The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of Apple … it’s Apple’s world, and Flash is not a part of it. Scene 4 Apple worked hard and working with Google, they broke through with stage show that was polished, yet could be seen anywhere.. and was seen everywhere. So popular was this show that Flash wanted to be a part of it. But Apple had other ideas. -> Scene 5: A Challenger Appears! -> Scene 5: A Challenger… Read More
The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of Apple … A New Apple. Scene 3 Down but not out, Apple got back to business. Getting their original manager back, they focused on the new way of doing things, the new way of thinking. And by taking cues from the new startups around, Apple began its return to the spot light. Bigger then anyone would have thought. But they were not… Read More
The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of Apple … Google Rising. Scene 2 And now we are at Scene two.. Apple has hit the skids. Accepted a deal from Microsoft to get $13 a track. Apple dumps their old manager and gets their first one back. Now what? … but change is in the air. The scene is changing… -> Scene 3: A New Apple -> Scene 3:… Read More
The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of Apple … In comic form. Scene 1 Inspired by the I/O conference.. EVEN THOUGH I DID NOT GET A PHONE! .. I whipped up this script in about 20 min. The drawing by Josh Flores took a little longer. Any of the events in this comic having anything to do with reality, its purely coincidental… I still need to code up links,… Read More
Play PacMan from Google search logo Now how cool is this? If you go the classic Google search page, you will see large image of a modified pacMac game using the word Google as part of the layout design as part of the celebration of PacMans 30th bday! Really? Its been 30 years? Now, press insert coin.. Wap! Your playing! You… Read More
Why the iPad is like a big iPhone, and why its completely different So the iPad has been out for just over a week now and after using it a few time and talking with and watching how others use it; I’ve observed that although the iPad is just a big iPod touch, its also complete different just because of the screen size. Yes, yes, the CPU is… Read More
I’m going to buy a Palm Pre… because of the Kyrocera 6035 What?? WHY in world would someone buy a Palm Pre now given that the company will soon be sold, they are GIVING the bloody things away and basically (unless HTC buys and it decides to support it), its a dead OS? Well, unlike buying a window 6.5 phone (unless you hope to load android on… Read More
XKCD goes all terminal on us Ok, this has nothing to do with mobile devices, or NetTablets, or Augmented Reality, – the stuff I normally write about; but what the heck, its April 1st and I’m a huge XKCD fan. Thus, with much love; I share that XKCD changed their home page to work like an old Unix terminal. (Course, those… Read More
iPhone as an OS? Maybe, but not widely There is no question that the iPhone has been an amazing success and only its At&T appendage has slowed it down from even further adoption. As great as the hardware is, just as much if not more of the credit has to go to the OS. Even after 2 years the iPhone OS is still… Read More
New Firefox Meta bar.. or whatever it is I just noticed this today, which does not mean it has not been there. On firefox, there is a new item that displays ‘meta’ and share information on the website you are on. Also, when you click on the pull down bar; it gives you a list of (I guess) your most recent pages. I… Read More
Windows to make MineSweeper a Movie! Not really But I just watched this (link at the bottom of the post) on college humor and I thought it was funny. On a college level humor level of course. The funny bit is I actually found the link from reading another comic site. So first, the site I got the link from pidjin.. Oh, BTW,… Read More
Simpson iPhone couch gag app I know most of you have seen this, but what the heck, I’ll through it up here for people. I wonder what the other apps are? I know they are made up, but what would you guess?… Read More
Google Maps Hacked by China? I think its already over for Google.cn Earlier today, I was using Google maps to find a repair shop in Patterson. As I typed in the address, I got this.. What the heck? It looks like my search was intercepted and redirected to some Chinese map. I searched again and got no response for about a min. After that minute, Google Maps… Read More
iSlate vs GTablet vs Curiour vs iTablets. Calm before the CES storm The storm clouds over CES in Las Vegas have been gathering as the Apple, Google, Microsoft and the loosely unified free states prepare for war. Even though we know Apple will not make their announcement till Jan 26, they will leaks bits and bobs to counter the other slate warriors from having the field TOO… Read More
iPhone drink coasters. Finally a place for your beer while geeking. I just came across this site via @chrispirillo and cannot find out much about it, but love the idea. Drink coasters in the shape of iphone apps. Wondering what to get that Apple/iPhone geek who has everything for the holidays, well here you go. The site is ‘powered by google’ so I cannot find out… Read More
Wanna buy 87 iphone apps, and the company that goes with it? Ebay baby! I get some odd press releases now and again, but this one was interting. Seems that Brice Milliorn has had enough with his little iphone app making enterprise and wants to sell it off. Fair enough. The twist here? EBay! Normally, I’m shopping for Christmas gifts, or used computer stuff, or oddities here and there. … Read More
Top versions of ‘Still Alive’ from the ending credits of the game, Portal I stumbled across a cool animation of ‘Still Alive’ song from the end credits of Portal. So I did a quick search and posted them here. Please suggest more and I’ll update this page. Be patient, all these Youtube objects take a long time to load. I like this one, but the sound was poorly… Read More
XKCD Says goodbye to GeoCities XKCD is full of win! And I remember when the web used to look like this. Yes, its true kiddies! You have no idea how good you have it now… spoiled brats! 🙂 And here is your screenShot…… Read More
What is Augmented Reality on mobile devices? I wrote this as a companion piece for an article that may show up in the next issue of iphoneLife, but I thought I would include it here and now since AR is getting more relevant. Also, one of the things I said NEEDS to part of the AR toolkit for iphone (mobile) got a… Read More
A semi truck that messes with your mind This is wrong! Just plain wrong. I don’t know if this is photoshop or not, but I love it though. 🙂… Read More