R.I.P Steve Jobs 1955-2011

Steve Jobs was world most famous visionary. First he founded Apple and he become it's CEO. Steve Jobs was also good speaker we can remember many of his sentences. Those sentences will give us power to make world better place for all of us and think different.

Here is great video about Steve Jobs

If you want know more about Steve Jobs life story I suggest that you watch Pirates of Silicon Valley.

Jobs died too soon at age 56 of pancreatic cancer. Steve Jobs made Apple famous with innovative products like Macs, iPod, iPhone and iPad. But most important thing is that he did what he loved.


Thanks Steve

Android powered Car Stereo

I found one pretty nice looking car stereo from eBay. It has GPS, it can play HD video and so on. Best part about this car stereo is that you can remove front panel and turn your car stereo into tablet. It looks that they are two separate devices but car unit can use tablet as display. This car stereo has two separated operating systems Android 2.1 and Chinese car stereo operating system.

Specs of frontpanel/ tablet

• ARM11 720MHz
• 8GB ROM
• Android 2.1
• GPS
• HDMI
• 7 inch 16:9 800x480
• 2x USB (Host + Slave)
• Headphone jack
• 3 MP Camera
• MicroSD
• Acceleration sensor
• Resistive touchscreen
• RAM?

Specs of car stereo

• Bluetooth A2DP
• Tuner with RDS
• 1x AV video input
• iPod input
• USB
• SD-card
• 2x AV video output
• TV-tuner (probably analogue)
• DVD-player
• 4x50W speaker output
• Switch buttons color to red or blue
• External GPS-antenna

This tablet will cost about $400. It's pretty cheap if you think that it has decent stereo and android powered tablet. This tablet has few different names like Erisin ES666, ES666EN, ES666AU, ES666US and ES666MO.

I would appreciate comment or two about this tablet

Dude, Where is my Phone?, Find your lost Gadgets

Did you lost your phone or did some one stole it? There are many good options to find you stolen/lost gadget. It's good to remember that some gang might have stolen your phone and it might be good idea to contact police before you will seek your phone by yourself. Here is list about free applications witch allow user to locate lost gadgets. These applications can help you to find your valuable devices.

Android
Plan B
This works on Android devices like phones, tablets and laptops. Best part of this application is that you can instal it to your phone after you have lost it. It can measure devices location with GPS so you know where to look.
Download Plan B

iPhone, iPad & iPod Touch
Be sure to enable Find My iPhone before you lost it.
Find my iPhone can…

• Show your device on map
• Lock it
• Remote wipe it
• Send messages to your device

To enable feature go to
iPhones Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Add Account > Mobile Me
To set up account use same log in id and password as you used when you shopping on iTunes or App Store. Then tap next Tap MobileMe and Verify Now. Make sure that Find My iPhone is turned on.

To find your lost device log in to MobileMe. You can also send messages to phone and wipe it if it contains personal information.
https://me.com/find/

Laptops and other computers
Pray
Pray to your gadget to came home or instal this application to your laptop and you will find it.
Pray works on Windows, Mac and Linux so you can instal it almost whatever laptop what you own. It works also on Android.
Pray allows user to take screenshots on desktop, use webcam and use location tracking with wlan and IP addresses.
Download Pray

Mac OS Lion, Apples Vista

Lion has few pretty nice features, but it won't work like a charm. When I upgraded to Lion my Mac has been crashing more than ever before. Exposé was simple and useful feature, but Mission Control feels pretty confusing after month of usage. OK, exposé had few downsides like if you had opened 10-20 text documents it was almost impossible to find out which was which, but you could always press spacebar to open preview of window. That downside is also with Mission Control, because it has less display are and windows are smaller and harder to recognize.

Biggest issues
Mouse hover
Application won't recognize first click and they might do something unexpected if you press hotkey and it commands wrong application. This is also big issue with Firefox because sometimes hover navigation just won't recognize mouse on screen.

Mail
I haven't seen mail crashing never before. But after installing Lion it has done that several times. Sometimes it just crashes when I don't do anything with my laptop. It also can crash when I am typing mail. Once I typed pretty long message to my friend and mail crashed hopefully Gmail had backed up that text and I lost only one sentence.

iTunes
iTunes can also crash like mail, but that's not big issue, because it won't do anything useful except it plays awesome music.

Precision volume adjustment was great feature on Snow Leopard because it allowed to use in ear buds without becoming deaf.

It's not that bad...
Don't understand my wrong Lion is good operating system, but I don't think that it as good as Snow. Full screen apps are pretty nice feature on Lion I have almost always iTunes on fullscreen while I am browsing. Just swipe and you can change track on so on. Launchpad is also awesome way to launch applications.

I noticed after previous post that Logitech had updated it's drivers and there was now option to put Mission Control keys to mouse.

Hopefully Apple corrects these errors as soon as possible

Mac OS Lion is ready to Rock

Roarrr. I installed newest version of Mac OS X as soon as Apple Released it. It took 3 hours to download it with 3 Mb internet connection. I was pretty stunned that Mac showed that installing takes tree minutes, but it was first part of it then Mac restarted and installing began really counter showed that it will take 45 minutes so I continued installing, but in reality it took 2 hours. It might take that long because I had so many application on my Mac.

