Saturday, May 25, 2013

iSteve

Posted by dLux On April - 17 - 2013 ADD COMMENTS


Funny or Die has done what they say they were going to do and release the first Steve Jobs documentary to the public. Although this skews a little bit from reality, and obviously takes more liberties than the Aston Kutcher starring movie, or the soon to be Aaron Sorkin film, it is for sure funny. Unfortunately you cannot embed the film but click the poster above to watch.

Make Steve Jobs proud and Airplay it to your Apple TV.

MW3 Goes To 15 Prestiges

Posted by dLux On February - 23 - 2012 ADD COMMENTS


The worst news for all women has hit the internet. The biggest entertainment release of all-time, no not Battlefield 3, but Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, has upped the ante on its Prestige Levels, jumping from 10 to 15. This is also along with their latest content drop for Elite users, which was a whopping ONE map. They clearly took a lot of time to think of the designs for these new emblems as well.


“Creative Strategist” aka the guy that speaks for all things Call of Duty on the Infinity Ward side, Robert Bowling, posted on his twitter that they added 400 new rank levels and 5 prestige levels.



What does this mean? Well if you are already a level 10 prestige you should probably consider getting a breath of fresh air, maybe speak to someone of the opposite sex, get a job or I don’t know, maybe even take a shower because the amount of time that you have spent on Modern Warfare 3 is completely unhealthy unless you are getting paid for it. But basically it means that Activision just gave out free video game crack to millions of people that are guaranteed to pick up the pipe controller.


As you may know, when I am not DJing, changing diapers, or writing these incredible witty blogs, I am a Call of Duty fiend. Yes, I am one of those guys that was at Gamestop at midnight for the launch, bought the $100 Hardened Edition for the extra stuff, has no problem talking shit to a 14 year old that just got worked, then posting said footage on YouTube. Take a look at what happens when you step into my crosshairs when I am being a dick with a sniper rifle…





If you have any videos that you think are worthy of me posting on here I would love to post them. Email me the YouTube link to djdlux@lastnightshype.com

Why PROTECT-IP Act & SOPA affect you.

Posted by Brian 'Docta' Dawe On December - 9 - 2011 ADD COMMENTS

 

There has been a lot of talk about the “PROTECT-IP Act” and “Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)”. Maybe you went to download a torrent of your favorite show from “The Pirate Bay”, or opened your Tumblr dashboard to see a message about stopping the passage of these bills. You probably just ignored it, or thought to yourself there is no way that they will EVER put restrictions on our internet. After all this isn’t China or Iran, this is AMERICA, and in AMERICA we say, read, type, and do whatever we want to do on the internet. You may say to yourself “I am sure if they do restrict our internet access it will only limit the ability to share and download copyrighted content.” Correct?

 

How can we be sure that is as far as it will go?

 

The PROTECT-IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) will endanger the internet as well all know it. If passed, they would officially bring Iran and China-style Internet censorship to the US as a matter of LAW. I could attempt to describe every detail of the damage this will do to the internet, and explain how this WILL impact your life, but it can all be summarized with two clicks.

 

ONE.

Watch this video. It will explain the danger we are facing by the passage of these laws.

 

TWO.

Read Paul Geller’s blog. Yes, you may know him as “Pauly Crush” (AKA the DJ who beat me out in the 2008 Best of Orlando voting for “Best Club DJ”). He has since moved on to much more important work “like consumer protection, privacy, ad ops and other digital absurdia” as senior vice president of external affairs at Grooveshark. Start with this article: “Digital wars, Round 2: Killing the golden goose”, then make sure to bookmark this blog and read it often.

 

 

STOP PROTECT IP NOW.

Batman: Arkham City

Posted by dLux On October - 19 - 2011 ADD COMMENTS




The sequel to easily the greatest Batman game of all time, Arkham Asylum, was released yesterday and they have brought the action out of the Asylum and into the city and appropriately calling it: Batman Arkham City.


I played (and finished) the first game on Xbox 360 but I decided to buy the latest version on my newly purchased PS3 because I remember last year the graphics being a little bit slicker on PS3 so I figured why not.


