Google voice search app may appear Monday November 16, 2008 | perivision | Leave a comment I just read on TechCrunch that the Google voice-recognition search application may be delayed till Monday. Yesterday Google took the video down after a week of hyping, and pretty good hyping at that. Seems that Google and Apple were not totally aligned on the release date for this thing. That is a bit of a… Read More
While waiting for the Google voice app, I started playing with Jott November 16, 2008 | perivision | Leave a comment I found Jott while checking into Google’s new speech recognition app and its not bad. Basically, its a note pad the takes a 15 second voice sample, sends it back to their servers, and converts to text. Its not perfect as you may guess, but for a quick note, the conversion is normally close enough… Read More
Review of Files Lite as a wifi based file share for the iPhone November 13, 2008 | perivision | 1 Comment Files lite is pretty cool for 2 reasons, first you can get files off the phone using a simple web browser and upload files by setting up a creating a network place (on Windows at least, Macs have other instructions… which are here. 🙂 The fact that I can load up the iPhone with a… Read More
Review of TouchCopy to manage music on the iPhone without iTunes November 13, 2008 | perivision | 19 Comments TouchCopy ( a paid app) has been around for awhile and its lived up to my expectations. Unlike DiskAid, (review here) which provides only rudimentary file access, or Files Lite (review here) which sandboxes access to the file system, TouchCopy gives a bit more control and a far more user friendly experience. The only downside… Read More
Review of DiskAid. Use your iPhone like an external disk November 12, 2008 | perivision | 4 Comments I have been using TouchCopy (review here)for quite a while now to manage my files (images, music, etc..) It’s a paid service and worth it IMHO. I also really like Files lite (review here) because of the wifi access. Very cool. Well, there is now another option for accessing your iPhone like a USB drive,… Read More
Review of iPhone movie apps and tips for getting the most when your shooting. November 11, 2008 | perivision | 5 Comments For those of you without jailbroken phones, just keeping moving along.. nothing to see here.. Ok, for the rest of you, there are 4 programs out there for taking video and for me, one that I cannot seem to get to work. Cycoder: This is a pretty good app with a very simple UI. Start… Read More
Review of MotionX-GPS Lite gps application. Not too useful, but looks great! November 8, 2008 | perivision | 6 Comments MotionX is not like other gps loggers I have reviewed for biking or running, but I I thought I would have a look at it anyway. Sweeeett looking app! MotionX is more useful for motorcycling or driving in my opinion then biking unless you are on a long or particularly complicated ride. The cool feature… Read More
Tethering the iPhone to your laptop is suppose to be coming. November 6, 2008 | perivision | Leave a comment I just read this in cnet. AT&T confirms tethering coming to iPhone in 2009 Eh. Perhaps. There is nothing to gain and a bit to lose for AT&T to do it now. So I’m guessing they are keeping this in their pockets as a way to fight the sure to come competition from other service… Read More
Just got a new mac and wanna jailbreak (pwn)? Perhaps not November 5, 2008 | perivision | Leave a comment There are a number of posts out there saying that jailbreak or pwn’ing does not work on the new macs. Well, its not the new Macs per say, but seems to be the new version of iTunes. ..from iPhoneOverdose The problem is that the Mac does not recognize the iPhone when it restarts on how DOMs,… Read More
Social Media, the iPhone and the election November 5, 2008 | perivision | Leave a comment Well, another election has come and gone, but unlike other elections, this is the first election where social media had an impact on the outcome. Obama used a grass roots based approach building and managing the organization. Just 4 years ago, it would be hard to imagine the level of organization and communication required to… Read More
3 iPhone tools you should have for the election November 3, 2008 | perivision | Leave a comment Well, one day to go. Tomorrow will be nuts with crowds and I will bet all kinds of odd things going on. What is different this year is social media and the tools, especially hand held remotely connected devices, that can record and report from anywhere at anytime. As such, there are three tools you… Read More
Cal 21 in AP poll and BCS. Enjoy while we can, USC next week November 2, 2008 | perivision | Leave a comment Although we won yesterday in the downpour at Memorial Stadium (you would think the ducks would be better swimmers), I still was not too impressed with our offense. Sure, Riley was hurt in the 1Q and Longshore took over, but basically we are a 2 quarterback system whether Tedford likes it or not. Again, defense… Read More
How the iPhone saved me $10 at Walmart using screen capture November 2, 2008 | perivision | 5 Comments I was not going to blog about this, but recently I saw a post on how Walmart now has an iPhone version of their site. I have a friend visiting from the UK, and instead of renting a bike for a few days, I did some research and found it cheaper to buy a new… Read More
Quake on the iPhone, on a NON JAILBREAK! November 2, 2008 | perivision | Leave a comment I never thought this would happen, but ZodTTD submitted his port of Quake to the Apple store yesterday. Now we still do not know if Apple is going to let this in or not (highly unlikely) but we will all be watching. I have Quake on my jailbroken iphone and its pretty good. It takes… Read More
The GPS unit iGPS360 for the iPod touch and iPhone 2G is shipping November 1, 2008 | perivision | 3 Comments Ok, it took awhile, but hey, its shipping! Go here to orangegadgets the check it out.. xWave also has a new release of xGPS software tagged 1.0.1-4. Although its rough and takes a few steps, its the light at the end of the tunnel. More here… It’s still early as far as other applications getting… Read More
Free WIFI at Starbucks… well, not today October 31, 2008 | perivision | Leave a comment Normally I use my starbucks card to get wifi at starbucks. Since AT&T announced that as an iphone users, I can get wifi via the iPhone. So I took a walk to starbucks and give it a shot. This is what I got.. Gezzz.. Strike Two. I’ll give it a few more days and try… Read More
SBSetting: The best wifi 3G switching application so far – jailbreak only October 30, 2008 | perivision | 1 Comment I’ve been using BigBoss and it’s OK, and I don’t know if I’m the only one, but when I click on the icon it takes a few seconds to initialize. When I turn 3G on or off, I normally lose wifi. Odd bug. However, I found this on Cydia.. SBSettings! Its great! I swipe across… Read More
Jailbreak for iphone 2.2 confirmed October 30, 2008 | perivision | Leave a comment Still not going to upgrade till 2.2 has lived in the wild for awhile. Once it seems stable, then I’ll do it. http://iphonegeekclub.blogspot.com/search/label/Pwnage… Read More
AT&T to give free wifi to iPhone users.. again.. October 29, 2008 | perivision | 2 Comments Ok, I heard this before. Hopefully they have it working this time. I got a SMS from ATT pointing me to this info on the ATT site on how to gain access: iPhone users, get started with Wi-Fi Activate Wi-Fi from the settings icon on your iPhone Select “attwifi” from the list of available networks… Read More
iPhone 2.2 .. worth losing jailbreak to get Google Street view? October 28, 2008 | perivision | Leave a comment Rumers of iPhone2.2 are starting to get around and so have a few screenshots. Based on what I’ve read so far, there does not seem to be that much to get excited about short of street view. From the images I saw on iphoneyap, it looks pretty cool, but just not worth losing my jailbreak.… Read More