The Lenovo U1 Hybrid Could Be Better Than The iPad
Jan 30, 2010 Gadgets, Information
I just saw this video about the new Lenovo U1 Hybrid that will come out later this year. I think it is an amazing device. It is a notebook computer and tablet all in one, or is it two? Check out the video and you decide how amazing it is.
Apple Tablet-Iphone OS Based
Jan 26, 2010 Gadgets, Hardware, Information
In an interview with CNBC, McGraw-Hill’s CEO confirms that their textbooks will be on the Apple Tablet and it will be an iPhone OS based machine. When asked about rumors that their textbooks will be on the Apple tablet, Terry McGraw responds:
“Yeah, Very exciting. Yes, they’ll make their announcement tomorrow on this one. We have worked with Apple for quite a while. And the Tablet is going to be based on the iPhone operating system and so it will be transferable. So what you are going to be able to do now — we have a consortium of e-books. And we have 95% of all our materials that are in e-book format on that one. So now with the tablet you’re going to open up the higher education market, the professional market. The tablet is going to be just really terrific.”
Source: Macrumors.com
Tags: apple tablet
Iphone Car Dash Mount
Dec 17, 2009 Gadgets, Hacks, iphone
Ok I think through all my trials and searching I have finally found a really good windshield or dashmount for the iPhone.
I was shopping in Target this week and noticed that they had one that looked very interesting. It was from a new brand I have never heard of called Speck.
I had been seeing a lot of Speck cases and what not for the iPhone all the day long as I shopped today. This however looked like something I had been searching for, for quite some time.
This kit provides you with a base that can be mounted on the dash or suctioned to the windshield, a belt clip, a snap on case for the iPhone, ipod touch, or ipod nano, audio aux cable, and also an additional swivel attachment so that you can get every possible angle you need out of this thing.
As soon as I got to the car I took it out of the package and pretend to mount it on the dash to see how well this was going to workout. I could see right away that I didn’t want to give up my Incipio Case for the one they provide. The one that they provide is almost perfect for this. See on the pack of it there is a square piece of plastic and it happens to fit in the other square on the mount.
This was not a deal breaker for me. I like to modify things, and I had been looking way to long for a decent mount.
All I had to do was take the piece that came with the kit for the ipod nano, widdle it down a bit with a grinder, super glue it to my Incipio Case and I was done.
I tried to find a good link to provide you with so you get pick up one for yourself but I had no luck. I guess the easiest thing to do is visit Target and see if they have one there.
Here is the exact same thing but its by a different company.
http://www.iq-ss.com/index.aspx?menuid=12&type=introduct&lanmuid=66&language=en
I included some photos from my setup.
Roll Your Own Multiboot USB Flash Drive
Nov 16, 2009 Gadgets, Hacks, Information
How To Create Your Own Multiboot USB flash drive
For the longest time when I do computer repair house calls, I often depended on a satchel full of CD’s with my favorite tools on them.
Some of them being ERD Commander, Ultimate Windows Boot CD, Knoppix Live, Ubuntu Live, NTpassword, and so on. I hated to have all these cd’s with me at all times.
I often thought about how to accomplish this, but always got sidetracked.
Recently I made up my mind and said the ultimate goal was to have a bootable USB flash drive with a nice menu. I fiddle with this for at least two months with little to no headway, but alas I figured out how to do it and I would like to share it with all of you techies out there willing to read my blog.
I am going to teach you what I have learned throughout this process, and I’m sure you will feel technically empowered when this is all done.
Today you are going to build a USB Multiboot toolset complete with customized boot menu ready to launch many of your favorite tools.
Are you Ready? Good, lets get started!
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How To Jailbreak The Iphone 3G with Redsn0w
Jul 6, 2009 Gadgets, Hacks, Information, iphone
Hey everyone, sorry for not posting in such a long time. I have a good one today for you Iphone users out there.
In today’s article I will explain how I jailbroke my iPhone 3G.