I’m obviously not very far into the game (10%) but from what I have played so far this game is just fantastic. Think Grand Theft Auto meets Batman and that is this game. The main story obviously drives the game but there are plenty of ways to get distracted away from it. Side missions, Riddler Trophys, Catwoman missions in-between Batman missions, or if you just wanna beat some ass on the streets, nothing is off limits. I bought my copy from Best Buy which apparently unlocks the ability to play as Robin but I have yet to encounter those missions yet.





From what I have played so far, all of Batmans greatest rivals are showcased. Two-Face, Mr. Freeze, Bane, Poison Ivy, Penguin, Croc, and of course the ringleader of the madness, The Joker.


The premise is as follows: Gotham City has basically had enough of these crazy fuckers in Arkham Asylum and built a peremiter wall in North Gotham and just let them loose inside the “city”. Bruce Wayne is running for public office and his press coference is ambushed and now he, among others, is now a political prisoner inside this cesspool of insanity. Always the quick thinker, Wayne breaks out of his handcuffs after beating some ass and hollers at his boy Alfred to air-drop him a Batsuit and we’re off to the races.


I won’t go any further than that (not that I am that much further from that point to begin with). I have complete faith that this game is going to be the shit from front to back just as its predecessor was. Game is available now on PS3, which if you actually have a 3Dtv you can play the game in 3D, but is also availble on Xbox 360 if you lack either of those of course.

Steve Jobs: Original Gangster

Posted by dLux On October - 10 - 2011 ADD COMMENTS




Lets get one thing straight: Steve Jobs was the fucking man and someone that will be talked about for generations. Whether you are Pro-Apple or not, it is an undeniable truth that you are just going to have to live with. His influence is most likely attached to at least one piece of technology in your home whether it be a computer, mp3 player, phone of a number of other things.


Last week, Patrick Schwayze finally answered the door that Steve Jobs was knocking on (too soon?) and the world lost the last great asshole in business. Now I say asshole because he was a very well known hard-ass in everything he did. It took record labels years to finally get him to come off the .99 cent price point for music and he did not give a fuck. If they didn’t want to be apart of what would become the #1 music retailer in the WORLD, then be his guest and leave. They obviously didn’t and he knew that they wouldn’t and that’s just the kind of muscle someone with his brilliance can flex. Same reason you can’t get iOS on any other device than an Apple, and the same reason the App Store is closely moderated as opposed to Androids malware infected Marketplace which will shit all over your phone at the click of a button.


The iTunes Store was one of the MANY great innovations brought to us from Jobs, but the single greatest thing that stands out to me is the timing of the introduction of the orignal iPod.


Think about it, the year is 2001, Shawn Fanning has crushed every new musicians dream of selling records, and every old musicians hopes of getting a royalty check with a little file-sharing program called Napster that is running rampant in every college kids (or High School for me) room downloading thousands upon MILLIONS of pirated content every second. Lawsuits are flying, Lars Ulrich is the most hated man in Metal, and the music industry is swan diving in what would start a decade long drop is sales figures that they would never recoup from, ever.


In steps Steve Jobs to do what he does best: Capitalize. What better way to take advantage of a market with basically no competition than to introduce a device to hold all these songs that you have stolen? The iPod was introduced and now you are able to stop burning CDs of the Death Row Records Discography you downloaded and you can have it all in one place on one device, all while Apple makes the money and the record industry still loses. Of course to cover their own tracks (no pun intended) they introduce the iTunes Music Store where you can buy music legally but let’s be honest, we all know what the original intentions were and that was to capitalize off all the pirated music out there at the time. Genius.


I could go on and on about all the things Jobs has contributed to our generation but you can read plenty of that on every tech blog/news website on the ‘net. I just wanted to give my point of view as to why I thought he was the man. We here at Last Nights Hype are proud to use his technology in every aspect of what we do (well, except for Dawe who hopefully will make the jump now that the iPhone 4S is available on Sprint). From DJing, photo editing, writing, designing, and recording…his legacy will truly live on in all of us.

