Barnes & Noble’s Nook e-book reader runs Android! (gotta love the name… “Nook e-book” is every bit as good as the Wii for puns and jokes!) I’m not surprised to see that Nook is powered by Android, especially after running across a dual boot Android/XP netbook and a “dualbook” (part…
Rooting your Android G1 or MyTouch phone just got a lot easier!
The folks at AndroidAndMe.com recently wrote this great tutorial showing how to use FlashRec app to root your Android G1 or MyTouch in about 6 minutes. Here is the video: Update: I have switched from JF 1.5.1 to the latest Cyanogen ROM (v.4.0.2). You should NOT use Apps2SD with this…
10 months with an Android
Back in October 2008 I started using Google’s first Android phone, the T-mobile G1. By the end of January 2009 there were 800 Android apps compared to over 15,000 iPhone apps. Of course, the iPhone had been around for well over a year at that point. But I think 2009…
MIT Media Lab’s Sixth Sense machine
From VSL Science: It sounds like something out of a Philip K. Dick novel: a tiny computer, worn around your neck, that lets you surf the Web from any location and project it onto any surface. But MIT Media Lab’s Sixth Sense machine allows you to do just that.
Fortune favors the creative advertiser
From a recent Woot ad for the Flip Ultra 60 Camcorder: GHOST My hour is almost come, When I to sulphurous and tormenting flames Must… hang on, what is that? HAMLET A camcorder. GHOST Film me not, but lend thy serious hearing To what I shall unfold. HAMLET Dude; I…