Poking fun at Facebook March 21, 2011 | Damon | 1 Comment These things on Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg gave me a laugh and I thought I would share. 1. This image is so true. Thanks Maribeth for sharing it with me. 2. The Onion’s video coverage of CIA’s ‘Facebook’ Program Dramatically Cut Agency’s Costs.… Read More
T-Mobile to assimilate into the AT&T Borg March 20, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment Gezz.. Its already old news that AT&T is buying T-Mobile but I have to chime in here. I have been debating leaving AT&T since suffered under using the 3G because I did not want to change my contract, I know, I could have bought a 3gs off market, but thats another story. I struggled between… Read More
XKCD graphic explaining relative radiation exposure March 19, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment I have a number of people call me up and ask what I thought about Fukushima reactor and what it mean to people in Hawaii and California. ‘Why are you asking me?” “Hey you have a Ph.D. and worked at NASA right?” Sigh.. I don’t know much more then anyone else about radiation, but I… Read More
No more tethering through Jailbreak on the iPhone? March 18, 2011 | perivision | 1 Comment WTH? According to VentureBeat, seems that AT&T has been sending letters out to subscribers of MiWi, a jailbreak app that allows tethering of multiple machines to you iPhone. I use PDANet and have not seen such a letter yet, but I’m keeping my eyes out. The letter basically states that if you use a non… Read More
Auto edit your movie on your phone, as your filming! March 17, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment This is a really good idea and I’m kind of surprised no has done this yet. The basic premise is to detect drastic scene changes in your video and mark that change as a break or a chapter in the over all video. Then you would have a list of breaks, replete with thumbnails, that… Read More
Internet Explorer 9 is all Pretty now and ready to go March 14, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment Just saw this on Venturebeat. Looks like the new IE9 is out of beat and ready to go. I have been playing with IE9 off and on and it took a bit to get used to the minimalist design, but there is something nice about it. Although its suppost to be faster and maintain a… Read More
Augmented reality on the iPad2 March 14, 2011 | Damon | Leave a comment It is expected that with the release of the iPad2 with its cameras, that augmented reality apps for it will start flooding the app store. Seems the first company to get the iPad2 AR ball rolling is Total Immersion with their AR Magic Mirror app.… Read More
iPad2 jailbroken and sold out in the same day March 14, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment Gezz. Things move so bloody fast. I think we all expected the ipad2 to be hacked and jailbroken pretty quick, but it did not even take the weekend to crack this nut. The hacker Comex, who also did the userland jailbreaks Spirit and JailbreakMe, has released tweets and a video showing an ipad2 running cydia.… Read More
Video recap of GDC: Game Developers Conference 2011 March 12, 2011 | Damon | Leave a comment Here is my video recap of the 2011 Game Developers Conference.… Read More
Free Smart Recorder for this weekend only March 12, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment I have not used this, just popped up in my email. Looks pretty good. Straight forward voice recorder with image and text annotation. I may download it later and give it try. Smart Recorder is the ultimate time based note taking tool for the iPhone or iPad. It allows the typing of textual notes as… Read More
The speed of social media, faster than an earthquake March 11, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment Wow. The Sendai earthquake and tsunami happened yesterday and already a wiki page has been created and VERY well populated and referenced. Last night when the quake happened it was all over Twitter, as is expected now a days. In fact, I knew about the tsunami warning for California (through Twitter) long before it got… Read More
How to make Excel open each file in a separate window. Tip #198 March 10, 2011 | Charles Peri | 12 Comments As a developer and analyst, I heavily rely on the powerful features and flexibility that Microsoft Excel provides for various tasks. This was especially true when I was supporting enterprise level accounting systems. I would often be working with two or more workbooks at a time, and loved having the ability to view two worksheets… Read More
Invasion of the Homefront March 10, 2011 | Damon | Leave a comment At GDC2011 the best promotional campaign I saw for a game was for Kaos Studios Homefront. Published by THQ, Homefront is a first-person shooter game scheduled to be released for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Windows this March. It is set in the near future, 2027, when a nuclear-armed Korean People’s Army invades the USA and… Read More
Why Apple’s Subscription Rules Must Change…Again March 9, 2011 | admin | 1 Comment Apple’s latest changes regarding subscription services are a bad move for the long term health of the App Store. Read why they must change.… Read More
SEGA!!! March 9, 2011 | Damon | Leave a comment During GDC I was invited to check out some new titles from SEGA. Given the love I have for SEGA as an old school gamer, I had to go check it out. First up is Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing. Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing is a racing game in the Sega Superstars series produced… Read More
Expanded Voice Commands for iPhone with VoiceActivator through jailbreak March 5, 2011 | perivision | 3 Comments VoiceActivator came out last month, but I just now got around to playing with it. Not sure why I waited so long. This jailbreak app basically provides the promise of rich voice control that is already common with Android. This little hack is so good that it make my iphone jailbreak app top 10 list… Read More
GarageBand like app for those without music skills March 4, 2011 | perivision | 1 Comment So, you really liked that demo of garage band that Apple showed for the iPad 2 eh? Want it but already have the iPad 1? Well, how about something kind of like it? But better in someways? Especially if you cannot play an instrument? Stealth Bee Jam is more like a mixer then a way… Read More
Playing with NeuroSky at DEMO. #video March 3, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment While I was at demo, I talked with the Stanly Lee CEO of NeuroSky about his device and the various possible applications. Many of the things I really wanted to be able to do with the device is actually not an objective of NeuroSky. Instead, the idea is to focus on the device and let… Read More
WebGL released @ GDC! March 3, 2011 | Damon | Leave a comment I have talked about it before, but today at GDC2011 the Khronos Group released the final specification for WebGL, a specification that brings OpenGL hardware-accelerated graphics to supporting web browsers. Official press release. Back to the show!… Read More
Ipad2 drives Apple stock up, but only a bit. March 2, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment The ipad2 announcement just kicked off and we will see what features we will, and mostly will not get. The rumor mill has been pretty set saying we will get a few things with hardware; A front facing camera, faster CPU; gyroscope, way thinner, etc… As for software if you are into taking and editing… Read More