Archive for category Software
Android tethering options
Don’t want to pay the extra 30 bucks a month for the EVO 4Gs mobile hotspot feature but would still love to teather? Well there are many, many options out there. We’re going to take a look a few of them here. First we’re going to talk about the ones in the market. PDAnet is [...]
Dropbox for Android Released!!
Finally an Android Dropbox client has been released into the wild for everyone to use. This is a great welcome for many Android users including myself. One of the features I wanted when I first got a smartphone. I will be using it to keep my important documents on hand. One of my favorite features [...]
Newer Samsung Moment Drivers
Posted by Dan in Android, Samsung Moment, Software on February 20, 2010
I’ve extracted the USB drivers from the new CL14 web update. You can get them from here.
Google releases new Android App: Shopper
Google just released a new android app. Google Shopper. Google Shopper can be used to get specs, prices, and reviews. To search for products you can use the barcode artwork, or voice.
Samsung Moment CL14 update coming to the Web
Posted by Dan in Android, News, Samsung Moment, Software on February 19, 2010
The Samsung Moment update that came out Jan 15th is going to be updateable via the computer. This Friday, Feb 19th, you’ll be able to update your Moment to CL14 at home. See this post at Sprint Community here for more info. As a reminder, CL14 fixes: Network Assist GPS to allow indoor location fix [...]
WHS Drive Extender in Linux?
I’m looking to convert my WHS, that’s Windows Home Server for anyone that didn’t know that, to a Ubuntu Server. Now all the features I’ve been using are NOT available in Ubuntu. Right now my printer(Kodak AIO 5300) isn’t supported. Besides that I was sharing it via USB to Network to my other computers so [...]
Formating SD card to root the Moment
Posted by Dan in Android, Samsung Moment, Software, Ubuntu on December 10, 2009
So as you probably know, you need an ext3 partition on your SD card to root the Moment. We I’ve seen a lot of forum post asking how to do this, so here it is. Requirements: Micro SD Card, Ubuntu Linux Live CD, or Gparted Live CD . Step 1. Insert your cd and boot [...]
Samsung Moment getting Android 2.0?
Posted by Dan in Android, Rumor, Samsung Moment, Software on December 8, 2009
A lot of Moment users have been wondering if/when are we getting Android 2.0 or if Samsung is going leave us out in the snow. Well, it’s not official but according to one person at AndroidForums.com, that spoke with Samsung Customer Service today, we’re more than likely to get Android 2.1 (2.01?) with a fix [...]
Google Update and new app release
Google Maps got an update today to 3.3.0 for Android 1.6 and up. The update added Labs. If you’ve never used Labs before they are features that are currently in testing. So adding Labs gives a bunch of features like a more layers, a compass arrow, and a scale bar. To day Google released Google [...]
Android Apps
Some apps I would love to see for Android. Google Reader – A native google reader app. There are some third party apps in the market. Nothing worth a damn though. IMDb – An IMDb app would be great. There is a top 250 IMDb app but I want to be able to search for [...]