I will be giving a live updated play by play of the keynote address by Apple. Since you cannot stream it live unless you have an apple device with Safari I will be here for you guys! Applelive will be broadcasting from the Flint Center in Cupertino, CA, and Computer Geeks will bring it all to you as it happens. Refresh our technology blog real time for updates!
1:07 iPhone Kicks it off!! 98% customer satisfaction, #1 phone in the world. Tim Cook Doesn’t want to go through the new updates, just says EVERYTHING IS GREAT. He starts talking about how great the phone has been. From the original iPhone setting the standard for touch screen phones, to the latest iPhone 5S technology we see today.
1:14 And now for the reveal!! The Thinnest iPhone ever made. There are 2 versions iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus! The Sleep wake button is now on the right side, making it easier for you to do things with just one hand.
1:19 Landscape mode for homescreen looks very nice
1:24 Faster processor!
1:26 ?Faster Graphics able to give you AMAZING PICTURES
1:27 ?Some of the top game developers like EA Games, Epic Games, SquareEnix and more have committed to having new games out for the iPhone6 before the year is out!
1:30 The new iPhone6 will be able to play games in higher definition that NextGen Game consoles like XboxOne
1:31 Stephan Sherman of Super Evil Megacorp gives a demo of Vainglory on iPhone6
1:32?iPhone?6 has a resolution of 1334 by 750 with 326 pixels per inch. For a more than 720p Retina?HD?display. ?iPhone?6?Plus has a resolution of 1920 by 1080 with 401 pixels per inch. That?s full 1080p HD?resolution. And now for the Screen size!
1:37- iPhone?6 now supports Voice over?LTE.
1:38 iPhone 6 Camera time! iPhone?6 has an 8MP iSight camera, 1.5? pixels, ?/2.2 aperture. And an all-new?sensor.
More camera goodies
iPhone?6 is better at detecting faces near and?far.
Burst mode detects smiles and blinks, then recommends the best?picture.
Shot on iPhone 6 Plus using optical image stabilization.
1:44 Even the video has gotten better with Continuous autofocus shot, Time-lapse video shot and cinematic video stabilization for you adventurers!
1:46 You can now add voice, video and location details to any message
1:47 The New Health app give you a detailed look at your health and fitness data!
1:48 Notification Extensions from your favorite apps
1:49 Even some stats for you people concerned with the environment
1:50 AND NOW FOR THE iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus prices, all prices are with 2 year contract
1:52 - iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus are available to preorder on September 12th and for purchase September 19th, 2014
1:53 Now introducing Apple Pay, never need your wallet again! As you can keep
Pay with the simple touch of your finger using Touch?ID.
Apple?Pay is more secure than keeping cards in a?wallet.
If you lose your iPhone, you won’t have to cancel cards. Simply use Find?My?iPhone to suspend payments just for that?device.
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If you are like me you have a ton of user names and passwords, on a lot of different sites. Using the same user name and password over and over is not only stupid, but it is dangerous and impossible. Every site has different naming rules for your passwords, must have 1 capital letter, needs a symbol, can’t have a symbol, needs a number and a capital letter, this list goes on for ages. Who can remember which variation of your user names and passwords that you used for 50 different web sites? LastPass can.
I was like most people, I knew my main password and the variations to an extent, and honestly relied on my browser to remember my password on a lot of things. But then disaster struck, I needed computer repair at my office in Boston. It was a bad hard drive and although data recovery was successful, my browser settings were reset and all my stored passwords were GONE.
I spoke to my boss about this and he immediately chimed in with “why aren’t you using LastPass?” To which I asked what it was, and he told me that LastPass stores all your passwords in 1 spot. All I would need to remember from now on was my LastPass password and I would never need to learn another password again. I was excited, but skeptical at the same time. What if someone hacked my LastPass account? Then they would have a smorgasbord of information from my student loans, to my credit cards even my bank account.
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Food delivery apps have made it easier, at least in the eyes of some, to get food delivered to your doorstep. Now, five college students are getting in on the app action, using one of America’s favorite foods.
The app is called Push for Pizza and it’s getting quite the buzz in the mainstream and technology based media. It’s created by three students attending Brown University and two students attending M.I.T. All five grew up in Brooklyn. Here is how the app works: download the app then enter your location and payment information. Choose between cheese and pepperoni. The order will go to a pizzeria near you. This is done through restaurant databases like Delivery.com and Order.in. Though you can only get Push for Pizza on Apple devices, these computer science majors are working around the clock to get this on Android.? Everything, including tip, is paid for before the driver gets to your door.? The app is free to download. The five inventors are Cyrus Summerlin and Max Hellerstein, ages 19, and Will Haack, Graham Carling and Demitri Nava, age 20. They get a small percentage cut every time a pizza is ordered through this app. Now, they’re talking about spin-offs.
I must say, I’m inspired that a group of men this young of age are inventing apps that could possible change the way we get our food. I dare not say where my head was at 19 and 20 years old. Some may laugh at this app, and say these guys are too young, but I wonder how many other young technological entrepreneurs were laughed at. With that being said, they need to add more options on their pizza menu. As a pizza fan, I find just cheese and pepperoni a little boring. Throw some meat lovers’ on the menu. They’re also peddling this app to larger pizza chains, which is a good thing. Will the larger pizza chains listen?
