By Spencer at 6:53 PM CST
For the past month or so, I have been using the Flick iPhone 3G case by Contour Design. Using it on my iPhone 3G, of course. Overall, I have found it to be quite a satisfying case for the iPhone. Read on for more information.
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. Read the rest of this entry »
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. Read the rest of this entry »
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. Read the rest of this entry »
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.
By Kris at 8:37 AM
CEO Stephen Dukker who runs a California based company called NComputing announced that they’ve released a computer which will only consume 1 to 4watts of power compared to a normal computer which consumes around 500 to even a 1000 watts of power. But this method of computing isn’t so clean after you discover that you’ll need a normal computer too. You probably don’t understand this. Let me explain. So you have a computer in the basement filled with all your home movies, pictures, videos, etc. but you want those files to be available around your house let’s say upstairs. Read the rest of this entry »
The new MacBook from Apple. Look familiar...?
By Max at 3:39 PM
Well, they’re here. The new MacBook and the new MacBook Pro. Possibly the most anticipated release since the first iBook, these two machines are a step foward in many ways, but a step backwards in others. In my opinion Apple wasn’t aiming at upgrading the current Mac users with this new model. I think they were aiming at making PC users switch. Let’s face it, Apple hit a home run design wise with the MacBook Air Read the rest of this entry »
By Jonathan at 1:00 AM
Cool It Systems, the creators of high end desktop cooling solutions, has given us their USB Beverage Chiller to play around with.
The whole thing runs off of USB power, which is great for a desktop computer user. Not so great for notebook users. The chiller worked perfectly on my iMac and Macbook Air, but it was useless on a few of my older laptops. It takes about 5W and 1.2 volts of power to run, which means it will still work on your XBox 360 (finally use to those neglected USB ports). The Chiller was really nice to have this evening while I was playing Halo 3 and drinking red bull.
The beverage chiller works surprising well when using an already cold soda can. We tested it out using a metal soda can, glass bottle, plastic bottle, and a plastic cup.
By Kris at 7:33 PM
Do you like playing around with your photos in Photoshop? Well now there is an easier way to mess with pictures of your friends and family with a web app called 
PhotoFunia.
PhotoFunia allows you to upload a picture under 500kb from your computer, then you can you choose some effects from PhotoFunia’s library to alter it. Now here is the best part, this web app is free and doesn’t require a registration.
So here is the link to PhotoFunia. Enjoy, and feel free to share creations in the comments.
By Jonathan at 12:39 AM CST
When most people think of a portable Apple computer, they ponder images of the Macbook family. The iLugger by LTA Projects turns the iMac into your next portable machine.
By Kris at 6:28 PM
When Australia’s Ansett Airlines closed down in 2001 John Nicholls a pilot decided that he didn’t want to be a pilot anymore. So he decided to follow his dream of building a $100 computer that would be good enough to compete with major companies such as Dell and HP. So John created the Hot-E a computer that is a little bit bigger then a deck of cards and it only consumes 3 Watts of electricity. But before you get your hopes up the Hot-E has only 8MB of flash memory and an ARM processor which is used in phones and mobile devices. But the Hot-E isn’t meant to be used as your main computer the Hot-E is intended to just connect you to a web site.
By Kris at 6:54 PM
Are you tired of dull photo slide shows and their boring transitions? Well a online web application called Animoto could solve all your problems. Animoto is web application that lets you make a slide show for 30 seconds or pay $3 for a slide show that is as long as your song. So let me explain the process of Animoto well first you have to register at Animoto. After that when you want to make a slide show, Animoto takes a selection of photos you choose either from your computer, or from a social networking site such as Flickr.
By Adam at 4:49 AM
The web is a great place for all kinds of content. If your anything like me I am sure your web surfing time is chock full of interesting web sites, great articles, amazing photos, and the most powerful medium of them all… video!
Video has never been more wide spread and far reaching than now. That is mainly in part due the continued advances in video devices such as a device I recently purchased called the Flip Video Mino.
By Chad at 7pm
T-Mobile G1
You may have been hearing a lot about the T-Mobile G1 in the news lately and been wondering why everyone has been getting so worked up over a new phone. I am going to cover a few of its features and how you can try its new OS yourself. Hardware wise the G1 isn’t anything that special – it’s the typical HTC affair with a Qualcomm 528Mhz processor (probably overclockable), 192MB ram/256MB ROM, GPS, and all the rest of the features you would expect from a modern phone.
By Kris at 4:51 PM
So recently I had to make a PowerPoint presentation and I was looking at the effects and transitions in PowerPoint and I noticed that most of them were either boring or just plain out cheesy. So I know that apple’s Keynote is awesome but I don’t have a Mac, so I did a little research and discovered a neat little web app called SlideRocket. SlideRocket is a app that makes you pretty cool presentations and the transitions and effects are something like in Keynote. SlideRocket allows you to publish your slide show onto the web which allows you to see what others think of your work.
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