Cool magic trick using a kinect hack with 3DVIA and FAAST April 7, 2011 | perivision | 1 Comment This is pretty cool. The magician Moulla shows a pretty cool card trick using a hacked Kinect. Check the video below to see it. But the cool thing is the idea of integrating motion devices and apps as part of a physical performance. I have a feeling we may see more and more of this. … Read More
Mayday Light. Emergency emailer app for iphone April 6, 2011 | perivision | 1 Comment I get lots of press releases about how something can saves lives and normally, its a borderline case, but I think this app really could. And as a motorcyclist, I may install this and keep it running in the background 24/7. UPDATE: the app is now $0.99 in the store and there are two new… Read More
52 Years from Today we will make first contact April 5, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment Most of you will not know what this reference is about, but if you are a Trekkie, then its a pre celebration day, because 52 years from today, we will have first contact with the Vulcans, our first recorded and verified contact with an alien race. There is even a facebook page set up for… Read More
Twitter.com is down.. Hard April 5, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment Seems twitter.com is having some issues today. First it was showing odd returns on the timelines, sometimes seeing other tweets the I know I do not follow. Then it the #newTwitter was deprecated to the old twitter.com. Then they went down all together. Still down as of this writing. However, when I go to twittFilter,… Read More
Forget where you have been? Google hasn’t. April 5, 2011 | Damon | Leave a comment Seems that Google has included a Location History dashboard with their latest release of Google Maps 5.3 for Android. The dashboard is a feature for Google Latitude that allows you to view your location history on a personal dashboard at google.com/latitude or on the phone by tapping view location history from your Latitude profile. The… Read More
AppHub fails. Why should I build Windows mobile again? April 5, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment Caution! Arrgg.. This will be a total rant post. <rant> WTF Microsoft?? I was asked to build a simple application for windows mobile 7. No prob. Its been out long enough that I would think all the bugs are out. Its a simple enough app, whip this guy out in 2 weeks top. Right.. So… Read More
Junkyard Jumbotron – Cool Hack April 3, 2011 | Damon | Leave a comment A friend in the office showed this to me upon returning from SxSW and I found it way too cool. Junkyard Jumbotron is a project from MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media designed by Rick Borovoy and Brian Knep. It is a web tool that combines a bunch of random displays into a single shared… Read More
Untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4.3.1 coming, but not for iPad2 April 3, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment Last week a tethered jailbreak for iOS 4.3.1 came out, Mac only. Well hopefully sometime today we will see a untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.3.1 released. However, not for ipad 2. I’ll update this post once I learn more. MuscleNerd, who earlier confirmed his plans of updating Pwnage Tool and Redsn0w with the ion1c iOS… Read More
3D makes you sick? Anti 3D glasses April 2, 2011 | perivision | 1 Comment At first I thought this was a joke, but it makes perfect sense. If you go the theater and the movie in 3D, you can use these glasses to remove the 3D effect. No more headaches! Now this will not make the movie any better or less crappy, but at least you do not have… Read More
Can Color beat the backlash with an improved interface? April 1, 2011 | venturebeat Mobile startup Color had one of the most spectacular launches in recent months — and not necessarily in a good way. Because of its lineup of co-founders (including chief executive Bill Nguyen, who previously founded music service Lala) and its ma…… Read More
Acer stock plummets in midst of identity crisis April 1, 2011 | venturebeat Taiwanese computer giant Acer wants to be like Apple with premium products and high margins. Now it thinks it has a more promising future in tablets, Bloomberg reports. This is a big change in Acer’s strategy. The company has previously focused o…… Read More
XKCD in 3D! Well, kinda 2.5D .. ishd March 31, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment You know something has jumped the shark when I write using ‘jumped the shark’. Yes if “Mars Needs Moms” is proof of anything, making something 3D does not help make something bad, less bad. What does that have to do with today’s (tomorrows) XKDC comic? Not a damn thing.. Just wanted to say that. Now… Read More
Peel: The best TV remote for the iphone … Ever! March 30, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment (first post written completely on my iPhone BTW) I stopped by the Peel demo in San Francisco during Web 2.0 expecting a simple iPhone IR remote. Wow, it’s more then that. Peel, the name of the app as well as the company created a very cool app that not only replaces your remote but creates… Read More
Insert tweets directly into wordpress March 30, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment Just came out today. Although you could always insert a tweet into wordpress using blackbird, a new widget / service from twitter just came out the provides a rich Twitter interactive widget. Nice. From Twitter : To see Web Intents in action, check out WordPress.com’s great tool for quoting Tweets in blog posts: Twitter Blackbird… Read More
Very cool 3D interface for Android. #video March 30, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment This is sweeeet. Just came out today and I know the interwebs are all over it. the company is called SPB Software. I have not tried it yet but I will we I get my hands on my Droid. Assuming it will run on the droid. I’ll write more about that later, but check out… Read More
Firefox 4 for Android does NOT work on the Droid March 29, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment Nuts. I was really excited to try this too. Seems the orginal droid just does not have what it takes to run FF4. Not sure what the issue is, be the OS or CPU or what. When I loaded FireFox4 on my Droid it did give me a warning that it may not work correct. … Read More
Cydia gets a major update. Promise to improve speed and bug fixes March 26, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment Wow, I jailbreak day.. a jailbreak afternoon. Been downloading .greenpois0n.com to jailbreak my 4.2.6 iphone and today just saw QuickPwn Jailbreak for 3.1.1 (for Mac only). And now via that twitterverse, most @TaimurAsad, I heard that Cydia has got a major update going to 1.1. Nice! Its reported that cydia will be faster and fix… Read More
Jailbreak 4.3.1 for iphone ipad2 jailbroken! Get it fast March 26, 2011 | perivision | 2 Comments Yup, its out. If you are not still waiting for your ipad2, its now time to jailbreak the iOS 4.3.1! Win. Now this is Mac only so, Windows users will have to wait, however, GreenPois0n RC5 is still good to go for iOS 4.2.6. I will bet 4.3 support will come out soon. BTW if… Read More
Color is hot now, but in 24 hours, I have a bad feeling it will go off-color March 24, 2011 | perivision | 1 Comment I downloaded the iPhone android photo sharing app called Color just like 100 thousand other people probably have by the time I hit send. And ok, I get it. I take pics, other people near me take pics. And we see them. Great. Not big thrill to me unless I’m at a party or wedding… Read More
Firefox 4 feeling buggy? Could be those plugins March 23, 2011 | perivision | 12 Comments I ran Firefox beta off and on, and it was fine but a bit buggy. Then I download FF4 final release and it was REALLY buggy. Screens not fully rendering, browser getting stuck, buttons not working, etc.. Never did fully crash though funny enough.Even killing the browser and restarting did not help. I then started… Read More