Posts Tagged ‘Mobile’

Augmented reality: Sekai Camera

Augmented reality technology has been getting popular among mobile phone programmer. They have been coming out with new application for phone that is base on augmented reality technology. With the most recent and popular being Sekai camera app. The innovative app allows users to view the real world through the lens of a mobile device to bring both digital and analog life together. Basically it mean when you point your phone camera at one of the item, it will auto fetch the item data from a database and project it on your phone. As you point to the next item it will just auto update it as long as the database have the data. Even if the database does not have the detail you can volunteer to add the data into the database. The integration with GPS makes even more possible with video/audio tours, neighborhood guides, and travel in general.

via japantrends

Vacuum seal your iPhone

If you are working in an environment that always have to get in contact with water and dislike leaving your iPhone in a locker you can try out this method. This chef used the vacuum packer in the kitchen to seal his phone into a waterproof pouch. Watch the video to see how he do it and he even splash some water on the iPhone.

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Some iPhone shortcuts to help you

No video, sound only

If you want to just listen to the audio track of a selected video. You can do it by first playing the video as per normal, then pressing the Home button. This will turn off the screen and the video. After that press the Home button once and followed by a Home button double-click. Now you should be listening to the audio with the screen off. This help to save battery also.

Take screen shots

Press and hold the Sleep button while tapping the Home button. The picture will be added to your camera roll.

Cancel the ring!!!

To mute your iPhone ring immediately, press the home or volume button.

Precision zooming

Hold down your thumb on the screen and then swipe your index finger back and forth.

Hold the key

Hold down the “@123″ button and sliding your finger to the required symbol, then releasing it. The qwerty keyboard will reappear.

Press and hold down the “.com” button and you will see options like “.org”, “.edu” & “.edu” appear on the screen.

via digital life

DIY your own mobile phone Charger – No battery required

Using this simple diy you will not need to fear that your mobile phone will run out of battery while you are travelling. This especially good when you are going outfield or camping which you do not want to add weight into your backpack by storing more battery.

DIY mobile phone charger

WTH Do criminal want our old phone for?

Nokia 1100

Some hackers in the Europe have offer up to US$32000 for this Nokia 1100 old phone. According to a Dutch company this phone can allegedly be hacked so that it can facilitate illegal online banking transfers. The 1100 can apparently be reprogrammed to use someone else’s phone number, which would also let the device receive text messages. That capability opens up an opportunity for online banking fraud. In countries such as Germany, banks send an mTAN (mobile Transaction Authentication Number) to a person’s mobile phone that must be entered into a Web-based form in order to, for example, transfer money into another account. A TAN can only be used once, a security feature known as a one-time passcode.

via pcworld