Friday, September 3, 2010

Upgrading RAM in a MacBook Pro unibody

July 30, 2010 by Josh Highland  
Filed under hardware, tutorials

Upgrading RAM in a MacBook Pro unibody

I helped run the camera while my good friend Luis Majano upgraded the RAM in his MacBook Pro unibody

My iPhone 4 review

June 26, 2010 by Josh Highland  
Filed under iPhone, video

My iPhone 4 review

hands down the best mobile device I have ever used

VegScan Beta Program Announced

April 12, 2010 by Josh Highland  
Filed under Tech, iPhone, iPhone app dev, web 2.0

VegScan Beta Program Announced

My latest iPhone app, VegScan, has enterd the beta phase! VegScan is a social tool / game that scans bar codes of products and allows people to quickly identify if an item is vegan or vegetarian. You earn points and achievements with the more items you add to the community. You can sign up for [...]

Hands on with iPhone OS 4.0

April 8, 2010 by Josh Highland  
Filed under iPhone, video

Hands on with iPhone OS 4.0

This is a quick and dirty video of my first impressions of iPhone 4.0

I got a Drobo!

February 2, 2010 by Josh Highland  
Filed under Josh's Rambling, Tech, hardware, video

I got a Drobo!

I have entered into a relationship with a new piece of high tech equipment, Drobo. Drobo is a self proclaimed “Data Robot”. In technical terms its a ASD (Attached storage device) running a custom version of RAID 5. When coupled with a DroboShare, it becomes a NAS (network attached storage) device. In non tech terms, [...]

follow up to my iPad predictions

January 28, 2010 by Josh Highland  
Filed under Tech, hardware, mac, video

follow up to my iPad predictions

So Apple has announced the iPad. This is a follow up to the predictions  I posted last week. Things I was right about: Apple will announce a tablet device new version of the iPhone OS, 3.2.2 iPad will run on the iPhone OS iPad will run iPhone applications The iPad will have a 10 inch [...]

iPhone OS 4.0 / iSlate Predictions

January 21, 2010 by Josh Highland  
Filed under Tech, hardware, iPhone, mac, video

iPhone OS 4.0 / iSlate Predictions

How To detect an internet connection with the iPhone SDK

December 22, 2009 by Josh Highland  
Filed under Programming, Tech, iPhone, iPhone app dev, tutorials

How To detect an internet connection with the iPhone SDK

There are several ways to problematically detect if an iPhone has an internet connection, but most of them cant tell you how the iPhone is connected to the internet. Apple has sample code to accomplish just this task. The Reachability class is not shipped with the SDK, but is part of a sample project of [...]

iPhone MMS, a love / hate story

September 25, 2009 by Josh Highland  
Filed under Tech, hardware, iPhone

iPhone MMS, a love / hate story

Today AT&T unlocked MMS (multi media) messaging on the iPhone. Most of the world had had MMS messaging for YEARS now on their iPhone, but due to AT&T’s restrictions and fear of the data crushing their network they have limited the number of people that you can message at a single time to 10. This [...]

RotoPhoto, my first iPhone app

August 18, 2009 by Josh Highland  
Filed under Josh's Rambling, iPhone, mac, software

RotoPhoto, my first iPhone app

WOW, here I am about to release my second iPhone app, and I realized that I haven’t blogged about my first iPhone app! “RotoPhoto” is my first iPhone app. It’s a simple tool that allows you to rotate the orientation of a photo taken with the iPhone. The internal sensors of the iPhone are designed [...]

Next Page »