but I thought I would post up about this one, not because its original, (heck this was going around last year) or something that… Read More
Yet another scam to watch out for. Skype calls Yes, I wrote about a phone call scam last week and now there is yet another scam I just came across using VoIP and voice to text. This time, it calls your skype account with the name “System update information’ or something weak like that. This one has been around for a few months but… Read More
How to get rage comic (troll) emoticons on Chrome Man, am I late to the party on this one, but better late then never. First, the link to install rage face emoticons in Chrome for Now you can use your favorite memes on sites like Facebook, Twitter, youtube, Google+, Reddit, FunnyJunk, EbaumsWorld, and Memebase! This extension does have its limit, if the person who… Read More
Unlocked iPhone4 availble online and how to get it. Actually, it was yesterday, but I was busy and did not have time to write this post, but I did order one for a friend. Here is how you order online in case you get lost, because there is a step that can be missed if you try to do this too fast. First, go… Read More
Its 11/11/11 11:11:11 On the west coast at least. Weeeee!!! 🙂 This post has no point. BTW, Happy Veteran (Armistice) day to my buddies in the 79th TWF and my mates from “the ‘lick” during gulf war I.… Read More
Better ways to read Reddit on a poor connection. Esp for tethered ipad users. This is very cool. I should have thought of this. So one thing that slows me down on Reddit is reading Reddit on my ipad while tethered to my iphone on the train. Its not a fast connection, so the constant going back and forth is somewhat of a pain. Well go to redditlurker.com and… Read More
Rumor control: Seems Siri will NOT make it to older iphones in the future.. or will they? Nuts. Well it seems the rumor of Apple working on a version of Siri for older devices was just that. A rumor. According to a reply from devbugs@apple.com via VentureBeat; provided by Michael Steeber ; Apple has basically put the breaks on any hints that they are working supporting Siri on older iOS devices. I’m… Read More
Battlefield 4 preview is hyper realistic… Because it is. Wow, if you have not seen this video preview of Battlefield4, then you are missing out! Take a look at those shadows! Lets see your xbox do ground deformation like this! And avatar rendering. TELL me this does not look like real life. Hyper realistic, you can shoot while being dragged as well as dragging… Read More
We may see Siri on the iphone4 without jailbreak Last week there was all kinds of news about getting Siri to work on jailbroken iphones. Well there is news today that Apple my be working on a version to run on older iOS devices. Most likely you will still need to update your phone to iOS5 if you have not already. I have held… Read More
Email and phone scams are getting more sophisticated Yesterday I got an odd phone call that sounded like a credit card company that was trying to confirm something with me. I just activated a credit card that day, so I did not think much of it … but a few things did not add up; I was smelling a scam. First the recorded… Read More
Iphone4 FAQ jailbreaking unlocking edition A few weeks back the iphone4s came out. And to my surprise I get more questions about jailbreaking and unlocking the iphone4. Since I have been using a jailbreak phone since the first iphone came out. I sometimes forget that with every new phone release, there is a whole new population of users that have… Read More
Siri working on jailbroken iPhone 4 The news just broke that @stroughtonsmith got Siri working on his jailbroken iPhone4. Nice. There is a vid, will post a link to it, then do an embed later. Right now he is not releasing the files or steps till the iPhone4s jailbrake is out there. Also, he wants to do a bit more testing… Read More
The $35 tablet from India is real. Called the AAKASH Last month I said it would believe it when I see a sub $50 tablet, well know I’ve seen it from VentureBeat. It costs around $45 to build, but with a $10 discount from the government, we have a $35 tablet. Now this is just for India keep in mind and targeted for some of… Read More
If I stop using social media, does that mean I’m not longer social? It’s kinda of funny. I remember getting into Twitter all those years ago. Loved it. I write TwittFilter and a few other programmes for analyzing twitter feeds and social graphs. I tried other socmed apps, including facebook, but never really got into them that much, but still, I was pretty deep. But in that last… Read More
Looks like Siri will run on any device with iOS5. Now we play the waiting game Just like the news where Steven Troughton-Smith said he got Siri running on iphone4 but odds are we will never see it in the wild, we now have a report that Jackoplane has it working for any device with iOS5 on it. And without jailbreaking. Cool. But the real question is; when can “I” see… Read More
Porting Siri on iphone 4, its running! I just read this on 9to5mac, so I still need to research this a bit more, but once I figure out how to install Siri on my iphone 4, I’m on it! And will report back. Now its pretty much a given you will need to be jailbroken to run this, and the first few… Read More
Funny iphone4s Siri replies. Proof enough there are a few Easter Eggs in Siri. I’m sure this list will grow, but I came across these reading Ultrasnow. I think my favorite Siri reply so far has to be the first one. “I need to hide a body”, ‘what kind of place are you looking for? and its lists reservoirs, metal foundries, mines, dumps, swamps. This HAS to be… Read More
Jailbreaking the new iphone4S, perhaps, iOS5, yes, already with Ultrasn0w and Redsn0w As expected, there is a jailbreak (beta) already out there for iphone iOS5. Also, no surprise, there is not baseband support yet, I expect this will be a bit more complicated given the new way iphone4S is using antennas, but still doable. Now we have be clear about something. The iPhone4s is running the new… Read More
Vector Maps via webGL finally make it to Google maps on the desktop Not sure why this took so long. Perhaps dealing with the satellite view. Regardless, its pretty nice. You need to have a desktop with a good graphics card and a browser that supports webGL. The latest Firefox and Chrome should be fine. The two nice points, is VERY fast refresh, smooth transition from 2D to… Read More