October 16th 2008
T-Mobile has finally announced that the official U.K release date will be the 30th October.
Pre-orders for the Google G1 have already notched up 25,000 in the U.K already!
It seems a global buzz is defying the predictions of some analysts.
The HTC manufactured handset is expected to notch up 600,000 sales by the end of the year, [...]
October 16th 2008
David Galbraith of Oobject trained as an architect, which always makes his commentary on the design of gadgetry come at interesting angles to that of regular ol’ techdorks like me. I’m going to quote his latest write-up nearly in its entirety, but leave the actual Oobject gallery for you to go explore.
Apple’s refresh of the [...]
October 16th 2008
The passing mention of an application kill switch in the Android Market terms of service is sure to raise the hackles of the same eyebrow archers who saw the presence of an App Store kill switch in the iPhone as downright perfidy.
Still, read closer, and Google’s explanation on when, why and how they’ll refund [...]
October 16th 2008
Hottrix, developers of popular iPhone application iBeer, are suing the Molson Coors Brewing Company over their rival application, iPint, for over US$12 million in damages.
Hottrix-developed iBeer shows a beer being poured into a glass and then simluates the user ‘drinking’ it when the phone is titled, making great use of the iPhone’s accelerometer. The app retailed [...]
October 16th 2008
When Steve Jobs announced back in August that the iPhone included a “kill switch” capable or removing malicious applications, iPhone customers were understandably concerned. “Hopefully we never have to pull that lever, but we would be irresponsible not to have a lever like that to pull,” said Jobs.
Well now it seems the iPhone isn’t the [...]
October 16th 2008
I lag behind my colleagues in the home-storage ‘n’ networking stakes. Joel has some stout NAS box that’s probably larger than my Shuttle PC, and John’s got a home theater PC, Airport expresses, the lot. He can probably flush the crapper with his iPhone.
Me, I have a 4-year old USB drive plugged into an old [...]
October 16th 2008
“RjDj” is a new iPhone application that mixes audio data from the iPhone’s microphone in realtime and plays them back out your headphones to create an electronic musicish environment. Different “scenes” exist in lieu of proper songs, each of which use the open “Pd” descriptor language to define what to do with the sounds coming [...]
October 16th 2008
This morning started as it always does: gritting my iPod-white teeth, I fingered the open trephine hole of my auxiliary port, smelled my fingers to detect any spillage and then — untangling the knots of the buycrime detecting umbilical that slithers out to my desk from Big Boinger’s central hub — inserted the massive Cat-5 [...]
October 15th 2008
• Gizmodo: The G1 phone and the Android operating system are not finished products..
• Engadget: The G1 isn’t going to blow anyone’s mind right out of the gate.
• Om Malik: Will I recommend this phone to anyone out there looking for a smart phone? The answer is yes, especially if you don’t much care for [...]
October 15th 2008
I lag behind my colleagues in the home-storage stakes. Joel has some stout NAS box that’s probably larger than my Shuttle PC, which John’s got a home theater PC, Airport expresses, the lot. He can probably flush the crapper with his iPhone.
Me, I have a 4-year old USB drive plugged into an old router. Network [...]
October 15th 2008
ifixit, the same guys who brought us the beautiful disassembly of the 3G iPhone, have gutted the MacBook and MacBook Pro (Pro pictured here). But beyond the pretty photos, they’ve discovered some…
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October 15th 2008
I’m going to have to take SIMable’s word on the “unlocks 85% of the world’s phones” bit because I just don’t have the time or travel budget to test every phone in the world. Maybe Verizon’s “can you hear me now?” guy would consider defecting from CDMA to GSM to help me out? After reading [...]
October 15th 2008
I am a big fan of the 1Password utility for the Mac. It stores all of my passwords in encrypted form so I only have to enter them once. I just got word from Agile Web Solutions that the iPhone version is now available in the App Store and it will be free for a [...]
October 15th 2008
“RjDj” is a new iPhone application that mixes audio data from the iPhone’s microphone in realtime and plays them back out your headphones to create an electronic musicish environment. Different “scenes” exist in lieu of proper songs, each of which use the open “Pd” descriptor language to define what to do with the sounds coming [...]
October 15th 2008
This morning started as it always does: gritting my iPod-white teeth, I fingered the open trephine hole of my auxiliary port, smelled my fingers to detect any spillage and then — untangling the knots of the buycrime detecting umbilical that slithers out to my desk from Big Boinger’s central hub — inserted the massive Cat-5 [...]
October 14th 2008
My favorite ebook reader by far is eReader for the iPhone and they just released another new version free for the taking. Version 1.3 adds several new features, the biggest for me is adding bookmarks. Just tap in the upper right corner just like other platform versions of eReader and you get an instant bookmark [...]
October 14th 2008
If you’re a fan of retro musical instruments or Rolf Harris - or perhaps you want to play a version of Telstar the Very Cool Software Company has recently announced its first iPhone application: The Dubreq iStylophone.
For those of you too young for the refereces made above; the Stylophone is an electronic musical instrument (kinda), originally invented by Brian [...]
October 14th 2008
It is often the case that gadgets, however perfect in aspect and form, can be further enhanced by further expenditure. This is true of even the most illustrious technological fruits of distant nations’ labor. Take, for example, the iPhone.
I know, I know. It is a controversial thing, to dim a star by deed or [...]
October 14th 2008
All citizens should be familiar with the magnificent personage of our nation’s great hero, Garriott, Lord British. Ask any recipient of a state-distributed Propaganda Pillow and they’ll tell you: as the glorious product head of Infomercia’s Ultima Online protocol, Garriot was directly responsible for the gelatinization of millions of perfidious Engasian buypuppets, both their [...]
October 14th 2008
As Ministers of the revolution, we are often asked “What cell phone should I buy?” The answer — which just happens to be a guiding principle of CapCon — is of course “all of them.” But that is no succor to the Infomercian home-maker making the most of his or her Pegasus Rebates, for whom [...]