I gave a windows 8 app a try. And it already failed I have been using Windows 8 on my 5+ year old PC laptop for awhile now and have been happy enough with it. In fact, I always encourage anyone I know to update to Windows 8. Its worth it. The “metro” part of win8 however, has never been of much value to me. Actually, no… Read More
Windows 8 evaluation version timing out today It was going to happen sooner or later. Windows 8 crashed on me, rebooted, then said it will reboot in an hour and every 2 hours after that. Sigh. Fair enough, but why pretend it was a crash? Could have just have a picture of the grim reaper and said, “Your time is up”. Ah… Read More
Craigslist now has thumbnails and maps. FINALLY! I do not know when this went live, but I’m MUCH happier. I cannot believe how long it took for this to happen. So much better. The thumbs are a little small, but that is ok, just mouse over and you will get a bigger image. Also, there is a map view. I think this… Read More
A cool iphone android retro phone handset Yes, this is pure dorky goodness, but I dont care. It works! I got this retro phone handset on sale for under $10. Last one at Bed and Bath in fact. The funny thing is, just like the original iphone phone handle, this is practical. Its kind of funny how popular this is. Go on… Read More
An Apple watch, or iWatch. Sure. Heck, called that last year Almost exactly a year in fact I wrote about an Apple smart watch. It makes sense given what can be done with siri. Well now rumors are flying around ( broken by mobilegeeks and BI ) that Apple is finally getting around to building a watch. Given the move to more portable and wearable computing,… Read More
Review of Ivee, the talking voice actuation alarm clock .. The talking alarm clock. Suddenly Mr. Ed pop into my head. Anyway, Ivee, is a talking (or better voice actuate) alarm clock radio. Although its not perfect, its pretty darn impressive. On the plus side, it works using voice as you would expect. You can speak ‘hello ivee’ and then provide a number of… Read More
Updated specs for the Oculus gaming VR Headset Back in Aug the Oculus made a splash on KickStarter as one of the most well funded VR headsets ever. Now that they are in production, they have upped the specs a bit. I think its going to make a huge difference. Lets have a look at what they say from the Oculus website. The panel we… Read More
Repost: Business Insider -The Google+ Boss Just Brilliantly Deconstructed Everything Annoying About Facebook I found the video interview at the bottom of this Business Insider post worth the watch. I learned more about Google+ and it’s VP of product Bradley Horowitz does a great job of describing things I recently have found more annoying with Facebook.… Read More
iPhone 5 vs. Galaxy S III: Lets compare In this corner, we have the iPhone 5 and in the other corner we have the Samsung Galaxy S III. Both have received much acclaim since the recent media frenzy regarding Apple’s patent lawsuit against Samsung and now that the dust has cleared, all techies and fans are concerned with is, which one performs the… Read More
Camero’s tactical through wall imaging solutions Just came across this announcement on the Nvidia blog covering Camero, an Israel based provider and pioneer of Sense-Through-The-Wall (STTW) solutions. Camero has a full line of products that provide real-time situational awareness for observing multiple stationary and moving objects concealed behind walls or barriers. Utilizing advanced micropower radar technology, these systems provide tactical information for troops… Read More
The Microsoft Surface commercial is bad. And they should feel bad too When I first saw the commercial for Microsoft’s surface, my first reaction, was ‘Ug’. Why the hell are all these kids jumping around just because a keyboard was connected to a tablet? Kind of like why when I drink a beer, tonnes of my friends and a bevy of hot babes do not suddenly come… Read More
What can you make with a 3D printer? How about an airplane? Yup. A very cool project. A airplane made using 3D printing only. (I’m guessing this is san motor through). So we have cars, guns, and now a plane. I would really love to see this released as a kit. How cool with that be? Download a 3D airplane kit and add motor. Here is an… Read More
iOS6 maps sucks so bad, I’m writing a follow up. So I played a bit more with the iphone 5, the real deal, not my emulator, and Maps is worse then I thought. So much that I thought I would bitch about it again. However, before I let lose the downvotes, let me say right off, the iphone 5 is fast! fast fast fast! I… Read More
iOS6 and the new iPhone5!!! Lets jailbreak! So as we are all aware, the new iPhone 5 was announced yesterday with a lengthy list of new specs, by apple, along with the new iPod 5g (the first of which to be released with a multi color color display option). Both of which are going to have the anticipated iOS6 on them. According… Read More
LongCat shows how much bigger the iphone5 is over the iphone4 Leave it to LongCat to make it perfectly clear how much larger the screen of the iphone5 is compared to the iphone4.. Love it. BTW, if you did not already know Apple moved from 3.5 to 4 inches. Not a large screen size, but bigger. Enjoy! Credit re1jo from Reddit for this.… Read More
A cool batman MacBook decal. Yes its cool Just what the title of post says. I very cool batman MacBook decal. Do not remember where I found it, so sorry about that. But I’m sure some google digging will pop it up. I have seen a number of ipad decals and they are good, but what few MacBook designs were pretty week. This… Read More
Here are the rumored iphone5 earbuds (headphones). And.. what? Video Ok, so first off, I have no idea how real this is, however, Tinhte.vn, who released the photos and images have been able to get sneak peaks before, let’s have some fun and say they are legit. Also check the vidoe at the end of the post. First off, how in the world are these… Read More
Live stream video on Facebook with ustream’s new BFF features Got an iphone or Android? We you have known for a long time that you can live stream video using a number of apps out there. However, typical mobile phone users do not do that. Instead they film something on their phone, update it later and share it later still. What if you could live… Read More
Starbucks to start accepting square in the Fall with a $25M tip Just saw this on Squares website. This is a BIG win for the Square folks. This could be the tipping point for more established retailers to move to non credit card based virtual payment systems. This is not all of the news though, Starbucks is going to invest $25 million in Square as part of… Read More
Save As will overwrite the original file in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Just read this in Hacker News. Gezz.. I think I will have to keep a much closer look at OS X 10.8. Heck, I have not even written about the battery issues yet. Ok, check this out…. OS X Lion 10.7 removed the Save As command; see Save As Command Forces Multi-Step Workaround, Data Destruction.… Read More