Realtime GPS updates via the iPhone using Loopt. Kinda.. and for a price September 4, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment I’ve been thinking about writing a post on how silly is to get AT&T’s GPS driving directions app/service at 9.99 a month when you can buy a turn-by-turn apps for around $50. That’s another post. But now I just read on AppleInsider that Loopt has an agreement with AT&T to provide constant location updates for… Read More
Vonage gets VoiP love, Google gets rejection. Picking winners and losers are we? September 2, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment It seemed pretty clear that Apple was not going to allow any real players in VioP/phone management area into the iPhone. Ok, we have all heard the story.. if you have not, look here.. But have a look at this press release.. HOLMDEL, N.J., Sept. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Vonage (NYSE: VG – News) has announced… Read More
No more AT&T only for the iphone? Rumor control August 31, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment I’ve heard this rumor a few times before, but given the recent uptick in AT&T complaints, and a seemingly upper growth cap on iphones, I can see it. And I really hope so. I have already complained many times about the poor service in SOMA in the SF area. Here is the part of Piper… Read More
How to connect (sync) the iPhone to MS OneNote using MobileNoter August 28, 2009 | perivision | 8 Comments I’ve been waiting for this!! Yes, as a hard core Microsoft OneNote user (remember, I’m all about tablets) I have been wishing there was a way to view my OneNote files on the iphone. Although still in Alpha, and believe me, as a tester it’s in Alpha, we finally have it. But wait! there’s more..… Read More
The new facebook is here! The new facebook is here! .. for the iphone August 27, 2009 | perivision | 2 Comments What? You never hear of Steve Martin’s ‘The Jerk? Never mind. So the new iphone facebook app is out. You need to delete the old copy and install it anew until Apple updates its store. It’s not overwhelmingly great or anything, but its IS better. ‘Couse, everyone is trying out the new app so you… Read More
Android comes back with another cool traffic AR app August 26, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment I just wrote about the first iphone AR app to show up, and now here is ANOTHER Android AR app. This gives you traffic cams for Toronto. Not sure if there is one for San Francisco, but I’ll look into it. Im not sure how useful this app is, but its clear we are about… Read More
Get your iPhone Augmented reality app. In France. August 26, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment Yup, the French have beaten us again. First it was first with Pomme Frites (French Fries), now with AR. The apple store can be so random at times. Well, since I’m in the SF Bay Area, I cannot test this out myself, but it looks cool. According to Marshall Kirkpatrick (ReadWriteWeb) French app development shop… Read More
Bicycle fitting computer for the iPhone August 24, 2009 | perivision | 1 Comment This is kinda neat. I did not try ‘TestRides‘ (by Wildlab) myself, but I like the idea. Basically, you take a picture of yourself, select key body points to provide an overall measurement set, and then calculate and display the best bike size for your body. Sweet! For people who do not do a lot… Read More
Send Facebook updates to Twitter.. to the Extreme! August 20, 2009 | admin | 1 Comment If you can beat them. Eat them! That’s right, Facebook is going after Twitter full force now. Seem that you can now not only update your twitter account from facebook, but all kinds of controls on how its done. From there blog.. “If you manage a Facebook Page, you now will be able to decide… Read More
iPhone good, AT&T, not so much August 20, 2009 | perivision | 1 Comment Like I’m surprised here. Over 90% of people surveyed like their iphone, 1/3 dislike AT&T. I already decided to give t-mobile on my HTC a try once I get my trail account up and running, which is another story. But read this from computer world.. “the latest ChangeWave survey, which polled nearly 200 owners of… Read More
First shot in the tablet war! Archos announces Android Tablet August 19, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment Check it here. Oh its on! Check this post from TC.. “The tablet will rock a 5-inch 800×480 screen that plays back 720p content natively. And lest we forget, the Archos 5 Internet Tablet (that’s what they’re calling it on the AppsLib site) will have an HDMI out and comes with natively embedded OpenGL libraries.”… Read More
The coming tablet war: Apple vs. Android; the first skirmish August 18, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment The war has not started yet, but the armies are gathering their forces. Apple is building a tablet based off the iphone OS and the rest of the world will be using Android. So how what will the first skirmish look like? Based on the last known rumors, we have a coming Apple tablet that… Read More
iPhone dropped calls and poor reception did not improve with 3.0.1 August 14, 2009 | perivision | 1 Comment As I reported a few months back, I noticed an uptick on dropped calls and overall poorer performance when I upgraded from 2.x to 3.0. Basically it felt like the phone reverted to the same performance levels before the 2.1 upgrade. So I hoped it was a simple visioning error and the 3.0.1 would take… Read More
Qik video now in the Apple store, but still no live streaming August 13, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment So now we can get Qik from the Apple store, BUT no live streaming. Piff.. However, Qik does have two cool features; it will upload the video automatically when you have stopped filming, and it will Geo tag that video. Nice eh? So its not live steaming, but if you are shooting is short bursts,… Read More
Retweet to become an officially supported function on twitter August 13, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment The story already broke a number of hours ago, but still for anyone who does Twitter dev, this is pretty big news. Basically, anyone who builds a twitter client has retweet as a feature. Basically all we do populate the send field with the selected message prepend with a “RT”. Now (not all) clients use… Read More
Rumor: there will NOT be an 8G iphone 3gs anytime soon. Sigh.. August 10, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment I made up my mind that I would get the new iphone 3gs despite the REALLY bad service I’m currently getting from AT&T. How I made my decision will be another post, but I’m going to take a leap of faith that if AT&T can fix the poor cell service issue once, they can do… Read More
Apples New $600 Tablet is more iPhone then netbook; that is why it will fail August 7, 2009 | perivision | 5 Comments I have been a tablet (convertible) user for a long time. Recently; I bought an older TC1100 with a SSD instead of a hard drive and installed Windows 7 on it. Amazing! But that is for another post. I originally wanted an Apple tablet… but that’s not going to happen, and here is why. The… Read More
Into Scrabble? Got iPhone? Well check this app. August 7, 2009 | perivision | 1 Comment I like Scrabble even though I’m not very good at it. However, I have a few friends that are just NUTS for the game. So when this press release came in my email today I thought I would share it out. 🙂 Oh, and wonder why they cannot call it ‘Scrabble” Trademarked my friend!… Read More
UStream does not stream, but you can remote edit and thus near realtime! August 5, 2009 | perivision | 1 Comment UStream release a new iphone app today that has the word ‘live’ in it, but its not live. I mean, yea when you shot it it was live.. but anyway.. So far Qik (using jailbreak) is the preferred way to do live broadcasting, but UStream does have an interesting offering. Well, 2 actually, you can… Read More
What’s the best iphone app for twitter? Depends on how you use it August 4, 2009 | perivision | 2 Comments I wrote an article for iphoneLife looking at a sampling of twitter applications for the iphone. The idea of the article was not to exhaustively compare and rate them because that is a losing battle. Everyone uses twitter differently and as such, what is a great app for some people, is overkill for others. So… Read More