BF3 Servers Crash In Less Than 24 Hours

Posted by dLux On September - 29 - 2011 ADD COMMENTS


Looking to play Battlefield 3 multiplayer before it comes out? Well, you can’t. EAs servers have crashed less than 24 hours after releasing it. Yes, on both Xbox Live and Playstation Network. Is this a sign of things to come when the game comes out on October 25th? Time will tell.


I got to play a little bit of it this afternoon before the crash and it’s…ok. I am obviously heavily biased because of the beast around the corner from this game after it comes out, Modern Warfare 3, which I already have pre-ordered, paid in full, Hardened Edition, no big deal.


Anybody who wants to get down, I will be playing Modern Warfare 3 on the system with the servers that can handle the load, Xbox 360. Don’t forget what happened last year to you loyal PS3ers.


Gamertag: HDS COMIN THRU (extra point to whoever knows where my gamertag is from).


UPDATE: The servers are back up, but still…fuck this game. What’s with only having one level?

Apple set to shit on everybody Oct. 4

Posted by dLux On September - 28 - 2011 ADD COMMENTS




Apple has set the date for its annual iPhone reveal. This year, they will wipe the floor with the cell phone industry on Oct. 5th.


Docta Dawe your troubles are almost over. Much speculation is leading to believe that Apple will announce that the iPhone will finally be available on Sprint, which is sure to leave about 50% of their Android market in the dust.


In wake of the announcement, the last company in the major 4 that doesn’t/won’t have the iPhone, T-Mobile, released a statement saying basically that they wish they could get it and that they know there are a million people on their network right now with unlocked iPhones.


We’ve heard from many customers who love their T-Mobile service, but are disappointed that we don’t carry the iPhone. To these customers, first, thank you for your business. Please know that we think the iPhone is a great device and Apple knows that we’d like to add it to our line-up. Today, there are over a million T-Mobile customers using unlocked iPhones on our network. We are interested in offering all of our customers a no-compromise iPhone experience on our network.



Basically: use whatever fucking phone you want as long as you are paying your bill.


Watch out Android community, you’re about to shown why you’re obsolete…again.

“Power Laces, Alriiight”

Posted by dLux On September - 8 - 2011 1 COMMENT




Every 80s babys sneaker dream is about to come true. Nike has announced a limited run (1,500 pairs) of the Nike Air Mag. What is the Air Mag you say? Well, its the shoe that Marty McFly Sr. put on his feet upon entering Hill Valley in 2015 before he went to the Cafe 80s to save Marty Jr. from Griff Tannen in Back To The Future II, the second movie in one of the greatest trilogies EVER.


With power laces, and a charger to make sure they don’t die, they can be yours for the price of…an auction winning bid? That’s right, you won’t be able to buy these at your local FootAction, you gotta win them in auctions as they are being sold strictly on eBay. Michael J. Fox is spearheading the sale actually with all the sales that Nike makes going to Parkinsons research so that’s pretty cool I guess. I wonder if Orlandos #1 sneaker head DJ A-Rock will cop a pair? I hope so because I really want to see a pair of these in real life and not have to put my fingerprint on the door to do so.


Confessions of an Android user.

Posted by Brian 'Docta' Dawe On August - 25 - 2011 1 COMMENT


I have argued, bickered and fought for the android for over a year now. When I bought the EVO 4G I swore up and down it was the best phone in history. I had graphs and charts to prove why it was better. Now, one year and two months have passed since I have purchased this phone. The verdict is in.

I hate the EVO 4G.

Sure, the screen is big, crisp and clear. What good does that do when the screen is only lit up for half the day before the battery dies. About four months ago I finally gave in and purchased an extended battery. My sleek thin EVO 4G went from looking like this:

To this:

Now I know the EVO isn’t the only Android phone, and I am sure the HTC Thunderbolt and Motorola Droid X have learned from the EVO’s mistakes, but at the end of the day I am positive Apple will win this battle. I have owned four Apple laptops, but I am not a fanboy for Apple. Getting rid of the “Save As” option in Lion is fucking retarded, and so is the new “natural scrolling” (How is it natural when you have been “naturally” doing it the other way since Windows 3.1?). The good people at Apple are FAR from perfect, but I think it’s safe to say they have making cell phones and music players down to a science.

