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May
Quick experiment: A QR-Code clock.
What will happen if you use your phone’s QR code scanner to try to scan a QR code that’s not static? For example, what if you implemented a clock as a QR code?
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Feb
It takes a lot of work to make a search engine this bad.
Compare the search term to the 1st result in the following: As best as I can tell, they’re purposely demoting their own search results to the second slot. I’m not seeing similar issues with 3rd party applications. The thing is, these are some of the best apps on the market, and they’re purposely making it [...]
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Apr
Android: Assistive Technology not found or SWT.error trying to run ddms
If you’re trying to run ddms from the Android SDK and you get this error: 06:24 E/ddms: shutting down due to uncaught exception 06:24 E/ddms: java.awt.AWTError: Assistive Technology not found: org.GNOME.Accessibility.JavaBridge OR 08:53:11 E/ddms: shutting down due to uncaught exception 08:53:11 E/ddms: org.eclipse.swt.SWTError: Not implemented [multiple displays] at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(Unknown Source) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.checkDisplay(Unknown Source) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.create(Unknown [...]
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Feb
Download Palm Pre WebOS sound effects and ringtones
One of the things that impressed me most about the Palm Pre (and WebOS) are the built in sound effects and system sounds. The “I’ve just been plugged in” sound (alert.mp3, below) is especially great. So, when I saw that a WebOS root image had been leaked, I thought it would be great to download [...]
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Dec
Android tip: Don’t go crazy with background data fetching.
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It’s easy to install lots of great Android applications that end up eating up all your standby battery power refreshing. Big culprits are the FaceBook application, and any Twitter clients that you may be using. When you install them, they generally come with a very aggressive and frequent update interval. These updates will really shorten [...]
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Dec
Android tip: Set your notification sounds to “Silent”
I really like knowing when I get a new e-mail or calendar entry on my phone, but I get annoyed when my phone makes too much noise with notifications. My preferred setup is to enable notifications, but to set the notification ringtone to “silent” for most things. You can set the default notification ringtone to [...]
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Dec
Android tip: Use GMail filters & labels to keep your inbox clean!
One problem you might find if you send all your e-mail to your phone is that you’re constantly getting the “new e-mail” notification, and that means it becomes sort of useless, and you’ll begin to ignore your inbox (again). The best solution to this is to create a set of filters for your e-mail, and [...]
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Dec
Android tip: Sharing photos to Facebook and Picasa
A lot of the UI on Android is sort of hidden, but it’s really powerful. Here’s how to share photos to FaceBook or Picasa. Use the camera to take a photo. After taking the photo, a small version of it will appear in the upper right corner, tap on that. You should have a few [...]
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Dec
Android Ringtone Downloads
You can download all the Android Ringtones in their original .ogg format here.
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Jan
Mobile platforms will be the death of Adobe Flash
I’ve been curiously watching the developments (or lack thereof) surrounding Adobe and the use of Flash on mobile platforms like the iPhone and Android handsets. Here’s my summarization of the situation as it stands today: No browser (mobile or otherwise) has Flash built in. All browsers require a “plugin” provided by Adobe to play back [...]
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- Now I'm thinking about Python Generators like they're sockets. Yowza. 9 hours ago
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