Nike Says No Fuelband Android App In The Works, Decides We Shouldn’t Be Friends
Oh sure, it looks like a magical pantheon of fitness from here, but…
Like many Americans, fitness isn’t a thing I do. Oh sure, it’s classy when you live in urban areas without a car and any long distance can be destroyed with public transportation and some legwork, but unless you’re some kind of superman, I enjoy working out as much as the next guy. Which is to say, I don’t, or at least I need some incredibly large amount of gamification. So it may come as no surprise that I’ve recently been looking at one of these new fitness bands to incentivize more trips to the fridge or 7-eleven, such as Jawbone’s Up, the new Fitbit device, and Nike’s Fuelband. Well, all except the last, now that Nike has publicly said they have no plans for an Android app.
Verizon And Android 4.0 Broke My Phone
GOOD GAME, Verizon…Good game.
Yeah, so I’ve been waiting for the Android 4.0 update for like…forever. It seems like my phone, the HTC Thunderbolt, is the last phone on the face of the planet to get the update. Now I wish they hadn’t given it to me at all because my phone is basically a paperweight since the update dropped a few days ago.
TPB AFK (The Pirate Bay – Away From Keyboard) Review: In Which Pirates Go To Court
Why wouldn’t you?
I’m really not sure what to make of this film. The producers want it to spread across the internet – I’ve even included it below – but I’m not sure of the motive. What is this film really trying to say? The Pirate Bay – Away From Keyboard is a play on a statement made by one of The Pirate Bay’s co-founders in which he states that they don’t meet “IRL”, but instead step away from the keyboard. The internet is their real life and The Bay’s office is little more than an IRC chatroom. TPB AFK tells the story of these scrappy, idealistic IT workers with seemingly conflicted motives managing the world’s largest tracking site for BitTorrent feeds, many of which are used to ferry copyrighted movies, music, anything. But, what’s the moral of the story? Is piracy inevitable or is there a genuinely altruistic reasoning behind it? The film doesn’t really explain either way.
Facebook Connected Websites Redirected to Error Page Briefly Today
Look familiar?
Does that look familiar to you? If you saw this page after trying to visit a website earlier today then you encountered a huge bug that pretty much shut down thousands of websites for about 30 minutes. Read the rest of this article…
Windows Phone 7.8 Review: Might As Well Buy A New Windows Phone
After I preordered my Lumia 900, rumors of a new Lumia and Windows Phone OS started to blossom. It didn’t bother me until I found out that my phone was incompatible with Windows Phone 8. Nokia and Microsoft felt pretty bad about it, so they decided to create a small update to make us early adopters not feel left out. Well guess what guys, I still feel left out.
3 Reasons Why ‘Super Wi-Fi’ Is Crap
The telecom industry you know and love (AT&T, T-Mobile, Intel, Qualcomm, etc) are sweating buckets over the governments plan to provide free Wi-Fi across the country. You might as well get out your sweat rag.
UPDATE: I’d like to thank the journalistic integrity of the Washington Post for spinning the super Wi-Fi into a huge media fabrication. Anyways, I stand by my original statement – it’s crap.
Rob’s Tech School Part 4 – Audio (Part 2)
The beauty of sound
Yesterday I started a 2 part lesson on audio and what all those goofy terms that get thrown at you by all of the equipment manufacturers mean, as part of a bigger series on technical stuff, where I talk about frame rates, video resolutions, audio goodness, etc. I talked about frequency response and dynamic range and told you that today I would be talking about dB (decibels) and signal to noise ratio.
Both of these things are pretty important as well because they are constantly used when giving performance stats on audio hardware.
So what do they mean?
Rob’s Tech School Part 3 – Audio (Part 1)
Music to my ears
Signal to noise ratio…Frequency response…Surround Sound…dB…Dynamic range.
These are all terms you’re going to come into contact with when you’re out and about looking at any kind of audio gear. From headsets to speakers to ear buds, you’re going to see this stuff all the time. Since most people aren’t audiophiles or trained audio engineers, I figured I’d take a few minutes to put something together which covers just what in the hell these terms mean, and how they relate to what we want when we’re out lo0king to spend our hard-earned dough.
Rob’s Tech School Part 2 – The Resolution Evolution
Oh dear…What’s it all mean?
480? 720p? 1080I? 4:3? 16:9?! What’s it all MEAN?!
It’s time to talk about screen resolutions and what they mean to us! The information in this article will hopefully help keep you from getting swindled by a crafty salesman who is trying to get you to buy something which doesn’t match your wants or needs, much like what a trickster at my local Best Buy tried to pull on ME once!
Good thing I knew what was up, or I would have gotten ripped off.
Here’s what happened
Facebook Knows Where NFL Fans Live, Makes A Big Colorful Map
No one likes the New York Jets?
Okay guys, I’m the last person to be writing color commentary on foot-based ball games, but this recent development is simply far too cool. There are a lot of people who believe that submitting data to Facebook is really just a way for Facebook to make money off you. To some extent, it’s true: we can target ads more effectively because we know who’s a fan of what TV series, game, or where they live. But that data can also be arranged to create the most accurate map of NFL fandom yet, a task that simply never worked before because not enough data was available.
Unless you’re Facebook.
