Twitter Direct Message API method now enforcing 140 char limit Betcha didnt know that did yea? That you can send 240+ Charter messages using Direct Message through Twitter. That is, until now. My Twitter application, TwittFilter.com does not stop you from sending a message that is over 140 char. It tells you how many char you have typed, but if you want to type 2000… Read More
Sync your web links and tabs to the iphone with Xmarks 1.3 Xmarks for the iphone as been out for awhile, and I tried it when it first came out and was not impressed. The crashing of my iphone had something to do with it. Well version 1.3 just came out with the one feature I was really waiting for; Automatically synchronize bookmark changes in the background. … Read More
Tip #8 Unsend / Undo Gmail Came across this cool little tip to undo a sent gmail via Mashable. Ever send a email and wish, ‘man, I should not have sent that.’ Or hit the send button too soon. We Houston, we have a fix. You can now undo a sent email from Gmail. There has always been a undo send,… Read More
How to stop people from checking you into places on Facebook Really?? I have to yet again, go into my privacy setting to stop someone or something on facebook doing something I do not want? Gezz.. So here is the latest. Seems that your ‘friends’ can check you into a place for you. Without you being there or even knowing! WTF?? Ok, so I’m suppose to… Read More
Updating the samsung 8500l wave phone, not likely for the US I got the new samsung 8500 wave phone running the bada OS a few months back and have been playing with it off and on. Now that the galaxy s is out, I feel like I have been given an early release. And I like the phone. The screen is just as great as advertised,… Read More
Twitter Basic Auth to end in 3 days. R U ready? Yup, death of basic auth for twitter part 2. If you remember, we were going to have basic auth killed in favor of OAuth back in June, and they decided we (they) we not ready. Fair enough, plus the world cup really put some strain on twitter. So now we have til the 16th of… Read More
New Android Trojan found, but is it a big weakness? First off, any Trojan is a bad Trojan. However, there is something off about this story. I’m not saying its wrong or we should ignore this story, but there were a few things that kinda of bothered me. First off, who in world would call a trojan file ‘“Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a”’ ??? I mean really. That like… Read More
Flash, Frash on the iphone released but still a bit buggy Yesterday, we heard that flash got released (as far as you release something for a jailbreak) and today we now have a simple install from cydia. Just add http://repo.benm.at as a source and search for Frash. I have not installed it on my iphone 3g because the architecture does not support it and I still… Read More
Jailbreak iphone ipad iOS4 via safari now with MMS and Facetime fixed. Crazy. You can now jailbreak and UNLOCK iOS4 for the iphone4 ipad from the web browser. Now this is not new news per say, but there have been some issues with the current jailbreak in that some people have been experiencing problems with MMS and Facetime. As I always advise my readers, NEVER jailbreak right… Read More
Review: iShred live, just you, your iphone and your guitar Whats with me and the cheesy titles lately? No matter.. So today I’m reviewing iShread. In my previous post, I looked at Amplitube and was pretty impressed. iShread is like Amplitube and at the same time, different. First, lets have a look at the hardware. iShred offers an all in one chord from Griffin Technology… Read More
Review: Give your guitar and iphone ipad some iRig Amplitube Ok, cheesy blog title, but still, this is pretty good. There have already been a number of virtual guitar amp and effects products for the iphone and ipad, and I’ve tried a few, but amplitube and ishread (ishread I will over in another post) stood out. Now, if there is really good product I missed,… Read More
iPhone iPad Jailbreak is now legal Tada! The ruling just came down saying its legal to modify the software on a device. The big part of the ruling that I was looking to see more details on letting a user unlock there phone (a separate step after jailbreaking) to allow the user to run an other networks. From NBC: Another exemption… Read More
It must be lonely for window mobile 7 Yes, things are only getting worse for window mobile 7. First they suffer from delay after delay, then win tons of friends in the dev community by saying that basically all window mobile apps will have to be rewritten for winmob7 (and lets bypass the cumbersome process to even set up to write for the… Read More
Firefox sync for iphone ipad finally approved in the apple store Finally! Been waiting for firefox sync to hit the stores when I first heard of it. Now there are ways to get your book marked into the iphone/ipad, but not a live link. Now that is sorted. I installed it last night and synced on my laptop just now. Works great. However, all ready have… Read More
iphone 4 Antennagate. Everyone gets a free case So there you go. The easy answer which we all know at least a week after this whole thing started to blow up and been put in place. OF course, that is after a good 1/2 hour of explaining ‘its not just us! Its all phones!’ Wrong, your missing the point Steve, Its about the… Read More
Run Linux Ubuntu on your Android Nexus one Wow. I’ve seen lots of crazy Linux ports, but full X11? Wow. And the crazy thing is this is working on top of Android. So once they get this stable, you can realize a full on computer on your phone. You can find more on NexusOneHacks. net Check out the video below.… Read More
Even AppleCare knows the 4.0.1 update will not fix the iphone antenna issue When Apple first announced that they have been using an incorrect algorithm for calculating radio reception (and thus displaying ‘bars’) and that it will be corrected via a software update; many of us thought, ‘how is this going to change anything?’ I wrote a few posts back guessing that perhaps they need some sort of… Read More
Flash running on iPhone and iPad. Closer.. closer… Actually, I’m kind of surprised its taking this long. I figured someone would have taken android version and did a hack/port a few months, back, but I guess I’m getting spoiled with seeing hacks and jailbreaks coming out in days. Still, from what I’ve heard, there is a good proof of concept out there. The… Read More
Now you can run iMovie on your iPhone 3G(s) With jailbreak of course. I have not done this myself because from what I read you need iOS4 and I really do not want to put that on my iphone 3g. But, for those of you that already took the plunge, AND have jailbroken AND care enough to want to bother in the first place…… Read More
iPhone and HTC Android fan boys do battle via salesman cartoons I think most of you have seen the animation where someone comes into a store to buy and iphone and salesman offers the HTC EVO only to hear ‘I dont care’ about the better features. So now we have a response. Now that the person bought the EVO, they try to go into an Apple… Read More