📅 December 28, 2008

1984 Prediction of iPhone’s Touchscreen Interface

Speaker : Nicholas Negroponte

Who is : The founder of the MIT Media Lab, Nicholas Negroponte pushed the edge of the information revolution as an inventor, thinker and angel investor. Now he’s the driving force behind One Laptop per child project.

Video : With surprising accuracy, Nicholas Negroponte predicts what will happen with CD-ROMs, web interfaces, service kiosks, the touchscreen interface of the iPhone and his own One Laptop per Child project.

📅 December 23, 2008

ReaddleDocs for iPhone and iPod Touch ( .ipa )


ReaddleDocs is a complete document and file management solution for your iPhone and iPod Touch. It can catch documents from almost any possible source you can imagine: Windows, Mac or Linux computers, various web sites, email attachments, MobileMe iDisk and other online file storages and even other iPhones. All files are saved to your iPhone or iPod Touch file storage so you can enjoy reading them anywhere!

ReaddleDocs features network file server, web storage client, web browser, file manager and document viewer combined within single iPhone application package.

With ReaddleDocs you can:

COPY FILES DIRECTLY FROM ANY MAC OR WINDOWS COMPUTER
Any Mac OS X, Windows XP and Windows Vista computer can connect to the iPhone or iPod Touch running ReaddleDocs and operate it like a flash drive. No additional software is required to make it work.

READ ALL COMMON OFFICE DOCUMENTS

ReaddleDocs built-in viewer supports PDF and Microsoft Office files from Word (doc, docx), Excel (xls, xlsx) as well as Powerpoint (ppt, pptx). To read documents created using software like MS Project, MS Visio or OmniGraffle simply print them as PDF files and copy to ReaddleDocs.


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📅 December 22, 2008

Tips on Saving Battery Life for iPhone and iPod Touch

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Everybody is complaining about the battery life on iPhone 3G. Well there are a couple of things you can do to save your battery life. This will not have a strict order and some of them tips might not suit you.

  • Once per week try to use all the battery life of your iPhone/iPod Touch and than charge it 100%. By doing this you will reset your battery. The more you recharge your device, without letting the battery die completely, the lower your ‘battery capacity’ is.
  • If you got a jailbreaked device, you know how fast your battery life is sucked . One of the reasons is SSH. The SSH process is running in the background when any network activity is available. You can turn this off with BossPreff or SBSettings.
  • Do you have WiFi? Great thing this WiFi huh? Have you noticed how much battery life this sucks, especially when paired with browsing the web? Well when not used or you are out of its reach, you can turn it off. If WiFi is on, and your not in a hotspot, it will constantly search for networks in background, and your loosing battery life for nothing.
  • Speaking of WiFi…. when you use WiFi turn EDGE and 3G off. ( If you want to use 3G, you NEED TO HAVE EDGE ON . 3G will not work if EDGE is not on )
  • Dim the screen dudes. Really who stands the 100% brightness on the 3G? I really cant , it hurts my eyes. And if you got it set to 100% this beautiful screen will suck the battery life like crazy.
  • Turn off Auto-Brightness . Well , first of all this is annoying ( to me ), and if off it will not only stop increasing the brightness level, it will also use less resources ( nothing to monitor )
  • You might also want to set Auto-Lock to 1 min. The more your screen in on ( if not used ), the more battery its using.
  • Do you like your sound effects? Some of them are cool, but if you don’t want to turn them off, at least set them to either Speaker or Headphones. By default sound effects are set to both.
  • You might also want to turn off EQ. If EQ is off, less resources used to monitor .
  • Try to check your emails less. When emails is checked there is network activity.

Again, this has no particular order and some of them ( or most of them ) might not suit you. I DEFINITELY RECOMMEND YOU TO RESET YOUR BATTERY ( see bullet-point 1 ). This is a must, and its not only for iPhone or iPod Touch. The other tips or hints are optional.

