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16 January 2012 0 Comments

Browser Testing

A couple months back I decided to see what it was like to use various browsers. This was mostly to see if I was missing anything. At the time I was using Google’s Chrome browser, so I was going to try the other 2 in the top three. Of course the top three are Chrome, [...]

1 January 2012 0 Comments

Writing an iOS app!

In June of 2010 I finished writing my first application for a mobile device! Actually, this was the first full fledged application for any device. It was an app for the fledgling OS called WebOS from Palm. I had never written an application before, but since WebOS was built with web technologies which I had [...]

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5 October 2011 0 Comments

iOS App: CarTunes

If you are the type of person that listens to your music on shuffle and likes to hit next a lot to find the perfect song for that moment while driving, then CarTunes is for you! The above describes me perfectly. I found this app a couple weeks back and have been in love with [...]

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27 July 2011 2 Comments

Mac Resource Inspector – Apple Store

I went to the Apple store the other day with Valerie to get her MacBook battery looked at. In years past, the technician at the Genius Bar usually would just run some diagnostics or maybe even use a couple tools from a bootable CD. They have quite a cool setup nowadays though. They now take [...]

1 May 2011 0 Comments

Quick Hands On: Blackberry Playbook

We were in an Office Depot yesterday to drop off some packages to be mailed  when I happened to see a display for the Blackberry Playbook. I had seen many online reviews for the tablet but hadn’t actually seen one in the wild yet. We took the opportunity to go check it out and play [...]

31 March 2011 0 Comments

Make your own CR-48! ChromeOS Netbook.

Since Google decided to not send me a ChromeOS CR-48 notebook, I had to make my own! (I still REALLY want a CR-48) The Hardware I picked up a super cheap Acer Aspire One over at Fry’s. Model:  D255E Processor: 1.66GHz dual core Atom Memory: 1GB (upgraded to 2GB for $23 from amazon) All together [...]

7 March 2011 0 Comments

Rooting around in my Nexus S.

Well, It finally happened. My Nexus S was working too perfectly, so I had to go ahead and root it and load a custom ROM. :) Here is a quick little how-to of what I did to make it all work. All files are linked below. This is not a final release of CyanogenMod 7, [...]

26 December 2010 0 Comments

Nexus Yes!

It has been a rough year for me in the cell phone area. Throughout this year I was on three or four different platforms across six or so handsets. It was definitely a year of swapping. I started out the year with a Motorola Droid that replaced my iPhone in October of 2009. From there [...]

5 December 2010 1 Comment

Windows Phone 7: Photo Apps

Windows Phone 7: Photo Apps

Pretty much anytime I get a new phone / mobile device that has a camera the first thing I do is promptly download a ton of photo manipulation applications. It is amazing what you can do with a simple camera phone and some neat filter apps. I recently started using a new phone, the HTC [...]