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Kuhl Air Conditioners To Get WiFi Links

By David Ponce on 06/04/12 • Leave a comment!

By David Ponce

Kuhl already makes air conditioners. But they’re allegedly about to get a little more high tech with the introduction of the FriedrichLink™ Wi-Fi Adapter. This will work in tandem with an iOS application and will let you start, set, and stop your machine from anywhere. Not only that but you can program the entire week, so if you know you’ll be out on the weekend you can just set the AC to off during that time and not even worry about, you know, actually walking up to the machine and doing something.

There’s no price or availability information.

[ Product Page ] VIA [ Uncrate ]

Panasonic Releases Remote Shutter Application For LUMIX DMC-FX90

By David Ponce on 05/29/12 • 1 Comment

By David Ponce

The DMC-FX90 is a decent point-and-shoot camera from Panasonic that happens to have WiFi functionality. This has allowed the company to release an application that lets you control the camera remotely. So not only can you trigger it through the application, you can also see a live view of what the camera is seeing as well as checking the zoom levels and setting up a self-portrait. It seems like you’ll have to do a firmware update on the camera to get things to work properly, but the application is available both in the app store and the Android Market, now called Google Play. And although it’s only available on the FX90 right now, we wouldn’t be surprised to see this being rolled out to other cameras in the near future.

OF course, it’s free.

[ App Store Link ] AND [ Google Play Page ] VIA [ CultOfAndroid ]

Jailbroken iPads Can Now Multitask Windows-Style

By David Ponce on 04/30/12 • Leave a comment!

By David Ponce

A lot of good things can be said about the iPad and the post-PC revolution it seems to be ushering. But for those of us who spent their youths on Windows, the linearity of iOS’s multitasking is really frustrating. While it’s possible to look at several windows at once on a machine running Redmond’s code, the fact that you have to double-tab the home button on an iPad and then explicitly pick the next app you want to look at it stupid; the iPad does multitask processing, but not user-interacting. However if you’ve jailbroken your device, you can bring back a bit of logic with an application called Quasar, by Pedro Franceschi. As you can imagine, it gives you windows, which you can resize and drag around like you’re used to on a PC, without giving up any of the perks of iOS. This is particularly useful for those iPhone-only apps which would take up the entire screen when they’d really be much more useful tucked in a corner somewhere instead.

Watch the video below; the app seems to run quite well. It’s not free however: $10 on the Cydia app store. Just search for it.

VIA [ The Verge ]

Motors Mobile Phone App- What Does It Do And Why Is It Helpful?

By David Ponce on 04/19/12 • 1 Comment

By Guest Author

This is a Sponsored post written by Motors.co.uk.

Gone are the days when all you used a mobile phone for was to make phone calls. The times, they are a-changing and it is crucial for the public and businesses to keep up.

Don’t get left behind in the technology race. Experts are predicting that in as little as 5 year’s time, all mobile phones will be smartphones. Unlike regular run-of-the-mill phones, smartphones act more like a computer, with built-in software or software available for download. The demise of the camera is already in discussions thanks to the iPhone, next your simple mobile phone will be considered ‘retro’!

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Video: This Guy Is Insanely Fast At Scramble With Friends

By David Ponce on 04/05/12 • 1 Comment

By David Ponce

Scramble With Friends is a fun game by Zynga where you are given a board with a random assortment of letters and you have to find as many words as possible by using only adjacent ones. Well, some people are good at this game, but the guy in the video above, well, he’s a notch above. Just watch it and you’ll understand. His high score is 3,700 and has lost “once”. His method however would be considered cheating by some, or at the very least against the spirit of the game, if not the rules themselves. What he does is move his thumb around in predetermined patterns around vowels, producing lots of rejected words in the process but also correctly stringing actual words in the process.

Regardless, what’s really impressive is the speed at which his thumb moves around, so check out the video when you get a chance.

VIA [ Geekosystem ]

Last Alert App Helps You Avoid Losing Your Phone

By David Ponce on 04/04/12 • 1 Comment

By David Ponce

It’s easy enough to find your phone when you lose it: just call it. But of course you’re the kind of dumbass that only loses his cell when the battery is out, right? Then what do you do? Well, the Last Alert application gives you three lines of defence. First, you can set an audible alarm to sound when the battery reaches a certain predetermined level. You can set up to three such alarms. Secondly, when it senses it’s about to run out of juice, it will send you an email with your last known GPS coordinates. Finally, if you have the application installed on a second iDevice, you can use the compass feature on that one to help you navigate to your temporarily misplaced cellphone.

It was a project on Kickstarter that got full funding, so the application should be ready for download this month.

[ Product page ] VIA [ Coolest Gadgets ]

Pair Is An App For Long Distance Lovers

By David Ponce on 03/26/12 • 2 Comments

By David Ponce

Being in a long distance relationship sucks. If you download Pair, the application this article is about, it’ll still suck. You’ll just have a bit more fun while being miserable. Pair lets two people link up their phones and creates a private shared timeline. You’re then free to do a variety of things that both of you can enjoy privately, like posting pictures and videos, sending messages, drawing things, etc. One of the better features is the ability to give each other a “thumb kiss”: you place your thumb on screen and when both of you are in the same spot, the phone vibrates. You can also have joint “to-do” lists.

For couples that are in love, this can be a fun way to do what many are already doing very publicly on Facebook, at their friends’ sometimes too silent dismay. It’s a free download on the Apple app store, with an Android version in the works.

[ Product Page ] VIA [ UberGizmo ]

Instaprint Is A Location Based Photobooth

By David Ponce on 03/06/12 • Leave a comment!

By David Ponce

Alright, so we’re still trying to get our heads properly wrapped around Instaprint. It’s supposed to be an inkless printer (relying on ZINK technology instead) that works with Instagram, the photo application popular with all the hipsters. Simply tag your picture with a predetermined hash, and the machine will print it. The idea would be to have this setup at, say, a party. And then people who take pictures with Instagram and tag them appropriately will be able to simply walk up to the Instaprint machine and collect their pics, Polaroid-style. It’s even possible to set it up to work without a hashtag; a predetermined set of GPS coordinates gives everyone within a certain area access to the printer.

It’s a neat idea, but we have a few questions. Who is this for? Obviously, you could end up having to print an enormous amount of pictures, so whoever owns this has to be prepared to pick up the tab. Other than venues like bars or clubs, who will buy this? Which brings us to the other question, that of funding. Currently on Kickstarter, the project needs to raise $500,000 to get off the ground. At $400 a pop, that’s a lot of printers. As of this writing, 53 have been pre-sold and the project is up to roughly $40k. It’s not bad, but it’s a far cry from the half million they need. We really would like to see them succeed and wish them well, but we’re just not sure there’s a market there…

[ Project Page ]

Democratize Party Music With Anthm

By David Ponce on 03/05/12 • Leave a comment!

By David Ponce

Vowels. They’re so uncool. Let’s nvr use thm agn.

Screw that, we ain’t no hipsters. But we do like the idea behind the cool-in-2006 vowel-less Anthm. It’s a music serving application for the iPhone and you need to be subscribed to Rdio for it to be of any use. Assuming you are, you can now liven up your parties with music that everyone present sort of agree on. Users can add tracks to a playlist and vote on the order the songs play. It’s a lot like iTunes’ own DJ feature, except it’s not limited to your own collection but to Rdio’s several million tracks.

It’s free.

[ Product Page (Link may launch iTunes) ] VIA [ Uncrate ]

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