Category Archives: Technology

The Subway Series Game Reviews: Fare City

By Jeff Ramos | Published: February 15, 2010
The Subway Series Game Reviews detail some of the best games to play during rides on the New York City subway system. What better game to introduce my new series of game reviews about games to play while on mass transit than a game that actually has to deal with mass transit? What Crazy Taxi [...]
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REVIEW: VideoPano for the iPhone

By Jeff Ramos | Published: January 25, 2010
The amazing app VideoPano, that only works for the iPhone 3GS, makes panoramic images straight from videos! Will it beat out Pano as my favorite panoramic iPhone app… ever!? Let’s find out! Here’s the first test image I took with the app. I LOVE the crazy perspectives you can achieve! But I don’t love the [...]
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Facebook for iPhone – Now with Push notifications.

By Jeff Ramos | Published: January 6, 2010
Uh oh. Can we agree, as great as Push notifications are, this is really the last thing this app needs? What next? Farmville for the iPhone? This is going to be dangerous, but mostly annoying for most people. Are you going to enable it?
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REVIEW: Spy Pix for the iPhone

By Jeff Ramos | Published: January 2, 2010
In a recent post about iPhone photography apps, I reviewed 3D Camera by Juicy Bits Software. They liked the mention so much, they suggested I try Spy Pix for the iPhone. So I did! Here’s a quick review of the software by the company: Spy Pix uses one of my favorite photography techniques, steganography to [...]
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John Mayer releases first ever augmented reality music video.

By Jeff Ramos | Published: October 19, 2009
If you head over to John Mayer’s website, you’ll see that he has a new music video up. However, it’s the first ever augmented reality video ever! In this video from Wired, John explains what augmented reality is and what went into the process of making this video: For those of you who couldn’t get [...]
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DO MORE: Learn How To Use Twitter! Part One!

By Jeff Ramos | Published: August 27, 2009
What’s Twitter? Google has over 194,000,000 posts to answer that question. But, instead of reading tons of blogs and watching tons of videos, I’ve researched some of the best tips on learning what Twitter is, how to use it and how to maximize its use! The Twitter.com support page actually uses this Howcast video to [...]
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Learn how to work a crowd in 5 minutes!(?)

By Jeff Ramos | Published: August 10, 2009
Alexis Bauer and the Ignite Show will guide you through the steps! The Ignite Show is a series of five minute speed-presentations that forces speakers to present awesome geek topics like multi-person pogo sticks to hacking chocolate to crowds of thousands all over the world with auto-forwarding slides and mounting pressure! With a slogan like [...]
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Explained: How Talk Boxes work (via an iPhone!)

By Jeff Ramos | Published: August 10, 2009
Here’s a video I made a while back explaining how a talk box works. If you’re not familiar with the talk box, you need only look at two of the greats in talk box history. Legendary funk musicians, Zapp and Roger: or the legendary guitarist, Peter Frampton: I hope you enjoy this video. I’ll be [...]
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Bloggers: Good headlines are good for you!

By Jeff Ramos | Published: August 9, 2009
A study from OTOInsights has shown that Digg users spend just as much, if not more time visually reviewing headlines as opposed to the amount of Diggs an entry has, the accompanying image and even the description itself! While many blog experts agree they spend just as much time on their posts as they do [...]
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