• links for 2009-09-03

    Homemade Dinners on the Table A very smart tip as to how to make grocery shopping/dinner prep a lot more smooth on a weekly basis. (tags: grocery shopping)

  • Acrossair on the iPhone

    Who would have thought Augmented Reality on the iPhone was as simple as letting applications ‘float’ their windows over top of the video feed coming from the camera. Well that’s truly how simple it is, but you do as a developer have to create the database of ‘interesting’ coordinates to display over top of the…

  • If You’re Not Seeing Data, You’re Not Seeing | Wired.com

    Wired has an interesting survey of current state of the art in Augmented Reality. They are finally taking notice of this killer app for Smartphones. Let’s hope location data becomes useful worldwide. And let’s hope some enterprising iPhone developers create the Killer App for the iPhone as soon as humanly possible.  There needs to be…

  • Toshiba Announces World’s Largest SD Card – Gadgetwise Blog – NYTimes.com

    Memory card formats have been a moving target, and as a result have tended to shape the devices that adopted certain formats. In cases like the Sony memory cards, it’s been a way to monopolize the accessory sales market for their devices. But the SD card format at least has been just about agnostic in…

  • AppleInsider | TomTom for Apple iPhone released in U.S. App Store for $99

    Apple Insider reports this morning that the TomTom GPS application has appeared in the U.S. AppStore. And if you decided to get the external antenna you can even use your iPod Touch as a GPS. That is way cool and way more useful than I had previously thought this was going to be. Kudos for…

  • AppleInsider | Apple’s tablet

    Speculation within in the IT rumors and hints and whispers department concerning Apple’s Tablet PC continue un-abated. Just today speculation is the device will use an Organic LED screen which in the past has meant a high dollar premium for anything larger than a 3″ cell phone screen. What’s even scarier is predicting how much…

  • Reseller lists TomTom iPhone kit

    It’s not cheap, but the TomTom accessory kit for the iPhone 3GS is now listed on a re-seller’s website. Hopefully the Navigon and AT&T iPhone Apps haven’t stolen the thunder of the original TomTom announcement. But I guarantee the GPS performance will be a lot faster with an external device. I’m not criticizing the internal…

  • iTunes U: The Beginning

    iTunes U is an interesting example of an object oriented database and a web service that accepts SQL-ish commands through HTTP PUT of XML files. What more could a nerd ask for?

  • links for 2009-07-30

    Kodak Zi-8 has a microphone jack! In the small pocket camcorder market Kodak has fired another shot across the bow of Pure Digital. They are including a microphone jack in their latest camcorder. (tags: video)

  • AppleInsider | Augmented reality in iPhone 3.1; new Snow Leopard build

    It appears Apple is on board for fully pushing through the whole Augmented Reality capability of the iPhone. Follow the link below: Apple promises that its upcoming iPhone 3.1 release will be the first to officially support augmented reality apps that support the iPhone 3GS’ camera. Also, a new seed of Mac OS X Snow…