5 GPS Route Planning Tools
I’m a self admitted GPS nut and certifyable map-aholic, and I hate to admit how may GPS units I own, for my motorcycle (BMW R1200RT), road bike, mountain bike, kayak… not to speak of iPhone GPS apps… But I seldom use a GPS unit to plan a route, since it auto-calculates the quickest route. Instead I plan a route on the computer, checking out the google maps or google earth satellite images in detail to see how I can plan riding through farmland, avoid crowded areas and highways. Click here to read about 5 cool utilities, and a screencast how-to on converting google map directions into...
read moreTwo Biggest Tech Disappointments Of 2009
A post on ReadWrite web today outlines the “Top 10 Failures of 2009“, and the top 2 are definitely my biggest disappointments also. Where are the Tablets? I was hugely excited about various tablet concepts to the point of swooning every time the rumor mill turned, and having been an early adapter of Boxee and streaming net content to your large home theater TV flat screen, I bought into some of the concepts of a flat Apple or Crunchpad tablet becoming the new couch surfing, home media center, ueber iPhone, controller, e-reader, kindle killer gadget to own. I’m still...
read moreBoxee is launching a… (wait for it) BOX!
Yeah! I love Boxee, but instead of just watching it my Mac, it’s mind blowing when hooked up to the large plasma in the living room! So I have been running it on an Apple TV with a hack (anyone interested do a search for ATV Flash, from Firecore), which is great for the most part, but the hardware is just too slow for HD shows, which lag and jerk a fair bit, so I was super pleased to hear that Boxxee is launching it’s own “box”: According to Engadget: Color us shocked and elated. Boxee, the white-hot startup that has risen from nothing to everywhere thanks to its...
read moreWhy the Slingplayer for iPhone App was rejected by the App Store
According to reports this morning, the much anticipated “Slingplayer for iPhone” app has been rejected from the app store, apparently at the request of ATT, who are concerned about “bandwidth issues”. However, I think this is a mis-direction, as I would point out that there is already currently a Windows Mobile version of Slingplayer that is fully functioning over ATT’s 3G as well as over Edge networks. Rather I think ATT is using it’s iPhone monopoly to position it’s own video service that will be launched later this year. I think the critical...
read morePolymash Prediction: Monetization features of OS 3.0 will change the iPhone app landscape completely
I was following today’s iPhone OS3 announcement live event, and one thing in particular struck me: Most of the advancements are focused on the app developer community, and while I agree that these will enable this community to produce far better and innovative apps, one feature in particular I think will change the application landscape for the iPhone completely: the ability to have optional paid content and subscription models within an app. In general I am in favor of multiple business models for developers to monetize their apps, however I do see this eventually resulting in a...
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