ManicMobile

I got a google plus account and I recently came across this Google Plus link shortener (http://plusg.name/). So I was curious about how it works. So I found out that you’ll eventually have a nice looking URL that will redirect people to your google plus profile. Cool isn’t it. Some of the benefits I can [...]

I love watching the Discovery channel and one of the things I watch is a show called “How it’s made”. Since this is a mobile phone blog, you also probably wonder , how cellphones are made. Most of the phones nowadays are made in China, or at least a lot are outsourced there. So what’s [...]

I was watching my Direct TV and I was looking at this cool mobile phone commercial. Our family loves to play angry birds. My wife has an Ipad and she got angry birds rio, the angry birds seasons, and the original angry birds. I sometimes also play on my google chrome browser. Angry birds has [...]

A few days ago I noticed the facebook status of my brother cursing these cellphone thieves.   Last weekend, we were eating at a local burger place watching an 80′s band called “China Crisis”.    So I asked him what happened and he said he and his son was riding a public train and at [...]

Like any person with a cellphone,  I sometimes snap some photos here and there but they we’re rarely printed out.  So one time I decided to print some of these memorable photos.    I opened up my rarely used HP PSC printer and guess what,  no ink.  So I had to buy one of those [...]

I was strolling around a local mall and I found one of these electronic recycling boxes.   I love seeing these things around, but as an electronics hobbyist,  dumping old cellphones and e waste can be further enhanced.   I mean even before sending this to an electronic waste recovery facility,  there are a lot [...]

There’s this cool new advertising campaign for a car (Mini Countryman Getaway).  The created this iphone application where it tracks a virtual Mini all you have to do is load the app,  look for the “virtual Mini”  on the map, get to within 50 meters and you can grab this virtual mini. Whoever has this [...]

So I’m torn between purchasing what I want and purchasing what I need. What I want, is to purchase this HTC Desire HD. Whoa..check out how pretty it is. Check out the specs. It has a 1GHz 8255 Snapdragon processor, an 8 megapixel camera with dual-LED flash and 720p video recording. It also has an [...]

I love heat shrink specially specially when used on gadget repairs like mobile phones. So what is a “Heat Shrink“?    Its a popular tool we use in the hobby electronics industry.    It is actually is a tube which shrinks in diameter when heated. Purpose: Heat shrink is used to insulate wires offering abrasion [...]

If you are wondering what the file extension ITHMB is,  it is actually a picture file format utilized by the Apple IPOD.   So it is actually a photo format simliar to GIF, and JPG. This format is usually used for thumbnails which is why the file extension ITHMB  (short for THUMBnail, and of course, [...]