Category Archives: iPhone

iStrobosoft guitar tuner app review

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Peterson iPhone and iPad apps are accurate and low cost strobe instrument tuners

iStrobosoft iPhone app

Peterson has two apps for the iPhone and iPad that give the musician strobe tuning accuracy for about $10.  The iPad app is being discounted to $9.99 until January 31st, 2012.

I wanted to see just how accurate the iPhone Peterson would be. I was not disappointed, although the under $20 Snark SN-1 clip on tuner was almost as accurate.

Last night I was practicing guitar while the news was on. It was handy to refresh my tuning without looking for a tuner. I’m not sure if musicians will risk damaging their iPhones in a studio or stage environment to use the iStrobosoft app. The practicality of the iStrobosoft tuner for those uses is up to each person to decide.

Peterson Strobe Tuners have been the pinnacle of stringed instrument tuners for decades and known for accuracy and high cost.  Continue reading →

The iPhone Revolution is manned by slave labor

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Has Apple Computer become a corporation that lives off the blood, sweat and tears of Chinese slave labor similar to George Orwell’s novel 1984?


In the 1984 Superbowl commercial Apple Computer likened itself to the savior of a mankind enslaved to big government and big corporations.  The Apple Macintosh would smash the dystopian, conformist world.

In the New York Times story How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work, the author’s describe slave labor camps that build Apple iPhone’s where people work 6 days a week, 12 hours a day for $17 a day. Apple saves $15 per iPhone by using Chinese labor.   Continue reading →

Samsung’s Transparent Galaxy Tab will kill iPad

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Transparent and shape-able screens from Samsung will define the next technological advance


In 2013 Samsung will upset the tablet market with a transparent and potentially bendable hand held device.  A transparent tablet is right out of Minority Report and Tron Legacy and will have a much higher cool factor than the iPad 3, 4 or 5.

Only a few months ago, pundits were predicting no one could unseat Apple’s near total dominance with the iPad. Those days are over for Apple.
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Canada gets Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich

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Costco has the Bell Galaxy Nexus for at low introductory price of $85

Galaxy Nexus 4.0

I was surprised to see Costco heavily discount the Galaxy Nexus on introduction this week.

For once, Canadians get the phone before the USA. The Los Angeles Times reported yesterday the 4G LTE phone has no release date in the US yet.

This is the first Android 4 smart phone to market.

To put things in perspective the hot iPhone 4S is only a 3.7″ screen with 3G communications.

The Galaxy Nexus has a 4.65″ screen and uses 4G. Sorry Apple, your phone is so 2010 except for Siri.

When you check out the larger screen it’s so obvious why the iPhone has fallen behind the times. It’s tiny and hard to read.  Continue reading →

Is NJN Network Blackberry compatible

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Check it out and let us know

A reader advised us that NJN Network on her Blackberry was looking pathetic. She was right.

We made a few changes and Voila it seems to be working correctly now.

On a smartphone, this site fits withing the screen and appears different than the browser view on a computer.  Continue reading →

Mobile Flash dropped by Adobe

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HTML5 is the new standard for mobile

Adobe Flash

Adobe “will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with new mobile device configurations,” according to a blog posted by Danny Winokur, general manager of interactive development for Adobe. Those configurations include the chipset, browser, OS version and more, he said. The changes will take place following the upcoming release of Flash Player 11.1 for Android and BlackBerry PlayBook, he added.  Continue reading →

Apple and Android Apps are headed to the computer museum

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44% of 800 million Facebook users go online with a smartphone and incompatible websites are losing customers

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The world isn’t going mobile. It is mobile.

Internet sites that want to increase traffic need to migrate to HTML5. It’s new and takes some effort but that’s where the market will be.

Look around and everyone is on a smart phone. They are not talking. They’re connecting with Tweeter, Facebook and StumbleUpon and surfing the web.  Continue reading →

Microsoft’s vision of the future is almost here

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The shared vision of portable connectivity will be here sooner than later

The Dick Tracy wrist watch – computer and video phone -  was a dream in the 60s

People like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates made it a reality.

The smartphone is just the beginning of the truly personal computer that connects us together and to the businesses we use.

It won’t matter who builds the devices – Apple, Android or Microsoft. Continue reading →

Steve Jobs in the end quite a dumb human

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Technology and business smarts are useless when you’re dead

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

The tributes to Steve Jobs the tech guru are pouring in daily.

Jobs was a petty, immature human being who died prematurely at his own hand, according to a new biography Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson.

“In his last years, Steven Jobs veered from exotic diets to cutting-edge treatments as he fought the cancer that ultimately took his life, according to a new biography to be published on Monday.” New York Times.     Continue reading →