Gadgets and Tech in the Philippines

Canon has released the successor to the popular Canon 5D digital SLR, the new EOS 60D. This is a major enhancement to Canon's long list of SLR cameras digital. The major upgrade found in the 60D over the 50D is the video capture capability. Aside from the video capture feature, the 60D also carries with it manual exposure functions which have made Canon cameras very popular with indie film makers.

When it comes to pc speakers Logitech pc speakers have come a long way and have now come to the same level as Altec Lansing. Logitech has released it's latest pc speaker, the Logitech Speaker System Z623. It's a 3 piece system with 200 watts of power with super bass coming from it's 7 inch sub-woofer. The Z623 is not only a PC speaker, it has multiple inputs on it's back so you can connect your DVD player or audio device. And this system is THX certified, so you can expect a lot of good times with this system.

Apple's music event has been confirmed to be earlier as previously scheduled, according to CNET's Crave blog , the event will be on September 1 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco and will be at about 10 PM Manila time. It's event's like these that Apple usually will release new iPod's and other interesting hardware. Most anticipated is the Retina display and front facing camera to be applied on the iPod touch. Unfortunately Apple still hasn't come out with it's own cctv surveillance system :D which would be very interesting coming from Apple.

Good news to all you Flash fans, there is now a third party application called Frash, which you can install on your jailbroken iDevice. Here is how to install Frash on your iPhone/iPod Touch: 1. Open Cydia. 2. Tap Sources. 3. Tap edit. 4. Tap add. 5. Enter the URL http://repo.benm.at 6. Tap add source. 7. Search for Frash and tap install. Once installed, you will need to reboot your device. Now, when you go to websites with Flash content you will be able to view some. Most of the Flash games still won't work but most of the Flash based menus seem to be working now.

Rumors once again abound on what Apple will be announcing on September, the month the usually announce new product releases. One of the persistent rumors is that a smaller, probably 7" screen iPad (iPad mini?) will be released. No facts on this one yet, still just a rumor, we'll see in September.

For those of you who have a jailbroken iPod Touch 2G and want to enable multitasking and home screen wallpaper. Here are the steps: 1. Open Cydia 2. Download and install iFile from BigBoss systems. 3. In iFile, go to /, then System, then Library, then Core Services, then Springboard.app 4. Under Springboard, look for N72AP.plist, open N72AP.plist To enable the home screen wallpaper: 1. Look for the following line: accelerometer 2. Press edit at the top left hand corner 3. Below the of accelerometer, press enter and type the following line homescreen-wallpaper * Reboot your device for the changes to take effect. To enable multitasking: 1. Look for the following line: encode-aac 2. Below the of encode-aac, press enter and type the following line multitasking * Reboot your device for the changes to take effect.

Microsoft is scheduled to release a Beta version of its popular Internet Explorer browser on September 15. The version is now at 9. Internet explorer has been overshadowed by very aggressive competitors like Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. The past couple of years have shown that Internet explorer has been constantly losing market share, although Internet Explorer still holds majority of the market share at a little over 60%. And the past 2 months have shown Internet explorer gaining market share once again. Microsoft hasn't said too much about what we expected from version 9 and said that it will have more details during the Beta release on September 15.

If you own an iPod Touch, iPhone 4 or an iPad and you want to install third party applications, you're in luck, a new jailbreak app has been released for version 4.0 and 4.01 of the iPhone OS. The jailbreak is very simple, just go to http://jailbreakme.com using Safari web browser on your device. On the page, you will see a slider similar to when your device is locked which says "Start Jailbreak", slide this and the jailbreak process starts. Once the jailbreak is completed, the Cydia application will automatically be installed. I tried this on my iPod touch 2G and had no problems with the process. Let me know how it goes for you.

On July 26, 2010, the US government gave an official statement that Jailbreaking your personal devices is now legal for educational purposes. This jailbreaking will have a great effect specially on Apple iPod touches and iPhones since Apple is very strict on controlling applications which can go into their devices through the Apple AppStore. If your iPod/iPhone is jailbroken, you can install third party apps without having to go through the AppStore. There are a lot of Jailbreaking techniques available now depending on the firmware of your device.