A few months back, now, I traded in my Samsung Moment for my first keyboardless smartphone, the Motorola Photon.  The Photon (as with most keyboardless phones) is substantially thinner than my Moment, and a whole heck of a lot faster. I’m not going to bore you with specs, but it’s very comparable to my Viewsonic [...]

I’ve been screwing with custom ROMs on my Viewsonic gTablet for a while now, but so far have settled on Froyo as I found the Gingerbread ROMs to be lacking in terms of stability and performance.  I’d heard rumors that they’d gotten Honeycomb going on the gTablet, but had been putting off playing with it [...]

Verizon has already started cutting down on tethering by removing apps from the Android Market, but today they took a much bigger step by releasing an update for the HTC Thunderbolt that blocks it from…

Sorry for the pun; I was just goin’ with the flow…  Anyhow, I was looking at some online hydrograph charts to see how deep the River was getting, and noticed that the URL of the graphic itself had some interesting parameters in the title, including the name of the Omaha Gage (OMHN1) and also a [...]

Android: Prox saves you from digging through Android’s settings by letting you control your phone just by tilting it and waving your hand over its proximity sensor. More »

Last week, I picked up a new Android tablet to supplement my smartphone and hopefully replace some of the functionality of my aging laptop.  I chose the Viewsonic gTablet for its feature set, and very reasonable price.  The two main tradeoffs were a lack of Honeycomb (Android 3.x) and a limited screen resolution (it’s a [...]

I’m finally fed up with the crappy performance and battery life of my Samsung Moment.   I decided that I was going to flash to an alternate ROM (and kernel);   The guys at the office are both on Epics and have root and recovery but not much else.  I’m not after Froyo here, though [...]

A while back, Lifehacker (I think) had a post about an Android homescreen replacement called LauncherPro.  It has a variety of customizations that aren’t available on a stock Android 2.1 phone, some of which don’t exist even in 2.2 and beyond (For example, icon-label hiding).  Two versions exist; A free, but limited version and “LauncherPro [...]

Tonight, at the Omaha Maker Group meeting, Nick gave a brief presentation on Android development, as it related to a clock-reading application that he is developing.  As some of you may know,  I have also been learning enough Java to play with Android development for the purposes of building Pi Trainer for piday.org.  Anyhow, Nick [...]