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A New App Turns Your Phone Into A Siren When A Tornado Is Spotted Nearby
Just wrote up the American Red Cross’ new tornado-spotting app for @fastcompany. What do you think — Awesome or annoying?
Mobile DTV Brings Live Television To Cars, Buses | Fast Company
Check out my new article for Fast Company about how new chipsets mean you can watch live tv on your smartphone, in your car, or on the bus…. and, dear friends, want a stat that will freak you out? MORE THAN A THIRD OF TAIWANESE DRIVERS HAVE DASHBOARD MOUNTED MINI-TV SETS. Make of that what you will.
Smartphone Rant
Ever since my Android firmware auto-upgraded to Gingerbread, my Droid 2 has turned into a steaming pile of crap. The stupid goddamn phone auto-clicks on everything, misinterprets my hand motions, does 10 inputs for every single time I put my finger within a foot of the phone and goes on these crazy fucking jags of clicking on every program in site, moving them around the layout and auto activating them like a malicious poltergeist with ADHf**ckinD is hacking into my phone from outside. I need my Android for work and it’s damn near unusable right now.
Google might make great web products, but I’m fed up with Android. I’m really, really thinking about getting an iPhone. Goddamn hell…
TagSense, a prototype app designed by two college-aged Microsoft interns, can automatically tag a picture with a person’s name, physical activities, facial expression, and exact physical location—all without human input.
Just wrote this for FastCo. Kids do the darndest things.
A new app for Android phones blurs faces, strips metadata, integrates easily into Facebook, and is open source. It’s great news for activists and protesters—and also for keg-standing partiers who want to make their photo albums safe for work.(via Photo Anonymizer App Helps Protect Dissidents, Obscure Epic Bro-Downs | Fast Company)
…and just wrote this for FC.
Philadelphia residents have a new weapon for fighting municipal corruption: An iPhone app that lets them send photos and video of money-wasting city employees directly to the controller’s office.
Just gave Philly some love over at @fastcompany.
