How to create a bootable USB Drive to install Windows 8 I want to install Windows 8 on my tablet but do not want to dig around to find my DVD player, so I decided to grab an old 4gig USB key and creating a bootable install for Windows 8. There are two ways to do this. The easy way is to simply download the Windows 8… Read More
How to Dual Boot Windows 8 on your Windows 7 machine This is mostly a repost from teknobites. I took a few screenshots out, edited a few things, add a few others. The instructions for setting up dual boot for windows8 is pretty easy. If you have every setup a dual boot system before, you will see there is not much new here.. Before you start,… Read More
Phone, Tablet, and keyboard combined into the 3 in 1 ASUS PadFone. Living the Dream! Yes I want this. This device was announced last year, but no one could seem to get their hands on it. Until today. The core of this 3 part system is an high end Android smartphone. Sporting a 4.3-inch AMOLED display, a Qualcomm dual-core processor, running Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0), Bluetooth, a 8-megapixel camera,… Read More
No, your Telsa will NOT brick if you leave it uncharged A story broke a few days back from a blogger named Michael DeGusta saying that if you let your Telsa’s car battery full drain that you have effectively bricked your car. He gave 5 examples of cars that were fully drained and thus ‘bricked’. He reports one example of a user who took his car… Read More
How to view 3D content on your iphone ipad $30 film overlay! pic-3D. Soon. If you have been following the news coming out of CES its basically tablets and 3D monitors/TV’s. Heck, saw a few 3D phones. However, there was one 3D phone that really impressed me because it was an IPHONE! Yes, view 3d content on the iphone. (Video at the end of the post). The app is… Read More
Convert your minecraft modes to 3D printer friendly format. #Awesome! Perfect! Have a great minecraft property you have lovingly shaped and worked on? Why not make it a real model using a 3D printer! Totally! The WINS of minecraft just continue to pill up. I remember first playing with it when it first came out thinking, what a cool little indie game. Never would I… Read More
Siri ipod nano watch. Actually, it could work This is an older rumor, older as in 2 weeks ago. (iphone4jailbreak.org) Seems Apple is working on an adding Siri to the ipod Nano such that it can work as a watch / personal communicator. Imagine having a watch that is mostly controlled through voice and performs voice to text for output.. I’m sure it’s… Read More
A USB Flash drive for iPhone, iPad. Wireless. No Jailbreak needed. I’m just walking out the door but wanted to post this up really quick. Check the Vid below.. It does not connect directly but instead connects wirelessly, so its going to be a bit more then a normal Flash drive. $99, but if you need to move docs, music or vids back and forth or… Read More
Nice clean iPad wall mount. Let the copies begin! We all know that the iPad’s main value is as a media consumption device. Well what about in the kitchen? Of the workshop? Would be nice to mount it on a wall right. And I know, there are a number of them out there, but I wanted to share this one. Its Clean. Something I… Read More
Want spy stuff? Check it out Well if you are the non trusting type, or actually do private investigations, or heck or your a spy, there is some cool stuff that dropped in my emailbox. So again. with no comment or implied recommendation, here are some cool stuff that if you are using, well, I hope you have a good reason.… Read More
The coolest 3D gaming monitor. This is the future of gaming and TV viewing! Sony introduced their 3D gaming and TV monitor. Its 24inch with 2 HDMI inputs that supports 3D. But that’s not whats cool about this. Sony introduced a technology called “SimulView”. This technology allows two players to have full screen view at the same time! This is pretty cool and most likely not that hard to… Read More
A short guide to good tech deals for black friday..and some to avoid 1. Black Friday Deals Revealed Link to: http://www.retrevo.com/content/blog/2011/11/black-friday-2011-deals Black Friday 2011 is almost here. We’ve been analyzing the deals on electronics from HDTV sets to digital cameras and have turned up some real deals and some duds. We see some great deals like a Sharp 42-inch 1080p TV for $199 at Best Buy although we… Read More
Random pics and random thoughts for the SF 2011 AutoShow Walking through San Francisco on Sunday and decided at the last minuet to stop in at the car show. I wanted to have a look at the latest series of electric car offerings. The usual suspects were there, but no edge players. Shame. Heck, Tesla was not even there. But BMW was with their newest… Read More
How to convert you old taps and records to high quality digital for $25 using Apple Match I know this was never Apples intention, but with iTunes Match, you can take your analog music and convert it to high quality digital for $25. How? First, digitize your old stuff. I recommend buying an old but good quality tape player (Or record player if you have vinyl). You also need a RCA to… Read More
Better ways to read Reddit on a poor connection. Esp for tethered ipad users. This is very cool. I should have thought of this. So one thing that slows me down on Reddit is reading Reddit on my ipad while tethered to my iphone on the train. Its not a fast connection, so the constant going back and forth is somewhat of a pain. Well go to redditlurker.com and… Read More
Battlefield 4 preview is hyper realistic… Because it is. Wow, if you have not seen this video preview of Battlefield4, then you are missing out! Take a look at those shadows! Lets see your xbox do ground deformation like this! And avatar rendering. TELL me this does not look like real life. Hyper realistic, you can shoot while being dragged as well as dragging… Read More
The $35 tablet from India is real. Called the AAKASH Last month I said it would believe it when I see a sub $50 tablet, well know I’ve seen it from VentureBeat. It costs around $45 to build, but with a $10 discount from the government, we have a $35 tablet. Now this is just for India keep in mind and targeted for some of… Read More
The low down on the iphone 4S iPhone 5 still in the works So its the iphone 4S. This is not news since its slipped out last week from an iTunes oversight. The outside is the same, but the internals have changed. The dual-core A5 is the big game changer… for games that is. ** Apple stock has now fallen 3.42 percent, while the NASDAQ is down only… Read More
Google Analytics upgrades to Premium and gets realtime This just broke on the Google blogs, you can now buy Google Analytics Premium. It mostly looks like upgrades to amount of data you can track and more variables for doing custom filters, which is great. I think the most interesting feature is going to be realtime traffic reporting. I have used Chartbeat and currently… Read More
Google Body Browser is shutting down. Shame. I really liked this little bit if HTML 5 demo code. Ellie K left a comment our original post when it first went public. https://www.perivision.net/wordpress/2010/12/google-body-browser/ They did say in the post that the project would be open sourced somewhere else, but not details as to where and when. Seems Google is shutting down quite… Read More