📅 December 18, 2008

30 TV CHANNELS ON DEMAND ON YOUR iPhone/iPod TOUCH

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The name says it all…this app lets you watch TV. Watch 50 shows from 30 channels on demand. It’s not live TV, but the best pre-recorded content from the USA, UK, France and Germany. Get the latest news, sports and entertainment on your iPhone. Television allows you to watch TV whenever and wherever you like, with the touch of a finger, instantly and on-demand via WiFi. The easiest way to watch TV on your iPhone.

Includes 20 English language channels, such as CNN, NBC, CBS, MTV, Comedy Central, VH1 and many more. British TV from the BBC, ITV and SKY. Australian, French and German channels are also included. We’ve picked the best available content from around the web and put it in an easy to use iPhone app.

With daily updated content, Television keeps you informed when on the go. Get the latest headlines on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

Full channel and programmes overview:

USA

  • CNN – Now in the News, In Case You Missed
  • CBS – Eye to Eye, Face the Nation
  • NBC – Nightly News, Meet the Press
  • CNBC – Fast Money
  • Comedy Central – Standup Highlights
  • VH1 – Celebrity Rehab, The Pickup Artists
  • Onion Networkk – All videos
  • College Humor TV – All videos
  • Digg.TV – Diggnation
  • CNET – First Look, Buzz Report
  • Discovery Channel – Highlights
  • National Geographic – Highlights
  • MTV – MTV News, music videos
  • NBA – News and match highlights


UNITED KINGDOM

  • BBC – Highlights from Top Gear, Torchwood, Goodness Gracious, QI
  • SKY – Sky News
  • ITN – News and Showbizz
  • Megawhat.Tv – Tech News


AUSTRALIA

  1. ABC – News


FRANCE

  • TF1 – Le Journal, Météo
  • M6 – Six Minutes
  • BFM – Première Edition
  • iTele – iTele News


GERMANY

  • RTL – News, Aktuell, Wetter, Exclusiv
  • ARD – Tagesschau, Das Wetter
  • NDR – Ratgeber Technik
  • WDR – Die Sendung mit der Maus, Käptn Blaubär
  • ZDF – Heute, Wetten Dass Backstage, Aktuelle Sportstudio


Disclaimer: This software is designed to help you find videos and information that resides on sites not owned or controlled by Makayama Media B.V. In particular, the software provides brief descriptions of videos to help you identify the videos of interest to you. When you select a video, you will be linked to the original webserver on which the content appears. Content may also be viewed via iTunes and YouTube application. Makayama Media B.V owns and retains all intellectual property rights to the software; but Makayama Media B.V does not claim ownership rights to the full videos, which are instead held by the sites to which the software links. Content offering may vary and channels may be withdrawn without prior notice. No refund will be given when content changes or is withdrawn. Makayama Media B.V shall have the right to modify the terms of this Agreement at any time, which modification shall be effective immediately upon posting.

Apple allows this app only to work over WiFi, not via the 3G cellular

Buy from appstore for $2.99 here

Download .ipa file from megaupload and rapidshare


📅 December 14, 2008

BOOST MOBILESAFARI FOR iPhone

One essential app in our beloved iPhone is , of course, MobileSafari. But , what can it do for you? How efficient are you when you are using it? Let’s take a look on how we can boost its features, and make you a more efficient user.

How can you do that? With just one pack of addons found in Cydia. You can find the package on the iSpazio repository and it is called Safari Addon Plugins. This package adds a variety number of new bookmarks. They are javascript that will allow users to do a lot things in Safari, like :


  • Tabulate – open link in new tabs
  • Copy-Paste – the new method to copy and paste offered by PasteBud
  • Find in this page : search words in a page
  • Translate to english : automatically translate the site you are visiting in english
  • Open in new tab : similar to tabulate
  • Image search : search for images in google Google Images with just one tap
  • Search in WikiPedia
  • iTransmogrify : first method to play flash videos in MobileSafari
  • Find similar sites
  • Dictionary
  • Display all images : shows only the images on a page

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📅 November 21, 2008

SELF-MASSAGE TREATMENT FOR CONSTIPATION

I have been asked today to do a review for a site that offers solution to constipation problems. This is something i would normally not write about, well in this blog at least. But since this is the only blog i got ( i got like 4-5 others but i dont deal with them anymore ) and i thought it was funny as hell to be asked to write about ” constipation ” , well……. Anyway bare with me, cause as funny as it sounds, this is , in fact, a serious deal. I mean imagine yourself as a dead end street : all sorts of stuff are going in and nothing comes out.

