Whether you are reading this on a Mac, PC, iPhone or Andriod phone you no doubt know the name Steve Jobs. One year after his death his memory and legacy lives on.
One Year Later. RIP Steve Jobs
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Have $7000? Buy a parasail!
When left to my own devices I dream up many crazy things to do with my life. Often they involve travel and more often than not they involve doing something that is out of the norm (after all who wants to do stuff that everyone and their mother does?). Enter Paramotoring. It’s basically like parachuting upside down.
First off you have a motor strapped to your back, start it up and defy gravity. Really the best way is just to see it.
When I travel I think I’m going to be packing this in my luggage for those times when I want to see the top of the mountain but I don’t feel like climbing.
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*Your mileage may vary… 3G and 4G. And why I’m still on EDGE (and yet still consider myself high tech)
I was reading a magazine ad for the Chevy Volt and two things really stood out to me. First it said on average Chevy volt owners only fill up with gas once a month. Now I find this interesting because on average I only fill up 1.5 times a month and my car is 8 years old. The second part that caught my eye was the fine print that said *your mileage may vary.
So let me get this straight. You throw out a statistic that I don’t even find that revolutionary, then you say that half of all the owners will be filling up more than once a month anyways? Really??
So why am I talking about the Chevy Volt? Well because on the next page was an ad from AT&T saying that they had the largest 4G network and not Verizon. And so starts my article.
*Your mileage may vary.
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Ads. Lets hear your opinions. I know you have them.
Alright here’s the deal. I’m a semi-poor college student. I’ll continue with this blog regardless if it makes me any money but I want to know if the ads bother you. I honestly don’t know how much money I will make from this. Lets hear your opinions!
Full disclosure: I don’t know what ads they will put on the site. I don’t have control over the ads.
-Martin
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CarTunes – Must have iPhone app!
I’ll call this a mini post seeing as I am writing this on my iPhone and as such this post will most likely not have my usual 1500 words. That’s okay. This app doesn’t need 1500 words to sell it. (And I brought pretty pictures)
I find myself often driving and listening to music and found that the music player built into iOS really wasn’t made to be used one handed if you aren’t looking at the screen. Enter CarTunes.
CarTunes is $4.99 in the AppStore. And worth every penny.
You can control all of your music with the swipe of your fingers. The most used commands all with one finger. Slide left and right to skip to the next song or back to the previous song. Hold and then up and down is volume. And the best part? Pull down to share what you’re listening to to twitter. It’s a full music player that uses your music library. It’s not until you use apps like this you realize how bad some other apps are. The text in the app is colored based off the main colors in the album art. Little touches like that make it look amazing mounted in the center dash of your car. If you have a car or a desk you dock your phone at you need this app! Go get it now!
The downside?
Alright every app falls short somewhere. I wish I could rate a song inside the app and it would be nice if there was an easy way to start shuffling within a music album from the main library shuffle (in the regular app you just swipe over and pick another song in the album to do this). That being said there aren’t many other gestures available to use and I think the app does a good job of using the most important ones.
Update: I just found out that pinching in the app switches you to the album the song is from.
Full disclosure: there is nothing to disclose. As always I wouldn’t mind a coffee but it won’t change my review. This app is great even without a kickback.
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Watch This! Pick of the month… week.. day.. hour?
I find that I spend a ridiculous amount of time on the internet. I have woken up with my iPhone in my hand and me surfing the web on Safari. How I got there I still don’t know. All this hitchhiking on the super highway we have come to call the web has gotten me lost more than once. I mean why not waste hours on end seeing what double digit millions can buy you on the beaches of SoCal? Every once and a while it does lead me something great.
Enter Casey Neistat. A man who was able to do what has been a dream of mine for as long as I can remember, travel the world. Best part? Nike paid him to do this.
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Versus! Songza vs Pandora
For people who know me well they know they I often have an earbud in at least one of my ears (yes one of the crappy apple ear buds. I’ll invest in a new pair someday…). Being a poor college student (okay not poor, CHEAP) I don’t buy music. Spotify is king on my macbook but I need a way to listen to new music when I’m out and about with just my iPhone or my iPad. Enter Pandora. Right?
Not recently.
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New on the Telly… Revolution
From time to time I find myself on the iTunes store and when I do I always end up in the Free on iTunes section (I am a poor college student after all). Revolution is an up and coming tv show from J. J. Abrams. If the name Abrams sounds familiar thats because he was behind, most famously, LOST, but was also behind Fringe, Person of Interest and Alcatraz.
The show starts off like any show would, TV is on and kids are on their iPads. Without giving too much away we find the characters in a world very different from what we know in our day to day lives. Some of the science and background ideas are just plain wrong, but what I found with LOST is that the science doesn’t always need to be right as long as they can later justify why it is that way. An example of this Hollywood science is when the blackout happened it was a rolling blackout that affected cars as well. Only an EM (Electro magnetic) pulse would do that but such a pulse wouldn’t cause batteries to no longer work. I look forward to seeing what further explanation is given in the show.
The acting was pretty good, there were some corny parts but over all it wasn’t bad. I would suggest watching the pilot. I think the show has promise, I just hope it doesn’t end up like an Alcatraz, a show that despite being amazing, got canceled.
But don’t take my word for it. Check it out for yourself. The show premires on September 17th, 2012 at 10pm ET.. However you can watch the pilot right now on Hulu.
-Martin
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iPhone 5, world. World, iPhone 5. I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship…
(C) 2012 Apple Inc.
I would like to start off before anything in saying that I have not used the iPhone 5, I haven’t touched it, I haven’t even smelled it (although I hear it smells like inter-dimensional travel. Although that might just be the smell from Foxconn), all in all I am very close to the least qualified person to say anything about the iPhone. So why do a review? Simple. I am looking for my 15 seconds of internet fame and I have yet to locate a singing parrot of my own or build my own studio like the guys at twit and I’m still in college so there is nothing for me to do (studying and going to class is for freshmen). Without further ado here is my completely biased iPhone 5 hands off review.
It has been called the greatest phone of 2018 for 5 year olds, said to cause uncontrollable laughter and tears to all who touch it. It’s the reason why Santa’s naughty list is at an all time low and there are rumors it may actually reverse global warming and end wars. (The UN is now telling me that it only ends wars with the aid of their people.)
What is this magical, miraculous, amazing device? iPhone 5. The device that tells your 3rd grade teacher that proper nouns are not capitalized when they are magical. iPhone 5 was released yesterday (September 12th, 2012) at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. One guy tried to get in with a Samsung Galaxy S III but was quickly hurried out the side door and sued for being in possession of intellectual property.
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Your iPhone is now obsolete!
(c) 2012 Apple Inc.
Apple has done it again! They have simultaneously made 250 million completely obsolete. Your pretty iPhone 4S is now broken. There is nothing actually wrong with it.. but now it is old and because there is a new one, yours is now out dated.
I’ll do more of a write up later but for now I’ll forward you on to The Verge, Twit Specials and MacBreak Weekly!
-Martin
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