Android: To Root or not to Root, may not be your choice There is a story going around that if you try to root your Android HTC G2, it will detect that you rooted it and return it back to factory… Read More
Text to voice for ebook ePub on the ipad / iphone with vBookz vBookz is a pretty cool little application that takes an ebook or ePub file and read it to you using text to voice technology from Acapela pleasant voices.… Read More
How to get GPS on your ipad using BTstack So lets say you decided to get an iPad. And you did not get the 3G iPad with GPS on it because you wanted to save a few bucks. Out of luck? Not really. There is a way to turn that iPad into the coolest GPS turn by turn device ever. How? Buy a cheap… Read More
Xmarks bookmarking syncing service to shut down. Now what? Xmarks will no longer work after the end of the 2010 year. Xmarks is shutting down.… Read More
The eventbright facebook calendar integration is just the beginning. But why did it take this long? For many people, myself included, facebook is a kind of social calendar. And even though you could share an event you are attending with facebook, there was no way to see what events your friends are going to unless there was also a corresponding facebook event. Now, Eventbright… Read More
Iphone 4 is all you need to shoot your new product demo So.. You have this cool start up with a great product and want to promote it. Grab your iphone 4 and do it right there and there. No high end camera, no special connection cables, no video mixing software. Just the phone. How do I know? Because the good folks at anscamobile.com with their Corona… Read More
jailbreak Sn0wbreeze for iOS 4.1 is out with Q and A Its been a few days, and the jailbreak for iOS4.1 Sn0wbreeze 2.0 seems to be holding up. There is also a really nice post with Q & A on Snowbreeze. I grabbed a couple, but go here for the fill list. Question 1: If I have a 3gs with new bootrom that i got from… Read More
Video: Flash on the new Samsung Galaxy Android Tablet Here you go. I think the demo says it all. Flash running on the new Samsung Galaxy Tab tablet. Yes, the great tablet war is alive and well.… Read More
Sweet platform for writing iphone/ipad/Andriod apps without knowing CoCo We all know about Adobe returning to work on porting an app written in CS5 thus using ActionScript. But its not out yet. And may not be out for a bit as I comment on my post on Adobe getting back to work. However, if you just cannot wait, there is another option. Corona! The… Read More
Free iphone app: Egypt : The Prophecy – Part 3 I have not played this game myself; but I thought I would post it up. I head about free game for a limited time every now and again and I may try to get into the habit of posting when I see them. We’ll see how long this lasts. Anuman Interactive announces “Egypt : The… Read More
Video: A Matrix view of Twitter I saw this on Gizmodo. Uffa. Its using TweetDeck and pulling 8 columns of streaming Twitter goodness. Caution, this will SOOO make your head swing. I recommend playing rage against the machine in background when you watch this. Video is below..… Read More
Twitter has a new desktop, and its good but not a replacement for advanced desktop Apps Awhile back Twitter started working on improving its site, pissing off a few twitter devs since they were stepping on some toes based on which ever functionality in mind. So the new twitter.com page at first glance looks like it could really threaten other desktop apps, however, when you take a look at the screenshots,… Read More
Remember the JooJoo tablet? its still a player, just not fully playing Remember back in the day when TC’s Micheal Arrington had an idea for a simple tablet that he can operate from his couch to do basic things; mostly around web browsing? (read ipad) Then the he and the group he was working with had a falling out? And then they tried to do it on… Read More
Adobe back to work on its actionscript / flash publishing tool for iphone ipad Even more win!! Adobe has announced its back at work on its port to iphone feature within its Flash Professional CS5 authoring tool. Now just to be clear, this does NOT mean you can play a flash video on the iphone or ipad, just that you can use the same tools you have used to… Read More
Some very cool ipad decals I was surfing around and came across a site with a collection of ipad vinyl decals. Some were cool. I then started searching for more and found a few ipad decals that were missing from the first list. So I’m making my own. Enjoy! buy it here.… Read More
jailbreak for iphone on iOS 4.1 coming soon I read a post from Dean Takahashi at VentureBeat that a hacker called pod2g has hacked iOS4.1. However, I would not upgrade to 4.1 until something official comes from Dev-team and on last check there is nothing yet but a warning NOT to update to 4.1. And really readers I have been saying this for… Read More
Apple removes flash restriction on iphone ipad app rules WIN!! Finally, Apple has given up its ridiculous rules that says you cannot use other dev tools, like Adobes Flash studio to create iOS applications. Here is the statement from Apple: “We are relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps, as long as the resulting apps do not download any… Read More
Scam warning. Fraud attempt as a Yahoo email This is a pretty weak attempt to steam peoples information, but I thought I would post up a warning anyway. I just got this email earlier today and figured I would put out the warning. If you see anything like this, its a scam. Do not reply, do not click on anything. Yahoo or any… Read More
Yet another reason to love iphone tether via jailbreak, football. It’s Cal football day today and I had to stay home to wait for a visitor (thus could not go to the game). No problem, I put on my Cal shirt and hat, grabbed a beer out of the fridge and turned on the telly. 10 min into the game the power goes out. I… Read More
Curious about the New HDR Photo? You can try it now using clearcam I’ve written about clearcam a few times before because I thought it was one of the coolest apps to really extend the abilities of the Apple hardware, in this case the camera. Clearcam is jailbreak only (last I checked) because for some reason they could not get into the app store. I’m guessing because of… Read More