What is jailbreaking you ask?
The jailbreak is a term used to refer to devices that can freely install and run whatever application the user might want or need. Read more on that here
Please understand that JAILBREAKING is not UNLOCKING your device. Unlocking is when you free the iPhone to run on other cellular carriers other than ATT. Jailbreaking is a risk free process where you will open the OS of the phone to install and run whatever applications you wish. Also, you can ALWAYS restore your device to the factory state using iTunes, which will vanish the jailbreak modifications.
Everything that was working before this process will continue to work, including all the default applications and pre-installed software’s like AppStore and it’s applications. Jailbreaking will simply just open another door for you to choose a path.
Recently I was visited my my brother-in-law and he had just jailbroken his iPhone. I had always thought I might try this one day but I was scared it would mess up a lot of things like my Itunes account, syncing, corrupt the phone OS, slow the phone down, etc. He showed his phone to me and it was totally fine. He was able to carry on just like before but now there were lots of new tweaks on his phone that I always wanted the iPhone to do, like video record, the ability to block calls like many of my older simpler Nokia cell phones uses to do, and also have a simple battery percentage meter(see below), which just came out on the new 3GS by default but not in the new 3.0 OS update from Apple for the current 3G iPhone. Why Apple Why? See the bottom of this post to see how to enable this nice little feature.
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Tags: cydia, installous, iphone 3g, jailbreak, redsn0w
Tom Tom GO 730
Nov 24, 2008 Gadgets, Information
Hey everyone. Today I wanted to tell you all about my favorite GPS device for automotive use.
Its the Tom Tom Go 730 and I managed to get it brand new on eBay for $150 less than in stores.
I actually use it to navigate with and hands free calling as well as an mp3 player. I have it playing some of my mp3 collection through the audio out cable into my car stereo. If you wanted to take it with you in another car or friends car you could use the built in FM transmitter to listen to your mp3′s on their stereo.
One of the coolest things about it is when you have a cellphone paired with it via bluetooth and you are listening to your music, it will pause the music and take the call and when the call is over it will pick back up where the music was automatically paused. You can also set it to auto answer the call after a set number of seconds. This is nice if you want to limit how many times you take your hands off the wheel.
It has a battery so you can take it with you to another vehicle if you choose to do so. While its in my car I use the supplied 12v adapter and its tucked away nicely. This way when the power is turned off, you get 10 secs to choose whether you want it to stay on or turn off with the car. I always let it go off with the car and it resumes where it was when I start the car again.
As I said earlier its a great mp3 player and easy to navigate through the music to select tunes to play.
The navigation menus are a breeze and really make it easy to find what you are looking for.
It connects to my iphone with bluetooth as soon as I get in the car after the initial pairing. This also has my address book in sync with it which is really nice.
There is a listing of phones that is supports on TOM TOM’s website. Some phones allow the device to use the phones data connection to get out onto the internet and retrieve weather updates. There is also the capability with some phones to have it read text messages and emails aloud to you and you can respond with voice right back.
There really is too much to list so I tried to find a video that does the job pretty good.
I highly recommend this device to anyone looking for car navigation.
Tags: auto answer, fm transmitter, gps device, mp3 player, tom tom go
Why You Need Skype
Oct 2, 2008 Gadgets, Services, Telephony
Skype is a piece of software that you can download to call other people on Skype over the internet for free and make and cheap calls to any other phones and mobiles worldwide.
I absolutely love Skype and here is why…
Think about this for a second. The unfortunate part about checking our mailboxes is BILLS!
So I get a water bill and a light bill and (used to be) a phone bill.
What happens if I don’t use any water for the month? Water bill shows $0.00.
What happens if I don’t use any electricity for the month? Last I checked $0.00
What happens if I don’t use the phone for an entire month? That’s right, I still get charged like $60.00 or so for fees and the privilege of having a land line phone. At the very least you might be able to get it down to $26.00. This is ridiculous! Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: cell phone service, computer help, skype
