You cannot do email, calendar etc on the new RIM playbook without a blackberry phone. What? Just to be clear, I have not played with the RIM Playbook for more then a few min and that was a beta model. It seemed pretty good for a beta back then and I was looking forward to seeing how it will do when finally released to the market… Then I read this on… Read More
Flipped Off! A quick moment of silence for my favorite hand cam the Flip. Yesterday Cisco announced it was closing down its division of Flip, a fun little handheld camcorder, as part of the restructuring of its consumer business unit. Cisco purchased Pure Digital, the maker of the Flip, in 2009 for $590 million when they were the… Read More
Cool magic trick using a kinect hack with 3DVIA and FAAST This is pretty cool. The magician Moulla shows a pretty cool card trick using a hacked Kinect. Check the video below to see it. But the cool thing is the idea of integrating motion devices and apps as part of a physical performance. I have a feeling we may see more and more of this. … Read More
Junkyard Jumbotron – Cool Hack A friend in the office showed this to me upon returning from SxSW and I found it way too cool. Junkyard Jumbotron is a project from MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media designed by Rick Borovoy and Brian Knep. It is a web tool that combines a bunch of random displays into a single shared… Read More
3D makes you sick? Anti 3D glasses At first I thought this was a joke, but it makes perfect sense. If you go the theater and the movie in 3D, you can use these glasses to remove the 3D effect. No more headaches! Now this will not make the movie any better or less crappy, but at least you do not have… Read More
Internet Explorer 9 is all Pretty now and ready to go Just saw this on Venturebeat. Looks like the new IE9 is out of beat and ready to go. I have been playing with IE9 off and on and it took a bit to get used to the minimalist design, but there is something nice about it. Although its suppost to be faster and maintain a… Read More
Video recap of GDC: Game Developers Conference 2011 Here is my video recap of the 2011 Game Developers Conference.… Read More
SEGA!!! During GDC I was invited to check out some new titles from SEGA. Given the love I have for SEGA as an old school gamer, I had to go check it out. First up is Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing. Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing is a racing game in the Sega Superstars series produced… Read More
Playing with NeuroSky at DEMO. #video While I was at demo, I talked with the Stanly Lee CEO of NeuroSky about his device and the various possible applications. Many of the things I really wanted to be able to do with the device is actually not an objective of NeuroSky. Instead, the idea is to focus on the device and let… Read More
Ipad2 drives Apple stock up, but only a bit. The ipad2 announcement just kicked off and we will see what features we will, and mostly will not get. The rumor mill has been pretty set saying we will get a few things with hardware; A front facing camera, faster CPU; gyroscope, way thinner, etc… As for software if you are into taking and editing… Read More
Should I develop for Apple iOS or Android? (Note: this post is a living document) As recently as 6 months ago, this would be a silly question. The general rule is that you always build on Apples iOS first then Android second, then other OS’s later. Assuming you have the skills or people to choose what to build for, the common thinking is… Read More
iPad2 to launch March 2. Too late to save the stock price today. Ready? The iPad 2 will be announced on March 2 to what I would expect will be quite the fan fare.. The fun part will be to see what rumors will be true and other fancy or slated to the iPad 3. This could be the news the Apple shareholder needs to hear to get… Read More
Tear down of the Verizon iPhone for part replacement This just popped into my email. I’ll follow up on it in a bit.. From Robby Stanley Just a quick news release. We just completed an extensive Verizon iPhone 4 Teardown and Screen Replacement Video on Youtube. This will show people the step by step directions it will take in order to replace their screen… Read More
Verizon iPhone: First Few Days of Sales In order to have all possible iOS test devices for our small development company, Roving Screens, I went out on the first day the Verizon iPhone was available on February 10, 2011 to buy one. I wasn’t sure if I should expect long lines or being told the phones have sold out. I picked up… Read More
ibiking service strava making strides in the right direction. I’ve always known San Francisco to have a large affinity for bikers. It comes as no surprise, then, that a San Francisco based company called Strava is working on a universal program to keep track of a biker’s exercise for those who opt for the more sophisticated technology. This means bikers with an iPhone, Android… Read More
Rumor: iphone mini to be a cloudphone. Um Really? Wait a sec.. So the new iphone mini, which will be smaller iphone physically will also have something else that is smaller.. memory. As in no on-board storage. A cloudphone. Ok. So basically all your contacts, email, photos, music will be stored in the cloud and access able via At&T edge? When you can get… Read More
Verizon iPhone is no sell out I got my phone today. There was not much of a line ( I had mine pre arraigned so I did not wait in line; although I did have to wait). If you want to get a phone, odds are you will be able to find one. You may not find it at the first… Read More
The WebOS TouchPad is Great! And I dont Care! I want an iPad2 We have the first look at the HP TouchPad running WebOS and from what I heard (no I was not there) it’s great! Snappy! Well designed! Great Multitasking! Works seamlessly with the new Pre 3 and other WebOS phones! … I dont care. We not ‘ME’; I’m actually dieing to get my hands on one… Read More
Google 3D Body Browser now on a Tablet via Android 3.0 We wrote about Google 3D body browser before. Well now you can have the same 3D experience using some of the new Power Tablets coming out like the Motorola’s Xoom Seen blow. The honeycomb OS release does much better 3D support and from the video below (via VentureBeat); it works pretty well. Course this does… Read More
Update on how to get the Verizon iphone early Remember my post a week back or so when I said I had this idea that if I signed up for a Verizon plan, ANY Verizon plan, I should be able to order the iphone 4 early since I’m a Verizon customer. Seems I was right because yesterday I got a call asking if I… Read More