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dishpointer augmented reality iphone 3gs app helps you find satellites with ease

Ever try to install a satellite dish? Speaking from personal experience, I can say that finding the right line-of-sight from the dish to the skies can be a real pain in the a$$. Now there’s a new app coming for the iPhone 3GS that could make satellite dish positioning just a bit easier.

DishPointer’s next-generation…

August 28th, 2009 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: digital imaging gps + navigation home entertainment technology video

next iphone to have built-in magnetometer: yay for miners and geologists. yay.

The folks at The Boy Genius Report have a couple of screens from an iPhone debugging menu, and their Apple insider is telling them that the evidence points to a built-in magnetometer for the next hardware revision of the wildly successful device.

As we all know, a magnetometer tells you how close you are to…

May 8th, 2009 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: future tech gadgets mobile tech strange + wonderful technology