drag2share: Get SMS Delivery Confirmations on Your iPhone Pushed to You [IPhone Downloads]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5856516/get-sms-delivery-confirmations-on-your-iphone-pushed-to-you

iOS (Jailbroken): If you've ever texted from an area with spotty cell reception, you'll notice that the iPhone doesn't ever tell you if an SMS has failed—it just expects you to check back in a few minutes to confirm the message went through. That's annoying. With SMSConfirmation, you can get notifications that your message actually has been sent.

I would imagine it'd get equally annoying to get delivery notifications for every single text you ever send, which is what's going to happen, because SMSConfirmation doesn't have an on-off switch. To disable it you have to completely uninstall the Cydia tweak. Still, if you're often losing texts and having to go back and re-send them, it's very useful.

SMSConfirmation: Get Push Notifications For SMS Delivery Report On iPhone | Addictive Tips

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drag2share: Hack an Ikea Solar Lamp to Charge an iPad [Weekend Project]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5856674/hack-an-ikea-solar-lamp-to-charge-an-ipad

In the past we've covered how to turn the inexpensive Ikea Sunnan solar lamp into a solar display case and today we have a hack from electronics manufacturer Voltaic Systems to turn the same lamp into a solar charging station for an iPad or other power-hungry phone or tablet.

This hack is actually three mini-hacks rolled into one—Voltaic shows how to replace the low-capacity rechargeable batteries in the lamp's battery pack with larger batteries, mod the lamp to accept additional external solar panels, and adding a modified Minty Boost charging circuit to allow devices to pull up to 1 Amp of electricity.

When these three mini-hacks are combined you will have upgraded a novelty lamp into a robust charging station that can charge smart phones and tablets much more quickly than the tiny solar panel included on the lamp. This project will require around $50 and is accessible for beginner electronics hobbyists who know how to solder.

Mod the IKEA Sunnan to Charge an iPad 2 | Voltaic Systems

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drag2share: The Tegra 3 Is Naked [Guts]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5856160/the-tegra-3-is-naked

While we're all waiting to play with tablets running on Nvidia's smokey quad-core wonder, Wireless Goodness got its mitts on photos of the chip in the flesh.

It looks pretty much like any other chip, sure—but pause for a minute and consider just how much is lying underneath there: four graphics-socking cores, plus a slower, secret core for menial tasks. You'll never see it, sealed up inside your next tablet (maybe), but don't take for granted much we can put on silicon these days. [Wireless Goodness via Engadget]

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drag2share: Verizon to offer APIs to give your data rate an on-demand boost, for a price

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/04/verizon-to-offer-apis-to-give-your-data-rate-an-on-demand-boost/

There's a ton of data-dependent apps these days, and with services like iCloud and Spotify gaining steam, your precious bytes of data can get bogged down with all the additional traffic. Help is on the way for Verizon customers, however, as the company plans to release an API that will allow users to speed up their connection at will from within apps. This network optimization API will be joined by a microtransaction API (developed in conjunction with Vodafone) to make sure Big Red gets paid for every bit of bandwidth nitro you ask for. Work on the APIs is ongoing at VZW's Innovation Center in San Francisco, but neither API will be ready for prime time until next year. That's a long time to wait, but the idea of improving our data connection at the press of a button has us positively giddy. What about you?

Verizon to offer APIs to give your data rate an on-demand boost, for a price originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 04 Nov 2011 23:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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drag2share: Sony's new 0.7-inch OLED microdisplay packs 720p resolution, has EVFs in its sights

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/05/sonys-new-0-7-inch-oled-microdisplay-packs-720p-resolution-has/

Say howdy to Sony's ECX332A! Excited? We'll, if you're into shooting DSLR video using electronic viewfinders, you might be. This new OLED microdisplay measures in it a mere 0.7-inches, managing an HD resolution of 1280 x 720. As understood by OLED-Info, it features "the same white OLED and color-filters architecture" as the ECX331A (far left), which is the 0.5-inch, 1024 × 768 XGA variant Sony's implemented inside of the EVFs found on its NEX-5N and A77 cameras, among others. Notably, it'll likely be a pleasure to look through with a brightness level rated at 200 cd/m2 and a peppy response time of 0.01ms. There's no word on what future Sony shooters we can expect to find the ECX332A in, but if you're curious for more details -- and well-versed in kana -- hit that source link below.

Sony's new 0.7-inch OLED microdisplay packs 720p resolution, has EVFs in its sights originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 05 Nov 2011 01:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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