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Fantasy Football, live on your phone.

The Chef — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:30:24 +0000

Oh thank God...

Let’s be honest… having options like this is why you pay $100 a month to have an iPhone…

Log in from your phone, and manage your team when you’re mobile. Add or drop players, check their stats and see your matchups. Absolutely free this year, get up-to-the-minute stats and scores right on your phone.

Now available as an app on your iPhone® via iTunes.

Now available as an app on your BlackBerry® Bold 9000, Curve 8900, and Tour 9630:type m.yahoo.com/apps/bb into your mobile phone’s browser.

In case you were wondering, the free live stats thing is like a $9.95 value.

via [mobile.yahoo.com].

Times are getting hard…The economically sensible iPhone case

scatmansham — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:01:35 +0000

Pray it doesn't rain.

Times are tough for most people out there. Gas is 400$ a gallon, hookers are doubling their prices and the housing market is plummeting faster than JFK Jr. (Too soon?) but there is no need to despair. Though your iPhone bill is probably in the range of 100+, a company has heeded the call of the drained and weary iPhone community with the creation of “The Recession case”.

This earth friendly and cheap case will keep your iPhone safe for at least 1-2 days, and let’s face it Applecare doesn’t give a shit about you so buy these cases at 99 cents a pop and hope to god it doesn’t rain.

Check out the product site here…

Case Mate

Stupid Inventions That Make Me Want to Hip-Check the Elderly

scatmansham — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:00:48 +0000

I rarely find any new inventions offensive to the point I want to throw a bag of cobras into the ball pit at Chuck E Cheese’s, but these are some of the worst ideas since the Oxi-Clean people used pure, uncut columbian booger sugar to ”enhance the loud, obnoxious cleaning power” of both Billy Mays and the Oxi-Clean itself. Too soon?

ThiPhone thigh holder for your iPhone

Now, the only reason I can see for this is if you like you play your iTunes while you blow yourself. If it has something to do with the security of your $500-700 iPhone then it should hold really well against a 2 foot midget with one arm, but I wouldn’t get your hopes up. The only people that should wear this are attractive women who wear short skirts. Now I can actually cop a feel without getting maced. ::SLAP:: Hey pretty lady… I was just checking out your cool iPhone ThiPhone strap and… penis…Oh god…

The Sanwa Floating iPhone Water Case

Why in the name of all things sacred do these people feel we need such a device? I mean since Apple does have the greatest insurance policies we really shouldn’t even worry about bringing the thing in the pool in the first place, right?…hey! Let’s bring our $700+ iPhones into the pool! They will maintain optimum buoyancy inside this space aged condom/iPhone protector, so no worries. Noone wants to swim with me? Your phones will be fine I swear! Oh, because of my peeing-in-the-pool problem…fair enough.

Coming soon: iPhone Football Helmet Straps…Capture 1st person hits with the crystal clear resolution of the 3GS’ video camera!

Bad News: I lost my iPhone 3G. Good News: I got the new 3GS! Yeah… you wish you were me…

The Chef — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:59:38 +0000

Engadget does a much more thorough review here.

So I left my iPhone 3G in Vegas. Dignity, hygiene, girlfriend… all replaceable. iPhone, due to AT&T’s iron clad early termination fee, not so much. Thankfully because I was previously on a family share plan with a buddy I could still qualify as a NEW AT&T customer (Suck that you monopolistic, corporate d-bags).

So deciding to really stick it to the man, I decided to opt for the $50 upgrade and get the White (pure class) 16GB 3GS. The ‘S’ is for speed btw and it signifies the upgraded hardware. Did it blow me (ha), a 3G user for the past 9 months, away. Short answer: Kinda, Sorta, Maybe, Meh.

So the standalone compass is campy, and probably useless in 99% of everyday users’ everyday lives. Where it does shine however it in the Maps application, whereby the map rotates as you move and look around. This is key, and pricess, and finally makes the iPhone a viable GPS alternative. Previously, the 3G was a capable GPS device, but if you were being honest with yourself, you were really forcing it.

There is now a focus feature on the Camera App, and also you can take Video. The coolest part about the video is a little on screen editor (yes, just like you saw in the commercial). Also upon sending it in an email it will compress the video. Very smart thinking and handy. What absolutely SUCKS about this is still NO MMS? This however is AT&T’s fault.

I really really really hate AT&T (Wireless). I think they are a soul-less, non-progressive company that someone should buy and dismantle, and change a third world lemonade-stand chain. Their coverage in New York is unbearable and their commercials sometimes make me nauseous. To be fair, out on the West Coast their coverage has been the bomb-diggity and AT&T U-verse (Verizon FiOS Competitor) is Totally Sweet and Amazing, and we will be doing a comparison review of the two in the coming weeks.

As cool as the 3GS is, the real news here is the new 3.0 Operating System. Which lets you do Copy and Paste and Horizontal Keyboard. Finally. I mean this is baby shit Apple. The jailbreakers did it months ago. It’s about time.

Bottom Line. for new customers the 3GS is worth it. For customers with early upgrade option (you probably still have first gen) yes- still a no-brainer. For current 3G customers however: you aren’t missing out on much, I would pocket the cash and stand-by for the next hardware rollout (rumored to be in 12 months).

Can you imagine an iPhone with the iPod Touch form factor… it could be coming….

iPhone App Review: Lose It!

The Chef — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:21:09 +0000

This is a great little free app on the iPhone for Exercise and Diet monitoring. I’ve been using it for a week or so now, and keeping track of your daily calorie intake and calories burned through all manner of activities.

When you first run Lose It! It asks you to enter your current weight, your weight loss goal, and the amount of weight you would like to lose per week: 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0lbs. When this is done, it tells you the exact date that your weight loss goal will be achieved. That was nifty!

You will be spending the most time in this app adding food or activity. Let’s take a look at adding food items first.

One of the most convenient features of Lose It! is the built in database of brand name foodstuffs. For example, it has most North American restaurants (including fast food joints) pre-loaded in the app already. So if you slip up in your path to healthfulness, and Cross the Border for a Taco Bell double Baha beef Chalupa meal, Lose It! will be right there to let you know how much damage you did to your daily calorie budget.

The exercise/activity function is equally convenient. It has over a hundred common exercises ranging from Jogging to Sexual Activity. More, within each exercise, the app lets you specify the intensity of the activity. For example, if you select swimming, you can chose from about a dozen further refinements including Breaststroke, Freestlye- moderate, Freestyle- vigorous, or Leisurely (not laps) and then the amount of time you participated, giving you an approximate number of calories burned.

On both the food and exercise side of things you can add your own custom entries. Just last night, I ate at a non-chain restaurant where nutritional information was not available. So I simply put in the name of the Restaurant and made my best guess as to the amount of calories.

As you do these activities, the app lets you know your remaining calorie budget for the day in order to maintain the weight loss goal you originally set. Lose it! for the iPhone is a well thought-out and well executed app that operates smoothly but the real value in the app is that you are now consciously making more healthy decisions throughout the day. You’d love to be able to mark down Apple (35 calories) instead of that King Size Snickers Bar (537 calories) or maybe this is the little bit of extra motivation you need to have a leisurely after dinner walk for a half hour (-111 calories) than sit and watch TV (no calories).

See more screenshots and functionality that I didn’t cover at its website.