Note: I originally posted this over at Chai Life, but felt it deserved a place here as well. Emoji Icons are a rather extensive set of icons (Emoji being the Japanese word for what we call emoticons or smilies) that are common in Japanese text messaging and web sites and are essentially have been standardized [...]
Archive for December, 2009
How-To: Enable Emoji Icons On Your iPhone
December 31st, 2009 
TAV Tablet Rumor: Call it the "iSlate"
December 27th, 2009 TAV As with pretty much every tablet rumor to date, this is pure speculation, but Apple has apparently recently acquired the domain name iSlate.com which has fueled the tablet rumor frenzy machine in to overdrive with name speculation. This seems like a perfectly logical name choice for Apple, but if the tablet rumors are true we’ll [...]
WinMo Eats The iPhone's Dust
December 18th, 2009 TAV It’s been a long time coming and after months of slowly chipping away at the market share of actual units sold, the iPhone has, according to comScore statistics, surpassed Windows Mobile in the actual number of total users. This huge step for the iPhone is due to the usage of Windows Mobile devices holding ground [...]
App Profile: IMDb
December 15th, 2009 TAV IMDb Category: Entertainment Last Updated: December 8th, 2009 Current Version: 1.0.0 Size: 0.5 MB Price: Free IMDb likely makes just about anyone’s list of the absolute best websites on the Internet, but for an extremely long time there was a void for users of smart phones or other mobile devices. Not only were there no [...]
The Evolution of the Cylon
December 10th, 2009 Evan I saw this elsewhere on the ‘net and absolutely had to share it here. Want your own copy? Click it to buy it from Amazon.com.
Posted in Funny, Mish-Mosh, Technology 
Tags: Battlestar Galactica, BSG, Caprica, Cylon, Poster 
1 Comment »AT&T Has A Different Definition For "Unlimited"
December 10th, 2009 TAV When addressing investors at a UBS conference in New York yesterday, AT&T’s head of consumer services, Ralph de la Vega, reiterated AT&T’s focus on improving its network, while simultaneously slamming their line of smartphones, specifically the iPhone 3GS, as being the cause of poorer quality service. This, as anyone familiar with AT&T will already know, [...]
More Tablet Rumors: Release Timeframe & eBook Possibilities
December 9th, 2009 TAV The news on the Apple vine today comes from Yair Reiner, an analyst with Oppenheimer & Co., who is making the prediction that Apple will begin ramping up production of a long-rumored Tablet in Februrary, to prepare for a March or April release. His report claims that the tablet will include a 10.1″ multi-touch LCD [...]
Sick Of Dropped Calls? Let "Mark The Spot" Alert AT&T
December 7th, 2009 TAV If you’re one of the many, many, many iPhone users throughout the States who are tied to AT&T and getting frustrated with the endless dropped calls, AT&T has a solution for you. There’s a free new app available for your phone called “AT&T Mark The Spot” [iTunes Link] which was developed any deployed by AT&T [...]
How To Save Anything As A PDF
December 3rd, 2009 TAV Not everyone is aware of this, but virtually anything that you can print within Mac OS X can also be saved as a PDF. Here’s how to do it. Open the document, website, or any other printable item you wish to save as a PDF. Choose “Print” from the File menu, or hit Command-P. In [...]
5 Ways Apple Could Improve The iPhone's Calendar
December 2nd, 2009 TAV A calendar is a huge selling point for any smart phone and the iPhone is no exception. The iPhone’s calendar is an integral to the phone and is used by casual and business users alike. It is not, however, anywhere near perfect. Here are five simple suggestions that Apple could incorporate to make the phone’s [...]
