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Sync Your Fitness Goals With Progress
Dec 19th
The Withings WiFi BodyScale
Packing more pounds than gifts this holiday season? This super tech scale will keep you in check with constant updates anywhere and anytime on your weight goals. The Withings WiFi Body Scale has a super stealth design and wifi integration allows instant access to your progress via iPhone, Android, iPad (first and second generation), and your computer. While some say its too much information, its probably exactly what you need to actually make that New Year’s resolution on trimming up happen.
Features
- Easy weight and fat mass monitoring on a private website secured by a password
- Personnalized multi-user monitoring thanks to an automatic user recognition (up to 8 users)
- Body analysis (fat mass, lean mass and BMI)
- Free iPhone application to monitor your weight and fat mass
- Graduation 0.2 lbs (0.1 kg) – 4 sensors, Maximum weight 396 lbs (180 kg)
- Uses 802.11g for extended range and low-power consumption
iPhone Finder by BiKN (Dead or Alive)
Nov 9th
Photo Courtesy of Bikn.com
BiKN.com (a foundational group of Treehouse Labs, LLC) has innovated a case and app package that allows you to turn your iPhone into a locatable device when misplaced, whether it is dead, muted, and/or turned-off. A price hasn’t been set on this cool little leash for your phone, but is expected to hit floors in December 2011. Definitely something to look into as the holiday season approaches.
Finger on the PULSE- Get this APP
Sep 5th
I’d like to think of myself as a successful hunter and gatherer in the app forest, and have recently stumbled the best free app. Forgive the awkward metaphor- it’s Labor Day, and my brain is still on standby.
Pulse aggregates sources of online content into a scrollable, graphic story feed. With intuitive design and an extensive selection of sites to add, it provides all the headlines your heart desires without the hassle of going to each site separately. Creators of the app say that the inspiration of Pulse was “bourne out of frustration with the news reading experience on mobile devices.”
A tap on the headline brings you to a summarized story and another tap will lead you to the origin of the article. When adding sources, several recommended choices will appear as well as a search option or the ability to choose most popular topics in a given field (i.e: Top Tech Stories).
Apparently I’m not the only one who found it worthwhile. Pulse was selected as “one of 50 apps in Apple’s App Store Hall of Fame and named one of TIME’s top 50 iPhone apps of 2011.” Sweet.
It’s available on iPhone, iPad and Android- no discrimination here 
Get more info @ http://www.pulse.me/
~SW
VOD: Band’s Instruments Stolen; Doesn’t Stop Them From Playing
Oct 15th
So this is pretty cool. A band, Atomic Tom, had their Instruments Stolen. So what did they do? They got really creative… and then they performed on the NYC Subway’s B Train. Check this video out, and see what they came up with. They’re pretty good.
Here’s a link to this song, Atomic Tom’s “Take Me Out”, on iTunes.
Source: @SamLevin
The HP Slate…The Future of Computing?
Jan 7th
During yesterday’s CES Keynote Address, Steve Ballmer showed off a bad-arse little device, the HP Slate. It’s like an iPhone on steroids, with multitouch capabilities, etc. however it runs a Windows 7 instead of Apple’s iPhone OS of course. The little tablet device looks slick and if they can beat Apple to the punch, cause you know they have to be working on an iTablet, well they might just put a shot across Cupertino’s bow.
While the hardware looks amazing, I’m a bit concerned with the fact that it’s running Windows 7 and not some OS made for mobiles. This sort of device doesn’t need that much of an OS, just give me a good energy efficient OS with great media viewing applications, access to the internet, facebook, email, ability to read a book (like the Kindle Application Steve Demo’d) and some way to play a game or two when I want to.
Click through to see the teaser video HP released, if you want.
TIP: Unlimited Calling on your Unlocked iPhone
Aug 20th
Does unlimited calling to anybody sound good? Especially when all you have is 500 talk-time minutes on your mobile phone plan? Well read on….it’s possible.
This little tip takes a bit of effort to set up, but once you do, it means unlimited calling to anybody, at any time, from anywhere in your calling area. In order to do this you will need a few things.
- An Unlocked iPhone running iPhone OS 2.0 (or better)
- A Free Google Grandcentral Account
- A Free GrandDialer App
- A T-Mobile myFaves or Alltel myCircle or similar account.
Together these 4 items will give you free unlimited dialing to anybody that you wish to call. Here’s how:
TIP: 7 More Ways To Conserve Your iPhone Battery Power
Aug 6th
Earlier this week I covered 5 Ways to Conserve your iPhones Battery Power, I’ll call those 5 ways for battery conservation the low hanging fruit of power saving. They are the quickest and they save the most power of all the ways to do it. If, however, you are going green and looking for even more ways to reduce your iPhones carbon footprint, don’t worry here are 7 more ways:
TIP: 5 Ways To Conserve Your iPhone Battery Power
Aug 4th
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As much as I love the iPhone 2.0 release on both my 1st Generation iPhone and my new iPhone 3G, it has problems. The biggest problem I have with 2.0 is how fast it can chug down a full battery. While some of the new features that consume all this power are absolutely great, to be honest most of the time you don’t really need them running. So why not learn how to quickly turn them on and off to get all that battery time back.
TIP: How to quickly add a period to your iPhone message.
Jul 31st
One of the problems with the iPhone keypad when you are typing a message is that the period is on another screen. This is very annoying to have to navigate away from typing the message just to add a little punctuation. Don’t fear, there is an easy way to add a period and continue typing without stopping. Here’s How: More >
TIP: Connecting a Stereo Bluetooth Headset to an iPhone
Jul 30th
One of the biggest problems with the iPhone, in my opinion, is that the iPhone doesn’t support Bluetooth Stereo out of the box. At least that is true at this moment in time. The iPhone technically has the ability to natively support Bluetooth Stereo, Apple just decided not to support it and essentially turned the ability off. I I’m sure they could turn it on with a little programming.
Don’t worry, with a simple and inexpensive accessory, it’s not that hard to jerry-rig it and have full A2DP/AVRCP Bluetooth Stereo Support. More >
