How to make a monster pancake with a rice cooker June 15, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment Yes, you read that right. You can create a massive huge super monster pancake using your rice cooker. That is assuming you have one of course. If not, with a few modification you can use a bread maker as well. The cool part is you can add a number of ingredients like fruit, nuts, chocolate,… Read More
Filed under WTF; Comcast has turned 50,000 routers in to public hotspot WITHOUT permission June 10, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment This is so crazy, I really have to question if its true, but based on the story out of Seattle PI by Dwight Silverman, seems like this is really happening. Comcast is planning on turning 150,000 comcast routers in Houston into citywide wireless hotspots! And without prior consent! WTF?? According to Comcast, there is complete… Read More
A Super computer DID NOT pass the Turing test, point by point reasons why. June 9, 2014 | perivision | 1 Comment I was just as excited as everyone else when I read on a post via Reddit that a computer program called Eugene passed for the very first time! Seems a supercomputer running a program called Eugene Goostman passed the Turing test during an event at the Royal Society in London. It convinced 33 per cent… Read More
The return of Reading Rainbow is on! The LeVar kickstarter effort crosses the $1 Million mark! May 29, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment Yes its true. In 24 hours ‘Bring Reading Rainbow Back for Every Child, Everywhere.’ kickstarter crossed the $1 million mark. As of this writing its past $ 2.5 million and still climbing! This is a great success for LeVar and his team in LA, but there is something larger here. The understanding that reading is… Read More
If you have not heard already, change your iphone password because of phishing hack May 28, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment The details are still dripping out, but it seems a hacker called ‘Oleg Pliss’ is accessing peoples iPhones by using your Apple iCloud account and invoke the ‘Find My iPhone’ service.’ Oleg will then lock your phone and charge you £55 to unlock it. There is not much you can do about it right now… Read More
How to toggle between 2 or more apps in Android using Tasker geared for Pebble users. May 7, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment I have a Samsung III. That means I cannot use a very simple but useful command that lets me load the last app used but not the current app. However, there is a way around this. In fact, you can do something even cooler if you are willing to put in the time. For this… Read More
Google Glass will sell out of all models. But not for pure demand, but speculators April 16, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment Like we used to see when Apple released a new iPhone it would sell out very quickly, then on ebay and craigslist there will be a flood of posts of people selling for .5, 1 or even 4x the original price. I have a feeling the same thing is going to happen with Glass. Even… Read More
How to open multiple command line windows in win 8 April 13, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment This was bugging me for a few days. Took a few times to look it up, so thought I would share here just in case someone else runs into this as well. Seems when you try open a window for the command line, anytime you try to open a new one, it simply brings you… Read More
How to lock and unlock your Android phone with your Pebble watch April 9, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment This is a very cool app. The way it works is very simple. When the phone detects that it is near the watch (makes a bluetooth connection), it unlocks the phone. When that connection is lost, it locks the phone up again. Sweet! Its called Pebble Locker and its not a Pebble app, but an… Read More
A fap gauge for Pebble. Really. Its called FapGauge. Genius March 27, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment Not much more I can say here. A fap gauge for the Pebble smart watch. FapGauge. Pretty straight forward: – up button starts recording – down button stops – long press on the select button erases the highscore Records how long you take, how many faps total end faps per second. The highest fps is… Read More
WHY would facebook buy Oculus.. Unless… Second life a la Facebook? March 26, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment Sounds crazy but perhaps not as much as you might think. The main expressed reason Facebook bought Oculus is the ‘platform’. Basically trying to get in front of the next shift in hardware. When Facebook launched they were king of desktop, but then mobile takes over and they had to play a bit of catchup. … Read More
SimCity 5 2013 for the Mac finally gets offline play March 25, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment Finally Mac people can play SimCity the way must of us prefer to play it, offline and with lockups. The next time you log into the game you should see the alert for update 10. Install it. Including offline play, here are a few more nice things. New: SimCity Single-Player Mode. Enables Offline Play. Single-Player Mode… Read More
How to make your Android phone faster, or at least feel faster March 19, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment Their has been a jailbreak hack that has been around for awhile that speeds up or removes animations on iOS devices that make your older phone feel a bit faster. Well turn out you can do this on Android as well without rooting or any other hacks. Its pretty simple. First find the ‘developer options’… Read More
Google announces Android wear (watch). Why this is different from Samsung and perhaps better March 18, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment Although Google will not directly build the watch themselves, they are working with HTC, LG, Motorola and Samsung. A bit surprised Samsung is working with them given they have their own watch, but there you go. I may have said this before, but I think watches running the Android wearable system will have a leg… Read More
Trying out the 5-2 fasting diet. Not to lose weight, but improve health. Day 1 March 12, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment I have known that fasting has health benefits for a long time, but with exception to when I’m sick, I just never really bothered. Then I watched a BBC special where they walked through the science behind what fasting does to the body and the health effects. The data seems to indicate there are far… Read More
3D printed Food and Candy is great. But where I really see this is for cakes! March 10, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment In fact, it has already started. We have already seen 3D almost everything, and recently 3D candy. But lately we been seeing 3D chocolate, cake decoration and even an experimental pizza for NASA. Not sure about that pizza though. What is interesting about the 3D printed candy is that Designer and architect Liz Von Hasseln,… Read More
5 ways to extend battery life on the Pebble smart watch March 4, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment After living with my Pebble for awhile, I have found a few tips that have proven to save battery life on my Pebble. For this post, I’ll break it down to 5 tips that should double your Pebbles battery life. 1) Turn the Pebble off when you are not using it. This may seem obvious… Read More
DO NOT log into your Chrome account on a public computer. Your information stays there. Tip #112 February 27, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment I had no idea about this, but here is the warning directly from Chrome. When you login into any computer, Chrome will download all your sync information and store it on that computer. Even when you log out! You have to actually DELETE the account to get rid of this information. Direct quote from the… Read More
They finally made it. A VR gaming system where you can actually walk, not get sick and can afford. The Omni. February 27, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment A LOOOONG time ago when I was at UC Berkeley studying computing in Architecture, my focus was on virtual environments. During my research I was downhearted to find a flaw in what we all thought was the soon approaching golden age of VR. VOR ( Vestibulo-ocular Reflex: explained at the bottom of the post) is… Read More
What the new Samsung Gear watches learned from the Pebble and still need to learn February 25, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment In Barcelona Samsung released 3 new Gear watches. Well, really two and an exercise band, but I’m going to call this a watch anyway. Of these three new smart watches, its the Gear Fit I’m most excited about. First though, lets talk about the two other Gears, the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo. Many… Read More