GooPhone i5 to take a bite out of Apple, with an Android iPhone and a lawsuit This is gold. Announced last week, the Chinese manufacture GooPhone decided to take all the iphone 5 rumors out there and create that phone. However, instead of running iOS on this, they would run Android. Now this is funny enough, but it seems that since Apple did not patent the iphone 5 specs yet, GooPhone… 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
Reddit down? BLAME OBAMA! Yup, he’s doing an IAMA I have been trying to get into Reddit since the started and its totally down. Check out the post from venturebeat with more info in case you do not know what IAMA means. Normally, unless you are a Redditor, you would not even know about this and thus, “I” would be able to see this.… Read More
Owe someone $1B? Why not pay in nickles? Samsung did. Ah never mind. This tuned out to be fake. Oh but I wish it was true. 🙂 This is just TOO good. I read a story in thepaperblog on how Samsung paid Apple in nickles! 30 Trucks full! Seems the laywer forgot to include any clause about HOW to make the payments. Nice. Seems… Read More
Nikola Tesla laboratory saved! All Hail Matthew Inman! Remember the crowd-funding effort to build a museum to honor scientist Nikola Tesla that Matthew Inman, creator of the Oatmeal started? Well guess what. In a week he already reached his goal of $850,000. Wow. The funds will be used to buy land in Shoreham, N.Y., where Tesla’s last laboratory was located. Now this does… Read More
Help raise money for the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe. Why? ’cause Tesla is awesome I do not claim to be an expert on Nikola Tesla, but before the History Channel really stated to suck (at least a year ago when I finally gave up on them) I watched a special on Tesla … 4 times. Amazing! Seems he has other fans out there as well including Matt Inman, creator… Read More
A beautiful functional watch in HTML5. NO IMAGES This is sweet. We have seen some really nice graphics done in pure CSS. This one I think pushed the HTML/CSS/JS bar just a bit higher. A really nice functional wrist watch with no images! The crazy part is that it works in I.E! Wow. I also tested on iPad and iphone. Works. I did… Read More
Another very cool iPad decal. Dollar bill design Not a lot to say here except, this guy did a find job and though desired a little love. Here is more info from the post on Reddit. I had it engraved (for free!) at Maker Faire 2010. While it was going, someone else came up and asked if they could do it on theirs,… Read More
The First Vets In Tech ViT event July 31 ‘VETS IN TECH’ PROGRAM TO LAUNCH IN SAN FRANCISCO Groundbreaking Initiative is the First to Connect Veterans With Technology Careers Many of you know this is something I support and have been deeply involved with. We have waves of new vets coming back from overseas to a job market that is already pretty tight. However,… Read More
Epic driving on the Streets of San Francisco from DC SHOES: KEN BLOCK’S GYMKHANA FIVE I have been living in the Bay Area since 92 when I left England and the Air Force to study Architecture at UC Berkeley. As such, I know the streets if San Francisco pretty well now. All the years I have driven (and motorcycled) in SF, I have always wished I could punch it a… Read More
Pokemon battery indicator for your iphone. just because. And something for Android Thats right. You can get your very one Pokemon battery level indicator for your iphone? Why? Really, you have ask your self that? Because Pokemon are the bomb man! heh.. the bomb. How old is that saying? Anyway, I figured I would post a link to where you can download the pokemon battery theme. Found… Read More
Swiftkey gets the XKCD bump Forget TechCrunch, Venturebeat, New York Times .. heck, forget HuffPo or slash dot for that matter. When you can get your app talked about on XKCD, well you now you have hit the bigtime. And it sounds pretty cool if the new version can do this. I think I have and older version of swiftkey… Read More
TC1100 tablet spotted in Big Bang Theory – my Geekest post ever! Win! While watching the TV show Big Bang Theory, I spotted an HP TC1100 being used by Shelden. For those of you who do not know about the TC1100; its a VERY cool tablet convertible PC that was originally designed by Compaq. Here is some background info from Wikipedia. Now what is missing from this… Read More
Jailbreak iOS 5.1.1 is out! Absinthe 2.0.1 , 2.0.2 We have been waiting, and as promised, iOS 5.1.1 untethered jailbreak is out called Absinthe 2.0. Its already up to 2.0.2, so check the site before updating. {update: be sure to use Absinth 2.0.2 Absinthe v2.0.2 (Win) Absinthe v2.0.2 (Mac) Absinthe v2.0.2 (Linux) } Today’s release supports all iPads, iPhones, and iPod touches except for… Read More
Google gets in the Moog – with example songs and tips I know, horrible title, but I just could not resist. As you have been seeing all over the news, Google’s latest doodle is a working simplified Moog synthesizer. WORKING synthesizer. For those of us that are old enough, and were in bands, will remember playing with these at one point in time. My mirage digital… Read More
Cool #DEMO swag. A land line phone handle for your iPhone Android Its not like you have not seen these before, but this is some cool swag from ringCentral that really came into use. Its basically a land line phone handle with a chord to connect to your mobile phone. The cool part, aside from free, is that it worked pretty well. I was on the conference… Read More
Coolest smart watch ever! Connects to your iPhone or Android. This watch is not on the market yet, but basically its a smart watch that lets you load applications. Using bluetooth, it will connect to your iphone or android and get alerts, run apps and who knows what other apps will come in time. The phone is called the Pebble and its on Kickstarter. (Check… Read More
Old AT&T iphones can now request an unlock code. No jailbreak / unlocked needed anymore Read this on Engadget. Now of course there are restrictions, you have to be in good standing, had your phone for over 2 years and do not owe anything on your phone and most likely a few other details buried somewhere. I still have my 3Gs, so I’m going to give it a try and… Read More
HP TC1100 in popular culture As a TC1100 fan, I was looking up installing Windows 8 on my machine. Although installing the wifi card is a bit tricky you can still do it. And for fun I checked up on the TC1100 wiki page only to see the reference to popular culture section deleted! WTH? So I grabbed an old… Read More
rage comics, pokemon and meme drinking game boards. With Pics! These have been popping up all over Reddit and other places in the last 2 weeks. Pretty cool really. Odds are there will be plenty more showing up in the coming weeks as people make, oh say, Star Wars drinking games, or LOL cats board games, etc… Most of the images are pretty good quality… Read More