How to reduce the crashes on SimCity for the iphone December 25, 2008 | perivision | Leave a comment Ok, its been a week now and everyone has been dealing with the crashes. Seems to happen when switching between map and selecting something to build, either a structure or land zoning. Best fix.. and you will not like it.. reboot your phone. Yup, sorry, only good solution. What this does is make sure there… Read More
Why PdaNet is a Must Have for the iPhone December 24, 2008 | perivision | 3 Comments PdaNet is not a new app, nor are apps for tethering new. I even wrote about and downloaded PdaNet back in Sept. Story here. I never did have a use for it, nor did I expect I ever would, till today. I took a 2 mile walk to starbucks (need the exercise) expecting to have… Read More
Family Treasure Hunt December 24, 2008 | perivision | 3 Comments <update> Thanks for all the suggestions! The treasure hunt went quite well and it seems all the kids had a great time. We started out playing ‘Are you smarter then a 5th grader’. 3 Questions a round. If the adults won the round, chore chard is awarded to which they can do whatever the like… Read More
Battleship.. SteamPunk style. Review of ChartFightSP December 23, 2008 | perivision | 1 Comment ChartFightSP is basically battleship, everything works the same way, except the graphics are classic steampunk. There is not much else to review really. The game play is fine, good sound… its BattleShip! What more do you want? Do not know what steampunk is? Check this.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk or this link.. CommunityFeeder .. and now the images..… Read More
Review of the Hockey news for the iPhone. I like. December 22, 2008 | perivision | 1 Comment The hockey news is not revolutionary technically, it basically give you the news about hockey. Simple as that. The news feeds are broken into Blogs, Columns, and Features, which have rumor, fantasy pool, etc.. All good stuff. You can also get scores, no big surprise there. Standings. (Please note the leaders in the Pacific Division,… Read More
iPhone, GolfTraxx, GPS… FAIL December 22, 2008 | perivision | 6 Comments So far, I have been pretty happy with each GPS app I’ve tried for various tasks; data logging when I bike or run, remembering where my car is, even logging my position when I twitter. So when a friend of mine called me up for a last second game of golf in the middle of… Read More
Video on unlocking the iphone 3G, done using Qik December 21, 2008 | perivision | Leave a comment A few days back I posted about the unlocking coming at the end of the year. Well I just a got a tweet on this video from one of the Qik guys. Shows an unlocked iphone 3G running on t-mobile. Get some popcorn and enjoy.… Read More
Access iPhone as an external drive via wifi: Review of Discover December 20, 2008 | perivision | 5 Comments This is sooooo sweet. Just came across it today. The program is called Discover. What it does is give you limited access to your iphone like a USB drive except this does it using WIFI! There are two other programs I have already that give you wifi access but whta discover does differnetly is it… Read More
SimCity for the iphone ipod is out… get it .. now December 19, 2008 | perivision | Leave a comment Really, i’m not kidding here.. Get it now! Its $9.99. WAY worth it. Here, click on the following link.. Is it any good?? Yes!! Read this… Cheat codes?? Of course, thanks to “oab2” from my previous post.. i am weak = Construction costs set to $0 pay tribute to your king = All extra rewards… Read More
iphone 3G unlock (not just jailbreak) by New Years! December 18, 2008 | perivision | Leave a comment We knew it was coming…. ok, so it took a bit longer then expected, but the l33ts have done it. Now all that is left is to wrap it up in a nice friendly GUI and let ‘er rip! … Oh, you DID take care NOT to use QuickPwn which everyone, including me, warned you… Read More
Review of RunKeeper as a running computer for the iPhone December 17, 2008 | perivision | Leave a comment I downloaded this a while back, but since I do not run anymore, I have not had an opportunity to try it out. It’s a bit cold today for a ride but I still need some exercise, so I dusted off the old running shoes and went for a jog. Setting up runKeeper is pretty… Read More
How to make the perfect midnight grilled cheese sandwich December 17, 2008 | perivision | 8 Comments So, your going to stay up late eh? Cannot sleep? Have too much or your mind? A geek? Well then. You need to make a midnight grilled cheese sandwich! Now this isnt your normal two slices of wunderbread and kraft american cheese, now, we are going to add a few things.. Ok, first, lets get… Read More
Sneak peek at SimCity for the iphone ipod touch December 15, 2008 | admin | 6 Comments Today, EA gave a sneak peek of ‘need for speed’ and ‘simcity’ as part of their road show at the Apple Store here in San Francisco. I was not all that interested in need for speed, but just as a note, this is the first time a car (the Nissan 2009 something, I need check… Read More
Home activation to return to the iPhone December 12, 2008 | perivision | Leave a comment A week back I wrote a commentary on iphone’s going on sale in wal-mart’s (still officially rumor) and wrote the following: What if Apple supplied a specialist per store? Well, that could work, but is it worth it? Do you really think there are enough people who are looking to buy an iPhone to go… Read More
Why vLingo search app is better then google search December 11, 2008 | perivision | 1 Comment I liked playing with Google’s voice search app, especially when I used an accent (more on that here) but I had one major complaint about it; if I want a map, I need to say ‘map’ first then the address or term and hope for the best. For example; saying “map … taco bell” will… Read More
Auto login for Starbucks works pretty well. And its not from Starbucks or AT&T December 10, 2008 | perivision | Leave a comment There is a starbucks near where I live, but the wifi there is horrible. Worse, I cannot get 3G, so basically, I go elsewhere. Then AT&T announced they were going to give iPhone users free wifi access. Great! But, you have to go through this silly login process: Link to process.. Whatever. It’s not a… Read More
Wal-mart to sell the iPhone – Maybe, and if so, what would that be like? December 8, 2008 | perivision | Leave a comment So this just came across the AP wire.. A Wal-Mart employee in Uniondale, N.Y., told The Associated Press on Monday that the store will start selling Apple’s iPhone, confirming media reports over the weekend. The employee, who would not give his name, did not know when the phones would go on sale, and said the… Read More
Qik and CupCake Camp December 8, 2008 | perivision | Leave a comment {update 2} First… What is CupCake Camp? From the site.. CupcakeCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and eat cupcakes in an open environment. This was put together by: Ariel Waldman, Lynn, Marianne Masculino and Cindy Li created the CupcakeCamp phenomenon. From me.. CupCakeCamp is an excuse to make… Read More
Springboard goes into mobile substrate safe mode? Why? For your own protection December 6, 2008 | perivision | 5 Comments I had no idea there was a mobile substrate safe mode. Well there you go. The funny thing is; I got 2 comments today asking about SBSetting perhaps causing the problem. I’ve been using SBS for quite a while, my favorite app, and never an issue. Then tonight, I got bumped to safe mode. Odd. … Read More
iphone/itouch tip no. 74 – Use Jot for your unplanned shopping list December 5, 2008 | perivision | Leave a comment How often did you run out of shampoo, or cat food, or spare 10ohm resisters and think.. I need to run out to the store today/tonight. Then you think, well, I may was well pick up. $list=array(‘stuff;, ‘stuff’, ‘stuff’); Well, instead of relying on memory, I remembered that I had a copy of ‘Jot’. I… Read More