New "iPhone3,1" Picture Spotted!

Nick Mahar Nov 29, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Apple, Design, Gadgets, Gaming, Hacks, Hardware, Internet, Mobile, News, Personal, Videos, Websites, breaking, iPhone

Photo taken on the iPhone 3,1

Reports of a photo taken by the "iPhone3,1" mysteriously popped up in the usage record of a Bay Area App Store developer. The "iPhone2,1" turned out to be the 3GS, so we may be looking at the next iteration of the iPhone. 

3,1 was first discovered in November by the iPhone app iBart, however, this isn't the first time the "iPhone3,1" name has shown up in data form. Back in August, the "iPhone3,1" was discovered hiding in iPhone firmware files, but MacRumors is reporting that this seems to be the first case of it out in the wild.

Also noteworthy is the timing of the discovery; In October 2008 Apple started testing the 3GS in and around the San Francisco area, so perhaps this gives us a bit of a time frame for when we'll see the next iPhone release?

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[MacRumors via Gizmodo]

App of the Week: Words Free

Nick Mahar Nov 29, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Apple, Applications, Design, Exclusive, Gadgets, Gaming, Hardware, Internet, Mobile, Reviews, iPhone

This week a friend on mine led me on to a very cool app called Words. This app is basically a free version of Scrabble that you can play with anyone who has an iPhone at any time. The real win of the app is that you can chat and play at you own pase. The game could last an hour or how ever many weeks you want it to go.

Words free lets you make a move, close the app, and wait until your opponent gets a notification of his/her turn, makes a move, and get notified yourself of when you turn is up. The app is completely free and worth checking out for anyone who likes to play Scrabble with friends or unknown even if you don’t have the time to do so in one sitting. You can either search for users to play with using your contact list, or search by user name. If you don’t know anyone with the game yet, you can play a random opponent. Finally, Words With Friends also has a mode for local play if you want to play against a friend using a single device.

Either way, both games are free and supported via in-game advertising and Words With Friends has a premium version for $2.99 that you can buy if you want to support the developer and/or don’t like looking at ads. I haven’t had any problems with mine except crashing once but i get that many times even on my Facebook app. It’s a great free game and i guess it helps with you vocabulary too.

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Magellan's iPhone/iPod Touch Car Kit Next Month

Nick Mahar Nov 29, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Apple, Applications, Design, Gadgets, Hardware, Internet, Mobile, News, Websites, iPhone

Earlier this month Magellan announced they were trying to one-up TomTom by creating an iPhone and iPod Touch GPS car kit of their very own. No price or release date was set though. Thanks to Amazon's new product listings, we have a clue to when it will be shipped and for how much. This is on compatible with the 2nd and 3rd generation iPod Touch as well as the iPhone 3G & 3GS.

The car kit comes with a built-in speaker, charging capabilities, a noise-canceling handsfree speakerphone, and it also works with any navigation or location-based app--not just Magellan's own $79.99 RoadMate program. The unfortunate part here is that Magellan has somehow managed to produce a cradle that's actually more expensive that the ludicrously overpriced TomTom variant, but those willing to part with $129.99 can place their order now and look for a December 11th ship date. I'm guessing it has it's own GPS in the cradle since the device works with iPod Touches which is really cool. No reports on how well it works but the device looks very sleek. 

This also won Editor's Pick in Best GPS & Navigation for 2009 at Amazon.com. For more information click the link Amazon.com.

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Nick Mahar - Google Wave Diary: Day 1

We all have seen our very our Ricardo Trejo's Google Wave Diaries over the past few weeks. I recently received my invite and i just wanted to write a little thing about it myself. For starters, even when i asked my friend's for an invite I had no clue what in the world it was but i knew since it was Google, it must be good. After watching some of Google's videos I understood the layout of the page but I was still like why in the world would i use this thing, what's the difference between this, email, and a Facebook status with comments?

Happy Turkey Day

Nick Mahar Nov 26, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Gaming, Humor, Okay Geek, Personal, Websites, World

In honor of Thanksgiving in America I thought of posting my favorite videos, which either make fun of it, or just use the holiday for humor. Of course, if anyone has ever seen Red Vs. Blue, you should know about the Turkey Day PSA about a "Turduckin". This is one of my favorite's and I hope you like it!

From All of us at T3chH3lp.com to You, Happy Thanksgiving!!

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OS Xbox Pro: Get Use Out of Your Old Xbox

Nick Mahar Nov 25, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Apple, Applications, Design, Gadgets, Hacks, Hardware, Humor, Industry News, Internet, Linux, Microsoft, Mobile, Movies, Music, Videos, Websites

Everyone has seen a Hackintosh, but this one is just too cool to miss. With the case of an old Xbox console, and as much power as a $4,500 Mac Pro, the specs on this thing are crazy: 2.93GHz Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550s paired with an NVIDIA GeForce 9800GT card, 8GB of RAM, a 16GB SSD, and four traditional hard disk drives (one each to boot Windows 7 and OS X) plus two 500GB 7,200rpm drives in a RAID0 array for video editing.

It took Will Urbina only $1,500 to build his OS Xbox Pro - this of course does not include manual labor, which for this project is plenty expensive. I must say I'm amazed and would love to get my hands on one of these!

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[Engadget]

iPhoto 8.1.1 Update

Nick Mahar Nov 24, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Apple, Design, Gadgets, Hardware, How to, Internet, Websites, breaking

 

A new update for iPhoto '09 was released today. It contains fixes for face recognition performance and accuracy, and also resolves minor issues with book ordering. The update can be installed via Software Update or through a standalone installer. It is recommended for all users of iPhoto '09.


WARNING:
If you imported photos of people while using iPhoto 8.1, there's an extra step you should take after installing the 8.1.1 update. Select all those photos, Control-click to open the contextual menu, and then choose Detect Missing Faces. This will re-detect the faces in those photos and correct any face recognition issues introduced in iPhoto 8.1. You should not quit iPhoto during the Detect Missing Faces process.

So far the update hasn't had any problems and is helping on performance stats a lot.


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