Where is this coming from? Well, Steve Jobs resigned in the last 24 hours, which left me reminiscing about all the fond Apple memories I have had while he reigned over this great company. I think it is time for me to come clean while this genus is still with us on earth, and admit that I was wrong.

 

The iPhone is better than the EVO (and most likely every other Android on the market).


I could not have come to this conclusion at a better time, because yesterday pretty much every media outlet reported that my cell phone provider, Sprint, will be carrying the iPhone 5 come mid October. I have been a Sprint customer for seven years and am beyond satisfied with their customer service, not to mention I don’t remember my last non-elevator related dropped call. Data is blazing fast on Sprints 4G network. With AT&T not know for its quality, coverage or speed, this will be a huge boost in sales for Sprint, and without a doubt will hurt AT&T. Sprint carrying the iPhone will leave T-Mobile as the last major carrier without the iPhone (unless they merge with AT&T which now looks unlikely). This in my opinion is a crushing blow to Android. I believe there are many Android users in denial, like I was, about the iPhones superiority. When they are given the option to get the iPhone after an extended period as an Android user they will make the switch. Android reminds me of Windows. It freezes, crashes, runs slow and just plain doesn’t work sometimes. I have never had this problem with Apple products.

 

I expect this Android nightmare to end with the purchase of my iPhone 5 come mid October.


I will now end with this totally unrelated clip of Special K in a High Tide Harry’s commercial

Fuck The Man . . . On The Run

Posted by Zack Farrow On August - 17 - 2011 ADD COMMENTS

Lets say you just clocked in to work. You’re sayin fuck the man and check your twitter or facebook on your iPhone and see that Docta Dawe or DJ dLux just released another mix and it is in torrent form.  Now I know you wanna bang that bitch on the way home but how are you going to download it while your working right. Your phone isn’t set up to remote desktop to your home computer to set up the download so it will be there when you get home so you are pissed. Well ease your worries friend s cause I have a way for you to download torrents on your iPhone or Android with no problems . I have included pictures to go with the corresponding numbers below for help.

First, go to the appstore on the iPhone and download an app called Filer. You can download filer lite if you don’t want to pay but you can only manage 3 downloads at a time, most people wont have an issue with this but hey throw some money to the develpoer who made the app they probably have to pay rent too. On Android go into the Market place and search for Download All Files, it should have a blue icon with a downward arrow. Get these apps installed.

Next, point your browser to www.torrific.com . In the top right corner you are going to click sign up. When you enter your email remember exactly how it is typed as it is very case sensitive when you go to log in at a later date. Make sure this is an email address you can access on your phone as they are going to send you a verification email.

Next we are going to go to where ever this torrent is located on the web. This will work for all torrent hosting websites so pick your poison. Find your torrent and when you see the download torrent link, press and hold until you see copy(1).

Make sure the link you copy ends in .torrent. Go in another tab/window of your browser back to torrific.com and log in if you need. Then at the top input field paste your torrent in there. This is a good point to check that .torrent file ending. Now click get(2).

On the next page about midway down to the right you are going to see a button that says “initiate bittorrent download” click this(3).

Now, from here you are going to have 1 of 2 screens load. If you’re torrent has already been uploaded to their server you are going to have access to download all files within that torrent immediately to the right(4)


Or you are going to get a screen that will tell you that you have to wait for your download. Check the box to alert you when you are done. They will send you an email  when you can download.Click the link in the email and you will get the first screen.(5)

Once you have the first screen click and hold the file you want to download and select copy to that file, if you have a lot of files like a mixtape download a nice thing this website does is allows you to download them all as a zip file. Not really useful on the iPhone as you cant open it but nice for when you get home.

