Slick android applications

June 24, 2008

As I was surfing around, I found out Google was hosting competitions for innovative Android applications. Here’s an interesting site that has them broken down, Android Scan (1), Biowallet (3), and Cooking Capsures (8) are of particular interest to me. Here’s the link: ADC Round 1 Winners

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An update to Android on the Vogue

June 20, 2008

Today, Martin released another update on his progress porting Android to the HTC Vogue. He’s rewritten his touchscreen and on screen keyboard drivers, and I agree that it’s much more usable now, although I miss the haptic feedback.  SMS notifications are implemented but a bit buggy.  I didn’t test the browser updates from the last [...]

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A better way to find your BIOS version in Linux

June 15, 2008

Run this awesome command as root: dd if=/dev/mem bs=32768 skip=31 count=1 | strings -n 10 | grep -i bios Also, you can use dmidecode, but this can vary on motherboards what the search string is. On my machine right now: phil@phil:~$ sudo dmidecode -s bios-version ASUS M2NPV-VM ACPI BIOS Revision 1103

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Blog revamp

June 14, 2008

I finally took a good peek at my blog, and wiped my existing install / db, and I’ll add my posts back in manually. The entire thing felt ugly, so with the help of my friend Chris Olstrom I did a reinstall of WordPress, and he helped me setup FeedBurner plugins and some other interesting [...]

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Updates to Android running on the HTC Vogue

June 4, 2008

The developer’s made A TON of improvements, the RIL (radio interface library) now works properly so you can send and receive calls, and send and receive text messages (SMS) in a basic fashion now. As soon as I can get write access to a memory card so I can save my contacts someplace, I’ll start [...]

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HTC Touch running android

April 5, 2008

A coder in New Zealand bought a HTC Touch (rebranded as an OKTA Touch) wasn’t too impressed with Windows Mobile 6, and has begun porting Google’s Android OS over! His recent released version boots fine, only the joystick and volume keys work, but this a a very good step in the right direction. Here’s a [...]

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A Script to Remux MKV Videos Into MP4 Videos

March 11, 2008

I’ve written a script that dumps the audio and video from an mkv file, encodes the audio into a two channel AAC stream, and remuxes the audio/video into a MP4 wrapper so it’s playable on the Xbox 360. The script is Linux-only, obviously, written in bash using mplayer, normalize-audio, mencoder, MP4Box, mkvinfo, and mkvextract as [...]

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Portait of the Google bot

February 14, 2008

This image seems to be pretty popular:

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Find your BIOS version from within Linux

October 16, 2007

I’ve got to say, I’ve wanted to know this command for a good 3 years. The ability to know what BIOS version you’re using without rebooting the computer is invaluable to the lazy — at last I’ve found my grail: dmidecode -s bios-version dmidecode appears to be a handy command for probing around in hardware, [...]

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