Tapcloud, Movement Through Real Space in a Casual Game A new and fresh game that Qubop made that makes use of the camera, the gyros, and other hardware in the phone. The clouds are randomly generated around you in 3D space, find them, tap them, and get points. See the world through the camera and play the game layered on top of reality. The… Read More
Cool magic trick using a kinect hack with 3DVIA and FAAST This is pretty cool. The magician Moulla shows a pretty cool card trick using a hacked Kinect. Check the video below to see it. But the cool thing is the idea of integrating motion devices and apps as part of a physical performance. I have a feeling we may see more and more of this. … Read More
Mayday Light. Emergency emailer app for iphone I get lots of press releases about how something can saves lives and normally, its a borderline case, but I think this app really could. And as a motorcyclist, I may install this and keep it running in the background 24/7. UPDATE: the app is now $0.99 in the store and there are two new… Read More
Twitter.com is down.. Hard Seems twitter.com is having some issues today. First it was showing odd returns on the timelines, sometimes seeing other tweets the I know I do not follow. Then it the #newTwitter was deprecated to the old twitter.com. Then they went down all together. Still down as of this writing. However, when I go to twittFilter,… Read More
Forget where you have been? Google hasn’t. Seems that Google has included a Location History dashboard with their latest release of Google Maps 5.3 for Android. The dashboard is a feature for Google Latitude that allows you to view your location history on a personal dashboard at google.com/latitude or on the phone by tapping view location history from your Latitude profile. The… Read More
Untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4.3.1 coming, but not for iPad2 Last week a tethered jailbreak for iOS 4.3.1 came out, Mac only. Well hopefully sometime today we will see a untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.3.1 released. However, not for ipad 2. I’ll update this post once I learn more. MuscleNerd, who earlier confirmed his plans of updating Pwnage Tool and Redsn0w with the ion1c iOS… Read More
Peel: The best TV remote for the iphone … Ever! (first post written completely on my iPhone BTW) I stopped by the Peel demo in San Francisco during Web 2.0 expecting a simple iPhone IR remote. Wow, it’s more then that. Peel, the name of the app as well as the company created a very cool app that not only replaces your remote but creates… Read More
Insert tweets directly into wordpress Just came out today. Although you could always insert a tweet into wordpress using blackbird, a new widget / service from twitter just came out the provides a rich Twitter interactive widget. Nice. From Twitter : To see Web Intents in action, check out WordPress.com’s great tool for quoting Tweets in blog posts: Twitter Blackbird… Read More
Very cool 3D interface for Android. #video This is sweeeet. Just came out today and I know the interwebs are all over it. the company is called SPB Software. I have not tried it yet but I will we I get my hands on my Droid. Assuming it will run on the droid. I’ll write more about that later, but check out… Read More
Firefox 4 for Android does NOT work on the Droid Nuts. I was really excited to try this too. Seems the orginal droid just does not have what it takes to run FF4. Not sure what the issue is, be the OS or CPU or what. When I loaded FireFox4 on my Droid it did give me a warning that it may not work correct. … Read More
Cydia gets a major update. Promise to improve speed and bug fixes Wow, I jailbreak day.. a jailbreak afternoon. Been downloading .greenpois0n.com to jailbreak my 4.2.6 iphone and today just saw QuickPwn Jailbreak for 3.1.1 (for Mac only). And now via that twitterverse, most @TaimurAsad, I heard that Cydia has got a major update going to 1.1. Nice! Its reported that cydia will be faster and fix… Read More
Jailbreak 4.3.1 for iphone ipad2 jailbroken! Get it fast Yup, its out. If you are not still waiting for your ipad2, its now time to jailbreak the iOS 4.3.1! Win. Now this is Mac only so, Windows users will have to wait, however, GreenPois0n RC5 is still good to go for iOS 4.2.6. I will bet 4.3 support will come out soon. BTW if… Read More
Color is hot now, but in 24 hours, I have a bad feeling it will go off-color I downloaded the iPhone android photo sharing app called Color just like 100 thousand other people probably have by the time I hit send. And ok, I get it. I take pics, other people near me take pics. And we see them. Great. Not big thrill to me unless I’m at a party or wedding… Read More
Firefox 4 feeling buggy? Could be those plugins I ran Firefox beta off and on, and it was fine but a bit buggy. Then I download FF4 final release and it was REALLY buggy. Screens not fully rendering, browser getting stuck, buttons not working, etc.. Never did fully crash though funny enough.Even killing the browser and restarting did not help. I then started… Read More
No more tethering through Jailbreak on the iPhone? WTH? According to VentureBeat, seems that AT&T has been sending letters out to subscribers of MiWi, a jailbreak app that allows tethering of multiple machines to you iPhone. I use PDANet and have not seen such a letter yet, but I’m keeping my eyes out. The letter basically states that if you use a non… Read More
Auto edit your movie on your phone, as your filming! This is a really good idea and I’m kind of surprised no has done this yet. The basic premise is to detect drastic scene changes in your video and mark that change as a break or a chapter in the over all video. Then you would have a list of breaks, replete with thumbnails, that… Read More
iPad2 jailbroken and sold out in the same day Gezz. Things move so bloody fast. I think we all expected the ipad2 to be hacked and jailbroken pretty quick, but it did not even take the weekend to crack this nut. The hacker Comex, who also did the userland jailbreaks Spirit and JailbreakMe, has released tweets and a video showing an ipad2 running cydia.… Read More
Free Smart Recorder for this weekend only I have not used this, just popped up in my email. Looks pretty good. Straight forward voice recorder with image and text annotation. I may download it later and give it try. Smart Recorder is the ultimate time based note taking tool for the iPhone or iPad. It allows the typing of textual notes as… Read More
SEGA!!! During GDC I was invited to check out some new titles from SEGA. Given the love I have for SEGA as an old school gamer, I had to go check it out. First up is Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing. Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing is a racing game in the Sega Superstars series produced… Read More
Expanded Voice Commands for iPhone with VoiceActivator through jailbreak VoiceActivator came out last month, but I just now got around to playing with it. Not sure why I waited so long. This jailbreak app basically provides the promise of rich voice control that is already common with Android. This little hack is so good that it make my iphone jailbreak app top 10 list… Read More