How to keep iTunes from opening when you connect you iphone ipad I really hate that itunes launches every-time I connect my iphone or ipad. At first I thought it would be an easy fix, simply uncheck iTunes Summary “Automatically sync [this device] when connected”. Right? #FAIL Yes the iphone will not autosync, but iTunes will still launch! What is the fix? Turn on the setting ‘Allowing… Read More
ARE2011 Free Space Movement stunt What do you do when you are at conference and you are trying to make your message stand out? Well you dress a bunch of kids in cleanroom bunny suites and have them run around during one of the speakers, run hazard tape all over the place and spread pamphlets. Sure why not. Layer has… Read More
The Best Radio App so far, Tunein. BuBye AOL Radio Getting tired of this. I love listening to KCBS radio, despite the far too numerous commercials (and a few commercials that are so bad I actually turn off the sound). So now I’m trying to Tunein Radio to see if its more stable. Also, as a startup app dev team, perhaps they will provide one… Read More
iOS Programming Class for beginners in the Northern California area A friend of mine in the California Bay Area is putting on a iOS programming class for beginners and intermediate. Check it out! <updated> 5/28 Sat Intermediate http://iossdkinterm2011may.eventbrite.com/ 6/4 Sat Introduction http://iosclass2011jun4.eventbrite.com/ Course Details… Read More
Dont put an ‘upgrade’ button in your iOS app or you will get sued Yes, this is so messed up that it has to go into the WTF? file and be added to the Rant list. What a clue that the current patent system is woefully behind the times and relies on an approval system designed by 5th graders? Have a look at this story from PCMag.com. Seems that… Read More
A 3D printing market called Shapeways. Now sure if this is the first, and if fact I would be surprised if it was, but here is a cool service called Shapeways that not only lets you create your own 3D models, but you can buy and sell models as well. This is pretty good. If I’m going to go through the… Read More
Unity 3D goes military! Build 3D models for the next Bin laden mission! Well, maybe not. But still, its kinda of nice to see a company you have watched from the inception get into the big game. The Unity Web Player is now certified to be used by the US Army and AirForce. This basically means that the US Government can now be a customer for your models… Read More
FREE Version of AmpliTube 3 with the new built-in Custom Shop This is straight from my email box. Just thought I would thought this up really quick in case there are any musicians out there that have not tried AmpliTube yet. Dear Musician, Join the 28,000 users who have registered their FREE Version of AmpliTube 3 with the new built-in Custom Shop… Read More
What the latest meetup tells us about android windows and iphone interest I went to a meetup recently that talked about development on the windows phone 7, android and iOS platforms. When asked for a show of hands on what people were interested in, android was far and away of greatest interest. iOS and windows were at perhaps 10% of the house each. Interesting. I would have… Read More
Android Tethering blocked by Google and how to get around it I saw in the news a few days back that Google was going to do this, and based on a post in Venturebeat I guess they pulled the trigger. Google is now blocking Android tethering apps from the Store. Well not blocking per se. From VB – “You can still see it in the Android… Read More
SimCity Deluxe Tips and Tricks I mostly play SimCity deluxe on the iPad now, but these tips apply for all SimCity games in general. BTW, I have not tried this for Android, but it should work. Put your powerplant in a far corner of the board. If you have a river near the centre of your world, build near it. … Read More
iPhone 4 voice control sucks! #FAIL But here are some tips anyway Such FAIL that its almost epic. I have only recently started to play with iphone voice control after a VERY pleasant experience with Google Androids voice control, which work very well. With my Droid I could get directions, play music and even call people. And although calling people was not 100%, it was pretty good.… Read More
Air dogfighing with camera mounted RCs AR.Drones We have talked about the Parrot AR.Drones before and if you have not tried it yet, go to Brookstone and give it a try. It’s pretty fun. I wish the battery life was longer, but small issue. Well, one of the promises of the AR.Drone was air dog-fighting combating. Well now its real. AR.FlyingAce was… Read More
Asus Eee Pad, the first Tablet that can actually offer more then the iPad I cannot count how many tablets have come out saying they are better then the ipad this way or that way, all bullocks of course. However, now we have and offering from ASUS that at least appears as a viable competitor. The ASUS Eee Pad. Strange name I know, but a very straight forward offering.… Read More
iPhone 5 will not have 4G LTE. Sigh.. Many of us really thought the next iphone, the 5 would be a 4G i.e. LTE. Well, seems that comments from Apple COO Tim Cook, who said that “first generation of LTE chipsets force a lot of design compromises,” during the Apple’s earnings conference call on Wednesday. Well, sounds like this is about as accurate… Read More
AT&T seems both evil and dumb with t-mobile and FCC filing Sometime, you just have to shake you head when a company as large as AT&T fails in its attempt to convince people that its not the death star. First seem in Ars Technica, AT&T tried to convince everyone that T-Mobile its low grade, not worth talking about and that this really will not change the… Read More
Your iPhone is spying on you and how to map view the GPS data The news broke out at where 2.0 that if you pull a .db file from your iphone, it has a record of everywhere you have been in the past year. WOW. Worse, this file in NOT encrypted. So the question is; why are they collecting this in the first place? Perhaps the government wants it?… Read More
Jailbreak 4.3.1 was released, bugs seems to be worked out. So first off, the post from the dev team blog Only a few weeks after the 4.3.1 untether created by @i0n1c was released, Apple pushed out firmware 4.3.2. Thankfully, it appears Apple didn’t have a chance to fix the hole used by @i0n1c’s untether, so he ported his code over to 4.3.2’s kernel. Today’s redsn0w has… Read More
Paper Culture Plants One Million Trees by 2020 Paper Culture Plants One Million Trees by 2020, Reinvents Consumers’ Thoughts about Stationery Company’s modern, eco stationery never cuts new trees & plants a tree for every order MILLBRAE, Calif. – April 19, 2011 – Having already hooked design lovers on its modern, eco stationery, Paper Culture, in partnership with The Arbor Day Foundation, has… Read More
Evernote gets a big upgrade for Android I have not checked this out myself since my Android is at home, so I will simply pass on what I read on venturebeat. I will check into this later and update the post. The version is called Evernote 3.0, and the company says this upgrade is huge. There are added sharing and organizational features,… Read More