View 2D Android apps in VR with PhoneCast – S8 only Here is something I have been waiting for, the ability to use my 2D Android applications and 2D games in VR. The way it works is a 2D window is provided in your VR environment. Within that window you can run Android apps! Sweet Right? This GearVR App is call PhoneCast which is already out… Read More
How to toggle between 2 or more apps in Android using Tasker geared for Pebble users. I have a Samsung III. That means I cannot use a very simple but useful command that lets me load the last app used but not the current app. However, there is a way around this. In fact, you can do something even cooler if you are willing to put in the time. For this… Read More
Leaving iPhone for Android. The last straw, my Pebble watch I have been using the iphone 4 for a long time now. It works well. I had it jailbroken and customized to do what I want. Never did update to the iPhone 4S and also skipped out on the five because I was too invested in the old docking station. So much so, I had… Read More
10 things that iOS could pick up from Android Seriously?!! Apple is already planning on making a new iPhone? If the iPhone5 what such a crash and burn (as alot of people think), shouldn’t they be taking a a little time to improve on some of the features that the iPhones are lacking? Android OS has quite a few things that put them ahead… Read More
LinkedIn App Upgrades For Smartphone & iPad Mobile Users LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional social network with more than 175,000,000 members in over 200 countries, recently updated their Android and combo iPhone plus iPad apps, to entice mobile users for more engagement. Their website will be rolling out similar features to its users over the next few weeks. Real-time is a must in today’s… Read More
GooPhone i5 to take a bite out of Apple, with an Android iPhone and a lawsuit This is gold. Announced last week, the Chinese manufacture GooPhone decided to take all the iphone 5 rumors out there and create that phone. However, instead of running iOS on this, they would run Android. Now this is funny enough, but it seems that since Apple did not patent the iphone 5 specs yet, GooPhone… Read More
Pin This. Pinterest Releases Android and iPad Apps. This post was written by Christopher Rauschnot and was originally posted to Pin This. Pinterest Releases Android and iPad Apps. You can follow him on Twitter @24k & @24kMedia and the 24kMedia Facebook Page Social networking site Pinterest, is on a roll with app releases. Their first-ever Android app, at 1.0.2, along with a newer… Read More
Google Now to compete with Siri, and it might be better through prediction This is something I have been expecting.. A simply AI system that learns from your behavior to make voice interaction smarter. Think of it as autocorrect for your SaaS personal assistant. If you tend to call your SO on the way home from work often, then the next to time you say; call so and… Read More
Unboxing the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play and augmented reality I just received my Sony Ericsson Xperia Play smartphone. This is the first PlayStation certified Android smartphone, hence it is also known as the PlayStation phone. I won the phone from a party Qualcomm had during the Game Developers Conference 2011 for their new Snapdragon platform. I haven’t won anything like this before so I… Read More
Samsung Galaxy Tab Mobile Computer Tablet Review By @24k This review post was written by Christopher Rauschnot and originally posted to Samsung Galaxy Tab Mobile Tablet Computer Review. You can follow him on Twitter @24k & @24kMedia and the 24kMedia Facebook Page Sets of tablets were announced in late 2010 that were going to be shown off at the upcoming International Consumers Electronics Show… Read More
Forget where you have been? Google hasn’t. Seems that Google has included a Location History dashboard with their latest release of Google Maps 5.3 for Android. The dashboard is a feature for Google Latitude that allows you to view your location history on a personal dashboard at google.com/latitude or on the phone by tapping view location history from your Latitude profile. The… Read More
Should I develop for Apple iOS or Android? (Note: this post is a living document) As recently as 6 months ago, this would be a silly question. The general rule is that you always build on Apples iOS first then Android second, then other OS’s later. Assuming you have the skills or people to choose what to build for, the common thinking is… 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
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
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
The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of Apple … And so begins the War. Scene 6, End part 1 It was only a matter of time before both Apple and Google would find themselves on top and staring at each other. Microsoft was now #2 and Apple was king of the hill, but Google was not far behind. And after Apple kicked Flash out of the studio, Google made a point in their last… Read More
At&t reception in SF is better, but not good enough, and no Verizon iPhone? Over the last 2 weeks I have noticed that my iphone was working slightly better in my office here SOMA in San Francisco, the home of cell phone purgatory. But not good enough. And of course, I still get dropped calls in Oakland and in Palo Alto. So now what? Well, I already decided that… Read More
40% of blackberry users would switch to a smartphone Last week I talked about how near 30% of current ebook owners would have bought the iPad if it had been available. Well, another study from arstechnica states that %4o of blackberry users will go to a smart phone when their contract is up.. Many of them going to the iphone. Its pretty clear that… Read More