T-Mobile now has an iPhone friendly micro-Sim. Closer… July 23, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment Great, so now you can get a micro sim from T-Mobile. What does that mean? Well, you may know that over one million iphone are running on the T-Mobile network despite the fact that you cannot run 3G. However, what you may not know is that you have to take a pair of scissors (or… Read More
Need music for your event or party? Try turntable.fm July 22, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment I was lucky enough to be turned on to TurnTable.FM when it launched and have enjoyed it off and on ever since. Last week, when we were planning the final details for VentureBeats Mobile/GameBeat conference, we talked about music. I suggested we should create a Venturebeat room and let people DJ the breaks! As it… Read More
There is no official Google+ API, but there IS unofficial API July 21, 2011 | perivision | 2 Comments Google has not released an official API yet, however, that does not mean you cannot start playing around with Google+ data. There are quite a few unofficial API’s. Here is a list I saw on ‘programmableWeb‘ Google+Tweet: A full featured Twitter client inside your Google Plus Account. Google+Facebook: A browser extension that lets you view… Read More
CoverJam. Semi random slide show on your iphone ipad set to music July 18, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment This will be a quick post. I’ll write up more later, but basically it’s this.. You play music, the app looks for public images in flickr and Instagram that match the title, album or band of the song, and play a slideshow for you. Most likely of the band you are playing. I decided to… Read More
The best replacement app for iphone’s ipod. PanAmp July 18, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment Its no secret I’m not a big fan of the itunes player on the iphone. Navigation is my biggest complaint. Seems someone agrees and created a far better ipod app. PanAmp. There are some many thing this does that its actually better to watch the video. Insert below. My favorite feature is the speed and… Read More
Dante’s Google+ Circles July 16, 2011 | perivision | 3 Comments As I was putting my Google+ circles together, I thought. Hmmm.. How would Dante do his circles? Yes I wonder these things.. And here is how his circles would look. Had to do a bit of Photoshop to get these in order. Then I thought.. how would Dante’s Google+ circles map to today’s grouping? Actually,… Read More
Create an iphone ipad app in a weekend at iOSDevCamp July 16, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment Its iOSDevCamp time again. If you do not know what it is, #iOSDevCamp is a weekend event where iOS devs from all over the country ( and some from outside the US ) come to meet up and try to build an iphone / ipad application in a weekend. This may sound impossible, but after… Read More
iPhone app to auto reply to your twitter and facebook account July 15, 2011 | perivision | 1 Comment At first when I read this, I thought; ‘an auto reply for twitter and facebook? NOooooo!’ My worse thoughts was some putting an auto reply that they are eating a sandwich and will be back online in ah hour. Really? You are so locked into your SocMed addition that you have to let people know… Read More
Empire Builder. Kinda like Egyptian SimCity with a function thrown in July 14, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment I just saw this now come through the normal press release wires and thought I would toss it on the site. I have not tried Empire Builder and thus have no idea if its any good, but the graphics look nice and if your into Egyptian history at all, this could be pretty fun. Empire… Read More
NFC payments, where Visa see’s it going. July 13, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment NFC payments are still trying to take hold, but while at MobileBeat, I’m listening to Bill Gajda, Head of Global Mobile Product, Visa Inc. about the future of NFC. He is saying that in NY taxi cabs and subways are starting to accept NFC payments. Big box stores are just starting to come on board… Read More
TechCrunch changes its design, Uffda July 11, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment Well, most people tend to not like change. I’m not one of them, but Ug. I really cannot go with the design changes at TechCrunch. I like me some minecraft, but not as a logo. (jelly ML?) And When did Murdock buy TC and force the urber large headlines? And the webpage is JUST a… Read More
10 Reasons to hate Facebook July 8, 2011 | Damon | Leave a comment I saw this video on Devour and found it too funny. These muppets give some really great reasons on how Facebook can suck.… Read More
How to use Google+, the early days tips July 8, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment I just saw this Via Dana Oshiro on NewShelter. I have not really taken to Google+ for the same reason I did not take to facebook. Too much scrolling. What i like about Twitter, and still find myself going there first, is everyone is limited to 140 char and replies are not shown by default. … Read More
Unboxing the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play and augmented reality July 8, 2011 | Damon | Leave a comment I just received my Sony Ericsson Xperia Play smartphone. This is the first PlayStation certified Android smartphone, hence it is also known as the PlayStation phone. I won the phone from a party Qualcomm had during the Game Developers Conference 2011 for their new Snapdragon platform. I haven’t won anything like this before so I… Read More
20% discount on VentureBeat’s MobileBeat and GamesBeat 2011 July 7, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment MobileBeat 2011 — VentureBeat’s 4th annual flagship conference on the future of mobile — on July 12-13 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, is gathering the brightest minds in the industry to explore this year’s hottest macro trend: the arrival of true mobile computing now that 4G is here. There’s no doubt that 4G… Read More
Civilization Revolution for iPad tips, tricks and cheats July 7, 2011 | perivision | 6 Comments Here are a collection of tips and tricks you can use to make Civilization Revolution easier to play and win at. Keep in mind there are not cheats for Civilization Revolution. I have looked.. None. Enjoy! I’ll update and add images later. When you first start, explore fast and always attack barbarians if you find… Read More
Exporting from Facebook to Google+ blocked, for now July 5, 2011 | perivision | 1 Comment I guess this is not a surprise. Facebook is blocking people from using Mansour’s Chrome tool for exporting contact info from Facebook. The latest from Mansour is that he is going to try and find a work around. CRITICAL UPDATE: Facebook is trying so hard to not allow you to export your friends. They started… Read More
How to Create a vanity short URL for Google+, yes the land rush is on July 4, 2011 | perivision | 5 Comments Vanity URLs for social media. First it started with Twitter, and that was default. twitter.com/perivision. Can be any more perfect then that. In fact, that is (IMHO) one of the reason Twitter took off. Facebook followed up and so did LinkedIn. And now we have gplus.to I’m not sure if this is sponsored by google… Read More
It already started. Email scam for Google+ July 4, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment Actually, I would have thought this would have happened faster, but Geekword has reported that there is an email scam going around. If you click on this fake google+ invite you will be redirected to some pharmacy site, but one can imagine will not take long till some sort of virus payload it put on… Read More
What is Roll 212 from the Daily Show? July 3, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment For those of us that watch John Stewart’s The Daily Show, already know this, but for those that dont, John has a habit of saying ‘Roll 212’ when he is about to play a clip that will support a point is trying to make; most commonly for showing people who say one thing then contradict… Read More