Toys & Tech
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C. Buddha’s Great Android Experiment
After clearing my calendar for our October holidays, the extra work I was planning to do fell through. I’ve spent the extra time planning for a possible simian uprising, playing with Max and Mina every day, and creating an Android application. I mostly did it to investigate the process for publishing an app on Google Play, for future work reference. However, it would be extremely cool if you would go check out the app and inflate the ratings and press Like buttons, etc., for me, since I’m an attention whore. Thank you. Link: C. Buddha’s Blog Reader This app is a dedicated blog reader for my blog. You install it…
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Innovative Product Names (Bad Asian Edition)
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told you so
1. Google Maps is a killer app for Android and iOS (but the latter’s version will never be as good as the former’s) 2. Welcome to Maps on iOS6; all your base is belong to us —- I think Steve Jobs would have been too smart to play it this way. As much as he hated Android, I’m pretty sure he would have been embarrassed by Apple rolling out a weak counter to Google Maps waaay before it was ready.
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One Tablet PC Per Child Tablet PC aka “iPad10”
I got to test out a number of Tablet PCs at one of the education projects I’m helping out. My opinion is that they are complete crap and even worse than I expected at the 81 USD price mark, for several reasons: Of 6 units I tested, 2 were obviously defective (one would not charge past 12% and one constantly emitted a high-pitch squeal) Overall build quality is poor Devices show deep scratches, bubbles under the protective film, and other physical damage as delivered Most of the cases I saw (I only checked a dozen or so out of 40 units delivered) were black or white, with some hot pink…
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How to solve unsaved tabs error with Google Chrome
Is Google Chrome not saving tabs or sessions after a recent update, even after you’ve checked the appropriate box in the settings (“Continue where I left off”)? Try disabling the Google Cloud connector in the advanced settings. It worked for me!
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Pandora, Spotify, and Rdio aren’t available in Asia…
…so hey, fuck you and your stupid attempts to listen to music legally. On the other hand, BitTorrent works quite well, so hey, fuck you, too. The music industry (as we know it), the movie industry, and copyright in general will be dragged into a completely new system, no doubt kicking and screaming, but hopefully within our lifetimes. Anything less would be a massive failure on our part, tantamount to the way we were handed down reefer madness and the war on drugs.
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Downtime monitoring via Google Docs
This is the coolest idea for a site monitor: Use Google Docs to Monitor Your Website’s Uptime I’ve set it up and I’ll check it when I get back from my faculty trip (we leave tonight for Koh Kud).
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Incheon blue
Say what you want, Incheon has the best WiFi of any mega airport in the world. It looks like they have 4g LTE service as well.
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I accidentally deleted all of my Gmail contacts with my Android phone…
…but this is why I use Gmail instead of, say, Hmail or Ymail. I restored all 1,000+ of my contacts by logging into Gmail on a PC and doing the following: Click Contacts. From the More actions drop-down menu, choose Restore contacts. Choose the time you’d like to revert your contacts list to (e.g. 10 minutes ago, one hour ago, one week ago, etc). We suggest that you also make a note of the time that you restore your contacts, in case you’d like to return to where you started. Click Restore. You’ll see a confirmation at the top of the screen when the rollback is complete. You can perform a restore from up to…
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USB 3.0 in full matzofrackin effect!
We’re leaving for the US tomorrow night, so I’m preparing a full data backup of our most important work plus digital photos that now number in the hundreds of thousands and date back 14 years or so. It all adds up to less than a terabyte because I store the big files like RAW format photos and midget elephant tentacle pr0n elsewhere. So the backup method I started from our last trip back home is to copy everything to an external HD and store it at our home in the states – it’s a pretty ideal offsite storage solution. I went to buy a 2.5″ USB hard drive at the…
