Today I tried the new version of Google Mobile App for iPhone, and I was surprised with the new voice search feature… just start the application, put the phone on your ear and speak, with the help of the proximity sensor the iPhone knows that you are speaking and recognizes your voice, in my first try the feature worked perfectly!
Google Mobile App in my iPhone 3G
If you are planning your wedding and you want to get a great photo and/or a cinematographic video work, StillMotion is one of the best you can find all around… watch this one!
Julia + Phillip SDE - Toronto May 31st from StillMotion on Vimeo.
You can watch more StillMotion wedding videos here
I’m sure that you have downloaded a porn movie sometime, thinking that its a normal theater movie, probably through eMule or similars.
Well, this is called a fake, and people think that they are created with the purpose to confuse the users, to make a joke or with bad intentions.
I think that there’s another possibility… imagine you are working with your computer and your eMule is opened, downloading, and you really want to get porn movies but without your friends can see that, what the people does? they rename “Some.Porn.Movie.XXX.avi” to “Pirates.of.the.Caribbean.3.avi”, and doing that, other P2P users that are really interested in “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie, they end up downloading a porn movie.
My little Wall-E toy at work, always helping me :D
Wall-E
While you can find something like…
“Speed.Racer.2008.DVDRiP.XViD-ARROW.CD1.avi” (Movie name (dot) year (dot) release type (dot) codec (slash) group (dot) cd num)… correct labeling,
if you search for a spanish release, you will find all names are like:
“crueldad.intolerable.Spanish.[DVDRIP].[Juegosypelis.COM].By.torrentmas.avi”
Website spam, “by”.. no slashes, no year, no Capital Letters, “DVDIP”?
Seriously, what the hell is that?!
Ok, there are some nice groups that make correct labels (SEDG, etc…) but… for God’s sake, please, take a breath, READ the f%$&ing manuals and follow the conventions like all others do.
You can find even worst things, people that stole video stream from other groups and join their bad audio recorded streams to make a new release, called… “TS-Screener”, again, WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!
In the original Scene, if your label is not correct, your video is not in correct FPS or it’s bad resized, you’ll get your release “nuked”, but here… “en fin”
Long life to the real scene, (HaRVeST, X-Force, ALLiANCE) the real ones.
The CERN LHC (Large Hadron Collider) will start launching the first beam in 26 days, the next September 10th and exactly at 9:30 CET
LHC Hall
What do you think? we’re all gonna die? some scientifics said that the earth can be destroyed… in fact, nobody really knows what is gonna happen, so… ladies and gentlemen, fasten your seat belts!
That is an another strange thing I have experienced today, and I think that i’m not the only one…
This morning I was listening to a song on my car radio and I wanted to use Shazam to recognize the title and author, then I opened the application, and 2 seconds later… was shut down automatically, so I tried again and again and did the same thing, I was not able to run it, nor any application purchased in the AppStore, and even with a hard-reset!
The solution? reinstalling again all the apps, and then, it worked.
A lot of walking across the island of manhattan in New York during the past 10 days with some of my friends… I am still tired! and back to work tomorrow Monday :(
Also I have uploaded some pictures, click here to view the flickr album about the trip.
Everything was great, I think everyone should visit “the big apple” at least once in their lifetime.
Some days ago… on July 11, I bought a iPhone 3G in the new telefonica’s flagship in Gran Via, Madrid (read the full story here), I went with one of my best friends, Ivan, who was lucky to get two!
I also have the first iPhone since October 2007, and now with the new version I want to compare the two editions in some really important aspects, like the screen quality and photo camera, something I haven’t fount too much information on the net.
First of all, the package :) two cases are quite similar, something that could be expected (the new one is a little bit higher) but the only thing I don’t understand is why the hell Apple has put the number 9 at the calendar icon again, and why not 11… anyway
iPhone and iPhone 3G boxes
iPhone and iPhone 3G boxes
Next, the phone itself. I remember when Steve Jobs was showing the iPhone 3G in the past KeyNote, many people thought that would be a poor quality material (arg, a plastic iPhone! wtf!), but you cannot realize how beautiful is until you have it in your own hands… and it is, absolutely beautiful and robust, it is NOT simple and poor quality plastic, in fact, it seems thats a ceramic material called Zirconium/Yttrium, and it feels very very confortable in your hand.
iPhone and iPhone 3G screens
Comparing iPhone 3G and iPhone
Now it’s turn for the camera quality… has the new iPhone 3G the same 2mpix camera? yes, but for the tests I made, it seems the quality become much better now.
iPhone and iPhone 3G camera shots
Photo taken with iPhone
Photo taken with iPhone 3G
The iPhone screen: Many people said that the new screen has a green/yellow tonality, it is normal folks! that’s absolutely not a hardware issue, Apple did it intentionally and the new screen has been rebalanced to display a warmer tonality to create richer tones and better contrast. The previous iPhone had a blue-color screen that caused images from camera to display improperly.
Another thing is… look at the brightness settings in the images below, while in the previous iPhone the brightness level is set at 50%, in the new 3G version we have a better quality image with less brightness! (photo was taken in a dark room)
iPhone and iPhone 3G screens with 100% brightness
In my opinion, the Springboard looks better too:…
iPhone and iPhone 3G Springboard
… and also the images :D
iPhone and iPhone 3G Image comparison with 100% brightness
