Category Archives: Gadgets
Thoughts on Steve Jobs’ Thoughts on Flash
It’s cute how Mac and Windows users hate Flash. They don’t know how good they have it. The Linux implementation of Flash is worse. It’s like a blink-tag plugin for your browser that crashes everything it touches and pegs your CPU to 100% only to deliver choppy, unsynchronized video. It just really blows. A lot. [...]
In search of the perfect HTC Dream/G1 Android ROM
I’m in search of the perfect ROM for my phone. A ROM not for hackers, but also not for people who don’t know what a ROM is. A ROM that doesn’t expand on the stock ROM besides adding what should have been there anyway, like root and tethering. Users like me don’t need third party [...]
Android, Google Maps, Navigation, and Open Source…
UPDATE: The details of this article are now moot, as the latest Google Maps application on the Android Market includes navigation on the G1.
OF COURSE when I saw that someone on the Interwebz managed to get the new Google Maps with navigation running on a G1, I almost wet myself with excitement. Normally this app [...]