Monthly Archives: December 2008
Would you take your tech…to the grave?
I was reading an article today about a rising trend–people getting buried with their favorite technology. Apparently people love their geeky gear SO much they don’t want to part with it once they shuffle off this mortal coil. From the article: “It seems that everyone under 40 who dies takes their cell phone with them,” says Noelle Potvin, family service counselor for Hollywood Forever, a funeral home and cemetery in Hollywood, Calif. “It’s a trend with BlackBerrys, too. We even …
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iPhone App Review: Trism
The first game I bought for my iPhone was Demiforce’s tour de force puzzle game, Trism. It looked like an amazing combo of Hexic (a favorite on the XBox) and Tetris, and I’m a puzzle game addict. After only a few games, I was hooked. Trism is absolutely awesome. I just got my highest score tonight of almost 7 million points–I was pretty disappointed to learn that if I want to beat the highest score, I’m looking at besting someone …
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Watch the BCS Championship in 3D!
First we had the holograms on CNN during the live Election Night coverage, and now we have the BCS (Bull Crap System, if you live in my house) Championship Game coming to a theater near you in live, glorious 3D thanks to Sony, Fox Sports, 3ality Digital, and Cinedigm. The game will be filmed using 3ality’s special image capturing technology and streamed via satellite using Cinedigm’s CineLive satellite distribution network to theaters nationwide. It will also be streamed live to …
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Say it ain’t so! 2009 is Apple’s last year at Macworld
According to a press release on the Apple PR site, the keynote address on January 6, 2009 will be Steve’s swan song at the Macworld Expo. According to the release, Apple is scaling back trade shows because of the increasing popularity of reaching customer via other mediums, such as the retail Apple Stores and Apple.com. What does this mean for Macworld as we know it? Will they be passing out Apple emblazoned tissues while the fanboys and girls bid His …
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The iPhone 3G is unlocked!
We all knew it was just a matter of time…the hackmasters behind the iPhone Dev Team have been hard at work since the day the iPhone 3G was released to unshackle it from the carrier constraints of AT&T. Now it looks like a successful hack is finally complete, with a promise of a free unlocking program available to the masses by December 31. Apparently the hack will only work on jailbroken phones with firmware 2.11 and below. Just a word …
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All I want for Christmas (or my birthday) is Pocket Informant…
One of the apps I’ve been waiting for (not so patiently) is Pocket Informant for iPhone. I’m a long-time PI fan from my days of using it on Windows Mobile, and I absolutely cannot wait to have it on my iPhone. The problem is, I’m incredibly impatient. I’m not a huge fan of the built-in iPhone calendar–it is functional, and I have it syncing with my Google Calendar via NuevaSync, but otherwise it’s nothing to write home about. I’m used …
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Copy and paste on the iPhone with pastebud
A long-standing complaint from the iPhone community at large has been the lack of copy and paste functionality. This isn’t something I run into needing too often, but I agree that it’s a super basic feature that should have been there from the start. There have been a few attempts at a proof of concept so far; the popular Notes replacement app MagicPad features copying and pasting between notes, but not between MagicPad and any other app on the iPhone. …
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iPhone App Review: Stanza
Ever since I got my first PDA, I have been a big fan of eBooks. I apparently have some kind of deep-seated fear about being stuck somewhere and bored to tears, and having a small library in my pocket goes a long way towards making me feel prepared for just about anything. So, when I was planning my switch over to the iPhone, one of the first things I was concerned about was the availability of a good eBook reader. …
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iPhone App Review: Tweetie
I am an avid Twitter user, so one of the first apps I downloaded onto my iPhone was Twitteriffic. It’s a great program, but 9.99 for the Pro version seemed a little high. It also didn’t allow me to search, follow people (or unfollow them!) from the application, track trends, or load more than a certain number of tweets in my timeline. After that I tried Twittelator, Twinkle and TwitterFon, but none of them really did what I wanted them …
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