iphone 2.2.1 upgrade is not worth losing jailbreak January 27, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment As I’m sure everyone knows, 2.2.1 is out. And what does it offer us? Not much. from PCWorld: The software is said to improve Safari’s stability and fix an image issue in which pictures saved from Mail don’t display properly in the Camera Roll. Yep — that’s it. Pish. Whatever. Not worth the download much… Read More
Instant messaging, google talk and twitter comes to Truphone January 26, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment Look what I got in the email from the interwebs.. We are writing to you to let you know that in the next 24 hours, your Truphone for the iPhone application will be automatically upgraded with some exciting new features*! These new features are: 1. Instant Messaging (IM) IM will be added, meaning that you… Read More
Track iphone cell minutes with CallCounter useage tracker January 25, 2009 | perivision | 8 Comments It’s taken awhile, but finally a function I have really missed when I used to have my treo. I have a limited phone plan, so keeping track of my cell minutes is important, but more importantly, I need to know where my minutes are going. Although you can go on the web to get your… Read More
Training your spell check to be a bit more personal January 23, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment I have said this many times, and just in case you missed it, I really HATE the iphone keyboard. Yea, I used to be a Treo user and really liked having a real keyboard. I normally tell people who do lots of texting or phone based emails, to get a blackberry instead of an iphone… Read More
Twitter apps for the iphone via Gizmodo January 23, 2009 | perivision | 2 Comments This is a pretty good post, matt buchanan put a list of twitter apps for the iphone together with screenshots and grades. Now I’m using Twinkle myself where before I was using twitterific, but fount twitterific buggy. Matt has Tweetie as the best overall, but eh, I dont know, seems to much kitchen sink to… Read More
Cut and Paste on the iphone gets one step closer with Clippy January 22, 2009 | perivision | 1 Comment I say one step closer because Clippy (a jailbreak app) is still not the full deal. What clippy will do is keep a string (string= series of alphanumerics) in memory so that you can paste that string into another applications. There are even limits here, conflicts with intelliscreen, etc.. Still, I like where it’s going,… Read More
Review of Griffin Macro lens for the iphone camera … sweeet January 19, 2009 | perivision | 11 Comments Finally, my clarifi case arrived. And so as promised, I did a few experiments… First though, the case itself. It’s a nice case, a bit too smooth for me which makes me fear I will drop it at some point. I may place a grip sticker on it. The case comes in two pieces, so… Read More
USTREAM to provide broadcast video on a non jailbroken iphone? January 17, 2009 | perivision | 1 Comment Well, according to techcrunch they are, at least that is the implication in the article. As you all know, we already have a number of video options for the iphone ONLY if its jailbroken. Stories here.. What I do not understand is; where in the article do we see anything that points to USTREAM getting… Read More
Change of igoogle for the iphone … not happy January 16, 2009 | perivision | 6 Comments ARrrrggg… I really liked the old version of igoogle for the iphone. So today, they changed the format to a general mobile version. Worse, I have to reselect my tabs again. Fortunately when you select ‘Add Stuff’ at the bottom of the page, my tabs from the desktop format is there, but still, Grrr.. This… Read More
SMHeart Link: Taking the iphone as a biking computer to the next level January 16, 2009 | perivision | 2 Comments I’ve written a number of posts about using the iphone as a biking, running and even golfing computer. Well, there is the next level. A full training environment! From SmHeart link. As good as having speed and elevation change is useful for training, adding cardio and other measure, like cadence and power, would bring you… Read More
Review of SaveMyDocs.. Fail January 15, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment Bummer, I have not reviewed an app for awhile, mostly because I’ve been very busy with twittfilter (www.twittfilter.com) and there has not been anything new that really caught my attention.. Until I say ‘SaveMyDocs’ The idea is to use javascript to allow you to save a web page into a variety of formats that you… Read More
Macro lens for the iPhone; the only thing I bought at MacWorld January 9, 2009 | perivision | 1 Comment Once I saw this I knew I had to buy it. Often, when I’ve had a good bottle of wine, I would take a picture of the label so that I could buy that bottle later. However, because of the focal length of the iphone’s lens, I would only be able to read the larger… Read More
Review of InfraredCamera and SP Photo – taking low light pics with the iPhone January 7, 2009 | perivision | 1 Comment I actually downloaded this awhile back but have not used it until now. Its actually pretty interesting. I took a pic of my cat in a low light situation.… Read More
5 things SimCity really needs to fix.. now January 6, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment I really like SimCity for the iphone. I think they did a great job, esp with the UI. I still enjoy and lose far more time then intended playing it. However, there are a number of things that just really piss me off. Ok, so EA, if you are reading this, take notes.. Beginning rant….… Read More
Unlock for 3g 2.2 Even if I quickpwned? According to the instructions January 5, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment Wait a min. Something odd going on here. Remember all those warnings when jailbreak for 2.2 first came out? NOT to update the baseband? Ok, so now I’m reading the steps for unlocking using yell0w snow. Based on what I read, I should be able to do this on my phone despite the fact I… Read More
My personal project Twittfilter is now in Alpha January 4, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment Twittfilter is actually an old project. I started it last Spring but only shared it with a few friends. The first feature of Twittfilter is the ability to send you an email if a term (typically your twitter name) is found in the public stream. Since you get an email you do not have to… Read More
Android on Netbooks. its coming.. and I, for one, welcome our new overlords. January 3, 2009 | perivision | Leave a comment MATTHÄUS KRZYKOWSKI & DANIEL HARTMANN wrote an article for VentureBeat on how they were able to get Android working on the EEEPC 1000h. Link here.. Now for most of us mobile geeks, this is not shocking news… as a concept.. but given how quick they were able to do it, and also given how the… Read More
Top iPhone apps you should have for MacWorld January 1, 2009 | perivision | 2 Comments First off, Happy New Year! We are approaching the final count down to MacWorld and aside from a few bookmarks (and macworld – thanks @danielbru for reminding me), there are a few apps you may want to make sure you have installed. I’m going to break the list in two; jailbreak and non jailbreak apps. … Read More
SimCity 1.3 for the iphone ipod update released January 1, 2009 | perivision | 2 Comments You knew it was coming. They claim Increased stability. I’ll download and test. We’ll see if anything else is new. {UPDATE} OK, it does seem to work a bit better but when you start it, it recommends you do a reboot before starting the game. Thanks, already figured that. Still takes awhile to start and… Read More
LED Football2 is out. Fun if you are old enough to remember. :) December 29, 2008 | perivision | 1 Comment I did a review of football when it first came out back in Sept. Story here. So I got another email last week saying LED football2 is out. Downloaded it, played with it, and just like the first one, its fun. Totally reminds me of when the original came out. Whats different here is the… Read More