GarageBand like app for those without music skills So, you really liked that demo of garage band that Apple showed for the iPad 2 eh? Want it but already have the iPad 1? Well, how about something kind of like it? But better in someways? Especially if you cannot play an instrument? Stealth Bee Jam is more like a mixer then a way… Read More
Need a high quality audio player for the iphone ipad? Check out McIntosh AP1. It wont sound better, but it will feel like it. I have not been really paying attention to the sound quality on my iphone because really, despite the ipod heritage, its not that great. I have tried it a nice headset, but again, its just ok. So I have resigned myself to lo-fi audio. Then on a whim I tried the McIntosh API player skin.… Read More
wireless bike monitor computer by IBIKE DASH Another cool option to measure your speed, power, heart rate, wind speed, time, trip, elevation, and calories. Dash has a cool feature called the “HR Pacing Meter,” you can see at a glance whether your heart rate in the right zone. The HR Pacing Meter determines your fitness level with 5 Heart Rate Color Zones… Read More
ibiking service strava making strides in the right direction. I’ve always known San Francisco to have a large affinity for bikers. It comes as no surprise, then, that a San Francisco based company called Strava is working on a universal program to keep track of a biker’s exercise for those who opt for the more sophisticated technology. This means bikers with an iPhone, Android… 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
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
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
Google Chrome 9 gets faster and better Today Google announced several new features to their stable build of the Chrome browser including: Chrome Web Store is an online marketplace where you can discover thousands of apps, extensions, and themes for Google Chrome. It is open only to Chrome users in the United States. Chrome Instant will begin loading web pages that you… Read More
Mobimileage for iOS Devices, Tracks Business Mileage Automatically Fumbling with my pen and little notebook in the dark, struggling to see my odometer reading, I realized there must be a better way to track business miles. My cofounder, Evan Kirchhoff, looked over and asked why I was cursing under my breath. He then asked why I wasn’t using a mobile app to handle… 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
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
Layar’s AR Browser Now Made Possible for All iPhone Apps This week Layar, the mobile augmented reality platform, announced on their blog the launch of the Layer Player. The Layar Player is a unique piece of code that can be embedded directly within your own iPhone app. Yes, seems it only is available for iPhone apps. Nice thing is there are no licensing costs and… Read More
Layar for the iPhone is finally in the App Store Talk about taking forever; but Layar is finally out. If you do not know; Layar was one of the first Augmented Reality Apps out there but not for iphone. And funny enough, never saw it on Cydia. Well no matter; its in the App store. Most likely for 4.0++ but I have not had a… Read More
Black Eyed Peas Get Official AR App Last month I blogged and shot a video showing off a Black Eyed Peas augmented reality app I made using Metaio’s Junaio platform. At the time, I was surprised that Metaio didn’t share or retweet with their community this app I made as they usually do with work that others do with their platform and… Read More
GPS based security for your iphone, Smartphone So many press releases before MacWorld. This is pretty cool. You can secure your phone to only allow access behind a firewall if the phone is at pre approved locations. Nice. Check out the release.. Mobile Active Defense (M.A.D. Partners, LLC) announces the release of its patent-pending mobile firewall and contents filtering mechanisms that enforce… Read More
A cool looking Guitar Synth for your iPad This has been out a few days and I have been checking out the videos. The video is a bit silly, but gets the point across. You do not play this like a normal guitar where you put your fingers on the strings to make chords. Instead you select your chord with a finger and… Read More
Get photos on the iPad without iTunes Just saw this in a press release. I’ll expand on this later, but basically there are plenty of valid grips about having to use iTunes to get your photographs from the iphone onto the iPad; much less useful grid viewing with titles. Check it out.. WidePhotoViewer is the most complete photo-viewing app for the iPhone,… Read More
Want to build a Augmented Reality app on the iPhone? Here is your chance through kickstarter We all know about kickstarter, and if you have not heard of kickstarter, whats wrong with you? Didn’t you see that story on the uber cool ipod watch? Sigh.. anyway, check this out. Hololabs is trying to build 3D Augmented Reality app. The project is called MixAR: MixAR is our second Augmented Reality (AR) iPhone… Read More