Gadget Techie

So last night I decided to go ahead and read up on how to enable tethering on my iPhone. For those that do not know, enabling tethering lets you use your iPhone’s 3G data connection to connect your laptop or desktop to the internet. You basically connect the phone to the computer via the iPhone [...]

Ever since I bought my Macbook Pro 15″ I have been VERY happy with it. The operating system is great, the laptop hardware is very nice, and everything works together flawlessly. That is, until now. I have found the first con of this laptop: it’s sharp edges.

Because of it’s unibody design and the way they made [...]

When deciding how to go about learning Objective-C and Cocoa Touch for the iPhone, I came up with various methods. My first method was to read online tutorials from various sites. I soon learned that this was not the way to go. Most tutorials are quick and dirty and as such don’t really go in [...]

I have officially purchased a Macbook Pro 15″
The specs are as follows:

Intel Core 2 Duo – 2.53GHz
4GB of 1066MHZ RAM
320GB Hard Drive @ 7200RPM
Nvidia Geforce 9400M

I must say that this machine is VERY well made. It feel extremely sturdy while still maintaining the beauty that Apple products are notorious for.
Last night, after downloading Xcode [...]

I have not updated this blog in a while and decided that now is a good time to do so.
I am planning on learning Objective-C (Apple’s programming language) and creating an iPhone app. I still do not have an idea of the app I want to create. I just know that I want to make [...]

UPDATE: Once you are done reading this post, make sure to go to the homepage of this blog (http://gadgettechie.net) to read the other parts of this series. You can also click on the Apple category on the right of this page.
You can find the other parts of this series here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, [...]

UPDATE: Once you are done reading this post, make sure to go to the homepage of this blog (http://gadgettechie.net) to read the other parts of this series. You can also click on the Apple category on the right of this page.
You can find the other parts of this series here: Part 1, Part 2, Part [...]

UPDATE: Once you are done reading this post, make sure to go to the homepage of this blog (http://gadgettechie.net) to read the other parts of this series. You can also click on the Apple category on the right of this page.
You can find the other parts of this series here: Part 1, Part 2, Part [...]

UPDATE: Once you are done reading this post, make sure to go to the homepage of this blog (http://gadgettechie.net) to read the other parts of this series. You can also click on the Apple category on the right of this page.
You can find the other parts of this series here: Part 1, Part 2, Part [...]

UPDATE: Once you are done reading this post, make sure to go to the homepage of this blog (http://gadgettechie.net) to read the other parts of this series. You can also click on the Apple category on the right of this page.
You can find the other parts of this series here: Part 1, Part 2, Part [...]

UPDATE: Once you are done reading this post, make sure to go to the homepage of this blog (http://gadgettechie.net) to read the other parts of this series. You can also click on the Apple category on the right of this page.
You can find the other parts of this series here: Part 1, Part 2, Part [...]

So I go home today and to my surprise there is a Geek Squad car on my driveway.
I consider myself very knowledgeable in technology and especially computers. So when I saw that someone in my family had called Geek Squad I was offended! Why would they not ask me for help. There is no need [...]

Now that I have a little more time on my hands, I have decided to transfer the voltage regulator circuit that I previously posted about onto a strip board.
I am still trying to work out the best layout of the components but here are a couple of pics of what I have so far. In [...]

When I bought my Black 16GB iPhone 3G, I could not decide whether I wanted to buy a case for it to protect the phone or if I wanted it bare so I could see and feel the iPhone (the iPhone is beautiful and the new 3G one feels A LOT better in your hands [...]

Apple came out with a software update yesterday (Monday). While it is not version 2.1 which rumors say will have cut and paste capabilities, this iPhone OS update does (supposedly) fix the sluggish performance experienced by users after the 2.0 update.
Apple has been very “secretive” as to what this 2.0.1 patch actually fixes/improves keeping the [...]

This was a fun project. I got the idea for it at a website (I cannot remember which at the moment). The idea is simple: You make a circuit that sends out an IR (infrared) signal to the TV with the same frequency at which the TV remote operates, essentially ”masking” or “jamming” the signal coming from the [...]

Once again, I decided to build my own equipment instead of buying it for a lot more. This time it’s a logic probe. It uses a 12F PIC to detect when a signal is high (1) or low (0). Being that it has a lot of pins and only one is needed for the probe, [...]

Throughout my undergraduate career I focused entirely on analog circuits. Now that I started this hobby, there was no avoiding digital and to be honest, I felt horrible that I had a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and I knew very little about the digital side of things. Because of this I set out to [...]

I bought the iPhone 3G the weekend it came out. Waited about 4 hours in line for it. I already had some experience with an iPhone since I had bought my girlfriend the first generation version (I decided to wait until 3G and GPS was in the phone).
After getting the iPhone 3G I began running [...]

I am testing the Wordpress app on my iPhone. Hopefully it works.

This little circuit is a money saver! Before making it, I was looking for a varibale power supply for my projects and the prices were usually well above $100. It wasn’t until I went to the electro-tech-online.com forums and talked to some people there that I realized that I could just make my own power [...]

The very first circuit that I ever made on my own was a stereo audio amplifier. I chose to make this circuit out of necessity. At the internship I was in, the computer seemed to not amplify the audio coming out of it and my speakers did not have an amplifier either and so the [...]

Well hello fellow viewers. This is my very first post on this blog. I am still unsure of the aim of this blog but for now I think I will focus on my hobby: electronics.
I recently got into this hobby and so far have invested well over $300 on it. In my opinion that is very [...]