By Grant on Oct 16, 2009 in Blog, Featured, Gadgets, Hardware, Reviews, Software | 1 Comment
Palm Pre an iPhone killer? Hardly! Sprint needs to step up their customer service game a bit too!
First off I want to say that the Palm Pre is a huge leap in smartphone tech. The interface is clean and crisp and the synergy functions of WebOS make it a great phone to organize and update contacts, calendars, notes and tasks across a range of services and social networking sites. The integration with google is only shadowed by Android obviously. The services that Sprint offer in their plans arent to shabby either. The price plans are by far the best bang for your buck in term of what you get. The fact that you can have navigation, unlimited sms, mms, im and data is awesome. Even the unlimited everything plan is only 99 bucks compared to Verizon or ATT which would run well over that. The app store is starting to grow which is another welcomed addition. Overall the Palm Pre WebOS is what i would classify as a good starting point for Palm to regain some ground but there is more work to do.
I went and purchased a Palm Pre exactly 42 days ago expecting to upgrade my wireless capabilities to a new level and now I am chewing on blood pressure medication like they are tic tacs. I grabbed the Palm Pre with the expectations of being able to replace a few of my daily gadgets with an all in one device. My TomTom, iPod, Phone and PDA could all be in one handy little device. For the most part I acheived my goal except there is that “for the most part” issue. The Palm Pre is an expensive smartphone at the price of 200 bucks with a 2 year contract on Sprint and now there are issues with the Pre.
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By Grant on Dec 2, 2009 in News | 1 Comment
Did you loose your menu options for Boxee and XBMC when your AppleTV updated to the pointless 3.0 version. No worries! The patchstick you made awhile back will still work.
If you lost your menu items like I did, ssh into your apple tv and follow the instructions below
Type:
wget http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/858897/XBMC/Launcher-3.2.beta3-debug.run
Type:
chmod +x Launcher-3.2.beta3-debug.run
Type :
./Launcher-3.2.beta3-debug.run
Enter the appropriate password “frontrow“ and answer “YES” when it asks to restart the finder.
4) From your AppleTV Menu> Launcher > Downloads, install boxee and or XBMC.
ATTENTION!!!! Do not select Launcher 3.1
Simple. If you need to create a patchstick, download atvusb-creator. Follow the directions on the Google code page.
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By Grant on Jun 12, 2009 in Internet, Reviews, Software | 3 Comments
BOLT is a web browser developed for mobile users with even the simplest phones. BOLT provides mobile users with the ability to view PC style web-pages via their mobile device. Features include streaming content, RSS feed support and 25 to 50 percent faster load times than most mobile browsers. From Bitstreams website “Built on Bitstream’s ThunderHawk browsing technology, BOLT is the result of 5+ years experience developing mobile browsers that optimize usability, speed and performance on resource-constrained systems with limited memory, processing power and screen space.” The Beta 2 version is available as a free download. I have been using this on my Blackberry Curve 8330 for a few weeks now and am very pleased with its performance.
BOLT Browser Website
By Grant on May 19, 2009 in Blog, Internet, Software | 0 Comments
Flock is a web browser that integrates all of your favorite social networking sites into one place. The Browser itself is built on Mozilla so it starts out impressive and after the integration with sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Flickr and You Tube, youll never have to interact with a person face-to-face ever again. Flock also contains a simple blog editor that will link up to the popular blogging sites as well as your own personal hosted blog site. Tie this together with “Flockcast” which will automatically broadcast any update made to Myspace, Flickr, Twitter and blog to your Facebook. This could be a closer step towards being able to update all of your social networking outlets in one swift <CLICK>. This article is being written in Flock. Go check it out now unless you have people over hanging out (you know like actual people without a keyboard and flash drive).
Flock
By Mike on Apr 4, 2009 in Blog | 1 Comment
By Chris on Mar 30, 2009 in That's Hilarious | 1 Comment
I was doing some online window shopping at Amazon when this caught my attention…
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By Chris on Mar 25, 2009 in Hacks/Mods, Hardware, How to | 3 Comments
In order to create a bootable USB Flash Drive, you will need some knowledge of computers. I will attempt to make these directions as simple as possible, but even I can be a bit obtuse at times. (Who said that?) Also note that there are other ways to do this, but I am going to share the way that I know works. Here’s how to create a bootable USB flash drive.
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By Grant on Mar 25, 2009 in Blog, Featured, HDTV, Hacks/Mods, How to, Internet, OSX, Reviews, Software | 1 Comment
Well it didn’t take long for the Boxee team to come up with a new alpha release that includes more gooey goodness including a fix to the pesky Hulu.com issue.
Last night the folks at Boxee announced the release of a new Boxee alpha. The top additions to this new alpha are the support for Pandora music streaming, PBS streams, RadioTime, a new API and the video playback is built on the XUL framework. The XUL framework is the same that Firefox is built on. Yes, HULU does work. Good Luck blocking it now. I just downloaded the alpha release from Boxee.tv and must say it delivers. Go get it.
http://boxee.tv
Here is a short how to in order to use the new plugins:
Start Boxee and in the left navigation pane scroll down to “Apps Box”. Along the top of your screen there are four selections, choose the repositories tab and add a new repository. Type the following in the text field minus the quotes ” dir.boxeehq.com” and select done. You will now be able to back out and select “New Applications”. This is where you can add all sorts of new feeds to your Media Player. Have Fun!
