R’ha – a one man show January 17, 2013 | Damon | Leave a comment I came across this short movie called ‘R’ha’ made by German film student Kaleb Lechowski. The film is visually stunning and Lechowski said it took several months to complete by himself. The story reveals a plot of an alien race betrayed by its own machines in search of their independence.… Read More
Windows 8 evaluation version timing out today January 15, 2013 | perivision | 2 Comments 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! January 7, 2013 | perivision | Leave a comment 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
Untethered Jailbreak for iOS6 is working, but your not going to get it. January 7, 2013 | perivision | Leave a comment Wait, what? They have a working jailbreak for iOS6 and I cannot get it? Why? Well because the cat and mouse game with Apple had entered its next dimension. Consider that we have gone from checkers to chess. David Wang wrote on r/jailbreak that they already have an exploit but do not want to release… Read More
A cool iphone android retro phone handset January 2, 2013 | perivision | Leave a comment 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
Top Best Tech Wishes for 2013 December 31, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment 2012 has been quite a year in tech, but things are still missing, and I have plenty of tech wishes for 2013. I’m going to make my wishes doable instead of AGAIN wishing for a flying car for the everyday joe. So here is my list for for 2013 in no particular order. Improve existing… Read More
Hyper Fast HTML5. Fastest Javascript CSS ever. December 31, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment I cannot believe I did not write about this when I first saw it. Famo.us is a firm that decided to see just how fast they could get an HTML5 to render. The test was to render 3D in using HTML only, no plugins. The way they got this page to run so fast is… Read More
An Apple watch, or iWatch. Sure. Heck, called that last year December 27, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment 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 December 26, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment .. 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
Want more proof Apple Maps sucks? Upgrades to iOS6 has jumped December 18, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment I wrote a few days after the release of iOS6 that I would not be updating because Apple maps suck and told my readers that if you use maps ALOT, like I do, do not update until they fix it… or until Google releases an app. And they did. And now people are upgrading to… Read More
GMail Locking up? Could it be .. Google Maps? December 18, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment So your gmail and other Google apps have been acting up? Screen locking up? Mail not sending, then when it does you send out 2 or 3 copies? I sure have. The funny thing is this started for me the day after Google for iOS5. Now before any one jumps on this, I have no… Read More
Google Maps for iOS5 is back yea’ll! December 13, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment Yes, the long national nightmare is over. iOS5 users can finally say goodbye too Apple maps and use a better system. And I bet the Auzzies are super happy. 🙂 I’m going to download this puppy right now and test it out. More later. Now we just need to wait for a jailbreak to make… Read More
Updated specs for the Oculus gaming VR Headset December 12, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment 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
Introducing the new Metaio Creator with Cloud Capabilities December 10, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment This just popped up in my email. More public service announcement more then anything. 🙂 Check it out. If you are building AR apps, you will want to know bout this. Create Augmented Reality experiences in minutes The Metaio Creator is the only augmented reality content management tool available. If you use augmented reality content… Read More
Build with Chrome brings Legos to WebGL December 3, 2012 | Damon | Leave a comment The Chrome Experiments site is packed with WebGL goodies like this one that came across my radar again today and it is too much fun not to share. This past summer Google Australia announced the release of the Build with Chrome online tool. Build with Chrome lets you explore and build a new world of LEGO… Read More
Two year Biopsy-versity via XKCD December 1, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment I’m not going to go into the history here, you can figure it out. I had a few close people go though cancer. Its not fun, but when you beat it, its big. Best wishing XKCD(er). Permanent link to this comic: http://xkcd.com/1141/ Image URL (for hotlinking/embedding): http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/two_years.png… Read More
Repost: Business Insider -The Google+ Boss Just Brilliantly Deconstructed Everything Annoying About Facebook November 28, 2012 | Damon | Leave a comment 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
How to fix a sticky home button on the iPhone 4 November 23, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment Over the past month I’ve had a problem with the home button not always working on my iPhone 4. My first thought was dirt, but it was inconsistent. I figured it has to be a software glitch keeping the home button from registering a click. The first thing I tried was reboots. That worked, but… Read More
CloudBeat cloud computer conference, with a discount code. November 16, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment VentureBeat is holding its annual cloud event — CloudBeat 2012 — on Nov 28-29 in Redwood City CA, and I’ve got a special discount for 20% off! Click here for the discount, and check out the details below: It’s unlikely that any single player will dominate the cloud computing market in the foreseeable future. So more and… Read More
From VentureBeat, PAR Works ushers in maturity of AR November 15, 2012 | Damon | Leave a comment I was made aware of this post on VentureBeat yesterday, PAR Works ushers in the maturity of augmented reality, and immediately got captivated by the title. As a person in the field, I have seen how augmented reality has been out in the mainstream for a few years and the AR experiences now don’t seem… Read More