Geeks2Girls iPhone Holiday Gift Guide

Geeks2Girls has searched though hundreds of apps in the iTunes app store to bring you our favorites for this holiday season. Weather you are traveling on vacation or sitting around with the family, you are sure to need a little entertainment.

Strategic Assault for the iPhone

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.

Chuck, the iPhone and Agent 18

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.

iPhone Battery Pack Showdown

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.

The new MacBook and MacBook Pro

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

Cool It USB Beverage Chiller Review

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.

PhotoFunia

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.

Turning you iMac Into A Portable Computer

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.

The Hot-E

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.

Animoto Review

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.