By the time you read this, iOS 5.1 will be on iTunes; too late jailbreakers March 7, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment If you are like me and have not bothered to update to 5.0.1 because 4.x.x is working find and you do not feel like re jailbreaking your phone and installing and setting up things, well you just missed your easy bus. I decided to do that iTunes update, *yes I know I will lose unlock,… Read More
SimCity 2013!! Here is the Vid March 6, 2012 | perivision | 2 Comments As you can tell from the video, SimCity 2013 is going to be nuts! From the Press conference this SimCity is going to be deeper and more person then previous version. Imagine mixing SimCity with some aspects of ‘the Sims’ and you got the new SimCity. BTW, dont call it SimCity 5. Not sure why… Read More
The Best F**king Razor Blade Commercial EVER! And it seems like a good deal March 6, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment Credit Jolie at VentureBeat for this one. Her story on the Dollar Shave Club, mostly focus on the fact these guys raised money in silicon ally for what is a pretty simple not tech idea. And it seems like a good idea too. As someone who does shave… ok, ok, every now and again I… Read More
Jailbreaking the iPad HD – It ‘should’ come within a few weeks. March 5, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment Wed the iPad HD should be out and in a few days or a week, we should have a working jailbreak. Although there has been evidence that there is an iOS6 out there somewhere, I’m not sure they would want to release a new OS on a non number release. Odds are we will see… Read More
XKCD – tumbler.com replaces band names March 5, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment Normally I would have just read this XKCD comic and thought, yea that’s true and moved on. But something about this made me think, yup here is another sign that the interweb is changing things. I do remember using the expressing ‘ that would make a cool band name’. And now when I hear things… Read More
A Fix for brightness, sleep and other keyboard controls not working in Windows 8 March 5, 2012 | perivision | 1 Comment This is just a consumer preview, so do not expect everything to work right of the box. This morning I got an update for windows 8 and that loaded a few drivers (I expected) and suddenly my keyboard control keys started working. Also I finally got the Sleep option! Finally. So if you having any… Read More
The new Video Trailer for Assassin’s Creed 3 show this CAN work during the Revolution March 5, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment The word has already broke that the next Assassin’s Creed will take place during the American War of Independence. And I have to admit that when I first heard the rumors a few months, back I thought it was going to be a bad idea. I mean, where are you going to find tall building… Read More
How to create a bootable USB Drive to install Windows 8 March 2, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment I want to install Windows 8 on my tablet but do not want to dig around to find my DVD player, so I decided to grab an old 4gig USB key and creating a bootable install for Windows 8. There are two ways to do this. The easy way is to simply download the Windows 8… Read More
Bubble Scoop: A Cute Multiplatform Game for iOS and Kindle Fire March 1, 2012 | Chia Hwu Mobile developer Qubop Inc. has just released a new casual game called Bubble Scoop, described as an “ice-cream themed puzzle shooter”. The object is to match ice cream scoops of the same color by firing them from a moving truck, and watching them vanish in a shower of particle effects. Each level is completed by… Read More
How to Dual Boot Windows 8 on your Windows 7 machine March 1, 2012 | perivision | 1 Comment This is mostly a repost from teknobites. I took a few screenshots out, edited a few things, add a few others. The instructions for setting up dual boot for windows8 is pretty easy. If you have every setup a dual boot system before, you will see there is not much new here.. Before you start,… Read More
Google Hyper web tracking starts tomorrow, and how to stop it.. if you care to. February 29, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment Well stop it is not exactly the word I want, but I cannot find another one. Basically starting tomorrow Google will track everything you do across everyone Google property you are logged into and share it with anyone they want. Wow, sounds scarey right? Well, actually, they are pretty much doing that now, just not… Read More
rage comics, pokemon and meme drinking game boards. With Pics! February 28, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment These have been popping up all over Reddit and other places in the last 2 weeks. Pretty cool really. Odds are there will be plenty more showing up in the coming weeks as people make, oh say, Star Wars drinking games, or LOL cats board games, etc… Most of the images are pretty good quality… Read More
Phone, Tablet, and keyboard combined into the 3 in 1 ASUS PadFone. Living the Dream! February 27, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment Yes I want this. This device was announced last year, but no one could seem to get their hands on it. Until today. The core of this 3 part system is an high end Android smartphone. Sporting a 4.3-inch AMOLED display, a Qualcomm dual-core processor, running Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0), Bluetooth, a 8-megapixel camera,… Read More
How to Create Rage Face (F7U12) comics on iPhone iPad February 25, 2012 | perivision | 1 Comment Ok you rage comic writers, Rage Comic Generator is now in version 1.1 with the added ability to paint you comics as well. (I have a bad feeling about this new feature) However, since I missed 1.0, I thought I would at least post it now. This does the basics you would expect; take the… Read More
OnLive Desktop Plus lets you have a full featured browser / desktop on your iPad February 24, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment OnLives desktop plus has been out a few days and I finally got to try it. If you do not already know, OnLive Desktop Plus give you Window 7 Touch Desktop on your iPad. It’s like remote desktop a.k.a. VNC except was smoother. So smooth you can watch video, flash video. Yes that’s right, you… Read More
No, your Telsa will NOT brick if you leave it uncharged February 24, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment A story broke a few days back from a blogger named Michael DeGusta saying that if you let your Telsa’s car battery full drain that you have effectively bricked your car. He gave 5 examples of cars that were fully drained and thus ‘bricked’. He reports one example of a user who took his car… Read More
Microsoft, Google Docs and now onLive Desktop plus. The rush for business on the tablet is on and MS is at a disadvantage February 23, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment Yesterday, there were rumors of a Microsoft project to create apps for tablets that will allow greater access to MS Office applications. Next comes the release of an upgraded Google Documents for Android that provides document editing and real-time collaboration, and now comes onLive upgraded iOS app that provides a windows 7 desktop on the… Read More
Edit Google Docs in Android – New and Improved! February 22, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment Android business users rejoice. You can now edit your Google docs in your tablet, and not just edit, but you can see those edits in real time just like on the desktop. Nice. Now this news by itself may not seem like big news, but in fact, its quite interesting when you consider that Microsoft… Read More
Download, Store, view and share documents on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch February 20, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment I have not tried this myself, but its looks pretty good. Not only can you download and read major document types, you can transfer them from a PC or a Mac, Nice eh? At $2.99, its a pretty good deal especially if you are on the road quite a bit and need to get to… Read More
Tablets will be like calculators when I was a kid. But it wont be an iPad February 17, 2012 | perivision | 1 Comment Late last year when the Kindle Fire came out, pundits were saying, ‘oh this is going to be an iPad killer’ To which most of us in tech with 1/2 a clue basically ignored them and instead asked who was going to win this new market and how long will it be till Apple looks… Read More