iBike App and iBike Dash “Always On” Update I just got this as a press release. Have not looked into it yet, so consider this post an FYI. iBike Coach App The new iBike Coach App (designed to work exclusively with the iBike Dash CC), includes a new user interface, more extensive use of video instruction tutorials, a simpler product setup, easier… Read More
Chat on iOS 5 Jailbreak with Cydia creator Saurik I have put forth many times that Apple could kill off or make life REALLY hard for jailbreakers if they wanted to, but they don’t. In this street interview by Haroon, Cydia Creator Jay Freeman talked a bit about how the new features in iOS 5 will not make jailbreak irrelevant nor are they trying… 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
Cell phone screen with button touch feedback. From Japan of course Saw this on thenextweb looks pretty good. Basically what the Japanese telecommunications operator KDDI is building is a cell phone screen with the use of well timed and placed haptic vibrators and a pressure sensitive screen. Of course, since I have not tried this myself I have no idea what it would feel like, but… 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
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
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
iPhone 5 will not have 4G LTE. Sigh.. Many of us really thought the next iphone, the 5 would be a 4G i.e. LTE. Well, seems that comments from Apple COO Tim Cook, who said that “first generation of LTE chipsets force a lot of design compromises,” during the Apple’s earnings conference call on Wednesday. Well, sounds like this is about as accurate… 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
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
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