Ted Avery

ShareWith background notifications, voice and video APIs, bluetooth iPhone to iPhone connectivity, and many more features open to developers, the iPhone 3.0 update is going to be a fairly significant game changer to the applications we use on the iPhone. As the 3.0 OS will most likely be released tomorrow or shortly afterwards, I thought [...]

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By: Ted Avery
This Saturday, Palm will release its new, much-hyped smartphone, the Palm Pre, into the wild on America’s Sprint Network. Many tech writers have already been given devices to review, and the results are in: The Palm Pre is an amazing, responsive, feature-packed device that has been deemed as the Apple iPhone’s biggest contender. [...]

ShareHey everyone! I’m going to be doing the occasional tech article for a friend’s new website, Live in Limbo. For my first post, I revealed some leaked details on a new Canadian cell phone carrier, GlobalWireless, that any Canadian not signed to a contract right now may want to consider down the road. If you’re [...]

ShareEver tried out Google Street View? It’s an amazing feature of Google Maps in most of the United States and in a handful of places other countries that allows you to get a full 360 degree view of any point on any street in a given city. Try exploring Times Square in New York!
Finally this [...]

ShareRecently Facebook made a few significant changes to their homepage design which you can read about on their blog. But what a lot of tech enthusiasts are really complaining about the new design is how much it imitates social “micro-blogging” website Twitter — and that’s saying a lot, as the techies are usually the first [...]

ShareIt seems everything is made in China these days. If this is because it’s so cheap to manufacturer goods there, why do we still pay so much for these products here in North America? There is a lot of price markup involved between the manufacturing plant, the company that designs the product, and the end [...]

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The Mentalists play Kids by MGMT on their iPhones and iPod Touches, using only apps downloaded from the Apple App Store. Apps used Ocarina, Retro Synth, miniSynth, DigiDrummer Lite.  I love MGMT, and I love my iPhone, so naturally I love this video. More than anything, I’m just amazed that music today can even be [...]

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If you are a web developer, a question that will undoubtedly arise from your clients at some point is how a client’s website can have a higher ranking in Google’s search results. One easy method of landing on the first page is to pay for Google AdWords, Google’s advertising program which allows your website to [...]

ShareWhy More Megapixels Isn’t Always Better
A tech pet peeve of mine has always been the common misconception that more megapixels always means a camera with better quality images. This is far from the truth. In this link, a tech blog Gizmodo gives a very technical, yet easy to understand explanation on how digital cameras work [...]

ShareAnyone who pays the slightest amount of attention to Web 2.0 services and websites out there probably knows about the unique social network Last.fm that revolves entirely around the music you are into, as well as the music you have yet to discover. It’s been a site I’ve always known about but never really paid [...]