The Touchpad Pro app for the iPhone developed by Jahanzeb Sherwani will turn your iPhone into a wireless, remote trackpad, which gives you direct access to your computer as if you were using a mouse or touch device for input. The latest native iPhone application Touchpad Pro app is based entirely on VNsea.

You can do just about anything on your iPhone as a wireless touchpad as you could with the touchpad on your computer. You can move the mouse around, click, double-click, and even drag (double click but keep it pressed and then move around). Vertical scrolling is even possible, by click-and-dragging on the right edge of the iPhone screen. You can thus use it to control videos, show pictures, or advance slides in a presentation. Read more »

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According to a new iSuppli report, each unit of the upcoming iPhone 3G only costs $173 USD to assemble and manufacture, meaning Apple could be making upwards of $500 USD profit on each phone sold.

The research group said they “virtually” tore down the phone, based on internal experts in the cellphone and wireless technology fields and were able to estimate the costs of each part and finally the unit as a whole.

If the estimates are true, then the new device will cost 23 percent less to produce then its predecessor, which cost $226 USD to make. The cut costs can be attributed to falling prices on flash memory and other individual parts.

It is believed that AT&T in the US is subsidizing the iPhone for up to $425 USD and are selling the phone for $199. Using some quick math shows that AT&T is paying $624 for a phone that only costs $173 to produce, leaving Apple with huge profit margins in the process.

The report also added that the manufacturing costs should keep declining regularly and that if left untouched, the phone will cost $126 to produce in 2012.

A report commissioned by the e-NC Authority in North Carolina has dire warnings for the future if the US continues to fall behind other western nations in broadband internet deployment. It explains how the US has fallen behind so many other countries and characterizes it as a necessity for competing in the modern world rather than being a luxury along the lines of cable television.

“If the United States wants to preserve its high standard of living and quality of life, it must rapidly prepare its workforce to move up the value chain to knowledge-based jobs that can command the high wages that Americans have come to expect. This will require improvements in many areas, especially to our educational system and our advanced communications infrastructure,” says the report. Read more »

In a recent post, we talked about upgrading the HP Slimline desktop. While doing this I wasn’t able to find good instructions on how to take the thing apart to get access to the RAM and HD, so I decided to write my own.

To get to the RAM and the HD there is on step that gets in the way, everything else after that is simple.

To start off, you need to take off the case housing. 3 simple screws as pictured below and then slide off the side panel. Read more »

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I upgraded to Firefox 3 today and after the switch I found out that I had lost my left and right navigation buttons. After floundering for a bit, I was able to restore them quite easily but at the expense of my current toolbar layout and settings.

If your problem isn’t as severe as mine, it might be as easy as right clicking on the toolbar and selecting “Customize…”

From there it’s as easy as dragging the left and right direction buttons back onto your toolbar. If that doesn’t work you could also try clicking on the “Restore Default Set” button boxed in red below. I must warn you that this will delete your layout and restore state it was at the very first day you ran Firefox.

In my case, neither method worked so I had to take a drastic measure. Read more »

Playing with Windows Vista, I decided I wanted to install some of my ISO’s i got from MSDN. At first, i tried to install an older version of Alcohol 120%, but that blue screened my system. I didnt feel like purchasing a new ISO loading program, so my solution?

Virtual Clone Drive.

Easy d/l at 1mb, and pretty fast an simple to use. The only problem so far is that this utility does not work on Windows Vista 64 bit edition.

Alternatives
Alcohol 52% - Free version of Alcohol 120, but it bundles a browser toolbar which may be spyware.
Daemon Tools - Latest version installs spyware on your computer, and the old version doesn’t work in Vista.
Virtual CD-ROM (Microsoft) - This utility does not work in Windows Vista
MagicDisk - This is a nice, free utility, but it isn’t very easy to install in Vista64.

For the fiscal quarter ending May 31, Best Buy revenue was up by over a billion dollars compared to last year. Normally that would be good news, but this year it’s something of a mixed blessing.

The problem isn’t so much the amount of money they brought in as what was selling. While they had some success selling items like PCs and flat panel TVs, the big story was video games.

In addition to the record setting performance of Grand Theft Auto IV, increased inventory of the still popular Wii helped fuel sales.

“Gross margin should remain under pressure as the mix to gaming and PCs continue as well as increasing pressure from discounters,” Pali Capital analyst Stacey Widlitz wrote in a note to clients yesterday, before earnings were released. “We believe the competitive landscape will continue to move in the wrong direction.”