A week ago Steve Jobs held a press conference to address iPhone 4 reception problem and he is kind enough to offer iPhone bumper case free of charge for iPhone purchase made within September 30th 2010. What if you want to get one after September 30th and hunting for a cheaper solution ? Or you just want something else rather than everything-Apple?
1. iPhone 4 Bumper case
This is the iPhone 4 Bumper case by Apple [macrumors]
Frustration after another with Maxis, now I am fully loaded and ready to throw my humble yet evil facts about Maxis out of my head. You know that I was not a Maxis hater and a Digi lover if you have read my previous frustration because I do subcribed to Maxis, and that makes me become one of thier haters. You may think Fraud is not a suitable word to describe Maxis’s service, yes it is definitely not a suitable word because I am being friendly enough with Maxis to use only Fraud instead of Scam. So how does Maxis scam me?
With WWDC 2010 is just less than 8 hours from now and if you are excited as me to see what has installed for us by Mr Jobs, here is my compiled list of Live keynote sources where you can get almost-real-time updates prior to WWDC 2010 online. If you have something else other than the list below, feel free to comment it, better off you have live video stream!
Blog
[Source : WWW]
I used to do the #some number* trick on my Nokia 8310 to decrease the quality of voice call to save power and Nokia 5320 XpressMusic to reveal the IMEI code for Ngage cracking. This #some number* trick seem has lost its audience in the emerging smartphone market where everyone is busy sliding, tapping and rotating thier phones. But guess what, the #some number* thing could revealed information of your phone which can’t be done by sliding, tapping or even rotating NO NO.
I believe everyone on Foursquare loves to be the mayor of some locations especially places where we usually hang out and location where we live. Why? Because it just looks damn cool and awesome to get ourselves territories! The annoying part is how to get ourselves to replace that *&%$^ annoying crowned mayor.
How to become a mayor?
In order to to become a mayor, you have to be the most check-in person in a particular location for a period of 60 days, you can check in more than once per day on a single location but it is only counted as once. Trying to fool Foursquare when you are checking-in a location which you are not nearby sometime works but with the same thing, only recorded once.
The point system
The number of check-ins in this case is actually the points that going to get you the mayorship you desired, it is like how we measure the winner of a match between Team A and Team B within a period of time. In this scenario for example, you are Team A and the annoying current mayor is Team B and you the challenger have to beat him/her within a period of 60 days.
Something is missing
What is the score? The score (number of check-ins) between you and your opponent (the current mayor) is the key of this mayorship race and nope you cant get this information from Foursquare itself, but here …
When Will I Be Mayor makes it possible, once login you will see a list of your checked-in locations with the number of check-ins of the mayor and yours! With the score on hand it is much more easier to make strategies than just checking-in blindly everyday. I would rather give up pursuing a location if the gap between my number of check-ins are far left behind : ( , proceed hunting another location sounds much more wiser. At last but not least it comes with a pretty handy Monitor Spot function which send you updates of the location you choose to observe too.
[Source : Mashable | WhenWillIBeMayor | Wikipedia]
Tag Reader
Microsoft has officially released their mobile bar-coding service Microsoft Tag recently (27/05/2010) by dropping the service beta status and I noticed the Tag Reader in iTunes has the same last updated date with its release date.
So what is Microsoft Tag? The system works just like our supermarket bar-coding system targeting we the human or any living / dead things on earth as subjects and the products, by scanning through the Tags more information could be dig. Let’s start :
Initial
Hold! Before creating a tag, lets get to know better the 4 types of tag.
Text Microsoft Tag
URL Microsoft Tag
Vcard Microsoft Tag
You can now make your own ringtone using your iPhone or iPod Touch by using a Cydia free app called Ringtones3 by sckrew, you can make ringtones from your songs library in your device by using this app.
First of all not to be mentioned, you need to have a Jailbroken iPhone or iPod with Cydia installed.
How?
Problem?
Google WebM project has launched a stage play at Youtube on 19/05/2010 with the cast combination of HTML5 and VP8 video codec to potentially replace the ordinary Flash player and H.264 codec. VP8 codec developed by On2 Technologies is an open source video codec that claims to provide higher quality video with 50% less bandwidth but reviewers doubt the success of it. With only in beta stage, it might be still early to make a conclusion.
In order to play Youtube HTML5 video a browser has to be WebM video format compatible which has the support for HTML5 <video> tag. At the moment Chrome(v5.0.375.17) does not need a plugin but it does for Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer 6,7,8 (with Google Chrome Frame) maybe 9 too, soon.
Rumor has it although it is only 99% true as claimed by VG247 but I guess it doesn’t hurt to have a look on the forecast specs of Sony PSP 2. Believes to be released early of 2011 and let’s see what Sony has potentially loaded for us in their PSP 2.
Happy rumoring.
Rationalizing the purchase of an iPad usually includes a few of these:
- I’ll carry it around most of the time.
- I’ll be able to replace my laptop with it.
- I’ll be able to replace my Kindle with it.
- I’ll bring it on trips instead of my laptop.
- I’ll respond to email with it.
- I’ll get work done with it.
- I’ll take notes with it.
After a month of heavy use, I don’t think it’s good for any of those. A more accurate list might be:
