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Apple Announces Giant iPhone
Apple just announced the release of the iPad, I mean, the giant iPhone. It’s whole lot bigger than the iPhone, but it runs iPhone apps natively. It also comes with 3G capabilities, a microphone, headphone jack, and speakerphone? I bet it won’t be long before someone figures out how to use Skype or some other [...]
Continue reading...eBay’s New Pricing
26. January 2010
Looks like eBay’s making more changes to their pricing again. This will be interesting, and I’ll dare say there’ll be a whole new slew of $0.99 auctions. What this definitely means is that eBay will get more listings, and because it gets a cut of the final value fees, the more auctions that close in [...]
Continue reading...Tweeting with TweetDeck and HootSuite?
23. January 2010
I’ve recently gotten more active with tweeting, and I’m trying out twitter clients such as TweetDeck and HootSuite. I think they’re great ideas, and what they’re doing currently is great. What I found was that the two applications were pretty similar. TweetDeck is a Rich Internet Application built on Adobe AIR, which allows it to [...]
Continue reading...Firefox for the Mac (Snow Leopard) is horribly SLOW
4. October 2009
I’ve been a huge Firefox fan, and used it almost exclusively, but recently, it’s been more of a resource hog than anything. It’s gotten so bad that my entire Mac’s slowed down because of Firefox. Sometimes, CPU usage will shoot up to over 90%, and my whole system slows to a crawl. I’d realise the [...]
Continue reading...Cool New Innovative iPhone App – Robotvision Augmented Reality
27. September 2009
So this is a pretty cool demo of an iPhone app that mixes up everything to get you a very integrated location-based application. It’s really incredible. It uses the accelerometer and your current location to pull up some very cool, specific data. Check it out: Tags: acceleration, accelerometer, app, application, augmented reality, current, iphone, location [...]
Continue reading...Star Wars Science Force Trainer – Cool Invention That Tracks Brainwaves
17. September 2009
This is a great idea! The Star Wars Science The Force Trainer was just released, and it’s pretty innovative. This toy comes in 2 parts – an air chamber with a ball, which acts as the receiver, and a separate headset which senses your alpha and beta brainwaves and transmits this information to the receiver. [...]
Continue reading...Why Change to a Mac From Windows?
13. September 2009
I spend a lot of time on my computer, so I want it to be as fast as possible. To improve productivity, I meddle a lot with the OS, oftentimes tweaking it to make it run the way I want. Macs are built pretty solid, have a gorgeous screen, and have a pretty solid OS, [...]
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27. January 2010
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