Monday, January 24, 2011

HTC HD2 dual boot on WM7 and Android

It seemed like the guys in xda-developers managed to install both WM7 and Android on the same SD card.
I have not tried this before as I do not have a HTC device at the moment. Let me know if any of you managed to get it work.


Sunday, January 23, 2011

Angry Birds Cakes

The craze for Angry Birds just keeps going on..
Now landing on cakes.. What else is next?





Tuesday, January 11, 2011

iPhone Apps Review: FreeAppADay Store

Have you heard of http://www.freeappaday.com/ ?
This is the website that gives you 1 free app every single day. The free app is only valid for 24 hours. Instead of browsing from the website, there is actually an app for it now.


The price for this app is $1.99 (yeah.. this app costs money unfortunately). Several key features of the app are as below:
Features:
  • Push Notification
  • Up to 5 Paid Apps For Free daily
  • Video Trailers and Game Reviews
  • Full Retina Display Support
  • No Ads
  • Business Section for Non-Game Apps 


 Some screenshots of the app.

























This is today's free app: 100 Rogues


























There are 3 tabs at the bottom which displays the free app of the day, free apps as well as paid apps.
























 


Sorted by categories.. 


























You can also submit your wish app. In other words, you can request for the app to be free. I am not sure how it goes, but probably if the wish for a particular app goes very high, you may just get it for free for 24 hours.


























Reviews of the apps are also available once an app is selected. Some descriptions and screenshots are available as well.



























Sharing this info via facebook, twitter and email as well.

























Overall, it's a nice app to have if you are constantly seeking for free app. By tapping on the "Get It" icon, it will straight load AppStore and you can initiate your free download from there.

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Angry Birds iPhone 4 Case

The heat for Angry Birds is still ongoing.. Now with the latest geek from Gear4..
The Angry Birds iPhone 4 snap on case!
















It comes with 3 colours at the moment, the red and yellow birds as well as the green piggy!
It is selling for £24.99 per piece.



Monday, December 20, 2010

TSA Luggage Lock

Heard of such kind of luggage lock?
I stumbled into one when I wanted to get myself a luggage lock. TSA stands for Transport Security Administration.

There are 2 main TSA approved suppliers: 



Travel Sentry














 Safe Skies














In some cases, most likely always happen in airport, screeners will open your luggage bags for further checking. If your bag has the TSA certified lock, then it would not be a problem. The screeners will be able to open the lock with a special tool and inspect the content of the luggage without damaging the locks.
If you do not have a TSA recognized locks, then the locks may have to be broken. The worst part is that you will not be allowed to claim for damage of your locks or zippers on the bag.
There are also some TSA locks which has indicators that the security officer had open the lock. Usually it's marked in red near the body of the lock.

Example of a TSA accepted luggage lock.

Friday, December 17, 2010

iPhone Apps Review: Infinity Blade

This is a new sword fighting action type of game.
Best part about this game is definitely the graphics. On the retina display of the iPhone 4, the graphics are just perfect.


The game is priced at $5.99
by Chair Entertainment Group, LLC







It starts off with a short clip of what had happened earlier.

































Notice that there is this "Start Bloodline 6". Each time you succeed/fail, the number increases. More like telling you that you are currently playing the 6th round in this game itself.

Baseline of the gameplay:
For untold ages, the God King has ruled with an iron fist - his power is incalculable; his followers, legion. Now you must journey to the Dark Citadel to battle his Titans, one by one, until you face the tyrant himself. As it has been for all in your bloodline, this is your birthright - to free your people from an endless legacy of darkness. The immortal can be vanquished - but only if heart, mind, and steel are one.




















The story is pretty much simple, a man with extensive armors, swords, shields, body armors and many more trying to fight his way till the end.

Navigation is also very simple. Tap to move, slide to the left, slide to right to dodge and so on. You will get a hang out of it soon. Moreover, there is a tutorial during the 1st time play of the game.


















Tapping on the opponent will show you the level and whatever specialty he has. Notice on the left there is this purple potion. It is suppose to restore your life. Life is on the top left of the screen. Scout around by swiping left and right during gameplay to seek for potion (life) and also gold.


















Some gameplay..
















































The blue bar represents your life while the red represents the opponent's.
Small round with a sword symbol actually triggers special power to distract the opponent while you can take the advantage to attack.
The round symbol on the right summons special powers like fire, lightning, healing.
These two items regenerates while you play.
















































When you win, your experience in the battle will add onto your items (armor, sword, shield, ring, etc).
As you keep winning battles, your experience will keep increasing. Picture below shows the stats of your current character.

































