‘Signal’ jailbreak app for iPhone maps out your towers, turns death gripping into a pastime
If you're familiar with Android apps like CellFinder, you've got a good idea for what this is -- and the name "Signal" is a pretty accurate representation, too. Basically, iPhone Dev Team member planetbeing has thrown together a neat little app that shows you signal strengths of your phone's connections to nearby cell towers along with their position relative to you (if the positions can be determined), an especially welcome utility considering that you can't access Apple's old "field test mode" in iOS 4.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: accurate, apple, apps, cydia, death grip, engadget, engadget-mobile, iphone, over-the-signal, phone, pretty-accurate, result, Tower, towers
Parrot’s AR.Drone does a high-speed flyby of the FCC’s control tower
While you're busy saving up for the totally awesome AR.Drone's $300 price tag as it makes its way toward a September launch, you can now bide your time sifting through its fifteen-odd documents posted to the FCC this week, including a bunch of internal and external photos that do a good job conveying the last thing you'll see just before you meet your four-rotor hovering doom.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: cellular, external-photos, fcc, iphones, its-fifteen-odd, optimum, parrot, time, Tower, wifi
If the Tower of Babel was a real event, wouldn’t there be evidence?
The study of language is fascinating, we can trace a langauge changes and evolves into a new langauge when they speak the language have been isolated from them. (Look at American and British – the differences of a few hundred years have contributed to). Typically consonants and vowels lengthen or shorten the roots of the original language. It would be easy to trace the origin of language back to a central link (the tower of Babel), that is – a central location. However, there is no evidence that all languages have their origin in the Middle East – and much evidence to the contrary. So there is the tower of Babel, a manifestation allegorical biblical writers used to describe the reasons for the different languages?