Self-massage treatment constipation appears to be borrowed from China and this type of massage is closely related to acupuncture and considered to be effective for a similar range of health problems. Their website is presented to you in a very minimalistic design but pretty straight forward. The hilarious thing is that they actually answer the question ” What is constipation? “… i mean if you got on their site ( from google, or from blogs like mine, or a friend told you , really doesent matter ) , doesent that imply that you are pretty familiar with the term?

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📅 November 21, 2008

OMNIFOCUS – YOUR PERSONAL iPhone FRIEND


Winner of the 2008 Apple Design Award for Best iPhone Productivity Application, OmniFocus brings task management to your fingertips. Keep track of tasks by project, place, person, or date. Bring up a shopping list, agenda items to discuss at work, tasks for home, and any other lists you need.

Using your location, OmniFocus can create a custom list of tasks to complete nearby. Buying groceries? OmniFocus can show you a nearby grocery store and an instant shopping list.

Capture tasks anywhere, anytime with OmniFocus: enter text, take a picture, or even make a quick voice recording.

OmniFocus can synchronize with OmniFocus 1.1 for Mac via MobileMe or a WebDAV-enabled web server.

📅 November 19, 2008

WEB FEEDS – BEST RSS APP FOR YOUR iPhone/iPod


When you got a technological jewel like the iPhone, of course you kinda take at least half of your computer everywhere you go. RSS is part of our everyday life. Everybody is using it. Well it makes it easier for everybody. Instead of going hunting for news, the news are coming to us.

So , since i got my iPhone i found at least 7 or 8 RSS aggregator app for the iPhone. And of course , i didn’t have the patience to try them all. I had installed azRSS which is a decent app , but tonight i found something better. It’s called Web Feeds. I can tell you all the blablabla info about the app that the developers provide, ( you can read that in the itunes link below ).

So , to keep this short and informative…. what this app can do? Well…. :

  • Landscape view
  • Similar to SMS or MAIL , it displays the no. of unread feeds on springboard icon
  • W/Out switching to Safari : summary view or website view
  • Searches for RSS feeds for you with a URL ex: www.funkyspacemonkey.com

BY THE WAY : if we are talking here about RSS , check out the RSS ( orange ) icon on the right side of the screen 😀 😉

Buy this app from iTunes for $1.99   here

Download webfeed.ipa file here

[tags] landscape view, going hunting, iphone, springboard, everyday life, itunes, jewel, safari, patience, ipod, developers [/tags]

📅 November 11, 2008

PALETTES iPhone APP

Palettes is a powerful productivity tool for creating and maintaining color palettes. Great for creating color schemes. Now you can create a color palette anywhere at anytime. Grab colors from a photograph, a website, or add colors using any one of 5 color models. Quickly find matching colors with support for many different color schemes. You may create and store any number of palettes. Key features include:

– Quickly create a color palette from a web site, image, camera, or color scheme.
– Import/Export palettes from/to Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, GIMP, Paintshop Pro, and OS X Color Chooser.
– Import/Export palettes via email. Team development made easy with one click import.
– Email color palettes to friends and co-workers.
– Pick colors from:

  • RGB, HSV (HSB), HSL, CMYK, or Gray scale sliders
  • Standard colors lists (SVG, Web Safe, HTML, Java, Apple) or other palettes.
  • A website URL (webpage, image, CSS file, 3rd party palette file).
  • An image or camera.
  • Any valid CSS3 color representation.

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