In your inventory, you will see what items you are currently having and to what extend your experience is on that particular item. The "Iron Claw" below has already been mastered which means if you still carry on battling with this sword, your level will not increase for this sword anymore. So be sure that you always have items which are not yet fully mastered or this will slow down your level up status.
It is also possible to purchase items from the store. This is where your collection of money comes to be important.


















Continuation of gameplay..


































If you are ever defeated, you can always choose to start from the last save checkpoint.















































Sunday, December 12, 2010

Guide to OpenSSH iPhone/iPad

This would serve as a comprehensive guide to enable you to successfully SSH your devices.
I am going to consolidate all the steps in this short post.

Before we proceed, you will need to ensure that your iPhone/iPad had been jailbroken and Cydia had been installed. Once this is done, we can proceed as below.

Step 1: Install MobileTerminal 426 for iOS 4.1 and above. Apparently the older version of MobileTerminal does not work with iOS 4. Use the search feature in Cydia to look for MobileTerminal 426. Once installed, you should see an icon similar to the one shown below on your springboard.








Step 2: This is where we change the standard "alpine" password. This is to prevent the likes of ikee virus on the iPhone which was said to be compromised because of the standard password.

Launch MobileTerminal.
You will be see something like below:
(your-iPhone-name):~ mobile$
Type in su root
(your-iPhone-name):~ mobile$ su root

It will then prompt for password like below:
Password:
This is where you type in alpine as the password and press enter.

Now, type in passwd like below:
(your-iPhone-name):/var/mobile root# passwd
It will then prompt you to enter new password.
Changing password for root.
New password:


Now type in the new password and again when it prompts to
Re-type new password:

With this, you have successfully changed the password of your device.



Step 3: Install OpenSSH. Launch Cydia, under Section -> Networking -> OpenSSH

 
























That's it, you may now SSH your device with the username root and the password that you have created just now.
You have successfully change the root password of your device and installed OpenSSH. OpenSSH will allow you to access your file system of your iOS devices.

Saturday, December 11, 2010

iPhone Apps Review: Naked Touch

I would like to introduce you to a great Photography app call Naked Touch.
It's almost as powerful as editing from your PC. You could edit, crop, adjust and share your photos directly from your iPhone. No need of expensive picture editor in your PC or Mac.


It is now $6.99 and it's available for both iPhone and iPad.
You can also check out the official website here



Upon launching the app, this is what you will see..
This will be your working space to begin with. You can create new album and so on. To begin, you can either take a new photo or you could import them from the gallery or from your camera roll.



















I will try to demo a picture with this app. Firstly I will import the photo from my Gallery since I had already taken this photo sometime ago.



I know, you can't tell what picture this is.. yet..













Once the picture you selected is loaded, you automatically see several editing options on the right panel. Those features are stated below in full:
  • Focus
  • Noise Reduction
  • Shadows + Highlights
  • Levels
  • Curves
  • Contrast + Brightness
  • White Balance
  • Color Balance
  • Intensity
  • Saturation
  • Color Tune
The above are more that sufficient from amateur people like me.
I will demo the "Curves" feature with this picture. Observe the picture on the left. The picture adjust "live" while you adjust the curve on the right panel. This is cool as you can see how much adjustment is actually needed to avoid over or under-saturation of the picture you intending to edit.
I suppose now you can tell what picture this is right?


















There are several other options to adjust as well. The next one that I'll demo is the Levels. You notice that there is "Auto Levels" at the bottom. This is the recommended auto-adjustment based on the picture you have selected. Sometimes it helps like the one below but sometimes it makes the picture look bad. So, you have to make your own judgement at times.


















Noise adjustment is also possible. Especially useful when you are taking pictures at night. Normally the camera sensor will try to boost internal ISO to capture pictures with more light exposure. With such high ISO, the noise starts to come in.


















Once all the editing are done, you can tap on the "Send" button on the top right to send the picture either to facebook, flickr, tumblr, Mail or to your phone gallery (iPhone).


















Okay, there are plenty more editing possible with this app but I couldn't cover all of them with only 1 picture example. I will just show you the simple outcome of the curve adjustment that we have done earlier. Take a look at the comparison picture below..


Before
























After



























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