You hear it out there in the wind every time a new iPhone is coming out, “it’s gonna have a bigger screen!” In the end, Apple makes the screen .01 inches bigger and tells you that it is because the measurements are ideal to fit in your hand. The iPhone6 comes with the same rumors, BIGGER SCREEN. But we have an image of claimed Foxconn schematics of the iPhone6 with a 4.7 inch screen. This makes it far more comparable to the HTC One M8?and the Galaxy S5. The picture below shows the comparable rumored size courtesy of another tech blog.
Although it will still be slightly smaller than those two, we here at our Boston office are a mixed bag of iPhone, HTC and Galaxy users, each one claiming superiority. But the one constant has been that the iPhone always had a tiny screen, now the difference is fairly insignificant, that argument will be out the door with the iPhone6. Not only will the iPhone6 apparently have a larger screen, but should end up 1mm thinner than it’s competitors giving it a more dynamic feel.
Now I will warn everyone not to get too excited, as we have been duped before. I know I was excited about the iPhone5 only to find out the major revelation was that they put the headphone jack on the bottom so I can’t use my Beats By Dre headphones without breaking my Otterbox on the bottom or buying an extension (thanks for nothing Apple) We will all have to wait for the rumored September 9th press conference where we are assuming they will unveil the new iPhone6 and all our prayer can be answered, or all our hopes and dreams crushed like we were 5 year olds who were jilted by Santa…..
Parents, it’s your favorite time of year: It’s back to school time. Make sure you got all your kids’ equipment: pencils, paper, backpack, maybe laptop/tablet, and don’t forget your Go Pro camera.
First grader Andrew Weber didn’t forget his. In Tampa, Florida, McFarlene Park Elementary wanted to conduct an experiment of sorts. They wanted to see what the first day of school was like for a six-year-old. So Andrew’s parents attached a Go Pro camera to their son and the child’s first day of school was captured on tape through this technological means. I admit, it was amazing to see an elementary school day unfold from a child who isn’t even four feet tall. Teachers, adults and even some kids towered over him. This was proven as Andrew went to hug his teacher, Ms. Weber. And the camera made him so popular all his classmates wanted to play with it.
But why would a school and parents want to subject a child to this? School officials say by looking at things from a student’s perspective, it will help them improve the school. Andrew’s mom thinks it will better understand her son socially as well as academically. The teacher wasn’t intimidated at all with this device. Even little Andrew was impressed with how popular this camera made him. All of that is good, but I hope they can use this camera in perspective. It seemed like everyone was good with this experiment, which is a good thing. I’m just afraid where this could lead. What if Go Pro Cameras, Google Glass and other devices are used to deliberately spy on people and set people up, whether they did anything wrong or not? What if high school kids use this as a cyber bullying tool? What if officials use this to have someone fired just because they said or did something the officials didn’t like, no matter how innocent it was (I just read of a disturbing case of a high school student being suspended over something innocent). What are some ways we can assure these technological methods are used and not abused?
Today in the grandest city of them all, New York City, HTC showed us all its new Windows Phone, the HTC One M8 For Windows Phone! From Customizing your own home screen, to linking with your Xbox One, this phone looks killer. Now this is not a new phone that you haven’t seen, it actually came out earlier this year running the latest and greatest of Android OS. But for those of us who don’t really like the Android OS, and are more used to our Windows 8.1 PC and XboxOne consloe, the?HTC One M8 For Windows will perfectly sync with everything.
From the great aluminum design, to the use of Microsoft’s live tiles to the Epic Audio, HTC Boomsound, the?HTC One M8 For Windows Phone brings it. Cortana is Microsoft’s answer for Siri, and is faster and smarter, and able to help you with anything from finding a restaurant to scheduling your whole life. Which is great if ?you are a busy person, like a lawyer or restaurant owner who is always on the go, and having a reliable personal assistant in your pocket comes in handy.
My favorite part of the HTC One M8 for Windows Phone is how easily it syncs with my XboxOne which already syncs with my entire home. I no longer have to worry where my kids put the remote, or get up off the couch to turn off the lights or fix my thermostat (I have fully integrated my home with my XboxOne) now my phone will do it all for me. My entire home in the palm of my hand. This is the future we were told about when watching cartoons as kids, and now it’s easier.
Price-point for this phone is set at $99.99 with a 2 year contract and is available through Verizon Wireless only. As always if you would like some help syncing your new HTC One M8 for Windows Phone with your PC at home or at work, Computer Geeks is a full service residential and business IT service that can help you do it all!
?Below are some of the specs for the?HTC One M8 for Windows Phone:
General
Size: 146.36 x 70.6 x 9.35 mm
Weight: 160 grams
Display: 5.0 inch, Full HD 1080p
CPU Speed
Qualcomm Snapdragon 801, 2.3 GHz quad-core CPU
Platform
Windows Phone 8.1.1 with Cortana
HTC BlinkFeed
Memory
2GB of RAM
32 GB of onboard storage
Expansion card slot support for microSD cars up to 128 GB
Sensors
Accelerometer
Proximity sensor
Ambient light sensor
Gyro sensor
Barometer sensor
Connectivity
3.5 mm stereo audio jack
NFC
Bluetooth 4.0 with aptX enabled
Wi-Fi: IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac (2.4 & 5 GHz)
DLNA for wirelessly streaming media from the phone to a compatible TV or computer
Micro-USB 2.0
Microsoft Project My Screen
Miracast
Support consumer infrared remote control
Sound
HTC BoomSound
Dual frontal stereo speakers with built-in amplifiers
