Never Tweet in anger, or you may just Nuke your campaign and career June 15, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment Love this. The new Duke Nukem FPS game came out a while back and the reviews are now coming in. And they are not good. In fact, most people who reviews the game have basically trashed it. Fair enough.. That happens, especially with a title that has so much history. If you remember, 3D Realms… Read More
Soon you get Skype through your TV June 13, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment I’m not sure how well this will work but it was announced recently that Comcast subscribers equipped with special gear will be able to use the Web video messaging service Skype on their HD sets “soon.” No idea what soon means though. The Skype service will be delivered through HDTVs through a Comcast adapter box… Read More
Rage Faces for iPhone and Android for SMS and email in iOS5 June 10, 2011 | perivision | 1 Comment I have only just started to see this with people I know, but rage faces are spreading via SMS chat. So I figured I should look up this up. Yes, apps are already in the Apple and Android store and ready to for download. They work well enough. Simply click on the rageface you are… Read More
At Google HQ for WebGL Camp #3 June 10, 2011 | Damon | Leave a comment At Google HQ in Mountain View, California right now attending WebGL Camp #3. WebGL Camp is a full day affair of WebGL demos, presentations, and code. A nice write up by fellow attendee Ates Gursimsek. See the videos when available at the WebGL Camp Youtube Channel .… Read More
How to play google playable guitar logo June 9, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment Pretty cool. I wish I could move the string guides a bit so I can tune for other chords, but hey, cool enough. Then neat thing is that you can record what you play. Should be interesting. I tried it out and this is what I got after 10 sec of messing with it. http://goo.gl/doodle/XjoR… Read More
Apple in-app subscriptions rules have been eased June 9, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment Read this in VB then macRumors. Seems Apple has changed it in-app subscriptions rules such that a subscription does not have to be the “same price or less than it is offered outside the app”. In fact, there are no rules for price period. Apple also removed the requirement that external subscriptions must be also… Read More
Interactive game from McDonald’s, I’m lovin’ it! June 8, 2011 | Damon | 4 Comments I am not a fan of the Golden Arches, but I do have to give McDonald’s props for creating Pick ‘n Play. Pick ‘n Play is a Pong arcade game for the iPhone that allows visitors to Stockholm, Sweden to compete against a computer for coupons for McDonald’s menu items. Players connect to the billboard… Read More
Random tweets in Peanuts cartoons LO frick’on L!! June 8, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment This is so funny! Posted on wired.com, a collection of really funny Peanut cartoons with tweets instead of the original content. The site is called Peanutweeter. (looks like the site is no more) Although not each is a home run, the LOL ration is pretty high. I grabbed a few I like as an example.… Read More
iBike App and iBike Dash “Always On” Update June 7, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment I just got this as a press release. Have not looked into it yet, so consider this post an FYI. iBike Coach App The new iBike Coach App (designed to work exclusively with the iBike Dash CC), includes a new user interface, more extensive use of video instruction tutorials, a simpler product setup, easier… Read More
Chat on iOS 5 Jailbreak with Cydia creator Saurik June 7, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment I have put forth many times that Apple could kill off or make life REALLY hard for jailbreakers if they wanted to, but they don’t. In this street interview by Haroon, Cydia Creator Jay Freeman talked a bit about how the new features in iOS 5 will not make jailbreak irrelevant nor are they trying… Read More
How to add rage faces in Facebook June 6, 2011 | perivision | 1 Comment This just came up on Reddit. Its code that will allow you to place rage faces in your facebook chat. WIN. I downloaded the code but will not have a chance to mess with it until tomorrow. But here are the links. I also put them on my own server since the originals are getting… Read More
Jailbreak apps that are now part of iOS June 6, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment I have said this many times before, if Apple REALLY wanted to stop jailbreaking they could. They dont because this is great R/D and well as Marketing data that they get for free. Heck, then even hire jailbreak programmers. So lets have a look at yet more cool iOS features that us jailbreakers have had… Read More
3DAR make creating AR even easier June 3, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment Just saw this across the twitters, bookmarked it, then forgot to post it up. ah well. I have not tried it but watched the video and yea, it looks like a much improved way to get your content into an AR app. If anyone has tried this, give me a ping and I’ll post up… Read More
Twitter to be included in the native iOS build. And what that could mean June 2, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment Well, what could that mean from a few points of view. First the user. I think BusinessInsider did a pretty good job with their mockup showing what it could mean to have fully integrated twitter support in iOS. From a design point of view, it will be pretty minimal, an extra button on a menu… Read More
Intel’s The Museum of Me Project is pretty cool May 31, 2011 | perivision | 1 Comment This is pretty cool. Not sure when it came out, but its has over 50k fans. Its a pretty cool little promotional campaign. You go to this site meseumofme.intel.com and it will ask for access to your facebook account. Normally and unlike most of the world, I almost never allow app on Facebook.. Yes I’m… Read More
SVG Girl – interactive 2D anime in the browser May 31, 2011 | Damon | Leave a comment I was recently exposed to SVG Girl (thanks Avi) and as a fan of anime and web technology, what a treat! At first glance, SVG Girl looks like a video of an anime, in reality it is an interactive video using all Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)! SVG is a family of specifications of an XML-based file format… Read More
Cell phone screen with button touch feedback. From Japan of course May 29, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment Saw this on thenextweb looks pretty good. Basically what the Japanese telecommunications operator KDDI is building is a cell phone screen with the use of well timed and placed haptic vibrators and a pressure sensitive screen. Of course, since I have not tried this myself I have no idea what it would feel like, but… Read More
Apple to tighten IAP rules to allow only one in app purchace May 28, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment just read this on http://www.pocketgamer.biz/r/PG.Biz/App+Store/news.asp?c=30179. Have not confirmed. Continuing a pattern triggered by consumer criticism over ‘accidental purchases’ of virtual goods in games such as Capcom’s Smurfs’ Village in late 2010, Apple is set to tighten its in-app purchase policy again. According to developer sources, new apps being submitted to the App Store will limit… Read More
A meetup with no-plugin required, thanks WebGL! May 28, 2011 | Damon | Leave a comment April 28th was the first WebGL Meetup here in the Bay area with a great mix of industry titans to garage developers. Managed by the Khronos group, WebGL is a web-based graphics library that extends the capability of the JavaScript programming language to allow it to generate interactive 3D graphics within any compatible web browser… Read More
First 3D advert revealed on iPad May 26, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment I just saw this browsing the BBC site. My coworker who broke both of his writs skiing, so I let him borrow my ipad. As soon as I get it back, I’ll give this a shot and report back. The ad promotes ‘From the Edge’ a documentary for the Weather Channel The first ever 3D… Read More