I’ve mentioned PhantonAlert before, a service that lets you avoid speed traps. Well, here’s another service that’s going to help you avoid speed traps, Trapster.com. There’s an app for almost every smartphone including the iPhone, Android, or Blackberry so try it out and let me know if it does indeed work well.
As for me, I will keep relying on my old-school “magical” feel of the roads. I can see a cop a mile
Woman in Fresno, California (where one of my friends live) Ohio, was shot by accident by her boyfriend on the leg. Luckily, the bullet hit her Blackberry and saved her life (leg). We know now for sure smartphones/iPods can save lives from gun shots. (Also see when iPod stops bullet couple years back here.)
You know what, if you carry two smartphones, you can increase your safety margin. I carry a Nexus One and a Palm Pre just for this very reason… (really no… j/k)
Viper SmartStart for Blackberry will be featured at CES 2010, which I’ve been getting ready for, my flight is on the 6th. You can see a demo of their iPhone app video here:
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG_zTIRR3cI
Press Release:
DIRECTED ELECTRONICS ANNOUNCES SMARTSTART FOR BLACKBERRY
Best of Innovations Award-Winning Viper SmartStart will Launch on BlackBerry App World in Q1 2010 Using Existing Hardware
“Start Your Car from Virtually Anywhere with Your BlackBerry”
Here’s some of the first images of the new Blackberry Storm 2. This grabbed my attention because part of the reason why I didn’t buy a new Blackberry was because the new Blackberries really sucked. (no real improvements over previous versions other than new packaging)
Don’t get me wrong, I used to LOVE my Blackberry (8830), it was the most versatile piece of gadget I had as it fit in my pocket sn
Here’s a rather interesting story where a skier got wedged between two rocks. The blackberry in his pocket made his body just wide enough to fall 700 feet and saved his life.
At first I thought the Blackberry saved the skier by letting him call 911 but I guess there’s more uses with Blackberries than just calling the emergency department.
Very interesting, I am sure someone is already using a Blackberry to put butter on their bread already. (Congrats to David
In the last year or so, 20% of all damaged iPhones in the world have FAILED due to the cracking of its screens. Even Nintendo has added a protective silicon cover for their Wiimotes since they have been crackin’ up HDTVs like it’s no big thang. Well, Apple better do something and put some protective iPhone covers as default otherwise they may be cheating the consumers. (to buy new iPhones!)
Even my Blackberry has been dropped about 50 times in the last 2 years and no screen has broken. Perhaps, iPhone design is great for touch but not so much for insurance against c
Everytime I goto the Apple Store in San Francisco, I am amazed at how quickly you can check out without a receipt, the receipt actually can be sent to my e-mail box, which I can confirm in real-time using my Blackberry GMail app.
Apart from the Apple Store, I don’t see that many other retailers using paperless receipts, perhaps it’s ahead of its time.
For those of you who want to tinker with such a system that will keep your receipts in a web server so your customers can retrieve it at their convenience, you can check out
It’s interesting to note that Blackberries may be pretty secure, so long as you are using the Enterprise Server, which I don’t.
I don’t believe that the Blackberries are THAT secure, it’s a machine, you simply can’t rely too much on machines. I am sure there’s a better way to secure your data but for right now, I do agree using Blackberry Enterprise Server might be the smartest thing for thugs and drug dealers alike to do.
So if you are a high-profile gangster, make sure to get that Blackberry, not the i
One of the main features of iPhone 3G OS 3.0 is the Internet tethering feature, which basically lets you use the iPhone as a broadband modem over USB or bluetooth. Smartphones like Blackberry comes with this feature as a standard but I guess Apple still hasn’t figured out how to monetize from it, so they have disabled the function in the official release but some hackers have found how to re-enable it.
It’s a great way to use your iPhone 3G as a broadband modem although I doubt it will be fast enough as iPhone is very slow running on
Tight, looks like Blackberry 9630 is not far away for people like me who’s still holding onto the 8830. Anyways, it’s a good news that the 9630 will probably like its predecessors but better, faster, and meaner. Lookin’ forward to it RIM.
Not only is the phone turned on this time, but we’ve also caught it lying across some shagadelic leopard print. Additionally, the fine folks over at the Crackberry foru
