Facebook claims its current vulnerability is because of jailbreak. Oh really? April 5, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment The news has been moving around the interwebs on how Gareth Wright found a security issue with Facebook on the iphone. Seems the key information needed to request and hold a token to Facebook is stored unencrypted in a plist file. Facebook claims that this is not a security risk since its stored in a… Read More
Google’s Augmented Reality Glasses April 5, 2012 | Damon | Leave a comment Yesterday Google went public with its plans to offer augmented-reality glasses, which it’s calling Project Glass. In the concept video they released, the glasses interacts with what you’re seeing and saying, provides many features of a smartphone including a planner, navigation system, camera and more. They made a previous announcement that these glasses would be available… Read More
Assassin’s Creed for Kinect Announced! April 2, 2012 | Damon | Leave a comment Assassin’s Creed has to be one of the better game series I have played in a while. On March 31 was the official announcement for the first Assassin’s Creed game with full motion control! I am happy to see this as I feel that most games don’t take full advantage of the Kinect’s capabilities for… Read More
Missed out regestering for Google IO 2012? Now what? March 27, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment First off, your not the only person who missed out. It sold out in 20min. 20MIN!!. Heck, rock concerts do not sell out that fast. Google I/O has officially sold out! There are no plans to release any additional tickets for Google I/O 2012. We have no plans for Last Call or other promotions at… Read More
Why you will not win the Microsoft challenge, even if you do March 26, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment I heard about the Microsoft challenge where you would take your cell phone and try to do something faster then someone on a Microsoft Mobile 7 phone. If you can win, you get a laptop. Given that they are doing this in the first place, I figured that this is fixed and as such I… Read More
An Equalizer that does not kill your battery, you may want to check out Equalizer Pro March 23, 2012 | perivision | 1 Comment Yet another app that looks interesting but I have not tried. Now before I cut and paste the email, a quick explanation of why you may want an equalizer your iphone/ipad. First off, the sound on the iPad is not exactly Audiophile quality and odds are the files you are downloading are not exactly high… Read More
Records and edit dictation on the iphone ipad – free if you jump on it now. March 20, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment Saw this on one of the boards I follow. Seems like a pretty useful tool if you take lots of dictation through their iphones or ipads. Again, I have not tried this myself so I’ll just leave the following here.. I am pleased to announce the release of Smart Recorder DE. The “DE” stands for… Read More
HP TC1100 in popular culture March 20, 2012 | perivision | 1 Comment 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
Rumor control: $149 high power tablet March 18, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment Well we know its just a matter of time before we have a sub $100 tablet, but most of us expect it to be a race to the bottom for creating a tablet powerful enough to be useful, but only ‘just’ powerful enough. Well break out the rumor books, looks like Google is pushing to… Read More
Tip #192 By pass the splash screen in windows8 with a click March 18, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment One thing that bugs me about windows 8 is I have 2 screens I have to get pass to get to my desktop. First the splash screen, or whatever its called, then the login screen. Well I just found out by accident that if you click on the spacebar, that will execute the ‘slide open’… Read More
Some more games go Free in the iTunes store March 16, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment Just saw this in my email so thought I would put a quick post up. Enjoy! It’s Jouni, from Tuokio – Finnish multiplayer games dev: King of Opera, Raiding Co, BvB Racing for iOS. Tip from Tuokio to you: All Tuokio games are FREE NOW on the Apple AppStore until end of the day… Read More
The coolest and most practical iphone battery case I have every seen – Video March 15, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment I have no idea why this has taken so long or why I did not think of it. There is a new project on kickstarter called juicetank that is an iphone4, 4s case that has the AC plug built it! Yes, make perfect sense when you think about. New to recharge your phone? No adapter,… Read More
Does the ‘new’ ipad HD 3 display really make that much of a difference? March 14, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment I only got to see it for a short time, but I was pretty impressed when I saw it. I can’t wait to spend some more time with the new iPad and see just how much of a difference it makes once I’m in the middle of doing something. However, as I described in my… Read More
An ‘ok’ guide to rage faces. Smelling a shark March 12, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment Rage faces have been around a long time starting with 4chan, then reddit, then, copycat outlets like funnystuff. Yesterday Ars Technica put out a post explaining what Rage Face Comics are. Its an good enough post, missing some information and fluffing up other bits, but fair enough, you get the point. However, it got me… Read More
Tether your iphone to your laptop without Jailbreak.. again March 11, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment This has been a running battle between Apple, the phone companies and those who want to tether their phones to other devices. Well, here is latest update in the battle, and this time, its a tether that not only does not require jailbreak, but does not even require the installation of an app! THIS is… Read More
Can you jailbreak iOS 5.1? Well, kinda, if you have an older device March 11, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment iOS 5.1 dropped last week and of course there were 0-day jailbreaks out there. Redsn0w was kinda ready but not fully. It’s a tethered jailbreak which means every time you power off your device, you need to connect your device to a computer to boot it up again. Pain. But if you messed up and already… Read More
Brainwave Controlled Animal Ears March 9, 2012 | Damon | Leave a comment The Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2012 just wrapped up here in San Francisco and while there was plenty of good game related tech to see, one thing that really stood out for me was the brainwave controlled cat ears. These motorized robotic cat ears by NeuroSky, a manufacturer of Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) technologies for consumer… Read More
How to know if you should upgrade to the new iPad 3 HD or whatever its called March 8, 2012 | perivision | 1 Comment So whats new with the ipad 3, or ipad HD? Unless you have been under a rock, you know that ‘The New iPad’ launched yesterday. There were no surprises this time, pretty much what the rumor mill said would be there, was there and nothing more. So, should you upgrade to the new iPad, and… Read More
By the time you read this, iOS 5.1 will be on iTunes; too late jailbreakers March 7, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment If you are like me and have not bothered to update to 5.0.1 because 4.x.x is working find and you do not feel like re jailbreaking your phone and installing and setting up things, well you just missed your easy bus. I decided to do that iTunes update, *yes I know I will lose unlock,… Read More
SimCity 2013!! Here is the Vid March 6, 2012 | perivision | 2 Comments As you can tell from the video, SimCity 2013 is going to be nuts! From the Press conference this SimCity is going to be deeper and more person then previous version. Imagine mixing SimCity with some aspects of ‘the Sims’ and you got the new SimCity. BTW, dont call it SimCity 5. Not sure why… Read More