Pinterest To Launch New Ad Targeting Features September 26, 2014 | Stephen Bishop | Leave a comment Add Pinterest to the social media networks that will be watching your every click. TechCrunch reports that this week, the company quietly announced that it will soon offer new conversion tracking and audience targeting features to its advertisers. Pinterest says this is to allow advertisers to better understand how Promoted Pins affect their business, and what… Read More
Where to? updated and on sale. September 18, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment I got this via email and thought I would share. Looks cool enough. Basically local navigation on your Pebble. Right now, its iPhone only; I do not know if there will be an Android app (I asked) but I will update this post when I find out. Where To? 7.0: iPhone local search app completely… Read More
Thoughts on the Apple Watch from a Pebble and LG owner. September 10, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment Its been 24 hours since the Apple Watch debut. Now that we have seen more pictures of the watch and learned a bit more about it, I think I can finally give my impressions. This of course is tempered by the fact I have not seen it in person and there are still things we… Read More
NewsSnacker – Twitter newsfeed on the Pebble watch September 9, 2014 | perivision | 2 Comments My first coded pebble app. I’m using Pebbles new beta javascript system, so even though it was very easy to code, there does seem to be an issue when hitting the ‘select’ button to go from story to story. Hopefully this will get better. For iOS users. Right now you cannot download from the Apple… Read More
Moto 360 smart watch sells out before the first hour. What can we learn from this? September 5, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment That was quick! As soon as the Moto 360 smart watch went on sale it sold out. What does that tell us in the wearable world? That looks matter! I have been pounding on this point over and over again, and just yesterday when I wrote about the Samsung gear 2 s, looking better, but… Read More
How to fix a slow USB 3 port on the Yoga 13 ideapad or Thinkpad T430 September 5, 2014 | perivision | 1 Comment This has been bothering me for a long time. I have both a USB3 external hard drive and thumb drive and since updating to windows 8.1, they have not been working correctly. The external hard drive does not work at all on the USB 3.0 port and the thumb drive is very slow. I have… Read More
Samsung Gear 2 S smartwatch with a curved screen. Now we’re talking September 4, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment I have been pretty harsh on Samsung basically asking why are they throwing everything but the kitchen sink onto a watch making it large and ugly. And why have they not released a curved screen yet? Well they finally did. And I think they got it mostly right this time. The Gear 2 S is… Read More
Building a door opening robot because… robots! August 25, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment I originally wrote this for Monsoonco.com. This is a repost. We work out of a historic bank in downtown Oakland. It’s gorgeous. There are high ceilings with gorgeous artwork, and we have not one, but two bank vaults with huge metal doors that we use as conference rooms. Unfortunately, solving simple problems in a historic… Read More
Skully Smart Helmet about to pass the 1 million mark on Indiegogo August 12, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment If you ever needed proof of a market demand for a new type of product, do a crowd funding raise. Skully, producers of the cyber motorcycle helmet that gives the rider a Google Glass like HUD, is just about to pass the $1 million dollar mark for money raised. The helmet is pretty cool. Take… Read More
1st EVER Women-VetsinTech Hackathon. Indiegogo fund raise August 12, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment The Mission VetsinTech supports our current and returning veterans with re-integration services, and by connecting them to the national technology ecosystem. ViT is committed to bringing together a tech-specific network, resources, and programs for our veterans interested in Education, Entrepreneurship, and Employment—the three E’s! VetsinTech is hosting the 1st EVER all Women VetsinTech Hackathon… Read More
Why I went back to the Pebble after using the Google G for 24 hours. Buttons! August 3, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment I got the Google LG G watch after Google I/O to try out the new API and if I could implement a push service using my site newssnacker.com. Simple enough idea, I want to write a protocol that will only send message to my watch when something big breaks. However, after just 24 hours I… Read More
Windows 9 rumors, something new, something old July 14, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment So already the rumor mill has been churning for Windows 9. According to BetaNews, Win9 will see a return to some well loved and missed elements of Win7 and a few news things that may or may not leave a good taste in your mouth. Speaking of taste, the return of the Start button and… Read More
Google Cardboard now in Plastic if the Samsung rumors are true July 8, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment Last week at Google I/O, they sprang a cardboard phone holder that basically turn your smartphone into a VR HMD display device. Its extremely cleaver, and was quite the hit. So much so, there is a strong demand for these guys even a week later. Now we are hearing rumors that a plastic version of… Read More
How to update a cell based on date in excel and store that value July 3, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment A few weeks back I was asked to create a rule in Excel that would recalculate a cell’s value ONLY on Monday! And store that calculation. What? Hmm.. Then I thought, wait a minute, I should be able to do this in the cells directly. At first I tried to do this all in one… Read More
Virtual Reality Hackathon coming to SF. Why its different this time so get your Helmets ready July 1, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment Did anyone watch the Google IO conference broadcast, or better yet, was there? Hope you are enjoying your watches. But more importantly, are you enjoying your cardboard HMD? I have to admit, that caught me by surprise, but very cool! But the point of the VR glasses is to demonstrate Google’s VR Build Kit. I… Read More
Will Delete replace Erase in our common lexicon? June 24, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment I was listening to NPR and they played an interview with a futballer who answered a question misunderstanding vampire for umpire. After he realized the mistake he laughed and said please delete that. And it struck me, 10 years ago, we would said erase. I’m pretty sure whatever device they were using for the interview… Read More
How to overclock your calculator June 23, 2014 | perivision | 2 Comments Now, have you ever been adding a bunch of numbers and thought, man this feel kinda slow. Never mind its so fast you cant even think straight before the screen updates, that not the point. ANYTHING is better when its faster. Well, almost anything. So I post a set of pics from imgur, via Reddit… Read More
Multiply numbers by drawing lines June 22, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment When I first saw this in Reddit I thought it was pretty cool, why it was posted as a Japanese Visual multiplication method I don’t know since there was nothing in the comments saying it was Japanese. But anyway, the idea is pretty simple. To multiply two numbers between 11 and 99 you simply draw… Read More
Categories: Five Points on How to Position Technology June 21, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment The following is a summery post from Hugh Seaton, you can go there to read the full version. However there are a few points I want to reinforce. When a company bring a technology to market, they have to think about how to talk about their offering.For a start-up company, this can be especially challenging… Read More
The “Yo” app is the most basic unit of communication. It’s still silly though June 20, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment During lunch I was having a conversation with a group of people at work around the app ‘Yo’. I’m sure you have heard of it by now, basically it is a simple 1 button app that sends the message “Yo” to someone(s) from your address book. The basic idea came from a request from an… Read More