AT&T seems both evil and dumb with t-mobile and FCC filing Sometime, you just have to shake you head when a company as large as AT&T fails in its attempt to convince people that its not the death star. First seem in Ars Technica, AT&T tried to convince everyone that T-Mobile its low grade, not worth talking about and that this really will not change the… Read More
Augmenting the Facts .. the cake is a lie !Warning, this is a rant! With the growing interest in augmented reality, I continue to notice where presenters, bloggers, researchers, and other have misinformed their audience about the subject. To use the most generic of references, “Augmented reality (AR) is a term for a live direct or an indirect view of a physical, real-world environment… 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
AppHub fails. Why should I build Windows mobile again? Caution! Arrgg.. This will be a total rant post. <rant> WTF Microsoft?? I was asked to build a simple application for windows mobile 7. No prob. Its been out long enough that I would think all the bugs are out. Its a simple enough app, whip this guy out in 2 weeks top. Right.. So… 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
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
Gmail Down giving 503 error. I hope you have a backup Well its happens to everyone at some point. Well everyone who is responsible for servers.. They go down. And today its Gmail. Gmail has been up and down all day and finally a 503 was spotted. The outage was very short lived, 5 min or so, but that’s for now. However, what if you need… Read More
Verizon Pre order Sold out! That was fast!! I have been trying to get into the site since 2:30pm pst and it was failing. Now I get a screen saying they have sold out on the pre-order? WTH?? Sold out THIS fast? That makes NOOOO sense. I have a feeling something is up but not sure. However, given that the… Read More
Verizon iPhone ordering system overloaded Sigh. I was going to do this last night and got sidetracked with server issues and then sleep. So I decided to try and order my iPhone from Verizon now and guess what? Server overload. I guess that is to be expected. Can’t wait to see how many orders they had in 1 day. Update: … Read More
AT&T offer microcell towers to ONLY 7.5% of users AT&T knows they have a coverage problem, know they can solve it; yet still are going to the solution kicking and screaming. If you remember, you could get a micro cell tower for $199 (used to be $150 ($20 a month more for unlimited) that uses YOUR internet connection to solve a AT&T issue. Via… Read More
John Stewart Claims FREEDOM from AT&T with the Verizon release Last night on ‘the daily show’ John Stewart did a bit on how happy he is that Verizon finally announced support for the iPhone. BTW john, your traffic speed will be almost 40% slower, so get ready… But, he will at least be able to get phone calls. Now from what I’ve heard, New Yorks… Read More
Why is hold music so bad? Sounds like AM Radio with reception issues Warning; this is a <rant>! Ok really, I call Comcast and after going through I don’t know how many loops; and looks folks sometimes I JUST want to talk to a representative; anyway I finally get connected to ‘somewhere’ for technical support. I get put on hold and hear this crap music that sounds like… Read More
The spark for my iPad is gone. Sold it, and dont miss it. I like my iPad, and if i sold it, I would miss it right off, but that’s because I have the really bad habit of taking a look at email, socMed or do a small bit of reading before bed. Else, I think I would be in the same boat as my friend here.. Lets… Read More
New Iphone Bug. Daylight saving messes up the alarm Sigh… Ok, so here is the basics. Seems that any alarm that is set to repeat will not work correctly after daylight saving change. The fix from apple is to simply erase and recreate the alert. Great. Unless you have yearly repeating events, then you will have to go through the year and fix each… Read More
unlock a locked iphone without the code, but not my jailbroken iphone Yes you have all seen the video by now were Salomao Filho explains how to get around the phone password by using the emergency dial option. Pretty good little hack I must say. The funny thing is I wanted to try this out myself on my phone until I looked at it and remember that… Read More
Why connecting your Gmail to Outlook is a good idea Yesterday AOL went down without much a whisper, although credit to Techcrunch for running the story and not playing it soft. (although I wonder how much more biting it would have been if they did get bought, but that’s another question). Well today gmail web client went down for about 15min for some of us. … Read More
Warning: MiWi will delete PDANet from your iphone, and might mess up other things Installing MiWI tethering app on iphone 3.1.2 will mess up your network carrier settings and uninstall PDANet… Read More
Android: To Root or not to Root, may not be your choice There is a story going around that if you try to root your Android HTC G2, it will detect that you rooted it and return it back to factory… 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