Layar’s AR Browser Now Made Possible for All iPhone Apps This week Layar, the mobile augmented reality platform, announced on their blog the launch of the Layer Player. The Layar Player is a unique piece of code that can be embedded directly within your own iPhone app. Yes, seems it only is available for iPhone apps. Nice thing is there are no licensing costs and… Read More
Verizon AT&T; which is faster, better? Should I wait 18 months for the iphone 5? Now that all the web traffic has died down from the anemic Verizon announcement, lets ask the critical questions; Which should it get? The Verizon or the AT&T iphone? The answer is actually easier then you may thing with one very big condition. We will hit that condition in a second, but here is the… Read More
Watch live TV on your iPad or other tablet It was only a matter of time. You can already control your TV (with ComCast) through the iPad, and HULU has been doing this for a year. This is not a breakthrough as much as an indication that cross platform media is going to be more and more common place. Comcast Corporation today announced plans… Read More
How to connect, tether, your ipad to your iphone Just got an iPad eh? But did not get the 3G version? Thats ok right? Just connect to WIFI. But if you do have has WIFI when your travel? Well, there’s an iPhone app for that. Jailbroken of course. I wrote about using GPS on your ipad a few months back. To use GPS you… Read More
Augmenting the Reality of the Black Eyed Peas Saw this poster for the Black Eyed Peas and it didn’t work. As an augmented reality developer and fan of BEP, I had to fix this. Here is the video I made of Augmenting the Black Eyed Peas Time. Android apps used in this example are Google Goggles and Junaio from Metaio.… Read More
MetroPCS has a Android Smart phone! Is it time to switch? Umm.. No. Not yet. For those of you who follow my blog know I have up’ed my AT&T contract in the last two years, instead choosing to live me my 3G and borrowing other phones when I need to test stuff. I also have a Verizon Droid, the Samsung BADA phone and a (hahah) piece… Read More
Google maps in 3D on Android phones? Yup Map 5.0 SWEEEET!! Oh I.. cannot.. .wait.. As seen on Gizmodo, Google is about to release a 3D maps app, Maps 5.0, for Android that is vector based! How sweet is that? For those of you who do not know, vector based graphics are images created by drawing shapes and lines based on instructions instead of raster graphics… Read More
Verizon is playing the same games as AT&T with exclusivity. Apple gets richer Verizon is looking to have an exclusive deal with Apple just as AT&T does. From a business perspective, this is pretty smart for Verizon because they can claim the first 4G phone. Verizon is feeling the slip on Android and has little faith in Blackberry to really content with iphone popularity.… Read More
An Android Pro for business. Yes, now Blackberry has direct competition the new Driod Pro by Motorola is what BlackBerry has been trying to build; a business centric phone that focuses on office file formats, exchange support, high security and remote phone management that is highly required by any corporate operation.… Read More
Evernote for the iphone gets an update to 3.4, a few wins, one Epic Win. Yeah. Evernote is pretty darn cool. The only thing close is mobileNoter, but with mobileNoter you need MS OneNote to go with it. Evernote is pretty cool as a stand along app and now with the release of 3.4, its gets cooler. Most of the improvements are around the Audio features and functions, but there… Read More
Free CES application fees to 3 mobile app developers Got a cool iphone / Android / Palm / Windows / Apple Newton app? Have a cool idea for an app but need a reason to get off your rear and finish it? Well check this out.. FREE ENTRY FOR 3 DEVELOPERS As of today we just launched a Twitter competition offering waived application fees to 3 talented… Read More
Android: To Root or not to Root, may not be your choice There is a story going around that if you try to root your Android HTC G2, it will detect that you rooted it and return it back to factory… Read More
Video: Flash on the new Samsung Galaxy Android Tablet Here you go. I think the demo says it all. Flash running on the new Samsung Galaxy Tab tablet. Yes, the great tablet war is alive and well.… Read More
Sweet platform for writing iphone/ipad/Andriod apps without knowing CoCo We all know about Adobe returning to work on porting an app written in CS5 thus using ActionScript. But its not out yet. And may not be out for a bit as I comment on my post on Adobe getting back to work. However, if you just cannot wait, there is another option. Corona! The… Read More
Adobe back to work on its actionscript / flash publishing tool for iphone ipad Even more win!! Adobe has announced its back at work on its port to iphone feature within its Flash Professional CS5 authoring tool. Now just to be clear, this does NOT mean you can play a flash video on the iphone or ipad, just that you can use the same tools you have used to… Read More
New Android Trojan found, but is it a big weakness? First off, any Trojan is a bad Trojan. However, there is something off about this story. I’m not saying its wrong or we should ignore this story, but there were a few things that kinda of bothered me. First off, who in world would call a trojan file ‘“Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a”’ ??? I mean really. That like… Read More
Run Linux Ubuntu on your Android Nexus one Wow. I’ve seen lots of crazy Linux ports, but full X11? Wow. And the crazy thing is this is working on top of Android. So once they get this stable, you can realize a full on computer on your phone. You can find more on NexusOneHacks. net Check out the video below.… Read More
iPhone and HTC Android fan boys do battle via salesman cartoons I think most of you have seen the animation where someone comes into a store to buy and iphone and salesman offers the HTC EVO only to hear ‘I dont care’ about the better features. So now we have a response. Now that the person bought the EVO, they try to go into an Apple… Read More
The fastest mobile phone could break the 1G mark by end of year Yes, just as we were starting to get used to the idea of a 1 gig processor in our phones, there is already rumor of a 1.5 gig Android phone on the way. And again, rumor control, but mobileCrunch reported that a phone called the HTC Scorpion could be coming to Verizon that not only… Read More
Andrioid 2.2 for HTC MyTouch and perhaps Ion Magic users? Oh lets hope so. Its total rumor, but I just read on androidandme.com that t-mobile will be updating 3G myTouch phones. That COULD also mean the Google Ion I/O phones we got in 2009, aka, the Magic. For those of you who still have your Google Ions, it has been stuck at 1.6 forever just… Read More