Aero dies in Windows 8 and stops trying to copy Apple I have been using Windows 8 for awhile now on my home computer. The first thing I noticed about windows 8 is how fast and clean everything feels. It does not have the lipstick on a pig feel that was Windows Vista. After reading Brooke Crothers post on cnet, it reminded me as to why… Read More
Augmented Reality Sandbox. Create a topo the natural way. The specific use case is limited. You can created an realtime interactive topo by moving sand around within a sandbox. However, if you extend this technology, this is where it gets interesting. Say for example, you place two beams next to each other, then ‘fuse’ those beams in AR. You can now do stress tests… Read More
Siri used to think the Lumia 900 was the best phone, but she has been ‘corrected’ Love it. A few days back we heard that if you asked Siri what the smartphone (not smart phone) is, it would reply back with the Lumia 900 by Nokia. This is because the answer comes from Wolfram Alpha, a service Siri often queries. Wolfram Alpha’s answer was based on “customer review average” across the… Read More
An iphone projector. I can see this becoming a required business equipment. Video I was in brookstone a few weeks back and saw this; iphone pocket projector. This is not the first pico projector I have seen, but seeing it in brookstone means its crossing the mark from a specialty item you see at CES to an everyday item you will see most (semi) professionals carry around with… Read More
Here are some pics of my cat. For no good reason I need to upload a pic of my cat for something I’m doing on the migration of Bitmob to GamesBeat. And I thought, what the heck. I’m going to post a few pictures of my derpy ketteh just for fun.… Read More
The Pebble Smart watch gets shinier, and now there is a limit number of pebbles I could be wrong, but I think with the Pebble Smart watch, we are looking at the most successful kickstarter project I have seen, not that I have seen lots of kickstarter projects. Not only did these guys raise enough money to start the company; after being rejects by plenty of VC’s BTW, they are… Read More
THIS is how you sell a car on Craigslist I still need to go back and find the original post, but here you go. How much you wanna bet he sold it? 1995 Pontiac Grand AM GT, Yeah Baby! Yeah! ** found it! Here is the original link. http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/cto/2979885438.html *** I credit a tweet from @jmspool for sharing. Cause sharing is caring.… Read More
Cant cut and paste a formula in excel? Could be a skype bug This through me for a look. Seems that if you have a skype plugin installed, you cannot cut and paste formulas in Excel. Pretty random till you think about it. The skype plugin is pretty aggressive trying to capture what it thinks are phone numbers and its totally possible the its intercepting the paste function… Read More
T Mobile girl dons black leather; and T-Mobile gets to work Its been a while since the T Mobile Girl, Carley if you will, changed from her girly pink to a bit more edgy black leather, but still with pink accents mind you. So what does it mean? Is suppose to indicate an more aggressive T-Mobile that is going to try get back the customers it… Read More
Petridish. Kickstarter for Science! I have written about kickstarter a few times, even bought my first item, the pebble smartphone watch. Kickstarter has been so successful that its not surprising there will be spin offs. Petridish is one of them; the science kickstarter. If you would have told me someone was working on this and I would have gave… Read More
Cool #DEMO swag. A land line phone handle for your iPhone Android Its not like you have not seen these before, but this is some cool swag from ringCentral that really came into use. Its basically a land line phone handle with a chord to connect to your mobile phone. The cool part, aside from free, is that it worked pretty well. I was on the conference… Read More
New Star Trek Game Trailer for 2013! Reverb Games News just sent out a few artist rendering and a trailer for the new Star Trek coming out in early next year for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. Looks pretty good, young kirk version! No word on the exact release date, nor cost, but odds are this will have pick up based… Read More
Coolest smart watch ever! Connects to your iPhone or Android. This watch is not on the market yet, but basically its a smart watch that lets you load applications. Using bluetooth, it will connect to your iphone or android and get alerts, run apps and who knows what other apps will come in time. The phone is called the Pebble and its on Kickstarter. (Check… Read More
Finally having a look at the game Draw Somthing. And a few tips. Well the time has come. With the thousands of new games and apps being released on a regular basis Draw Something is the newest game that has been sweeping the social media sites. As much as I tried; I could not ignore this game any longer as updates and complaints about it flooded all of… Read More
70% drop in HTC Profits. Not a good sign, but not time to panic yet HTC has been the young upstart in the phone manufacturing business jumping fast on the Android train and getting a good chunk of the phone market after only 5 years. However, this year has not been so promising as shares of HTC fell on the Taiwan Stock Exchange after the company reported a sharp plunge… Read More
Old AT&T iphones can now request an unlock code. No jailbreak / unlocked needed anymore Read this on Engadget. Now of course there are restrictions, you have to be in good standing, had your phone for over 2 years and do not owe anything on your phone and most likely a few other details buried somewhere. I still have my 3Gs, so I’m going to give it a try and… Read More
Facebook claims its current vulnerability is because of jailbreak. Oh really? The news has been moving around the interwebs on how Gareth Wright found a security issue with Facebook on the iphone. Seems the key information needed to request and hold a token to Facebook is stored unencrypted in a plist file. Facebook claims that this is not a security risk since its stored in a… Read More
Missed out regestering for Google IO 2012? Now what? First off, your not the only person who missed out. It sold out in 20min. 20MIN!!. Heck, rock concerts do not sell out that fast. Google I/O has officially sold out! There are no plans to release any additional tickets for Google I/O 2012. We have no plans for Last Call or other promotions at… Read More
Why you will not win the Microsoft challenge, even if you do I heard about the Microsoft challenge where you would take your cell phone and try to do something faster then someone on a Microsoft Mobile 7 phone. If you can win, you get a laptop. Given that they are doing this in the first place, I figured that this is fixed and as such I… Read More
An Equalizer that does not kill your battery, you may want to check out Equalizer Pro Yet another app that looks interesting but I have not tried. Now before I cut and paste the email, a quick explanation of why you may want an equalizer your iphone/ipad. First off, the sound on the iPad is not exactly Audiophile quality and odds are the files you are downloading are not exactly high… Read More