Twitter to be included in the native iOS build. And what that could mean Well, what could that mean from a few points of view. First the user. I think BusinessInsider did a pretty good job with their mockup showing what it could mean to have fully integrated twitter support in iOS. From a design point of view, it will be pretty minimal, an extra button on a menu… Read More
Intel’s The Museum of Me Project is pretty cool This is pretty cool. Not sure when it came out, but its has over 50k fans. Its a pretty cool little promotional campaign. You go to this site meseumofme.intel.com and it will ask for access to your facebook account. Normally and unlike most of the world, I almost never allow app on Facebook.. Yes I’m… Read More
First 3D advert revealed on iPad I just saw this browsing the BBC site. My coworker who broke both of his writs skiing, so I let him borrow my ipad. As soon as I get it back, I’ll give this a shot and report back. The ad promotes ‘From the Edge’ a documentary for the Weather Channel The first ever 3D… Read More
Create Cartoon like Videos on your iphone ipad This just popped in my email today. I’m going to download it later and mess around with it, but from what I’ve seen on YouTube, this app does a great job of creating cartoon like effects from iPhone videos. Very impressive. Check out the video at the end of the post. I’ll update this later… Read More
Narrative Technology, an ebook by Al Gore and 3 Dreams of Black I had to share these 2 items that leverage innovative tools and technologies to tell better stories. First is Our Choice, an interactive e-book by Al Gore. Our Choice is an interactive 400-page book with videos, photos, and info-graphic content that illustrates how powerful interactive story telling can be. It was developed in collaboration with… Read More
Stealth Bee Jam music app is Free over Memorial Weekend. I have not tried myself but it looks interesting. An alternative to garage band and basic looping apps. I wrote a bit about it here. Steathbee Jam Music App. Here is the press release.. Several months ago, when we launched Stealth Bee Jam for the iPad, we also sent you an email comparing Stealth Bee Jam… Read More
The Best Radio App so far, Tunein. BuBye AOL Radio Getting tired of this. I love listening to KCBS radio, despite the far too numerous commercials (and a few commercials that are so bad I actually turn off the sound). So now I’m trying to Tunein Radio to see if its more stable. Also, as a startup app dev team, perhaps they will provide one… Read More
FREE Version of AmpliTube 3 with the new built-in Custom Shop This is straight from my email box. Just thought I would thought this up really quick in case there are any musicians out there that have not tried AmpliTube yet. Dear Musician, Join the 28,000 users who have registered their FREE Version of AmpliTube 3 with the new built-in Custom Shop… Read More
Android Tethering blocked by Google and how to get around it I saw in the news a few days back that Google was going to do this, and based on a post in Venturebeat I guess they pulled the trigger. Google is now blocking Android tethering apps from the Store. Well not blocking per se. From VB – “You can still see it in the Android… Read More
SimCity Deluxe Tips and Tricks I mostly play SimCity deluxe on the iPad now, but these tips apply for all SimCity games in general. BTW, I have not tried this for Android, but it should work. Put your powerplant in a far corner of the board. If you have a river near the centre of your world, build near it. … Read More
iPhone 4 voice control sucks! #FAIL But here are some tips anyway Such FAIL that its almost epic. I have only recently started to play with iphone voice control after a VERY pleasant experience with Google Androids voice control, which work very well. With my Droid I could get directions, play music and even call people. And although calling people was not 100%, it was pretty good.… Read More
Air dogfighing with camera mounted RCs AR.Drones We have talked about the Parrot AR.Drones before and if you have not tried it yet, go to Brookstone and give it a try. It’s pretty fun. I wish the battery life was longer, but small issue. Well, one of the promises of the AR.Drone was air dog-fighting combating. Well now its real. AR.FlyingAce was… Read More
Blair MacIntyre on Argon – a standards based AR browser Last month I got the opportunity to meet up with augmented reality veteran Blair MacIntyre. Blair directs the Augmented Environments Lab at Georgia Tech, and his research focuses on educational, entertainment and gaming applications of augmented and mixed reality environments, especially those that use personal displays (ie. ranging from see-through head-worn displays to video-mixed handheld… Read More
Your iPhone is spying on you and how to map view the GPS data The news broke out at where 2.0 that if you pull a .db file from your iphone, it has a record of everywhere you have been in the past year. WOW. Worse, this file in NOT encrypted. So the question is; why are they collecting this in the first place? Perhaps the government wants it?… Read More
Evernote gets a big upgrade for Android I have not checked this out myself since my Android is at home, so I will simply pass on what I read on venturebeat. I will check into this later and update the post. The version is called Evernote 3.0, and the company says this upgrade is huge. There are added sharing and organizational features,… Read More
App away your privacy I am no stranger to apps that collect an obscene amount of information, but after reading this post from Computer World titled ‘Snooping: It’s not a crime, it’s a feature‘, this is too much. The article highlights apps like Color and Shopkick that access the microphone in your phone to listen to ‘noise’ around you… Read More
3D on the iphone ipad without glasses using head tracking! Remember Johnny Chung Lee who did that really cool hack on the Nintendo Wii awhile back? He created a 3D simulation using head tracking… Video below the post in case you do not remember. Anyway, seems Jeremie Francone and Laurence Nigay from the Engineering Human-Computer Interaction (EHCI) research group at the Grenoble Informatics Laboratory did… Read More
How to downgrade to older firefox 3.6 if 4.0 is crashing on you When I first installed Firefox 4 it was REALLY buggy for me. Lots of crashes and lock ups. I then started removing plugins and its starting to behave much better now. I still have the occasional hiccup, but nothing like in the beginning. However, if you are STILL having crashes and lockups on FireFox, here… Read More
Mobipark Helps You Find Your Car Mobipark is free until end of day 4/9/11. Download it now and get the app for free instead of $1.99 US. Where did you leave your car? When do you need to move it to avoid a costly ticket? How do you get back to a location if you’re in an unfamiliar city? Mobipark combines… Read More
iphone mmorg game Yslandia is now free Just got this in email. If your into MMORGS, its free so give it a shot. Here is information from the press release. Yslandia a world apart: Yslandia above all cherishes its players, and we are proud to announce that Yslandia today represents more than 100,000 players from around the world, hundreds of whom form… Read More