A Pig in a Poke Helmet Sunday May 20, 2012   Special guest: David Artuso from CellHelmet MISC  Edward: Facebook’s entry to stock market not so good as expected: $38, then $42 and then the day ended at $38 but it will reach over $100 so worth buying now Edward: LTE starts big time in Eurotrashland , now also for smartphones not only USB sticks and routers http://www.cultofmac.com/167907/waterproof-your-iphone-with-this-amazing-japanese-condom/ The Japanese phone condom (?!) Apple  No rumors! Google and Android Edward: already 8 million pre-orders for Samsung...


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Convertcast Episode 118 Sunday May 13, 2012 Apologies for this week's sound - it just wasn't cooperating!   MISC  CTIA - awesome! No Windows phones (Edward: but yes! focus 2 from samsung was there! no window 8 tablets?) Samsung was not represented at the show, only Pepcom Facebook refocuses on mobile but : how to upload higher resolution photos to facebook??? but still no iPad version 2 new great SF movies WITH COOL GADGETS coming end of May: Men in Black 3 (big cellphone from sixties not healthy? ) and Prometheus (with indoor GPS system via laser-scanning) Apple  ios6...


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If there is a foreign language worth learning, then it must be Mandarin - the language spoken in mainland China and Taiwan. In recent years China has overtaken Japan and Germany, and is now the second largest economy of the world. And according to many analysts, in 10 years it will also overtake the USA. Here I am reviewing an app that helps you to teach yourself Mandarin language pronunciation. What is particular about this app is: it is made by Microsoft Research - a division of Microsoft that is working on products that are usually not directly commercialised (this app is free too). While...


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Pen computing is not dead, it was just in hibernation because Steve Jobs hated styluses (styli?) and promoted multi-touch screens without support for digitizer pen. But watch out, boys and girls! In the near future (last quarter of 2012) several Windows 8 powered touch tablet are coming and they will be both affordable (because powered by ARM processors so much cheaper than Tablet PC of old times) and supporting both multi-touch and (high precision) digitiser pen. In the meantime, to get a feel what to expect from Windows 8 touch tablets, we can take a look at Windows Phone 7.5 apps! Here...


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There are similar apps available for other platforms but they are not free. Here I am reviewing Microsoft Translator app that is not just translating texts that are typed with keyboard, texts on images and texts spoken, but it can translate texts offline! And this app is completely free. Most impressive is OFFLINE (!!!!!!) real-time translation that works in this way that you point your Windows Phone at some text written in other language (here, French): ... and then, even if you don't have any internet connection (I have tested it! it works!), you get translations overlayed over the original...


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Let's turn our attention away from all those cool kids playing with their iPhones and Androids and their fancy shmancy apps, and let's review a Windows Phone app, shall we? So, why do I review this app? Well, not because it is great by itself - it's little more than an RSS reader wrapped in an app generated (look ma, no coding!) by follow my feed service (also, young Skywalker, you can have your own Windows Phone app if you only sign up and submit such generated-from-RSS app to Microsoft's app hub - no need to worry about app rejection as Microsoft now is so needy that it accepts any app no matter...


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Convertcast Episode 113 Sunday April 8, 2012   MISC  Instagram! EasyBib http://www.easybib.com/ thanks for the amazing info graphic, Mashable. http://mashable.com/2012/04/03/draw-something-is-taking-over-the-world/ DrawSomething! UK 800 numbers free to call from mobile phones http://thenextweb.com/uk/2012/04/04/at-last-uk-0800-numbers-could-soon-be-free-to-call-from-mobile-phones/ iPhone users twice as likely to use WiFi as Android users http://mashable.com/2012/04/03/iphone-android-wifi/ Save Money. Study Faster. Ace the Class. | Boundless http://www.boundless.com/ Can university...


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Convertcast Episode 112 Sunday April 1, 2012 MISC  World Backup Day 3/31 - Did you do a backup? Box.com introduces Box OneCloud http://www.box.com/business/features/onecloud/ "Box OneCloud brings together all your mobile content into the secure Box cloud. Experience productivity from anywhere and accelerate your business with a collection of mobile apps that integrate with Box to simplify and extend your workflow, while keeping content centralized on Box." LG making a new flexible e-ink display that should be available in Europe soon, and in the US shortly after http://www.extremetech.com/electronics/124229-lg-begins-mass-production-of-flexible-plastic-e-ink-displays Apple  http://www.cultofmac.com/156802/this-software-can-extract-your-ios-devices-passcode-contacts-call-logs-and-even-keystrokes-video/...


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Back in the good ole days when I was a happy Palm os user, I had an account on Handango. I bought hundreds of quality apps from them. From Agendus to Pocket Tunes to Documents to Go - I plunked down my cash to support my growing habit. When it was evident that Palm was going the way of the dinosaur, I switched to Windows Mobile. And I gave Handango even more of my money. All the while, happy Blackberry users were doing likewise, and buying apps left and right, increasing the purchased apps database on Handango. Handango loved its customers, and loved the developers as well. How many of you remember...


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Convertcast - Episode 108 Sunday March 4, 2012 MISC  Networking at 10,000 Feet: Airlines Are Making the Skies ‘Social’ http://techland.time.com/2012/02/28/networking-from-10000-feet-airlines-are-making-the-skies-social/ Dumbest idea ever! Samsung Chaton - cross platform SMS replacement. How does it differ from the competition? (Edward) Mobile World Congress ended : mainly show about android but many visitors and journalists were just using iPad for writing and iPhone for calling - isn’t it funny? AT&T updated its data use policy, capping so-called unlimited plans at 3GB. (Edward)...


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