20% discount on VentureBeat’s MobileBeat and GamesBeat 2011 MobileBeat 2011 — VentureBeat’s 4th annual flagship conference on the future of mobile — on July 12-13 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, is gathering the brightest minds in the industry to explore this year’s hottest macro trend: the arrival of true mobile computing now that 4G is here. There’s no doubt that 4G… Read More
Civilization Revolution for iPad tips, tricks and cheats Here are a collection of tips and tricks you can use to make Civilization Revolution easier to play and win at. Keep in mind there are not cheats for Civilization Revolution. I have looked.. None. Enjoy! I’ll update and add images later. When you first start, explore fast and always attack barbarians if you find… Read More
3D Video within Live Video. Kinect my augmented reality to an iPad 2 Here is a pretty cool demonstration done by Laan Labs that takes the video and depth mapping information from a Microsoft Kinect and uses that data to create a 3D model for an augmented reality mobile application seen through the iPad 2. Basically how this works is you shoot something, like yourself, in front of… Read More
Serious challenge to Jailbreakers in iOS 5. Dont upgrade yet iOS 5 is still not official, but you may want to hold off even when it launches. Seems that there have been some major changes to iOS5 that will make jailbreaking much harder. Currently, when you jailbreak you phone, you are basically overriding the OS to allow access to certain API calls that are not… Read More
Skype for iPad coming soon! About time! Just saw this on tuow. They say it will be out soon, but no date. What I do not understand is why wait so long? I guess it took the release of iPad2 to finally push them enough to build it. So stay tuned. From tuow: A few features in the full PC/Mac app didn’t… Read More
Stitcher is now my top digital radio app for iphone Android Stitcher has grown enough to be a good digital radio app. Use the desktop version to set up your stations.… Read More
Apple in-app subscriptions rules have been eased Read this in VB then macRumors. Seems Apple has changed it in-app subscriptions rules such that a subscription does not have to be the “same price or less than it is offered outside the app”. In fact, there are no rules for price period. Apple also removed the requirement that external subscriptions must be also… Read More
Jailbreak apps that are now part of iOS I have said this many times before, if Apple REALLY wanted to stop jailbreaking they could. They dont because this is great R/D and well as Marketing data that they get for free. Heck, then even hire jailbreak programmers. So lets have a look at yet more cool iOS features that us jailbreakers have had… Read More
3DAR make creating AR even easier Just saw this across the twitters, bookmarked it, then forgot to post it up. ah well. I have not tried it but watched the video and yea, it looks like a much improved way to get your content into an AR app. If anyone has tried this, give me a ping and I’ll post up… 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
Augmented Reality Event 2011 video Still recovering from an augmented reality that happened last week. The video footage below shows elements from the Augmented Reality Event (ARE) 2011 in Santa Clara, CA on May 17-18. This was the 2nd annual event of the largest conference dedicated to the business of augmented reality. Start-ups, developers, mobile and hardware companies along with… 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
How to keep iTunes from opening when you connect you iphone ipad I really hate that itunes launches every-time I connect my iphone or ipad. At first I thought it would be an easy fix, simply uncheck iTunes Summary “Automatically sync [this device] when connected”. Right? #FAIL Yes the iphone will not autosync, but iTunes will still launch! What is the fix? Turn on the setting ‘Allowing… 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
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
Jailbreak 4.3.1 was released, bugs seems to be worked out. So first off, the post from the dev team blog Only a few weeks after the 4.3.1 untether created by @i0n1c was released, Apple pushed out firmware 4.3.2. Thankfully, it appears Apple didn’t have a chance to fix the hole used by @i0n1c’s untether, so he ported his code over to 4.3.2’s kernel. Today’s redsn0w has… 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