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Android
Jul 14th
Just about everyone must be familiar or has seen tons of TV ad’s showing Android based cell-phones. Heres a link to notes/screen-shots l saved while trying my hand at a first programming project targetng the Google Android 2.2 Operating System. Click here.
Android based phones have arguably the most apps. compared to Apple’s iPhone cellphones.
Preventing DNS hijacking by your ISP…
Jan 24th
Here is a link and interesting discuss on doing this if you use comcast. Here is a direct link to their solution webpage. Here is the link to OpenDNS. I’ve always found it annoying when you get redirected to a comcast search control+ad page, or a bing.com page when you mistype a url. This might be great for basic users, but power users would not l suspect like – you type hotmail.com in IE8 and your browser re-directs you to bing.com with hotmail.com as the first search result.! Now you need 2 clicks to simply get to hotmail.com
Nexus One – Android 2 – Eclipse
Jan 15th
Decided to revisit Android development due to the release of Google’s Nexus One Phone
Here are my steps so far:
- Download and install Eclipse Development environment from here [eclipse-jee-galileo-SR1-win32.zip ]
- Simply extract this to say, c:\eclipse
- Run eclipse
- Install Google’s ADT Plugin for Eclipse from here
- Download and install the SDK from here – in this case – up to Android 2.1, API 7, revision 1
- Extract above and run SDK Setup.exe – l had to to to the settings on the left hand side and check “force http…”, then choose accept all.