Once you have selected the file you want to download and copied the link they give you if you are on an iPhone go to filer. If you are on Android I believe when you click and hold you have the option to download right there. For the iPhone when you go to Filer click get link to the far left and your link should already be in the input field and click download.  Now sit back and wait for your file to download.

I only know how to get the files off your iPhone and on to your computer since I don’t own an android but feel free to contact me with a solution for Android. Plug your iPhone into your computer when you get home and click on the apps category under your iPhone. Then scroll down to file sharing and click Filer. Then click the file you want to transfer and click save to and it will transfer the file to your computer pretty quickly.

As a disclaimer, I know some of you are going to say hey I can go download some movie torrents now and watch them at work. Yes you can, however if you seem to initiate enough movies that this website gets a DCMA take down for you will have your account deleted. I have had this happen to me all I did was turn around and make a new account with a different email address. One other thing, if you aren’t on an unlimited data plan try to not be downloading unless you are connected to WiFi. Torrents can get to some pretty hefty sizes and with data fees being at a ridiculous rate it would suck to have to pay for something you could have just waited to get home to download.

Apple’s Mobile Move

Posted by Zack Farrow On July - 1 - 2011 ADD COMMENTS



This past month has been especially exciting for those who enjoy Apple’s iDevices. At the beginning of the month we had WWDC where Apple announced their newest mobile operating system update labeled iOS 5 with about 200 new features to your iPhones,iPods and iPads.  With Apple only focusing on 10 main updates it truly is shaping up to be a completely different iPhone while keeping the good to try to lure those who love their Androids and Blackberries away.

First Apple announced that they are introducing a new Notification Center, which I’m sure that DLux will appreciate. For those that don’t own an iDevice as of now you will get an annoying popup in the center of your screen for anything like text messages that show up on your screen, which while you are playing a game or in the middle of a video will cut out what you are doing. While this is extremely annoying Apple seems to have taken a page out of Android’s book and given you a drop down panel that will keep all your notifications out of the way until you want to deal with them. While you are in an app you will get a small bar at the top in order to let you know they are there. Below is a picture from Apple to give you an idea of how they will look.

Along with the new notification system they implemented there have also been improvements to how you use your camera. Quick access from the lock screen has been added to cut out the time between unlock and opening your camera app to get that oh so important picture of your favorite DJ or artist performing. Finally they give you the opportunity to use the volume up button to take a picture instead of trying to hit that damned camera button which I’m sure you girls will love while you are out at one of Dawes nights trying to take pics with your friends. Also they have given you the ability to crop, reduce red eye and a bunch of other features within the camera application.

Another feature that is being talked about heavily is the social networking integration throughout the operating system. You will now be able to log in with your Twitter, Facebook, Linked In, and even yes I know it is dead but MySpace Accounts. With you logging in through settings you will have the ability to update your Twitter from anywhere in the device, as well as be able to post images from your camera and photos app to the web to share with your friends.

Those familiar with Blackberries will enjoy this new feature called iMessage. It is a secure app that will allow you to send unlimited free messages to any iDevices without the worry of your information being stolen. For those that for some reason are not on an unlimited text messaging plan this will surely be a great feature to have if you have enough friends that have an iDevice or a Mac computer since they announced recently that it will be also be  on the Mac operating system just like FaceTime. The nice thing about iMessage is that it will be built into you Messages app and will know who to send iMessages to and SMS so that you don’t run up texts  and don’t have to switch from app to app.

The grand daddy of all features comes in the form of iCloud though. The highly rumored feature has now been unveiled to the fullest which could not have been more impressive. Once you update your iDevice to iOS5 you will be given an account where 10GB of your information will be stored securely. In a database in North Carolina your Contacts, Calendars,Photos, and Mail will all be stored. Now that’s not all if you elect to pay mere $25 bucks a year you will be able to have 20,000 songs stored to your iTunes iCloud account. Now this will apply to music you have and have not purchased through iTunes. Moral of the story is even if you are a music pirate, arrg, you will have all of your music available on all of your iDevices synced together at all times. The thing about iCloud that really makes it great is that once you make a change to anything that is connected to your iCloud account will be updated on all of your iDevices as soon as they are connected to the internet. This will keep your Laptop/Desktop with the Mac OS and your iPhone/iPad/iPod all synced so that no matter which device you are on you can show everyone your pictures , favorite song and so forth.

