control a model helcopter with an iphone? Hecka yea! May 5, 2009 | perivision | 1 Comment What more can I say?? This is uber-geek cool. Just watch the video. Course, nothing was said as to how many choppers were hurt in the creation of this film. 🙂 here is the link.. http://aleptu.com/controlling-a-radio-control-helicopter-with-an-iphone-0419920.html… Read More
Run Pandora in the background on the iPhone.. Jailbreak only of course. May 3, 2009 | perivision | 14 Comments This is great. I use Pandora as my radio when I drive for my radio music exclusively. I have another app for BBC and NPR, but music… pandora. I do not even remember the last time I listen to the radio for music. Funny thing though, the radio stations in the Bay area stink for… Read More
New google comic is out. Chrome. No, I have not read it April 29, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment Last year I went to Google’s IO event and loved it. Here is a post from last year. I’m going again this year and will report on it again, although I expect it will be a bit more toned down, but hey, you never know. So they send me a comic on the mail. I’ve… Read More
You KNOW you messed up when John Stewart wants to kick your arse April 28, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment I really do not have much to add here, but safe to say, I’ve never seen john lets his character be ‘aggressive’. Yes, the FAA and AF1 really screwed up here. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M – Th 11p / 10c Mistakes on a Plane thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Economic Crisis First… Read More
iphone web cam viewer April 27, 2009 | perivision | 1 Comment I’m not sure what I would use this for, but hey, you never know, I’m sure someone out there will find it useful, and thus… to posting!! This comes from ‘Hack n Mod‘ a very cool site. It’s pretty easy actually, here are the steps from the site.. On your iTouch/iPhone start up i-c-livecams. In… Read More
iphone on Verizon??? What?? April 26, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment Begin rumor control… Just read this USAToday… Verizon (VZ) and Apple (AAPL) are discussing the possible development of an iPhone for Verizon, with the goal of introducing it next year, people familiar with the situation say. Really? Wow. And the buzz I was hearing the last few days with that Apple was quite happy with… Read More
Baby Shaker iphone app pulled from app store… Do we need a rating system? April 23, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment I cannot count the number of times I’ve heard of useful and cool apps rejected from the Apple store for ‘typically’ stupid reasons, and when I heard about ‘baby shaker’ getting through, all I could do was shake my head and think, how did a sick tasteless app like this get through? Well, it took… Read More
AT&T 3G network to get faster … PLEASE! April 21, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment And it might. I wrote an article for iphone life over 6 months ago where I said things will improve as they move to a lower freq. Well, according to Kevin Fitchard from Telephony Online AT&T is increasing the downlink capacity on its high-speed packet access (HSPA) from 3.6 megabits per second to 7.2 Mb/s… Read More
Sweet Multi touch visualization hack for 4-20 April 21, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment This is pretty cool. I fully agree with Peter Kirn that Apple rejecting this as an app is sillyness. But then again, thats not new. Still, I admire the push to get this to work within the browser. I have not tried it myself since I only have PHP running on my linux box which is not… Read More
Rumor alert: HULU coming to the iphone April 19, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment Actually, I’m not sure I should even call this a rumor. I mean why not? I do not think youTube has a contract or anything that would incourage Apple to keep them out.. so I say Hurraa and speed it up! From the webware site: Silicon Alley Insider is reporting that a dedicated Hulu application is indeed… Read More
Twitter as a Foo spreadsheet. No value, but very cool! April 16, 2009 | perivision | 1 Comment The funny thing is, this actually works! Yes, this fall under ‘random’… Read More
Real-Time Object Recognition – NOT on the iphone April 16, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment You get used to every cool new ‘feature’ or ‘function’ to always be out on the iphone. Well, not in this case. Looks like Andriod at quick glance, but not sure. Now, could this work on the iphone? I do not see why not. Yes the camera is not as good, but based on the… Read More
Did twitter lose some of my messages? Yes and no April 14, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment The last week has not been kind to the twitter servers. As someone who has a twitter product (twittfilter.com) I get to see (and hear) everything that goes wrong in twitter land. A combination of servers issues and a few virus (kinda) attacks on the system has forced twitter to moat certain bits of itself… Read More
A jailbreak (limited) App store! Cydia in full, well limited, effect.. April 13, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment Yes, I know, I have not been active in a LONG time. Between twittfilter.com, my taxes (which are still not done) and this monster flu, I’ve been gutted.. However, lots to talk about, so hopefully I will get back into the flow of things. First off, I guess 4 or 5 days ago, Cydia released… Read More
iphone 3.0 beta has been jailbroken.. what took so long? April 2, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment Ok, a joke there. The fact it was jailbroken so quickly is quite impressive. I would have figured early summer, but the proof code is out there. Course, Apple has some language in the SDK agreement saying that you will NOT contribute to jailbreaking efforts. This will not stop the jailbreaking, but does give the… Read More
Skype has a new iphone, Truphone’s respone? Unlimited plan April 2, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment Ok, so we all knew Skype’s app was coming out soon. And we ALSO knew that Truphone has something is mind to reply to it. The answer? In my email of course. Here is what I got.. Lets the VoIP wars begin! Get even more value from Truphone with an Unlimited calling plan (find out… Read More
New comment system offer everything you need in 1 word April 1, 2009 | perivision | 1 Comment Thanks to JS-Kit, we do not have to worry if our grammer is correct anymore. You get one word… Just One! Less is more people. 🙂… Read More
ROLF Copter for the iphone! Yea, you know you want it March 31, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment What more can I say? A ROLF copter for the iphone. Does nothing but play the well known animation. Entertainment value, 2 min. But what the heck. 😉… Read More
Skype for the iphone not working for you? Did you check Clippy? March 30, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment I downloaded the Skype app just for the heck of it and it crashed every time I clicked on a text field! What? I tried a reboot, reinstall, nothing … Oh, there is one more thing I could try .. Turn off Clippy. Yup, that was it. Now when I first tried to login, it… Read More
Control your presentations from the new apple earphones? March 26, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment Well, according to macosxhints. They have not tried it, nor have I, but it seems like it could work. Since the new MacBooks now receive input from the iPhone’s headphones, you can use those headphones as a remote for running a presentation in Keynote ’09: One click starts the presentation. Two clicks moves to the… Read More