Twenty years ago today (May 22nd, 1996) I published my first mobile app that went commercial. This is the story of MicroMoney an how not much has changed. … More 25 years of mobile and >120k App Store downloads later…
biggest internet security issue of our time: Crappy password. I don’t want my password app to just remember my passwords… I want a standardized way of that app managing my passwords for me by interfacing to the sites themselves to maintain the passwords for me. … More Standardized internet password management
I have been wondering recently just how many people spend most of their music listening time in earphones/earbuds versus in front of traditional speaker systems… I would suspect that we have crossed 50% – I know I have. You may not know it, but if this is the case, we should be changing the way … More Has the time of the Binaural recording arrived?
First, another review: “Every once in a while you stumble over a product that is so marvelous you wonder if you’ve actually discovered the holy grail.” http://skattertech.com/2007/12/earpeace-technologies-livewires-review/ I know once I get my monitors that the next thing I will want is to be able to use them with the iPhone. Specifically, I will need … More iPhone Parts: Custom In-Ear monitors from LiveWires
Back in 2007,TechPowerUp did a review of the original LiveWires in ear monitors. The final paragraphs of the review: “If you want the very best of the IEM world without having to dish out upward $700 that most premium custom in-ears cost, the LiveWires are just the ones for you. The procedure of getting one … More Impressions Done: Custom In-Ear monitors from LiveWires
“I just don’t get it… why would someone buy an iPhone? Its controlled in it’s walled garden, has generally inferior hardware, youre being screwed by contracts and your phone manufacturer… the reception in certain places just plain blows…. I just don’t get it.”… Warning: I am going to make liberal use of “shitty” in this … More The iX ecosystem… some help “getting” what you “don’t get” about maddeningly idiotic iOS users…
We are in the habit of saving all our video and pictures to a server (Mac mini) and then selectively adding pics to iPhoto or Video to the “keep it” folder… Using an EyeFi card in the Digital SLR camera works great, but now with iPhone 4 and it’s HiDef 720p video I needed a … More MediaTransfer for iPhone
One of our shows, Heroes, is on NBC… and theyre not going to be carried on iTunes – and have switched to Amazon’s streaming-only service. Time for a second ElGato to record 2 channels at the same time. Current ROI: All shows we watch except for Mythbusters are available in HD over the air. I … More Setback #1:Saving $700/yr by giving DirecTV/Cable the boot..
Kicking the DirecTV habit… I got DirecTV way back when because of digital quality – picture and sound – as well as access to shows just not available on the broadcast networks… I also signed up for DirecTivo a while back, and the combination of these things gave “old school” TV and Cable to get … More Saving $700/yr by giving DirecTV/Cable the boot.. Part1
We buy all our DVDs, but they get beaten up fast, so I want to rather have them available to play off the central storage. We have an iMac in the kitchen, a Mac Mini behind the flatscreen TV as a “media server” with a long 20ft firewire 800 cable to a Drobo 12TB storage … More My home DVD ripping solution for Wife friendly cataloging…
Jeremy Laurenson 