Bytemarks

Andy Yip and Jane Zeng, creators of the iPhone app DaBus were featured on Yasmin Dar‘s Social Wire segment on KITV’s morning show. Both Andy and Jane were part of CityCamp Honolulu and the CityCampHNL Hackathon. In fact they won top honors at the Hackathon. Since the Hackathon, they came up with a name for [...]

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Local tech company Oceanit and the Honolulu Hackerspace group HI Capacity are collaborating to help Japan with its radiation problems after the explosions at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant this past March. They recently met up with Peiter Franken one of the co-founders of an organization called Safecast that is helping to map out the [...]

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Anyone who has an Apple mobile device, be it iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad has one of these, the white USB to 30 pin docking cable that attaches your device to your computer or power plug. And if you are like me you might have several of them. Now if someone asked me to [...]

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In mid-January, CEO Jim Sink announced that Avatar Reality was going to cease development for Blue Mars on the PC and focus on iOS rollout. The much anticipated launch of Blue Mars over a browser interface was also suspended indefinitely. Obviously a great disappointment for all of us touting Blue Mars as the next generation [...]

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There was a beautiful rainbow that appeared outside our window yesterday afternoon at work. I just had to post it here. This shot was taken with my iPhone and post-processed in Instagr.am.

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These Android phones are coming out fast and furious. Late last year I got to touch a Motorola Droid. It was a little heavy compared to the iPhone and it had a built in keyboard that nobody liked. Next up, the Nexus One was sold by Google early this year with quite a bit of [...]

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About a week ago, friends over at Archinoetics asked if I wanted to be a beta tester for their new iPhone app called Epic Tracker. I had heard about Epic Tracker from following Roz Savage’s row across the Pacific on her “epic” solo row. The program’s first iteration was called Roz Tracker and on her [...]

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For the past week or so I’ve had the pleasure of using a Motorola Droid courtesy of Verizon Wireless. It’s a loaner so I have to return it shortly. As these are my first impressions, I am going to make the obvious comparisons to the iPhone 3GS which I will admit I am in love [...]

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There are some interesting developments in the local iPhone application community. Granted iPhone  app development here is nothing new. I recall in the beginning of this year when Russel Cheng over at Oceanit announced their iFu Kung Fu app. It was all the rage and quite novel at the time. Now iPhone apps are popping [...]

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My buddy Ryan turned me on to this cool iPhone app called Trailguru. I am already carrying my iPhone where ever I go but this app now gives me reason to carry it while I go running. Trailguru is a free app you can download from the iTunes app store. It’s very simple to run. [...]

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