The CrunchPad tablet is dead. Mark victom 1 in the great tablet war. When I called the beginning of the tablet war in Aug, (tablet war postings) I fully expected that we would see 2 early players out the gate, TechCrunches ‘Crunch Pad’ and some sort of Android tablet, to be followed by Apple then MicroSoft. In face, I expected that Arrington would be sitting back with a… Read More
iPhone drink coasters. Finally a place for your beer while geeking. I just came across this site via @chrispirillo and cannot find out much about it, but love the idea. Drink coasters in the shape of iphone apps. Wondering what to get that Apple/iPhone geek who has everything for the holidays, well here you go. The site is ‘powered by google’ so I cannot find out… Read More
A new a intuitive Interface from Emblaze. Very Interesting I like this. As soon as I saw the first frame on the video on the new “Else Intuition” interface I understood what this new concept was about and how much sense it makes. If you are using your device with one hand, which happens A LOT, it only makes sense to use the general… Read More
Use the iphone’s accelerometer as a ruler! Now that is a cool idea. You move the iphone along the ground, or wall or whatever flat surface, smoothly, from one point another and .. tada. YOU haz measurement! I have not tried it myself, but it seems like it would work. Now I would imagine the smoother you can move the iphone, AND… Read More
DropBox for the iPhone! Grab files from the cloud Just got on email on this today. I can access my dropbox on my iphone. Sweet! I gave it a try just a few minutes ago and I was able to open my office documents (tested word and excel). I also forgot I dropped a few mp3 files in there and was able to play… Read More
Version 1 of mobileNoter is out! MS OneNote to iPhone synchronization If you have microsoft oneNote, and the iphone, you HAVE to get this app. I have been beta testing it for awhile now and its one of those, you cannot live without application.. again, if you have oneNote. 🙂 I did a more complete write up HERE back in Aug. This is version one and… Read More
Another bicycle computer / gps system comes online. SportyPal I have not tried sportyPal just yet (its not out for the iphone), but I will this week on my Android and update this post if anything surprises me. {UPDATE} The iphone version is out. Try it here. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sportypal/id319351322?mt=8 Basically, it seem to be like most of the other bicycle computers for mobile phones (devices)… Read More
Exchange contact between iPhone and Android with Bump I was not a big fan of Bump because I do not like the way I have keep track of who I contacted and the I could only connect with other iPhone users. Well that’s over. I just read this on TC,in addition to some cool new features like better Facebook integration and something called… Read More
iPhone suddenly losing battery life? Could be your email Just under a week ago, my iphone’s battery life took a nose dive!. It would be out of power in 3 to 5 hours instead of keeping over 80 at the end of the day. My first thought was I had some rouge apps running in the background. I turned off backgrounder.. Still dying. Killed… Read More
How to change your SSH password on the iphone There are more reports of hackers mucking around with jailbroken iphone where SSH is on and the password has not been changed. So again, for all you jailbroken iPhone users out there, change your password, or as I do, keep SSH off. Here are the instructions. If you want to thank me, a Guinness would… Read More
Wanna buy 87 iphone apps, and the company that goes with it? Ebay baby! I get some odd press releases now and again, but this one was interting. Seems that Brice Milliorn has had enough with his little iphone app making enterprise and wants to sell it off. Fair enough. The twist here? EBay! Normally, I’m shopping for Christmas gifts, or used computer stuff, or oddities here and there. … Read More
Blackra1n RC3 has unlock as well as jailbreak for iphone 3g and 3gs Its still RC keep in mind, but according to the site, unlock is in place. I have been holding off on upgrading from 3.0 till I was sure I could unlock. Now I have no plans to unlock from AT&T, but I always want to be sure I CAN if I need to. So it… Read More
A new Blog with a list of iPhone press releases As well as having my own blog here, I also write for iphoneLife magazine. As such, I get quite a few press released that are iphone related. Most of the time, I delete them unless there is something that catches my fancy. But then I thought, I should post these for other people. So I… Read More
Blackra1n returns tethering for iphone jailbreakers I use PDANet so I’m unaffected by all this, but I saw this on TC’s mobile crunch and felt compelled to share. 🙂 Now again, as I remind my readers every time, there is a difference between jailbreaking and unlocking. {UPDATE: the newest version RC3 now has unlock as well as jailbreak. I have not… Read More
Hackers breaking into a jailbroken iphones and how to stop them Saw this story via CNET. I was a bit concerned till I read how the hack was done. A bit of background information though, seems a hacker got in to a few jailbroken iphone running T-Mobile in the Netherlands. Basically, it puts a message on your phone saying you have been hacked and to learn… Read More
Top versions of ‘Still Alive’ from the ending credits of the game, Portal I stumbled across a cool animation of ‘Still Alive’ song from the end credits of Portal. So I did a quick search and posted them here. Please suggest more and I’ll update this page. Be patient, all these Youtube objects take a long time to load. I like this one, but the sound was poorly… Read More
Turn by Turn Nav on your Mobile via Google. GPS device stocks plunge Now unless you have been living under a rock, or you are a rock, in which you are fully excuse from knowing about this game changer. Google is now providing turn by turn navigation on enabled mobile devices for free. That means any smart phone that has GPS and Interwebs connection will most likely be… Read More
Full Color Beautiful Comics on the Apple and other Tablets I did not even think about this till I saw the article in Gizmodo. The Kindle was a device I was never really convinced about and when the tablet war started, I know they all be winners on the ebook front. Well, think about this. Full color comics! yea, just like in the newspapers and… Read More
Single page for reinstalling your web apps, useful for windows 7 reinstalls Like most people who had any choice, I avoided installing MS Vista. I did download Windows 7 (build 7100 and RC) and have been quite impressed. So in addition to dropping my hard drives and installing SSD’s (which I also recommend) I’m beginning a computer by computer reinstall to Windows 7 (except for my Mac… Read More
XKCD Says goodbye to GeoCities XKCD is full of win! And I remember when the web used to look like this. Yes, its true kiddies! You have no idea how good you have it now… spoiled brats! 🙂 And here is your screenShot…… Read More