iPhone 4 antenna problem and the reason it may have not been discovered before

Posted on June 25, 2010 by kteck

We all know about the the iPhone 4 antenna failure by now but I did some thinking and thought of a reason why the idea wasn’t found before the public release. This falls back to the the lost iPhone 4 that was found in a iPhone 3GS case.

The issue is that the field testing was done with the new iPhone in a case that was meant to hide the design due to their secrecy. The result of this testing was that they didn’t hold the device with their hands briding the gap that causes the signal failure.

Here take a look at the famous leaked iPhone 4 in it’s case to see what i mean:

What are your thoughts?

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Review: WeekUp

Posted on June 23, 2010 by kteck

I was given a review copy of WeekUp from RNS:: a simple to use weekly alarm clock for Palm OS. With my 2nd gen iPod touch’s battery starting to go down hill using it as my alarm clock was loosing effect but that is now solved.

The application is a simple easy to use weekly alarm clock for Palm OS that lets you set per day of the week wake up time in addition to overriding a days time as per needed. You can also turn off the alarm for certain week/weekend days or fully turn off if needed.

You are given many options to customize including volume, repeat time, and such. For the alarm sound you can choose from Midi Ring Tones, Sampled Ring Tones, and System Midi Sounds.

All in all this app is pretty good alarm clock and has worked when iPod Touch has failed to do so… the Treo 700p’s loud speaker helps with that too.

Grab your copy @ RNS::

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Half-Life 2 (Episode One & Two as well) for Mac

Posted on May 26, 2010 by kteck

Half-Life 2 series for Mac

So it seems that the release only covers Half-Life 2,Episode One, and Episode Two only… the Half-Life 1 series games was hopeful thinking anyway.

So what comes new with this release….  Of course  SteamPlay. Here is a overview list of what this entails.

  • Cross platform support for Mac & Windows (Others in future)
  • Updated graphics on Half-Life 2 and Episode One
  • Steam Cloud
  • Achievements

That’s all for now… overall this release is pretty good cause it targets us windows users.

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Half-Life series for Mac

Posted on May 26, 2010 by kteck

Valve announced earlier that they were gonna release Half-Life series of games for Mac (1984 Apple ad Parody). Today is the day… as of the time of this post they aren’t showing in Steam on mac side yet but I was able to trigger the downloads via simple steam:/// urls.

No status on playability but the downloads are trigger-able.

Half-Life series for Mac
(Behind the scenes of the screenshot)

Here are the links:

Half-Life – Install
Half-Life: Blue Shift – Install
Half-Life: Opposing Force – Install
Half-Life 2 – Install
Half-Life 2: Episode One – Install
Half-Life 2: Episode Two – Install

Update: Only seems to cover Half-Life 2 series

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Steam for Mac is OUT!!!

Posted on May 13, 2010 by jem

The mac version of Steam is finally out today months after it was first announced.

Portal is the first Valve game to be released as a free download until May 24th and a new set of games will be released on subsequent Wednesdays.

The first games will also enable users to get a glimpse of “Steam Play” which will let them buy a game once and play it on both platforms supported by Steam.

The only noticeable difference between the mac and the Windows client is the position of the window controls. Everything else is pretty much the same for both platform clients.


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