SMHeart Link: Taking the iphone as a biking computer to the next level I’ve written a number of posts about using the iphone as a biking, running and even golfing computer. Well, there is the next level. A full training environment! From SmHeart link. As good as having speed and elevation change is useful for training, adding cardio and other measure, like cadence and power, would bring you… Read More
Review of SaveMyDocs.. Fail Bummer, I have not reviewed an app for awhile, mostly because I’ve been very busy with twittfilter (www.twittfilter.com) and there has not been anything new that really caught my attention.. Until I say ‘SaveMyDocs’ The idea is to use javascript to allow you to save a web page into a variety of formats that you… Read More
Macro lens for the iPhone; the only thing I bought at MacWorld Once I saw this I knew I had to buy it. Often, when I’ve had a good bottle of wine, I would take a picture of the label so that I could buy that bottle later. However, because of the focal length of the iphone’s lens, I would only be able to read the larger… Read More
Review of InfraredCamera and SP Photo – taking low light pics with the iPhone I actually downloaded this awhile back but have not used it until now. Its actually pretty interesting. I took a pic of my cat in a low light situation.… Read More
5 things SimCity really needs to fix.. now I really like SimCity for the iphone. I think they did a great job, esp with the UI. I still enjoy and lose far more time then intended playing it. However, there are a number of things that just really piss me off. Ok, so EA, if you are reading this, take notes.. Beginning rant….… Read More
Unlock for 3g 2.2 Even if I quickpwned? According to the instructions Wait a min. Something odd going on here. Remember all those warnings when jailbreak for 2.2 first came out? NOT to update the baseband? Ok, so now I’m reading the steps for unlocking using yell0w snow. Based on what I read, I should be able to do this on my phone despite the fact I… Read More
Top iPhone apps you should have for MacWorld First off, Happy New Year! We are approaching the final count down to MacWorld and aside from a few bookmarks (and macworld – thanks @danielbru for reminding me), there are a few apps you may want to make sure you have installed. I’m going to break the list in two; jailbreak and non jailbreak apps. … Read More
SimCity 1.3 for the iphone ipod update released You knew it was coming. They claim Increased stability. I’ll download and test. We’ll see if anything else is new. {UPDATE} OK, it does seem to work a bit better but when you start it, it recommends you do a reboot before starting the game. Thanks, already figured that. Still takes awhile to start and… Read More
LED Football2 is out. Fun if you are old enough to remember. :) I did a review of football when it first came out back in Sept. Story here. So I got another email last week saying LED football2 is out. Downloaded it, played with it, and just like the first one, its fun. Totally reminds me of when the original came out. Whats different here is the… Read More
Review of Towers: Much better game then I expected I played my fair share of desktop towers back in the day. It was pretty fun, but I mostly burned myself out after a few multi hour sessions. So when Towers first came out ( I guess a month?) ago, I did not bother with it. Well, last night I saw a free version and… Read More
Cheat codes for SimCity on the iphone ipod touch Because so many people have been asking, I’ll repost this. FYI: Simcity for iPad came out with cheats. I’m going to test the cheats this week. I went though 10+ known cheat codes for simcity3k and simcity4. None of them seemed to work. So as far as I know, only 2 cheats codes work.. i… Read More
How to reduce the crashes on SimCity for the iphone Ok, its been a week now and everyone has been dealing with the crashes. Seems to happen when switching between map and selecting something to build, either a structure or land zoning. Best fix.. and you will not like it.. reboot your phone. Yup, sorry, only good solution. What this does is make sure there… Read More
Why PdaNet is a Must Have for the iPhone PdaNet is not a new app, nor are apps for tethering new. I even wrote about and downloaded PdaNet back in Sept. Story here. I never did have a use for it, nor did I expect I ever would, till today. I took a 2 mile walk to starbucks (need the exercise) expecting to have… Read More
Battleship.. SteamPunk style. Review of ChartFightSP ChartFightSP is basically battleship, everything works the same way, except the graphics are classic steampunk. There is not much else to review really. The game play is fine, good sound… its BattleShip! What more do you want? Do not know what steampunk is? Check this.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk or this link.. CommunityFeeder .. and now the images..… Read More
Review of the Hockey news for the iPhone. I like. The hockey news is not revolutionary technically, it basically give you the news about hockey. Simple as that. The news feeds are broken into Blogs, Columns, and Features, which have rumor, fantasy pool, etc.. All good stuff. You can also get scores, no big surprise there. Standings. (Please note the leaders in the Pacific Division,… Read More
iPhone, GolfTraxx, GPS… FAIL So far, I have been pretty happy with each GPS app I’ve tried for various tasks; data logging when I bike or run, remembering where my car is, even logging my position when I twitter. So when a friend of mine called me up for a last second game of golf in the middle of… Read More
Video on unlocking the iphone 3G, done using Qik A few days back I posted about the unlocking coming at the end of the year. Well I just a got a tweet on this video from one of the Qik guys. Shows an unlocked iphone 3G running on t-mobile. Get some popcorn and enjoy.… Read More
Access iPhone as an external drive via wifi: Review of Discover This is sooooo sweet. Just came across it today. The program is called Discover. What it does is give you limited access to your iphone like a USB drive except this does it using WIFI! There are two other programs I have already that give you wifi access but whta discover does differnetly is it… Read More
SimCity for the iphone ipod is out… get it .. now Really, i’m not kidding here.. Get it now! Its $9.99. WAY worth it. Here, click on the following link.. Is it any good?? Yes!! Read this… Cheat codes?? Of course, thanks to “oab2” from my previous post.. i am weak = Construction costs set to $0 pay tribute to your king = All extra rewards… Read More
iphone 3G unlock (not just jailbreak) by New Years! We knew it was coming…. ok, so it took a bit longer then expected, but the l33ts have done it. Now all that is left is to wrap it up in a nice friendly GUI and let ‘er rip! … Oh, you DID take care NOT to use QuickPwn which everyone, including me, warned you… Read More