Apr - 12th
Chapter 12 – Android Battery Drain
Posted at 5:44 pm | Filed Under blog
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. I’m moving back to my iPhone for a while — while I’m loving the Android environment, I’m getting about 8 hours of idle time out of my Galaxy SIII, and that’s just not […]
Mar - 16th
Chapter 11 – I removed iTunes!
Posted at 5:13 pm | Filed Under blog
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. I removed iTunes from my computer yesterday, and it was the culmination of several years of frustration. iTunes does a lot of things from updating phones to tracking podcasts, providing store access, iPhone […]
Mar - 12th
Chapter 10 – All In With Google
Posted at 4:26 pm | Filed Under blog
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. The Google Play store has over a million apps available for download, and there are other Android app stores available. There’s no limiting you to one store, as with the iPhone. Trying to find […]
Mar - 11th
Photo Wall
Posted at 6:08 pm | Filed Under blog
Mar - 11th
Chapter 9 – Secure Android Messaging
Posted at 9:02 am | Filed Under blog
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. Now that I’ve upgraded to a newer Android phone, I’m testing out secure messaging applications for mobile devices. Open Whisper Systems make two products I’m trying out – TextSecure and RedPhone. They offer […]
Feb - 28th
A $35 computer that could change the world…
Posted at 12:29 am | Filed Under blog
Barring a significant change in course, history tells us that the computers of tomorrow will be faster, smaller, better and cheaper than the computers of today. We began with warehouse-sized machines that were barely capable of basic algebra, and we’ve arrived at the Raspberry Pi. For those unfamiliar with the term, it’s a full-fledged computer […]
Feb - 26th
Moto E Review – a nice cheap Android phone?
Posted at 4:30 pm | Filed Under blog
I’m looking for a cheap 4-inch android phone with a newer OS, expansion, and decent hardware. There’s a ton of no-name import quad-band phones out there, but when digging deeper into the specifications, find out it’s got a 2 megapixel camera. Or it’s 3G only. Or it’s all plastic. I read this review of the […]
Feb - 26th
Dear FCC: Rethink The Vague “General Conduct” Rule
Posted at 8:49 am | Filed Under blog
For many months, EFF has been working with a broad coalition of advocates to persuade the Federal Communications Commission to adopt new Open Internet rules that would survive legal scrutiny and actually help protect the Open Internet. Our message has been clear from the beginning: the FCC has a role to play, but its role […]
Feb - 25th
Android for Work program announced
Posted at 11:33 am | Filed Under blog
We’ve all been doing it, to the dismay to some of our bosses: Employees have long been bringing their own devices to work, reading corporate mail on the same phone that also is used to run their favorite games, snap their family photos and browse the web at large. Now, Google wants to legitimize BYOD, […]
Feb - 24th
Chapter 8 – Android OS on Modern Hardware
Posted at 11:43 pm | Filed Under blog
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. I’ve traded in my Motorola Atrix 4G for a Samsung Galaxy S4 Active. The Atrix 4G is a 4 year-old Android phone with an interesting design that included a dual-core CPU, fingerprint reader, […]
Feb - 18th
Chapter 7 – Switching Gears
Posted at 5:45 am | Filed Under blog
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. I’ve spent the past two weeks with a 4 year-old Motorola Atrix 4G phone instead of my almost-latest-and-greatest iPhone 5. I started using an iPhone in 2011, about the same time the Atrix […]
Feb - 15th
Episode 6 – Messaging
Posted at 12:59 am | Filed Under blog
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. If you search for the phrase “Can’t receive picture text messages” on the web you’ll find a ton of pages – about 9,000,000, according to Google. I ran into that problem this morning […]
Feb - 12th
Episode 5 – Notifications
Posted at 11:41 pm | Filed Under blog
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. It took iOS several iterations to get notifications right. When I first moved from a Blackberry to iPhone, there were several instances where my iPhone alarm didn’t go off because I’d received a […]
Feb - 12th
Episode 4 – Gingerbread
Posted at 6:02 pm | Filed Under blog
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. I’m trying to do a fair comparison between my year-old iPhone 5 and an Android phone, but a disclaimer would be appropriate — my Android phone is almost 4 years old. I didn’t […]
Feb - 11th
Episode 3 – Sync
Posted at 4:56 am | Filed Under blog
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. Being able to bring my contacts, calendar items, notes and tasks into my phone is what makes it a Smart Phone. Android uses ActiveSync to connect to Exchange mail servers, and the capabilities […]
Feb - 9th
Episode 2 – Hardware Standards
Posted at 10:13 pm | Filed Under blog
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. The first step to getting my phone up and running was to move the SIM card from my iPhone to my Android phone. My iPhone uses a Nano-SIM, while the Android phone takes […]
Feb - 9th
Episode 1 – Making the Switch to Android
Posted at 12:25 am | Filed Under blog
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. I’ve been an iPhone user for several years. I like Apple’s application support, and I’ve learned to work around the quirks in iTunes, the quirky support for Outlook connectivity and ActiveSync, and quirks […]
Jun - 15th
Choose Film
Posted at 1:48 am | Filed Under blog
Nov - 27th
LC-A versus LC-A+
Posted at 9:15 pm | Filed Under blog
After shooting several rolls of film through my LOMO LC-A, I wanted to compare it to my trusty ’91 LOMO LC-A. Appearance? The two cameras are almost identical. The LC-A+ is missing the diaphragm setting, used to override the aperture and shutter settings for flash use. I don’t miss this much, as most of my […]
Aug - 3rd
A solution for “Unidentified Networks” in VMWare under Windows
Posted at 4:59 pm | Filed Under blog
VMWare under Windows 7 and later create 2 network drivers — one for bridged networking and one for NAT. Windows can’t determine the workgroup state of these adapters, and refers to them as “unidentified network” when you hover over the network icon. There’s a simple registry hack to fix this: 1. Click Start, click Run, […]
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