List/Grid Tag Archives: iphone
Why Apple’s A5 Processor is Big (Siri) + Why Doesn’t Siri Support Dictating Emails?
According to CNet, Apple’s A5 processor includes noise-reduction circuitry licensed from a start-up called Audience. Audience’s technology enhances speech and works well even when you hold the phone are arm’s length (‘far-field speech’). This explains …
Gadget Lovers! LaGuardia Airport Adds Electric Outlets to Waiting Gate Seats
Gadget lovers rejoice! LaGuardia Airport has added electric outlets to roughly every other seat in the seats by all the gates. The electric outlets sport a glowing blue light that draws gadget lovers like moth to a flame. It was so annoying when I prev…
Winter Wake-up App Wakes You Up Earlier If It Snows
Yesterday, I reviewed Zeo Sleep Manager and now today I came across another interesting sleep app created by Boondoggle called “Winter Wake-up”, which wakes you up early if it snows giving you time to shovel the snow off your car, de-ice it, and make t…
Impressive SkyDrive App for iPhone & Windows Phone Released
The SkyDrive app is now available both for the iPhone and Windows Phone users running the Mango update. This is a kick ass app that might make me switch from using Dropbox. You may recall I use Dropbox in my home surveillance recipe, which helped catch…
Microsoft Lync Mobile Client Launches in 3 Days!
Back in August I told you Microsoft informed me that the Microsoft Lync mobile client was coming “very very soon”. Microsoft told me the mobile Lync client would support both voice and video on Android, Apple’s iOS and Windows Mobile 7, explaining, “i…
Localphone Offers Free Calling Thanksgiving Promo for 4 Days
For four days (from 5am GMT Thurs 24th to 5am GMT Mon 28th) Localphone, a 4 year old company based in Sheffield, UK, is offering free calls to the U.S., no strings attached. Truphone offered a similar promo in 2009. A Localphone rep told me, “Customers…
Samsung Mocks Apple Fanboys in Hilarious Galaxy S II Ad
Business Insider’s Steve Kovach has an interesting interview with Todd Pendleton, Samsung’s Chief Marketing Officer, and Brian Wallace, Samsung’s VP of Strategic Marketing, on a new ad campaign that mocks Apple fanboys and promotes Samsung’s top-of-th…
Scientists boost battery strength by Drilling Holes in Battery. Say what?
Now you would think it would be counter-intuitive that poking millions of minuscule holes in a lithium-ion battery would result in more power. Boy, if I knew that were the case I’d take a shotgun to my iPhone 4S battery right now. Poor iPhone 4S batter…
Control Siri with Your Brainwaves!
If you think controlling the iPhone’s Siri with your voice is cool, imagine controlling it with your brainwaves. Project Black Mirror has an actual working prototype that controls the iPhone’s Siri voice recognition app! Here’s how they say it works: 1…
Yelp Mocks Rick Perry in App Store
Yelp fixed three bugs in its iPhone app yesterday, but the interesting part was how they got a ‘dig in’ on Republican candidate for President, Texas Governor Rick Perry. Yelp lists the three bug fixes as:- Bookmarks-related bugs- iOS5 styling and…
