Electric prescription eye glasses. Cool does not begin to describe this. Every now and again, something so cool come out, I become full of WANT! Electric eye glasses from PixelOptics that use a LCD layer that alters how the liquid crystals refract light. Holy alter vision batman!! Think about it. Get your eyes checked every year and the doctor simply changes your prescription in the computer… Read More
Crazy iPad case When I first saw this for a second I thought it could have been a joke, but no, this is real, and I can actually see the usefulness of such a case, but I’m sorry, I cannot see walking around in what looks like a baby carrier ‘just’ because I’m too busy to find a… Read More
Power of SocialMedia gets a golden voice homeless guy a job This has been spreading all over the place in just the last 24 hours. In fact, by the time I finish writing this (and you reading it) I will bet he already has a number of gigs and will be doing the morning show circuit. This popped up on YouTube yesterday and took off. Its… Read More
Watch live TV on your iPad or other tablet It was only a matter of time. You can already control your TV (with ComCast) through the iPad, and HULU has been doing this for a year. This is not a breakthrough as much as an indication that cross platform media is going to be more and more common place. Comcast Corporation today announced plans… Read More
iphone GSM command codes; tip #3 I had to clear my iphone of forwarding information and was not sure where what the code was. So I did a bit of digging and found a list of them.. And I present them to you.. I have not tested them all but I will try a few and see what happens. *3001#12345# and… Read More
Drunk posting with Alcowebizer. Happy 2011 New Years!! This is fun. Remember that site that will change any webpage to a lolcats page? Well here is one for us bloggers who have to work on NYE. Like me!! Its a pretty clever little project from Alcowebizer. Enjoy!! Here is the first one at level 1.0 Here is another at 1.5 Not Bad. Each… Read More
You can now make video skype calls on iphone via 3G and wifi. Skype now supports video calls on the iphone 4 and 3gs over wifi and 3G. I have yet to test this, but the new version of skype will let you make skype to skype video calls over wifi and 3G. This is supported on the iphone 4 and 3gs, NOT the 3g. But I’m going… Read More
How to connect, tether, your ipad to your iphone Just got an iPad eh? But did not get the 3G version? Thats ok right? Just connect to WIFI. But if you do have has WIFI when your travel? Well, there’s an iPhone app for that. Jailbroken of course. I wrote about using GPS on your ipad a few months back. To use GPS you… Read More
Watch Flash video on your iPad with Skyfire Yup. Skyfire for the iphone came out a while back and it was so popular, its pretty much crashed their server. They got it back up after awhile. So the next big wait is for an iPad version. And its out. Here is the direct link to iTunes. Its 5 bucks. Not bad if you… Read More
Augmented Reality is getting hype, but is it real? Forrester thinks.. meh. Most of the points in the Forrester report is for the mostly spot on, and this is coming from someone who created Virtual Reality Apps back in the beginning and knows what overhype looks like. I think a good definition of what Augmented Reality for mobile is; should be considered. Back in mid 2009 I… Read More
iPhone Tip #27 Make your iphone 3G run a bit faster There are still a bunch of iPhone 3G users out there. I still use mine despite having access to quite a few phones now. However, my phone has been going slower and slower.. What gives. Well, since I run SBSettings I can monitor the memory usage of the phone, kinda of like task manager from… Read More
Cheat codes for Simcity deluxe for iPad I just downloaded simcity deluxe for iPad and started playing. It feels a bit glitchy with memory management, but so far no crash. So the first thing I’m going to start working on are the cheat codes. I have just started to mess with it so if anyone else has already made progress with the… Read More
Recycle your car and get $1000 for it. Really. Has to be running So the time has finally has come to retire my car from college. I had a 1987 VW Cabrio and loved it. Great for when I was playing gigs and simply driving around in the sun. Although that car was still running ok, it was clear that it was due for something major to fail.… Read More
Translate text in realtime on the iphone with Word Lens: a form of augmented reality Word Lens just came out today and the buzz is pretty crazy. The fact it was on CNN could have something to do with it. The app is pretty darn sweet, much like PicTranslator except it works with live video. In other words as you look at the text on your phone, the letters are… Read More
Review: Testing out the Google Body Browser, tips for viewing on older computers I update my Chrome browser to give the Google Body Browser a test drive. I really wanted to test it on the Google CR-48 Chrome OS laptop, but you cannot update to a Beta version of Chrome, and as you will read, there is no point anyway. So I gave it a shot and it… Read More
Jailbreak killswitch removed, most likely to avoid lawsuits Apple removes killswitch API, perhaps because it may not work, not because of the Copyright Office ruling.… Read More
Visual representation of the bounded problem of tic-tac-toe OR someone w/ too much time on their hands – This appeared in XKCD today and I just had to write a little post on it. My first thought was; this is a nice visual representation of how you can solve a bounded problem. A bounded problem is where all the possible solutions can be discovered as in tic-tac-toe. An UN-bounded problem is where… Read More
MetroPCS has a Android Smart phone! Is it time to switch? Umm.. No. Not yet. For those of you who follow my blog know I have up’ed my AT&T contract in the last two years, instead choosing to live me my 3G and borrowing other phones when I need to test stuff. I also have a Verizon Droid, the Samsung BADA phone and a (hahah) piece… Read More
What are the new features with the iPad2? Not sure, but here is a good guess As with anything with Apple, including what Steve is going to have for breakfast is a secrete. But like most things, the clues are there if you just look. As with the iPhone4, do not expect a revolution in the iPad but instead many of the features and function we thought we would have seen… Read More
Google maps in 3D on Android phones? Yup Map 5.0 SWEEEET!! Oh I.. cannot.. .wait.. As seen on Gizmodo, Google is about to release a 3D maps app, Maps 5.0, for Android that is vector based! How sweet is that? For those of you who do not know, vector based graphics are images created by drawing shapes and lines based on instructions instead of raster graphics… Read More