I play a lot of games and things on my phone and I was wondering do push notifications on iPhone count as a text message? I went on Google and did a whole bunch of searches but still couldn’t figure out definitively if the push notifications from my iPhone apps will count against my AT&T [...]

Filed under : Casual Gaming

I use the HTC Touch Pro from Sprint to scan business cards directly to my contacts, or exchange server.  The Application called WorldCard Mobile comes preinstalled on this Windows Mobile 6.5 device.  This phone also has accelerometers for tilt and rotation detection, making it fun for gaming.  GPS with voice for turn by turn directions [...]

Filed under : Reviews

So Mozilla wants an Open Video format for the web.  Yeah well, I want cheap health care for every person on the planet, a pony, and a Red Rider BB gun.  Did these people even talk to Acacia? Let’s start with a clarification, VC1, H.264, and Mpeg2 are all Open. You can go out to [...]

Filed under : Industry News

Things often boil down to you get what you pay for.  Wuala is free cloud storage based on P2P technology.  Zumo Drive is a pay service which stores your data on Zumo’s servers and emulates a network drive.  Mesh.com is Microsoft’s free service which sync multiple computers and stores your files on their servers. Wuala [...]

Filed under : Product Reviews

Genius Playlists are the premiere feature of iTunes 8. It uses metadata to create playlists based upon a single song in your library. Firmware 2.1 allows you to create Genius Playlist on Apple iPhone or iPod Touch. It has works well in my experience. Here’s how you can have your Apple iPhone or iPod touch [...]

Filed under : Computers, PCs, and Macs

It seems that 25% of girls ages 16 to 18 have sent a sexy photo to someone.  33% of boys have received a sexy photo intended for someone else.  Sexting is all the rage in High Schools, and with teen starlets. Miley Cyrus has had her iPhone hacked and all sorts of her wet t-shirt [...]

Filed under : Risque

Ever wished your phone looked a little more like a scene from 2001:A space Odessy" Yeah, me neither.  But you could blow a grand and do just that.  And 8 people did.  The idiots. Similar to the Grand Theft Auto 4 joke about $1000 ring tones.  This is the ultimate bling for the iPhone. If [...]

Filed under : Hard on the Pocket Book

If you are going to have your photo displayed on an iPhone, don’t show your teeth when you smile, don’t look directly at the camera, and don’t be wearing white… I had a "discussion" with someone who I work with who used the "authority by association" argument that Apple was the best platform for video [...]

Filed under : How To, Technical

Focus Groups are becoming less and less a part of innovation.  Instead many companies feel they can revolutionize the way we do things by forcing us to learn to do it their way.  Other companies just copy cat the methods used by their competitors. There are a lot of services out there that will provide [...]

Filed under : Industry News

5 Ways Your Gadgets Will Betray Your Privacy is just the beginning Stacey.  I have seriously considered just showing up EVERY where Scoble twitters he is going, just to prove why I his experience and everyone else’s with the product are not the same. But back to Stacey and her gadgets.  If you play much [...]

Filed under : Industry News

Not sure what it is going to be called, but Zdnet Germany has news that Apple is releasing an iPhone that is larger and uses the tiny 45nm transistor Atom Chip from Intel. The Phone which doesn’t have a name yet will sport a 720×480 display, come in 16 and 32 gig sizes, and will [...]

Filed under : Industry News

Charlie Miller demonstrated a flaw at PWN 2 OWN’s annual hacking contest. By directing the judges to a website he was able to gain access to their Computer. Charlie Miller is best known for his Hack of the iphone last year. Contest rules state that Miller could only take advantage of software that was pre-installed [...]

Filed under : Industry News

Red Zunes are on their way for valentines, and it is rumored that pink iphone and ipod touch may also be out for this Hallmark Holiday.  Replacing the standard chrome with Pink annonized metal the new Iphone and ipod touch have no other special features. No word on which markets will get the Pink iphone, [...]

Filed under : Reviews

Jailbreakme.com is the equivalent of a ModChip for your Xbox.  It allows you to run Unsigned code on your ipod Touch or iphone. While there is nothing specifically dangerous about the JailBreakme.com software, you never know what a bug in someone’s hacked together software may do to your device. Catching a virus or trojan on [...]

Filed under : How To

It seems Apple Attorney’s are tired of the press Fake Steve gets and are threatening him, and not in the happy fun way that Microsoft Legal has done to me in the past. Want to show your support for Free Press?  Want to let Apple know that you at least should wait until after CES [...]

Filed under : Call to Action