Tear down of the Verizon iPhone for part replacement This just popped into my email. I’ll follow up on it in a bit.. From Robby Stanley Just a quick news release. We just completed an extensive Verizon iPhone 4 Teardown and Screen Replacement Video on Youtube. This will show people the step by step directions it will take in order to replace their screen… Read More
Rumor: iphone mini to be a cloudphone. Um Really? Wait a sec.. So the new iphone mini, which will be smaller iphone physically will also have something else that is smaller.. memory. As in no on-board storage. A cloudphone. Ok. So basically all your contacts, email, photos, music will be stored in the cloud and access able via At&T edge? When you can get… Read More
Regime change at 140 charaters. Egypt give social media its first geo-political victory. Part II This is Part II of a two part post. Part I is here. (first draft – still needs edit) In late 2010, A man named Mohamed Bouazizi, running a small fruit stand in Tunisia set himself on fire as both a protest and a desperate cry against the brutish and tyrannical regime of Ben Ali… Read More
Regime change at 140 charaters. Egypt gives social media its first geo-political victory. Part I Yesterday Mubarak transferred some power to his Vice President signaling the beginning of the end of his 30 year reign. Today he stepped down with the military taking over power and all of Egypt erupted in celebration. Almost as soon as his plane reached cruising altitude the news broke and Twitter went nuts. This is… Read More
Googles Edison logo. Pretty cool This is not as cool as the working PacMac logo they did a while back, but still, this is pretty good. I like seeing more and more animations with the Google search logos. 🙂 Logo Below..… Read More
Verizon iPhone is no sell out I got my phone today. There was not much of a line ( I had mine pre arraigned so I did not wait in line; although I did have to wait). If you want to get a phone, odds are you will be able to find one. You may not find it at the first… Read More
The WebOS TouchPad is Great! And I dont Care! I want an iPad2 We have the first look at the HP TouchPad running WebOS and from what I heard (no I was not there) it’s great! Snappy! Well designed! Great Multitasking! Works seamlessly with the new Pre 3 and other WebOS phones! … I dont care. We not ‘ME’; I’m actually dieing to get my hands on one… Read More
Ebay is getting ready for lots of buying and selling of iPhones This is pretty interesting. Ebay has a new feature to make buying and seeing of used (and new ) iPhone easier. You basically select the phone you want to buy its condition, and the carrier and you can buy if someone has placed a advert for that phone. Now what is different is the filtering… Read More
Language Translator from Google for iPhone I still need to download and play with this, but I’m pretty excited. Been looking for a good quick translator to translate English to Japanese. I’ll update this post as soon as I download the thing. I just tried it and its pretty good. I think. BTW, you have to look on the second page… Read More
T-Mobile to offer free phone on the 10th and 11th. Talk about an epic day. Seems this coming weekend will be a battle between not Only AT&T (to stop the bleeding) Verizon to speed it up, but also T-Mobile to get in to some of the blood bath as well. Some of the details are not clear, like do you have to pay first and… Read More
Gmail Down giving 503 error. I hope you have a backup Well its happens to everyone at some point. Well everyone who is responsible for servers.. They go down. And today its Gmail. Gmail has been up and down all day and finally a 503 was spotted. The outage was very short lived, 5 min or so, but that’s for now. However, what if you need… Read More
A Craigslist iPad app. About time! I just read this in VentureBeat and have not downloaded it myself, but just from the screenshot I can see its full of win. Thumbsnails with Craigslist listing. How cool. You can see pretty much how it will work in the screenshot. I’ll update this after I’ve downloaded it. The app regularly retails for $1.99,… Read More
Untethered Jailbreak for iOS 4.2.1 with greenp0ison The site is still down but from what I’ve heard so far, the jailbreak seems to be pretty solid. At the moment, both the greenpois0n website and Cydia’s servers are getting crushed, but it should be back up tomorrow at the latest. There has been a jailbreak for 4.2.1 using RedSn0w, but its kind of a… Read More
Verizon Pre order Sold out! That was fast!! I have been trying to get into the site since 2:30pm pst and it was failing. Now I get a screen saying they have sold out on the pre-order? WTH?? Sold out THIS fast? That makes NOOOO sense. I have a feeling something is up but not sure. However, given that the… Read More
Verizon iPhone ordering system overloaded Sigh. I was going to do this last night and got sidetracked with server issues and then sleep. So I decided to try and order my iPhone from Verizon now and guess what? Server overload. I guess that is to be expected. Can’t wait to see how many orders they had in 1 day. Update: … Read More
Google 3D Body Browser now on a Tablet via Android 3.0 We wrote about Google 3D body browser before. Well now you can have the same 3D experience using some of the new Power Tablets coming out like the Motorola’s Xoom Seen blow. The honeycomb OS release does much better 3D support and from the video below (via VentureBeat); it works pretty well. Course this does… Read More
Pre Order for the Verizon iPhone 4 is 3am Thursday EST So if you are already a Verizon customer and what to finally see what all this iPhone fuss is about, you can go online at verizonwireless.com/iphone and sigh up. But wait, I’m NOT a Verizon customer… I have to wait a WHOLE 7 DAYS before I can order? Really? You have that little patience. Well… Read More
Android Market and OS update from the sweet Honeycomb I have not had a chance to really did into todays announcement from Google so I’m going to do a quick post here with some bullet points video below. I’ll return to this post with deep thoughts later today. There is a lot to take in; and not all of it is new news. The… Read More
The iPad newspaper daily is out. Why you might want to check it out. OR not So Rupert Murdoch’s breakthrough revolution in newspapers is upon us. 30 million upon us. And what did we get? We got a pretty slick looking publication that is far more interactive then anything I’ve seen before, that is suppose to have much better writing (I have not seen enough to really know). News Corp is… Read More
Voice to Twitter. Really useful if your internet gets shut off Just read this in TechCrunch. I have been reading on the various ways people in Egypt have been trying to get information out. Google has released a service that will allow you to call a phone number, leave a message and that will turn into a Tweet. I have not tried this myself so I… Read More