T-Mobile to assimilate into the AT&T Borg Gezz.. Its already old news that AT&T is buying T-Mobile but I have to chime in here. I have been debating leaving AT&T since suffered under using the 3G because I did not want to change my contract, I know, I could have bought a 3gs off market, but thats another story. I struggled between… Read More
XKCD graphic explaining relative radiation exposure I have a number of people call me up and ask what I thought about Fukushima reactor and what it mean to people in Hawaii and California. ‘Why are you asking me?” “Hey you have a Ph.D. and worked at NASA right?” Sigh.. I don’t know much more then anyone else about radiation, but I… Read More
No more tethering through Jailbreak on the iPhone? WTH? According to VentureBeat, seems that AT&T has been sending letters out to subscribers of MiWi, a jailbreak app that allows tethering of multiple machines to you iPhone. I use PDANet and have not seen such a letter yet, but I’m keeping my eyes out. The letter basically states that if you use a non… Read More
Auto edit your movie on your phone, as your filming! This is a really good idea and I’m kind of surprised no has done this yet. The basic premise is to detect drastic scene changes in your video and mark that change as a break or a chapter in the over all video. Then you would have a list of breaks, replete with thumbnails, that… Read More
Internet Explorer 9 is all Pretty now and ready to go Just saw this on Venturebeat. Looks like the new IE9 is out of beat and ready to go. I have been playing with IE9 off and on and it took a bit to get used to the minimalist design, but there is something nice about it. Although its suppost to be faster and maintain a… Read More
iPad2 jailbroken and sold out in the same day Gezz. Things move so bloody fast. I think we all expected the ipad2 to be hacked and jailbroken pretty quick, but it did not even take the weekend to crack this nut. The hacker Comex, who also did the userland jailbreaks Spirit and JailbreakMe, has released tweets and a video showing an ipad2 running cydia.… Read More
Free Smart Recorder for this weekend only I have not used this, just popped up in my email. Looks pretty good. Straight forward voice recorder with image and text annotation. I may download it later and give it try. Smart Recorder is the ultimate time based note taking tool for the iPhone or iPad. It allows the typing of textual notes as… Read More
The speed of social media, faster than an earthquake Wow. The Sendai earthquake and tsunami happened yesterday and already a wiki page has been created and VERY well populated and referenced. Last night when the quake happened it was all over Twitter, as is expected now a days. In fact, I knew about the tsunami warning for California (through Twitter) long before it got… Read More
Expanded Voice Commands for iPhone with VoiceActivator through jailbreak VoiceActivator came out last month, but I just now got around to playing with it. Not sure why I waited so long. This jailbreak app basically provides the promise of rich voice control that is already common with Android. This little hack is so good that it make my iphone jailbreak app top 10 list… Read More
GarageBand like app for those without music skills So, you really liked that demo of garage band that Apple showed for the iPad 2 eh? Want it but already have the iPad 1? Well, how about something kind of like it? But better in someways? Especially if you cannot play an instrument? Stealth Bee Jam is more like a mixer then a way… Read More
Playing with NeuroSky at DEMO. #video While I was at demo, I talked with the Stanly Lee CEO of NeuroSky about his device and the various possible applications. Many of the things I really wanted to be able to do with the device is actually not an objective of NeuroSky. Instead, the idea is to focus on the device and let… Read More
Ipad2 drives Apple stock up, but only a bit. The ipad2 announcement just kicked off and we will see what features we will, and mostly will not get. The rumor mill has been pretty set saying we will get a few things with hardware; A front facing camera, faster CPU; gyroscope, way thinner, etc… As for software if you are into taking and editing… Read More
Need a high quality audio player for the iphone ipad? Check out McIntosh AP1. It wont sound better, but it will feel like it. I have not been really paying attention to the sound quality on my iphone because really, despite the ipod heritage, its not that great. I have tried it a nice headset, but again, its just ok. So I have resigned myself to lo-fi audio. Then on a whim I tried the McIntosh API player skin.… Read More
Should I develop for Apple iOS or Android? (Note: this post is a living document) As recently as 6 months ago, this would be a silly question. The general rule is that you always build on Apples iOS first then Android second, then other OS’s later. Assuming you have the skills or people to choose what to build for, the common thinking is… Read More
Create an Old Spice Man voice mail message I have not tried it yet, but I will later. Seems kinda of fun to have on your phone for a few days just for the LOL’s. 🙂 Here is a cut and paste from the site. Old Spice Voicemail Message Generator You may be aware of a recent Old Spice advertising campaign featuring a… Read More
Party like it’s 1611! Are those dollar coins in your pocket or are you happy to see me? Ah Dollar coins. We still have then you know. For those that ride the subway and pay cash or visit the post office vending machines, has most likely received gold dollar coins as change.. So what do you do with it? If you have kids most like give it them, else try to spend those… Read More
iPad2 to launch March 2. Too late to save the stock price today. Ready? The iPad 2 will be announced on March 2 to what I would expect will be quite the fan fare.. The fun part will be to see what rumors will be true and other fancy or slated to the iPad 3. This could be the news the Apple shareholder needs to hear to get… Read More
wireless bike monitor computer by IBIKE DASH Another cool option to measure your speed, power, heart rate, wind speed, time, trip, elevation, and calories. Dash has a cool feature called the “HR Pacing Meter,” you can see at a glance whether your heart rate in the right zone. The HR Pacing Meter determines your fitness level with 5 Heart Rate Color Zones… Read More
Why cant I create a new Twitter white list application? This just came down 10 days ago and slipped by my notice. The basic update here is the reason you cannot create a white list application on Twitter is because they are not accepting any new applications. Instead they are going to limit all apps to 350 API calls an hour. Thats still quite a… Read More
Star Wars Steam Punk! Such Win! Amazing art for the steam punk Star Wars fan. So many shades of win. Han Solo Storm Trooper Go here for maur!! http://gabba82.tumblr.com/post/3350977068/star-wars-en-steampunk Wasnt there some Star Wars vehicles as Steam Punk? I may have to look for that.… Read More