Pin This. Pinterest Releases Android and iPad Apps. August 18, 2012 | @24k | Leave a comment This post was written by Christopher Rauschnot and was originally posted to Pin This. Pinterest Releases Android and iPad Apps. You can follow him on Twitter @24k & @24kMedia and the 24kMedia Facebook Page Social networking site Pinterest, is on a roll with app releases. Their first-ever Android app, at 1.0.2, along with a newer… Read More
Live stream video on Facebook with ustream’s new BFF features August 16, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment Got an iphone or Android? We you have known for a long time that you can live stream video using a number of apps out there. However, typical mobile phone users do not do that. Instead they film something on their phone, update it later and share it later still. What if you could live… Read More
Help raise money for the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe. Why? ’cause Tesla is awesome August 15, 2012 | perivision | 1 Comment 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
Spreading rumors through the Apple community, a clinical approach August 13, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment The news is moving through the blogs now, so I will assume you already know that the ‘new’ asymmetric screw was a fake. This happen quite a bit with Apple, especially around new iphone / ipad releases. But what was different about this rumor was the post analysis by the guys who started the rumor… Read More
A beautiful functional watch in HTML5. NO IMAGES August 12, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment 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 August 11, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment 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
Micro Apartments. This is the future, just only for certain places August 10, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment In the near future, VERY near future, space will become such a premium, that it will be considered cost effective to create an apt under 200 sq ft. the size of a one car garage. Who would live in such a place? Actually, I would. And I can think of plenty of others in my… Read More
$99 gaming console that uses your TV. Ouya Raised $8M in just a month! August 8, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment I dont own a gaming consul, always preferred my PC for gaming. So I have basically missed out on all the back and forth on various platforms, never really cared when netflicks and other ‘home’ uses have been introduced to try to continue to get people to buy new hardware. Well this could be the… Read More
Jailbreak app to greatly extend your iphone battery life. BattSaver August 8, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment So before we start, let it be known I have not tried this. I have pretty good habits when it comes to keeping my phone charged so its pretty much a non issue. However, I know of plenty of people who always seems to be at 18% or something when I look at their phones. … Read More
Starbucks to start accepting square in the Fall with a $25M tip August 7, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment Just saw this on Squares website. This is a BIG win for the Square folks. This could be the tipping point for more established retailers to move to non credit card based virtual payment systems. This is not all of the news though, Starbucks is going to invest $25 million in Square as part of… Read More
Scumbag Steve’s tips and cheats for social games. August 6, 2012 | perivision | 1 Comment I saw this on VentureBeat and thought I would put a summery together, check out the full post if you have the time. But before we get started, I chose Scumbag Steve for a reason, I think cheating at social games is pretty weak. I mean really, its suppose to be a fun relating thing,… Read More
Mat Honan was hacked hard, lessons he could have used from a PC user August 4, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment In the great OS war between PC and Mac, its seems Mac has the upper hand with the current generation of user who can choose what OS they want to use. In general, those with Macs think they are pretty secure, at least that is what Mat Honan thought. As someone who has loved tablet… Read More
Save As will overwrite the original file in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion August 4, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment Just read this in Hacker News. Gezz.. I think I will have to keep a much closer look at OS X 10.8. Heck, I have not even written about the battery issues yet. Ok, check this out…. OS X Lion 10.7 removed the Save As command; see Save As Command Forces Multi-Step Workaround, Data Destruction.… Read More
Best way to fix the weak MagSafe 2 power adapter on the new Mac, get an old adapter August 3, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment When I started messing around with a new MacBook Pro I was pretty impressed with it. Light, fast and a much better user experience then some of my less powerful predecessors. However there was one thing that bugged me. The power connector kept coming off. Now I’m pretty rough on my machines so I figured… Read More
The Best Gaming VR headset, HMD, ever. or at least so far.. The Oculus August 2, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment This is a kickstarter project. That means its not available to the general consumer market yet, but if you are not afraid of a little DYI, its a pretty good deal with pretty good specs. I used the VFX1 back in the day when I was building VR worlds using VRML and the Quake 1… Read More
Chick-fil-A PR fail starts to approach Epic levels. And its not over yet. July 25, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment Seems like every year is here is some sort of PR fail or chick-fli-al that goes beyond a simple slip up to epic proportions. And looks like we are approaching Critical Fail with Chick-fil-A ‘s ever expanding controversy over its stance on gay marriage. What started out as a protest against Chick-fil-A giving money to… Read More
The First Vets In Tech ViT event July 31 July 24, 2012 | perivision | 1 Comment ‘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
HTML5, CSS3, UX/UI and Mobile Design; oh my! July 21, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment “CASCADE SF’s first “Innovators of the Web Conference” Yes, this fine Sat I’m at the Adobe building in SF watching presentations on the intersection of design and programming. The focus of the talks today are line by line examples of how to break through the limits of design for the web with new cutting edge… Read More
Play that funky music waving boy July 19, 2012 | Damon | Leave a comment Just came across the V Motion Project by Assembly which is a pretty cool use of the Kinect for creating music. Check out this music video with some dubstepping-hand-waving-DJing shot on the streets of Auckland,NZ. “This project combines the collective talents of musicians, dancers, programmers, designers and animators to create an amazing visual instrument. Creating… Read More
The Peer Reviewed version of the Numbers behind kickstart with info graphic July 16, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment Jeanne Pi sent me this via email just a bit ago. I remember reading her first post thinking the numbers seemed a bit unfounded. I know know this because I wrote a kickstarter scraper and thus see a lot of flow day to day. Well Jeanne hear the same from other people and decided to… Read More