Monthly Archive: November 2008

Nov
30

A Good iPhone Idea – but with problems

Seth Godin posts about an iPhone idea to create an app to transmit traffic information between users. This is exactly like Dash Express, which is a GPS that does all this for you. Unfortunately for Dash, they are killing their GPS devices. Does that mean it was a bad idea? Not at all. It’s a …

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Nov
17

Google SketchUp 7 – Dynamic Components

SketchUp 7 has been released (PC and Mac), and one of the new features are Dynamic Components. If you’ve done any 3D work, you’ll find this of interest:

Nov
16

Andy Ihnatko’s Flip Mino HD vs Kodak Zi6 comparision

Andy Ihnatko has a great write-up and comparison of the Flip Mino HD and Kodak Zi6 HD video camera Via Andy Ihnatko’s Celestial Waste of Bandwidth

Nov
16

Pricing iPhone Apps

Over on Safe From the Losing Fight, Andy Finnell posted about the wrong way to price iPhone apps, and I have to say that I agree. If you look at the pricing for other phone apps on other mobile platforms, prices are much higher, enabling developers to at least stand a fighting chance to make …

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Nov
11

Flip Mino HD – Very Inexpensive HD Video

Those Flip cameras that are so inexpensive got kicked up a notch to HD with the release of the Flip Video MinoHD Camcorder.

Nov
11

Google Rolls out Video Chat

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Google’s rolling out Video/Audio Chat in Gmail. That’s a picture of the settings with my mug on video. Want to try it for yourself? You’ll need a Gmail account… then go to http://www.gmail.com/videochat and install the plug-in. After you get it installed, it should take you to the Settings->Chat menu where you can configure your …

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Nov
11

Target Gift Card Is Really A Camera

Target’s $50 gift card this year? It’s also a camera. (Via Engadget)

Nov
11

TraceMonkey Speeds Up JavaScript

TraceMonkey is coming.