When I first got my Android phone a few months ago, there was an option to turn off the annoying click noise that happened when you took a picture with the camera. With some recent updates to Donut from Cupcake (or maybe even some backported Eclair updates in the Cyanogen rooted mod—not sure), that option… Continue reading Annoying shutter noise in Android camera
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Found a great theme for Cyanogen Android mod
After having rooted (or “jailbroken”) my T-Mobile MyTouch 3G, for a while I was using Cyanogen’s Android mod until it got the cease-and-desist letter from Google. At that point, Cyanogen began working on a legally conservative version of his mod, and I wanted something to use in the meantime, so I switched to Dwang’s donut… Continue reading Found a great theme for Cyanogen Android mod
Turns out Jimmy Carter was right
Of course not all of the Obama hate is race-related, but a good deal of it is, and here’s a great example: Secret Service probes anti-Obama message at Lakeville golf course What Carter was wrong about was thinking it’s all about the South. This was in Massachusetts.
Impressed with Karmic Koala beta
Ubuntu Linux gets released twice a year—once in the spring, once in the fall. The releases are numbered to indicate the month of release. Most spring releases (with the exception of Ubuntu 6.06, also known as Dapper) were released in April (5.04, 7.04, 8.04, 9.04), and all fall releases so far were released in October… Continue reading Impressed with Karmic Koala beta
A month with the MyTouch 3G and Android
I love my phone. I think it’s great, and I don’t regret purchasing it (though had I known Oprah was going to let me have $100 off the purchase price had I waited a few weeks, I probably would have waited). That said, I think T-Mobile did a lousy job launching this product. On the… Continue reading A month with the MyTouch 3G and Android
Why I’m not a fan of Google’s cease-and-desist letter to Cyanogen
Those of you who follow my blog or are Ubuntu Forums members may know that I often come to the defense of Google. There is a lot of Google-bashing out there. It seems to now be the cool thing to do. I almost laughed out loud when there were blog posts framing the Apple rejection… Continue reading Why I’m not a fan of Google’s cease-and-desist letter to Cyanogen
That’ll teach me not to use an experimental ROM
Every alpha or beta release of software comes with a disclaimer of sorts—basically that you shouldn’t expect the software to be stable and you shouldn’t trust it for your main productivity. But it’s hard to know how seriously to take such disclaimers. GMail was in beta testing for years before finally being released. And almost… Continue reading That’ll teach me not to use an experimental ROM
Yes Means Yes! Visions of Female Sexual Power & A World Without Rape
I’m a big fan of Jessica Valenti. Unfortunately, there is a limitation any one writer inherently faces being only one writer—the lack of multiple perspectives. So I was very pleased to finally read Yes Means Yes!, which is an anthology she co-edited (and contributed one essay to). The essays vary widely in terms of nuance,… Continue reading Yes Means Yes! Visions of Female Sexual Power & A World Without Rape
Clearing up some confusion about Google Voice
I’ve been using Google Voice for about a week now, and I’m really impressed by it—the concept and the implementation. The implementation could still use a little polish, but Google Voice also isn’t officially released to the general public yet. Based on my limited experiences with it, I thought I’d clear up some confusion about… Continue reading Clearing up some confusion about Google Voice
Paul Campos’ The Obesity Myth
I just read an eye-opener called The Obesity Myth (by Paul Campos). In some ways, its thesis is quite obvious, but it also flies in the face of everything Americans have been told for the past 30+ years. Campos goes into quite a bit of detail debunking myths about obesity existing as an epidemic or… Continue reading Paul Campos’ The Obesity Myth