PanDigital Photo Frame Review

By Jonathan

The Tech Lunch got their hands on the new 7 inch Digital Photo Frame from Pandigital this holiday season and it is fantastic.

Wal-Mart Selling the iPhone Confirmed

By Kris at 4:27 PM

It has been confirmed that Wal-Mart will sell the iPhone towards the end of December, but it is still unknown whether Apple will sell the previous iPhone for $99. Employees in many Wal-Mart stores are going through training detailing how they are supposed to sell the iPhone. In a note on december fifth Shaw Wu, an analyst for Kaufman Brothers in San Francisco, said “One of the key things Apple needs to do to drive broader iPhone adoption is to build a more complete product line” with low- end, mid-range and high-end products. So Shaw Wu is basically saying that Apple needs to make a low-budget iPhone, a standard iPhone, and then the high end iPhone. Just as Apple did with the iPods you got the Shuffle, Nano, Video, and Touch. As of right now I don’t have an iPhone, but if it’s going to cost $100 I know I will be getting one. Would you? Comment.

The tech way to pop the big question

If you get to the point you are going to propose and you feel a desire to make it a bit different….This box, which sets you back somewhere between $100 and $250 depending on the bells and whistles you choose, can even pop the queston for you, with photos, audio and video.  Don’t worry if you can’t keep it short, it holds up to an hour of video. Just make sure you upload the right file.

Naturally, you want rings that fit the box they came in and although you might be pushing it a bit, this set could be just the thing for $340.

iPhone 2.2 Software Update

By Jonathan

Apple has released another software update for the iPhone, iPhone 2.2. Among other things, the updated OS features Google Street View and streaming podcasts via WIFI or your data plan. I have already tried it out, and both new features work fantastically. I have been waiting for real streaming podcasts for months, so this update is something I have realy been looking forward to. Thus far iPhone users have had to use other podcast solutions which were incomplete and far inferior. Now if we could only see a copy & paste option!

17 ways to survive a Mac Disaster.

By Jonathan

Mac Life has came up with 17 great ways for you to survive almost every Mac disaster.

Strategic Assault for the iPhone

By Jonathan at 6:51 PM

A new game by the name of Strategic Assault recently saw its iPhone debut. It may be the first real time strategy game published on the iPhone platform, but is it really all that great?

Strategic Assault has very similar feel to that of the Command & Conquer series. You can create a variety of little fighters like tanks, jeeps, and helicopters with which you capture resources.  As in most RTS games your ultimate goal is to hunt down the opposition with a squad of your finest men…or whatever troops you can afford anyways.

Those of you new to Strategic Assault may marvel over it, what with the four out of five star rating it holds, but it really is an antique. I first played Strategic Assault over five years ago on my Palm M100 which had a 16 MHz processor and 8MB of ram/storage.

PC to Mac the Easy Way

By Kris at 5:08 PM

There may be many ways to transfer your files from a PC to a Mac, but most can be pretty hard to do for the average person. Well not anymore, because Belkin has made a Switch-to-Mac Cable that allows you to move music, movies, photos, and Internet preferences to your new Mac with ease. All you have to do is plug one end of the USB into your Mac and the other end into your PC. After that it automatically takes your files and transfers them to your Mac. The Switch-to-Mac Cable will be out soon for around $50. A 2008 Needham report shows that Macintosh sales have tripled in the past 3 years and by 2017 Apple will sell 40 million Macs at the rate their going, so it would seem that Belkin has chosen a great time to unveil their cable.

Chuck, the iPhone and Agent 18

By Jonathan Brownfield at 2:07 AM

For those of you not familiar with NBC’s TV series Chuck, the show is about an average Joe tech geek who ends up secretly working undercover for the CIA.

Many of you may have noticed that Chuck uses an iPhone, but most of you probably haven’t been able to figure which case he is using, The Tech Lunch has the scoop.

iPhone Battery Pack Showdown

By Jonathan at 12:23 PM

Anyone who owns an iPhone can testify that the battery life on both the 1st and 2nd generation is horrible. When you are going from using smart phones that lasted a week to a phone that must be charged every night, it takes some getting use to. My previous Nokia Communicator would easily last an entire weekend of heavy use on a single charge. We here at The Tech Lunch have found three options to help ease your power issues.

Massive T-Mobile G1 Bug

By Spencer at 9:25 PM CST

This is a big one, folks.  For all of those command line junkies, you will understand why this is insanity.  A bug has been found on T-Mobile’s new G1 that executes command line level functions from anywhere on the phone. It seems that, on firmware versions RC29 and lower, typing any command in any place with a text box and hitting “return” will execute said command.  Those out there with G1’s are encouraged to try this by typing “reboot” and hitting enter in any text box setting – your phone should reboot.  This works fairly consistently across many a G1, but it doesn’t work on all of ‘em.  Still, a pretty interesting bug to be allowed out of the beta testing phase, but it really isn’t as big as I said it was – Google is putting out a patch in its latest firmware release RC30 and shooting it out to all G1 owners.

MAC MINI ROBOT

By Jonathan at 2:23 PM

Apple Software Update

By Jonathan at 3:56 PM

For all of you hobbyist and professional photographers out their, Apple has recently released an update just for you. Apple released Digital Camera raw support version 2.3. It extends the raw functionality of iPhoto and Aperture to four new cameras.

iPhone 3G Gets External Keyboard… Mod, That Is

By Spencer at 7:15 PM CST

Here’s something kind of interesting.  Someone has modded a Palm external keyboard, complete with modded input wire, to act as a keyboard for the iPhone.  Wouldn’t that be fun if they could do this for the mainstream consumer, such as myself (well, tech enthusiast/mainstream consumer)?  I’d probably buy one.  With just a little Ruby code and all of this modded goodness, we see the external keyboard doing its thing in MobileTerminal.  Read on to watch the video.

Street View in iPhone 2.2

By Jonathan at 11:23 PM

Check out the latest update to the iPhone!

The First G1 Commercial

By Jonathan at 12:12 PM CST

The first ever G1 Commercial has already came out. In case you are not familiar, the G1: it is an HTC smartphone with the Google Android operating system produced for Tmobile.

For more information, check out our G1 review