Then computer booted up. It was almost completely different that I had got used to with Show Leopard. Gestures were gone éxpose didn't work. It felt that I can't do anything with my Mac. And it felt like I had accidentally installed Windows Vista to my laptop. It took few days to get used to new features and there are pretty good after all. I didn't never use Spaces even I used multiple desktops on Ubuntu. Mission Control with integrate spaces and full screen apps is pretty good idea. It's pity that all Mac OS application won't support full screen example Blender would be great on full screen. There was also one downside when I updated software old PPC games won't work anymore so thats RIP for legendary Age of Empires II best game of that saga and Spy Hunter. Luckily I have Spy Hunter on GameCube and Age of Empires for PC, but I can't play it anymore against my friends.

Hopefully Logitech will update it's drivers to Lion because some of hotkeys work like Mission Control and show desktop. It would be also good if Apple could recovery old back, forward, home and end gestures as they were before because they work about 50% of trying. Adobe could also make a update for Photoshop CS4 to make full screen working for separate desktop without opening new desktop.

Awesome advertisement

Usually when you are browsing web you will find ads sooner or later. Usually sooner and second thing you notice that ads are annoying. If the ad has been made using creativity and art it can be pretty good entertainment.
Piculous.com has collected pretty nice list of awesome print advertisement. Those are truly creative and pretty good entertainment. Post is pretty old but ideas are fresh.

Be fast, use hotkeys

Here is list about pretty simpple hotkeys. Did you know that you can open links to browsers tabs, by clicking them with mouse middle button. This is very useful when you are browsing on Google or searching something from online auction, because you can open many links in seconds. You can also close tabs with mouses middle button.

For all operating systems
Use ctrl key on Windows and Linux replace it with Mac cmd.
ctrl + A Select all
ctrl + C Copy
ctrl + V Paste

Windows only
Windows + E Opens file explorer
Windows + tab change application with cool aero application changer
ctrl + alt + del Force quit applications from list

Mac only
ctrl + Space Opens Spotlight search
cmd + O Opens file
Space Shows Quicklook preview
Enter Rename file
cmd + esc Opens FrontRow multimediamedia interface.
cmd + alt + esc Force quit applications from list

Awesome iPhone Apps and games

Here is list about my favorite apps on iPhone. Most apps work on also on iPod Touch and iPad.

Apps
AppShopper: This app helps you to track free and cheap apps. Whit this app you can get almost any app less than $ 0,99 and even free, if you have patient to wait. It supports almost any country listed on AppStore
Google Search: Are you tired to write text from dvd covers to see reviews or just wondering what that is. With Google app you can easily snap picture and google tells what it is. This works nicely with dvd's, cd's and many products.
Photosynth: Captures stunning panorama pictures by rotating iPhone. Only downside with app is that pictures are only 1-2 megapixels even iPhone has 5 megapixel sensor.
InfinitLight: This is most simple flashlight app for iPhone just open app and flash turns on and when you want turn it of just press home key. App doesn't even have ads.
Heart rate: This app measures heart rate and it works, even that can sound pretty weird. App works only with iPhone with flash.
Shazam: Have you ever wondered what is that track playing on radio? This app will tell it to you.
SoundHound: This app is pretty similar to Shazam except it can detect tracks from humming or singing.
Waze: This is free voice navigation software it works in US and in europe. It's social navigation system, that means if there are many Waze users near to you you can get traffic info and so on.

Games
Zen Bound: Relax an try to color wooden object with magical cord
Rhythmatic: Have you ever wished that you could play your favorite artist track on music game. This app turns your iPhones music collection into music rhythm game. That means that you can play example best songs of Bon Jovi or Michael Jackson with your phone.

List of Best Game music

Game music is usually just background music, but sometimes there are some songs which are totally awesome. Game music experienced the largest leap forward when the games started to use the CD-quality sound in 1991. Game music should always be as good as these are. Most of listed songs has been singed. Here is list of about best game soundtracks which I know.

• Mirror's Edge - Still Alive
• Portal - Still Alive
• Alan Wake - Almost whole Soundtrack by Petri Alako
• Halo 2 - Blow me away by Breaking Benjamin skills
  
• Gran Turismo 2 - My Favorite Game by The Cardigans
• Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time - Time Only Knows by Cindy Gomez
• Silent Hill - Room of Angel
• Capcom VS. SNK 2 - This Is True Love Makin'
• Soul Edge - The edge of soul
• Xenosaga 1 - Pain
• Metal Gear Solid - Snake Eater by Cynthia Harrell
• Sonic CD - Intro
  
• Sonic Adventure - Believe in Myself
  
• Sonic Adventure 2 - City Escape
• Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core - Why
• Final Fantasy Music - God In Fire
  
• Sonic The Hedgehog - His World by Zebrahead
• Tales of Vesperia Music - Ring a Bell by Bonnie Pink
• Ace Combat 5 - The Journey Home by Mary Elizabeth McGlynn
• Max Payne 2 - Late goodbye by Poets of Fall

Wii U - Wii HD

Wii U was unveiled on E3. It looked pretty good as you could easily think about Nintendos products. It's like Nintendo DS, which has 32"-display connected to it and processing power like PS3 has. So it's like HD Wii. Did you noticed that Wii U is just like PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable connected together. Ok PSP and PS3 won't work seamlessly together like Wii U. When PlayStation remote play is used there is about 0.2 to 0.5 sec lag between pressing button and response. That makes remote play pretty unusable, but it's great idea. Listening music from PS3 and using PSP as a remote is nice idea and it works decently. Hopefully we get Wii U soon and new Mario or Zelda game whit it. It would be also awesome if Wii games could be upscaled like Dolphin Wii emulator has done few years backwards.