For the majority of the features that is what is important for now. Those interested in more information run on over to the Apple website and check out their page for now on both iOS5 and iCloud. For those that this is old news I apologize keep posted and we will be releasing the newest of all information hitting the web from the top news sources and getting it to you in the timeliest of fashion.  For now I’m out, I’ll be back soon with another update from WWDC on  the new computer based OS Mac OS X10.7 Lion

 

I Got Faces

Posted by dLux On October - 22 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS

Apple has yet again dug it’s knife further into all its competitors by releasing its FaceTime application for computers. What does this mean? Well, first it means they are shitting all over the EVO (do I have your attention Dawe? Joe?).

Ok but seriously, this shit is pretty tight and was a given that it would eventually happen when Apple revealed the FaceTime capability for its latest incarnation of the beast that is the iPhone. Why wouldn’t they release this in conjunction with the iPhone 4 launch? Because kids, this is Apple. The computer company that likes to feed you in courses, not just give you the whole meal up front. Why release this capability when you don’t need to and can still sell an absolute shit-ton of phones? Release it 4 months later, garner even more interest in the phone (especially right before it comes to Verizon), while at the same time garnering interest in your computers as well seeing as how you can only do it from an Apple computer. Genius. Complete asshole maneuver, but genius.

This application gives you the ability to video chat with someone from your iPhone 4 with someone on a Mac or vice versa via an email address. The application doesn’t need to be open on your Mac for you to be available. When someone “calls” you, the app pops up in your dock and you accept the invitation and voila, you can now have video phone sex. Now you don’t have to wait for all your friends to get an iPhone 4 to take advantage of FaceTime, if they have a Mac, you’re good to go.

Yes, I know Android guys, you can only do it from Wi-Fi blah, blah, blah. But as I said above, this is merely the first, er, second course of FaceTime that Apple is feeding us. I’m sure once AT&T or the cell phone networks in general get their act together and feel that they can handle the traffic of millions of people video chatting on their networks they will release it. It is a smart move to NOT make it 3G capable right now as I’m sure it would bog down and possibly shut down an entire network. And don’t gimme that 4G bullshit either all you Sprint fuckers, cause my phone will still be faster than yours on 3G.

You can download the beta version of FaceTime on Apples website, just make sure your computer has the latest OS, Snow Leopard.

Oh bee-tee-dubs, if you have Windows, fuck your life.

Verizon iPhone by Christmas?

Posted by dLux On August - 8 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS

vMacRumors.com is reporting that Apple is possibly looking to finally break free of AT&Ts exclusive contract for the hottest phone in the land (yeah I said it) the iPhone. It is rumored that Apple has put a large order in for CDMA based chips (which is what Verizon phones run on, as opposed to SIM based phones that AT&T and T-Mobile run on) and that it could possibly mean that we will see the phone of all phones on Verizon as early as Christmas.

What does this mean for AT&T? Do you think people will flock to Verizon and cancel their current plans? Doubtful. Verizons call network is much stronger and better but they also lack a strong data network which is essential for an avid iPhoner such as myself or anyone else really. I’ve done a side by side comparison of YouTube links, one with my old iPhone 3G and the other with a Blackberry Storm and it was quite painful on how long you had to wait for the video to upload on the Storm. But then again, maybe I am just a biased asshole.

Will you switch to Verizon if it shows up? I don’t even think its a question on if current Verizon users will switch to it or not, it’s just a matter of when. Blackberrys are clearly losing their appeal with the general public.

Apple solves iPhone 4 signal issue

Posted by E-Rock On July - 3 - 2010 1 COMMENT

The boys (and girls) in Cupertino have been hard at work on the pressing “grip your iPhone 4 and watch the signal go *bloop*” problem.  Well, it seems (for now) they have an answer.

