Twitter has a new desktop, and its good but not a replacement for advanced desktop Apps September 14, 2010 | perivision | Leave a comment Awhile back Twitter started working on improving its site, pissing off a few twitter devs since they were stepping on some toes based on which ever functionality in mind. So the new twitter.com page at first glance looks like it could really threaten other desktop apps, however, when you take a look at the screenshots,… Read More
Remember the JooJoo tablet? its still a player, just not fully playing September 14, 2010 | perivision | Leave a comment Remember back in the day when TC’s Micheal Arrington had an idea for a simple tablet that he can operate from his couch to do basic things; mostly around web browsing? (read ipad) Then the he and the group he was working with had a falling out? And then they tried to do it on… Read More
Adobe back to work on its actionscript / flash publishing tool for iphone ipad September 10, 2010 | perivision | 1 Comment Even more win!! Adobe has announced its back at work on its port to iphone feature within its Flash Professional CS5 authoring tool. Now just to be clear, this does NOT mean you can play a flash video on the iphone or ipad, just that you can use the same tools you have used to… Read More
Some very cool ipad decals September 10, 2010 | perivision | Leave a comment I was surfing around and came across a site with a collection of ipad vinyl decals. Some were cool. I then started searching for more and found a few ipad decals that were missing from the first list. So I’m making my own. Enjoy! buy it here.… Read More
jailbreak for iphone on iOS 4.1 coming soon September 9, 2010 | perivision | Leave a comment I read a post from Dean Takahashi at VentureBeat that a hacker called pod2g has hacked iOS4.1. However, I would not upgrade to 4.1 until something official comes from Dev-team and on last check there is nothing yet but a warning NOT to update to 4.1. And really readers I have been saying this for… Read More
Apple removes flash restriction on iphone ipad app rules September 9, 2010 | perivision | 1 Comment WIN!! Finally, Apple has given up its ridiculous rules that says you cannot use other dev tools, like Adobes Flash studio to create iOS applications. Here is the statement from Apple: “We are relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps, as long as the resulting apps do not download any… Read More
Scam warning. Fraud attempt as a Yahoo email September 4, 2010 | perivision | Leave a comment This is a pretty weak attempt to steam peoples information, but I thought I would post up a warning anyway. I just got this email earlier today and figured I would put out the warning. If you see anything like this, its a scam. Do not reply, do not click on anything. Yahoo or any… Read More
Yet another reason to love iphone tether via jailbreak, football. September 4, 2010 | perivision | Leave a comment It’s Cal football day today and I had to stay home to wait for a visitor (thus could not go to the game). No problem, I put on my Cal shirt and hat, grabbed a beer out of the fridge and turned on the telly. 10 min into the game the power goes out. I… Read More
Curious about the New HDR Photo? You can try it now using clearcam September 1, 2010 | perivision | Leave a comment I’ve written about clearcam a few times before because I thought it was one of the coolest apps to really extend the abilities of the Apple hardware, in this case the camera. Clearcam is jailbreak only (last I checked) because for some reason they could not get into the app store. I’m guessing because of… Read More
Twitter Direct Message API method now enforcing 140 char limit August 28, 2010 | perivision | 1 Comment Betcha didnt know that did yea? That you can send 240+ Charter messages using Direct Message through Twitter. That is, until now. My Twitter application, TwittFilter.com does not stop you from sending a message that is over 140 char. It tells you how many char you have typed, but if you want to type 2000… Read More
Sync your web links and tabs to the iphone with Xmarks 1.3 August 26, 2010 | perivision | Leave a comment Xmarks for the iphone as been out for awhile, and I tried it when it first came out and was not impressed. The crashing of my iphone had something to do with it. Well version 1.3 just came out with the one feature I was really waiting for; Automatically synchronize bookmark changes in the background. … Read More
Tip #8 Unsend / Undo Gmail August 23, 2010 | perivision | Leave a comment Came across this cool little tip to undo a sent gmail via Mashable. Ever send a email and wish, ‘man, I should not have sent that.’ Or hit the send button too soon. We Houston, we have a fix. You can now undo a sent email from Gmail. There has always been a undo send,… Read More
How to stop people from checking you into places on Facebook August 19, 2010 | perivision | Leave a comment Really?? I have to yet again, go into my privacy setting to stop someone or something on facebook doing something I do not want? Gezz.. So here is the latest. Seems that your ‘friends’ can check you into a place for you. Without you being there or even knowing! WTF?? Ok, so I’m suppose to… Read More
Updating the samsung 8500l wave phone, not likely for the US August 15, 2010 | perivision | 1 Comment I got the new samsung 8500 wave phone running the bada OS a few months back and have been playing with it off and on. Now that the galaxy s is out, I feel like I have been given an early release. And I like the phone. The screen is just as great as advertised,… Read More
Twitter Basic Auth to end in 3 days. R U ready? August 13, 2010 | perivision | Leave a comment Yup, death of basic auth for twitter part 2. If you remember, we were going to have basic auth killed in favor of OAuth back in June, and they decided we (they) we not ready. Fair enough, plus the world cup really put some strain on twitter. So now we have til the 16th of… Read More
New Android Trojan found, but is it a big weakness? August 10, 2010 | perivision | Leave a comment First off, any Trojan is a bad Trojan. However, there is something off about this story. I’m not saying its wrong or we should ignore this story, but there were a few things that kinda of bothered me. First off, who in world would call a trojan file ‘“Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a”’ ??? I mean really. That like… Read More
Flash, Frash on the iphone released but still a bit buggy August 9, 2010 | perivision | 1 Comment Yesterday, we heard that flash got released (as far as you release something for a jailbreak) and today we now have a simple install from cydia. Just add http://repo.benm.at as a source and search for Frash. I have not installed it on my iphone 3g because the architecture does not support it and I still… Read More
Jailbreak iphone ipad iOS4 via safari now with MMS and Facetime fixed. August 3, 2010 | perivision | 1 Comment Crazy. You can now jailbreak and UNLOCK iOS4 for the iphone4 ipad from the web browser. Now this is not new news per say, but there have been some issues with the current jailbreak in that some people have been experiencing problems with MMS and Facetime. As I always advise my readers, NEVER jailbreak right… Read More
Review: iShred live, just you, your iphone and your guitar August 3, 2010 | perivision | 1 Comment Whats with me and the cheesy titles lately? No matter.. So today I’m reviewing iShread. In my previous post, I looked at Amplitube and was pretty impressed. iShread is like Amplitube and at the same time, different. First, lets have a look at the hardware. iShred offers an all in one chord from Griffin Technology… Read More
Review: Give your guitar and iphone ipad some iRig Amplitube August 2, 2010 | perivision | 4 Comments Ok, cheesy blog title, but still, this is pretty good. There have already been a number of virtual guitar amp and effects products for the iphone and ipad, and I’ve tried a few, but amplitube and ishread (ishread I will over in another post) stood out. Now, if there is really good product I missed,… Read More