Language Translator from Google for iPhone February 8, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment I still need to download and play with this, but I’m pretty excited. Been looking for a good quick translator to translate English to Japanese. I’ll update this post as soon as I download the thing. I just tried it and its pretty good. I think. BTW, you have to look on the second page… Read More
T-Mobile to offer free phone on the 10th and 11th. February 7, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment Talk about an epic day. Seems this coming weekend will be a battle between not Only AT&T (to stop the bleeding) Verizon to speed it up, but also T-Mobile to get in to some of the blood bath as well. Some of the details are not clear, like do you have to pay first and… Read More
Gmail Down giving 503 error. I hope you have a backup February 7, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment Well its happens to everyone at some point. Well everyone who is responsible for servers.. They go down. And today its Gmail. Gmail has been up and down all day and finally a 503 was spotted. The outage was very short lived, 5 min or so, but that’s for now. However, what if you need… Read More
A Craigslist iPad app. About time! February 4, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment I just read this in VentureBeat and have not downloaded it myself, but just from the screenshot I can see its full of win. Thumbsnails with Craigslist listing. How cool. You can see pretty much how it will work in the screenshot. I’ll update this after I’ve downloaded it. The app regularly retails for $1.99,… Read More
Untethered Jailbreak for iOS 4.2.1 with greenp0ison February 4, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment The site is still down but from what I’ve heard so far, the jailbreak seems to be pretty solid. At the moment, both the greenpois0n website and Cydia’s servers are getting crushed, but it should be back up tomorrow at the latest. There has been a jailbreak for 4.2.1 using RedSn0w, but its kind of a… Read More
Google Chrome 9 gets faster and better February 3, 2011 | Damon | Leave a comment Today Google announced several new features to their stable build of the Chrome browser including: Chrome Web Store is an online marketplace where you can discover thousands of apps, extensions, and themes for Google Chrome. It is open only to Chrome users in the United States. Chrome Instant will begin loading web pages that you… Read More
Mobimileage for iOS Devices, Tracks Business Mileage Automatically February 3, 2011 | Chia Hwu | Leave a comment Fumbling with my pen and little notebook in the dark, struggling to see my odometer reading, I realized there must be a better way to track business miles. My cofounder, Evan Kirchhoff, looked over and asked why I was cursing under my breath. He then asked why I wasn’t using a mobile app to handle… Read More
Verizon Pre order Sold out! February 3, 2011 | perivision | 5 Comments That was fast!! I have been trying to get into the site since 2:30pm pst and it was failing. Now I get a screen saying they have sold out on the pre-order? WTH?? Sold out THIS fast? That makes NOOOO sense. I have a feeling something is up but not sure. However, given that the… Read More
Verizon iPhone ordering system overloaded February 3, 2011 | perivision | 5 Comments Sigh. I was going to do this last night and got sidetracked with server issues and then sleep. So I decided to try and order my iPhone from Verizon now and guess what? Server overload. I guess that is to be expected. Can’t wait to see how many orders they had in 1 day. Update: … Read More
Google 3D Body Browser now on a Tablet via Android 3.0 February 3, 2011 | perivision | 3 Comments We wrote about Google 3D body browser before. Well now you can have the same 3D experience using some of the new Power Tablets coming out like the Motorola’s Xoom Seen blow. The honeycomb OS release does much better 3D support and from the video below (via VentureBeat); it works pretty well. Course this does… Read More
Pre Order for the Verizon iPhone 4 is 3am Thursday EST February 2, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment So if you are already a Verizon customer and what to finally see what all this iPhone fuss is about, you can go online at verizonwireless.com/iphone and sigh up. But wait, I’m NOT a Verizon customer… I have to wait a WHOLE 7 DAYS before I can order? Really? You have that little patience. Well… Read More
Android Market and OS update from the sweet Honeycomb February 2, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment I have not had a chance to really did into todays announcement from Google so I’m going to do a quick post here with some bullet points video below. I’ll return to this post with deep thoughts later today. There is a lot to take in; and not all of it is new news. The… Read More
The iPad newspaper daily is out. Why you might want to check it out. OR not February 2, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment So Rupert Murdoch’s breakthrough revolution in newspapers is upon us. 30 million upon us. And what did we get? We got a pretty slick looking publication that is far more interactive then anything I’ve seen before, that is suppose to have much better writing (I have not seen enough to really know). News Corp is… Read More
Voice to Twitter. Really useful if your internet gets shut off January 31, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment Just read this in TechCrunch. I have been reading on the various ways people in Egypt have been trying to get information out. Google has released a service that will allow you to call a phone number, leave a message and that will turn into a Tweet. I have not tried this myself so I… Read More
Should I work for free flow chart January 31, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment This is just plain random and fun. So you were asked to work for free eh? Who hasn’t been? Well here is a flow chart to help you think through if you should or not. www.shouldiworkforfree.com/… Read More
Layar’s AR Browser Now Made Possible for All iPhone Apps January 29, 2011 | Damon | 1 Comment This week Layar, the mobile augmented reality platform, announced on their blog the launch of the Layer Player. The Layar Player is a unique piece of code that can be embedded directly within your own iPhone app. Yes, seems it only is available for iPhone apps. Nice thing is there are no licensing costs and… Read More
Layar for the iPhone is finally in the App Store January 27, 2011 | perivision | 1 Comment Talk about taking forever; but Layar is finally out. If you do not know; Layar was one of the first Augmented Reality Apps out there but not for iphone. And funny enough, never saw it on Cydia. Well no matter; its in the App store. Most likely for 4.0++ but I have not had a… Read More
Update on how to get the Verizon iphone early January 26, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment Remember my post a week back or so when I said I had this idea that if I signed up for a Verizon plan, ANY Verizon plan, I should be able to order the iphone 4 early since I’m a Verizon customer. Seems I was right because yesterday I got a call asking if I… Read More
Black Eyed Peas Get Official AR App January 24, 2011 | Damon | 1 Comment Last month I blogged and shot a video showing off a Black Eyed Peas augmented reality app I made using Metaio’s Junaio platform. At the time, I was surprised that Metaio didn’t share or retweet with their community this app I made as they usually do with work that others do with their platform and… Read More
Throw a Hadouken with projection mapping and a Kinect January 23, 2011 | Damon | Leave a comment Every other day it seems there is a Kinect hack that comes out. A post on Joystiq sharing a video from Elliot Woods was a treat to stumble upon as I am a fan of projection mapping, Kinect, and Street Fighter. Cool work Elliot. See the video here: Kinect Hadouken.… Read More