iPhone 5 vs. Galaxy S III: Lets compare November 6, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment In this corner, we have the iPhone 5 and in the other corner we have the Samsung Galaxy S III. Both have received much acclaim since the recent media frenzy regarding Apple’s patent lawsuit against Samsung and now that the dust has cleared, all techies and fans are concerned with is, which one performs the… Read More
Camero’s tactical through wall imaging solutions November 5, 2012 | Damon | Leave a comment Just came across this announcement on the Nvidia blog covering Camero, an Israel based provider and pioneer of Sense-Through-The-Wall (STTW) solutions. Camero has a full line of products that provide real-time situational awareness for observing multiple stationary and moving objects concealed behind walls or barriers. Utilizing advanced micropower radar technology, these systems provide tactical information for troops… Read More
Veteran Hack-a-thon this Veterans day weekend. October 29, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment Veterans day is coming and what better way to celebrate? Doing a hack-a-thon of course! Ok, well, perhaps this is not your normal parade and BBQ kind of thing, but VetsinTech is having a hack-a-thon to get returning vets immersed in the tech community. There will be a class on Friday the 9th, covering into… Read More
Remote home monitoring system on the cheap. Or how to catch a cat. October 27, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment Its travel time! And like any traveler who lived in Oakland I’m worried someone is going to break into my place. There are older tricks I use to try to reduce the risk, have friends stopping by, I have a timer that turns on and off the lights and TV. The normal stuff for those… Read More
The Microsoft Surface commercial is bad. And they should feel bad too October 23, 2012 | perivision | 4 Comments When I first saw the commercial for Microsoft’s surface, my first reaction, was ‘Ug’. Why the hell are all these kids jumping around just because a keyboard was connected to a tablet? Kind of like why when I drink a beer, tonnes of my friends and a bevy of hot babes do not suddenly come… Read More
What can you make with a 3D printer? How about an airplane? October 22, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment Yup. A very cool project. A airplane made using 3D printing only. (I’m guessing this is san motor through). So we have cars, guns, and now a plane. I would really love to see this released as a kit. How cool with that be? Download a 3D airplane kit and add motor. Here is an… Read More
How to get Siri voice to read notification banners through jailbreak. October 15, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment There is a cool jailbreak app that will read you banner notifications using Siri voice called VSNotifications. Nice! Credit http://appadvice.com/ via ‘The Great iPhone Jailbreak‘ for this one. You can get this from the Cydia Store in the BigBoss repository. Once installed you enabled it from a new pane that will be added to the… Read More
An experience with Virgin America’s website I didn’t have but won’t soon forget October 10, 2012 | Damon | 1 Comment When it comes to domestic travel Virgin America has been a dream come true for me. I fly it often for business and from the check-in counter to that cool blue cabin, I am greeted by friendly helpful staff that create an experience that I feel would be drab by comparison on any other carrier.… Read More
Large number of large companies agree to seed Web Platform Docs (WPD) October 8, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment This popped up via sf-html mailing list. Passing it along. Will be booked marked as soon as it comes out. Some really exciting news today: Apple, Adobe, Facebook, Google, HP, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, and Opera have joined the W3C to seed the content for the alpha release of the new website Web Platform Docs (WPD). WPD is a… Read More
More data that fewer people are using Maps in iOS6, Apple fan boys get their panties in a bunch. October 2, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment Last week I wrote a story on the reduction of people using iOS Maps, and cross posted on VentureBeat on how Snappli did a quick survey of use patters and found a significant drop in the number of people using Maps after iOS6. Of course, plenty of fanboys got all in a huff questioning results,… Read More
How to revert (downgrade) from iOS6 to iOS5 using jailbreak. Step by Step September 29, 2012 | perivision | 2 Comments So you did it. Now you want to go back to iOS5 from iOS6. Of course iPhone 5 and 4s users are out of luck but if you have the iPhone 4, you can still correct your mistake. All you need is a jailbreak. However, if you do have the iPhone 4s or 5, you… Read More
Here is proof and data that iOS6 maps sucks, people are not using it anymore September 28, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment So its pretty much old news that iOS6 maps is awful. Many writers have noted its Maps failures and its even garnered a growing tumbler of fail. Its so bad, Apple actually apologized. However, we are now seeing data for the first time just how drastic the rejecting of maps is from iOS6 users. A… Read More
How to get Cydia on your iphone 5 iOS6 jailbreak!!! Here are the steps September 22, 2012 | iChuckydee | Leave a comment As we all learned Cydia is still not available on the “Tethered” jailbreak that is available for iOS6 from RedsnOw.com . But that doesn’t mean that it is impossible to do. The process is actually quite simple, and even someone with little programming skills can do it. So lets get it done. All you need… Read More
iOS6 maps sucks so bad, I’m writing a follow up. September 21, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment So I played a bit more with the iphone 5, the real deal, not my emulator, and Maps is worse then I thought. So much that I thought I would bitch about it again. However, before I let lose the downvotes, let me say right off, the iphone 5 is fast! fast fast fast! I… Read More
Here is a 14.5 million triangle model paged to an iPad… September 19, 2012 | Damon | Leave a comment …with a smooth frame rate and built on open web technologies. The IGD team at Fraunhofer, a German research institute, is doing some really amazing things regarding delivering high polygon count web3d scenes on mobile devices using WebGL and X3Dom. X3Dom is a framework for integrating and manipulating X3D scenes as HTML5/DOM elements. Pat yourself on the back if you… Read More
A City in a Browser with CityEngine September 19, 2012 | Damon | Leave a comment Esri, a software development and services company providing Geographic Information System (GIS) software and geodatabase management applications, announced the availability of CityEngine Web Viewer in their ArcGIS Online product this week. For the bonus, the viewer leverages WebGL. Yes, this means anyone with a WebGL-enabled browser (Chrome, Safari, Opera, FireFox) can navigate and explore uploaded… Read More
iOS6 and the new iPhone5!!! Lets jailbreak! September 19, 2012 | iChuckydee | Leave a comment So as we are all aware, the new iPhone 5 was announced yesterday with a lengthy list of new specs, by apple, along with the new iPod 5g (the first of which to be released with a multi color color display option). Both of which are going to have the anticipated iOS6 on them. According… Read More
Why Maps in iOS 6 is a disappointment. September 18, 2012 | perivision | 1 Comment There are a lot of very cool things in iOS6 that iPhone 5 users are going to get. Maps is not one of them. Dont get me wrong, the 3D stuff is very cool, but I do not need this on my iphone. Street view would be far more useful. But that is not the… Read More
Steve Jobs: Resurrection Rap – iPhone 5 Parody September 16, 2012 | Damon | Leave a comment Along with the release of the iPhone 5 Steve jobs comes back from the dead to rap battle Cook. Although Cook does not bad. How could would that have been? Its actually a pretty good song believe it or not. Props to Mondo.… Read More
LongCat shows how much bigger the iphone5 is over the iphone4 September 13, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment Leave it to LongCat to make it perfectly clear how much larger the screen of the iphone5 is compared to the iphone4.. Love it. BTW, if you did not already know Apple moved from 3.5 to 4 inches. Not a large screen size, but bigger. Enjoy! Credit re1jo from Reddit for this.… Read More