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Quick Android / T-Mobile G1 Review
I don't have much to say lately, but I need to say this: Google's Android mobile phone platform is freakin' AMAZING. T-Mobile's "G1" handset -- which is the first of the commercially available Android...
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Junkbuster Compromised?
After discovering that the G1 had a hidden proxy configuration that allowed all internet traffic to be routed through a proxy of your choosing, I decided to dust off the old Internet Junkbuster, an...
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Hacking Google: my further adventures with Android
So Android isn't QUITE the magical open platform i had imagined. As it turns out, T-Mobile and Google are doing all they can to ensure that the specific types of things I want to do with it stay...
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Spent today's meager amount of free time on IRC conspiring with several of the best minds in the game when it comes to the sort of cat-and-mouse activities we seem to revel in playing. We're a strange...
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I Solved It: amazon takes my advice
Remember last year when I wrote Amazon a letter suggesting that they put Kindle content on non-Kindle devices? Well, they listened to me: You're welcome. Now I just hope that the Android version comes...
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A Little Demo of NZBdroid, my first Android app (now available in the Android...
My first foray into Android app creation has come to fruition. NZBdroid is live in the Android Marketplace, both for $2.00 $0.99 and also COMPLETELY free. It's up to the user whether they want to buy...
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Android App Demo 2: youtube Sleuth
Here's a little demo of 'youtube Sleuth," my second Android app available in the Android Marketplace. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjcwbSYS87A Unlike the first one, this app will be beneficial for...
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Embeddable Google Latitude: extra-tasty-creepy
Google's Latitude just got cooler. Now, in addition to sharing your location with your contacts via your phone's maps app and your iGoogle page, you can embed your Latitude location into any page,...
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Unlimited Free Calls Using Google Voice and Gizmo
Today, after some tinkering, I accomplished something of which I've long dreamt: placing a Voice-Over-IP call, from a real phone number to a real phone number, from my Android phone, using only my...
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Don't Stop Developing Yet: Thoughts on Google's ChromeOS VS Android
I pretty frequently monitor what people are saying about Android on Twitter, and something I've seen recently is people lamenting the imminent death of Android now that Google's apparently shifted...
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Android App: RSS to Google Reader
Like most of the stuff I've done on android, my most recent app, "Send RSS to Google Reader" came out of being frustrated that Google's Mobile Browser wasn't smart enough to detect RSS feeds, and also...
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Another Google Dust-Up: licenses schmicenses
If you haven't heard, there's been a bit of a dust-up today between Google and its throngs of Android phone users. If you have heard, chances are you heard it post-spin, where Google is painted as...
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Google Apps on Open Source Android: I Propose a Work-around to Google's...
Lest everyone think I'm a total Google Fanboy, I'd like to suggest a really, really simple tactic folks like Cyanogen can take to continue Android innovations while complying 100% with the licensing...
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Google I/O 2010 Debriefing
Google I/O was amazing, and I'd like to share the most important things I took away from it. Well, except for the free Motorola Droid and Sprint EVO 4G that I took away from it -- I'm not sharing...
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Quick Gadget Reviews: or, boy, it's been a long time and I don't know what to...
Hey Internet. Sorry to disturb you, but it's been quite a while, hasn't it. Sorry I haven't written, but there's been a lot keeping me busy. How about a recap by way of quick reviews of a few of the...
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iPhone 5 and iOS6 from an Android User's Perspective
In a fit of masochism, I decided that I’d carry only an iPhone 5 for some undefined period of time, to see how the other half lives. (I’ve previously done this with Windows Phone 7.5, and found the...
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Strange Dancing Predators Improved by the Addition of Another Predator
I recently found some bizarre footage from the set of Predator 2, and have been trying to pass it off as being from the upcoming Robert Rodriguez film Predators, cuz I'm a jerk like that. Alexa...
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Telling Stories with my Thumbs: Noir Detective Story
I spent about 5 minutes yesterday trying to craft a one-sentence short story for Twitter, but gave up. Turns out I needed another 40 minutes and a whole lot more sentences to transfer the noir-ish...
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More Dancing Predators: a meme is born
Remember that dancing Predator vid I re-edited to fit a new humorous soundtrack? Someone who saw it decided to try their hand at it as well. Predators dancing to funny music is now officially a...
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Mobile Portland Covers the iPad
Last month's Mobile Portland meeting featured a panel discussion speculating on the upsides and downsides of the newly announced Apple iPad. I was there, and was contacted by iPadInsider.com to write...
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