An arbitrary miscalculation in the signal strength algorithm.

What?

Translation:  The iPhone (3G, 3Gs and 4G) apparently read 2 more bars than they should.

Here is (the main parts of) the official letter from the ThinkTank in Cali:

Dear iPhone 4 Users:

….

To start with, gripping almost any mobile phone in certain ways will reduce its reception by 1 or more bars. This is true of iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, as well as many Droid, Nokia and RIM phones. But some users have reported that iPhone 4 can drop 4 or 5 bars when tightly held in a way which covers the black strip in the lower left corner of the metal band. This is a far bigger drop than normal, and as a result some have accused the iPhone 4 of having a faulty antenna design.

At the same time, we continue to read articles and receive hundreds of emails from users saying that iPhone 4 reception is better than the iPhone 3GS. They are delighted. This matches our own experience and testing. What can explain all of this?

We have discovered the cause of this dramatic drop in bars, and it is both simple and surprising.

Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally wrong. Our formula, in many instances, mistakenly displays 2 more bars than it should for a given signal strength. For example, we sometimes display 4 bars when we should be displaying as few as 2 bars. Users observing a drop of several bars when they grip their iPhone in a certain way are most likely in an area with very weak signal strength, but they don’t know it because we are erroneously displaying 4 or 5 bars. Their big drop in bars is because their high bars were never real in the first place.

To fix this, we are adopting AT&T’s recently recommended formula for calculating how many bars to display for a given signal strength. The real signal strength remains the same, but the iPhone’s bars will report it far more accurately, providing users a much better indication of the reception they will get in a given area. We are also making bars 1, 2 and 3 a bit taller so they will be easier to see.

We will issue a free software update within a few weeks that incorporates the corrected formula. Since this mistake has been present since the original iPhone, this software update will also be available for the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G.

We have gone back to our labs and retested everything, and the results are the same— the iPhone 4’s wireless performance is the best we have ever shipped. For the vast majority of users who have not been troubled by this issue, this software update will only make your bars more accurate. For those who have had concerns, we apologize for any anxiety we may have caused.

….

-Apple

For those of you having problems, look out for that update.  For those of you like myself who have had ZERO problems (eat that Android), just keep on keepin’ on.

Any of our readers out there experiencing problems?

Paranormal Activity 2 Trailer

Posted by dLux On June - 30 - 2010 1 COMMENT

“You got’cho very own ringtone”

Posted by dLux On June - 26 - 2010 1 COMMENT

In light of the new iPhone 4 being released and crushing everything in sight (notice the full reception on the picture above). I have decided to unleash my personal library of custom made iPhone ringtones for everybody to use for their phones. 30+ rings, mostly instrumentals all ready for you to drag into iTunes then drag over onto your iPhone. The list is as follows…

Rocko – Maybe

Cam’ron – Get It In Ohio, Amber Lamps, I’m Ready

Dee Lite – Groove is in the Heart

Juicy J – Twerk

Gucci Mane – Lemonade, Gingerbread Man, Wasted

Beastie Boys – Brass Monkey

New Boyz – You’re a Jerk

Dorrough – Ice Cream Paint Job

Dr. Dre – Nuthin But a G Thang

Pastor Troy – D Boy

Big Boi – Ringtone

Trey Songz – Supplier

Gorilla Zoe – What It Is, Hood Nigga

Yung LA – 36 O’s

DJ Felli Fel – Feel It

Paul Wall – Bizzy Body

LMFAO – Miami

Lil’ Wayne – Prostitute, Ask Dem Hoes

Lil’ Jon – Some Head Tonight

Shawty LO – They Know

Soulja Boy – Turn My Swag On, Hey You There

LL Cool J – Doin’ It

Blue Oyster Cult – Fear The Reaper (DON’T HATE!!)

Rich Boy – Throw Some Ds

Young Jeezy – Trap or Die

Alchemist – Basics

Crookers – Thunderstruck

Jokers of the Scene – Baggy Bottom Boys

Chromeo – Needy Girl

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