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Monthly Archives: November 2009
Droid Tips & Tricks: Third party porn apps skirt an approval process
MiKandi touted as “The World’s First Mobile Adult App Store ” became available on the Android (gray) market. It’s an interesting first test of gate keeping by Google and Verizon. Since Android is an open platform, it is possible to … Continue reading
Posted in All posts from the start, Android 2.x Tips & Tricks
Tagged Android, Android Market, Droid, iPhone, milestone, porn
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VIDEO: A Russian Style Thanksgiving
Treasures of Heaven Community Church gathers to give thanks in a country that allows them to worship openly. For the small congregation, which meets in a Dover Township home, such laid-back, community gatherings add to the feeling of family that … Continue reading
Droid Tips & Tricks: Body Glove is armor for war Droids
I’ve been using the Body Glove Rubber Snap-On case for the Motorola Droid for about a week and it’s worked out well used in conjunction with a screen protector. The case allows a deep opening for the camera lens, too … Continue reading
Droid Tips & Tricks: Droid does ads
The Droid already accounts for nearly a quarter (24%) of the ad impressions generated by Android-powered phones worldwide in the two week’s following its Nov. 6 launch, according to the latest data from mobile ad network AdMob. mediapost.com
Droid Tips & Tricks: Auto-focus bug fix (clean the lens) and macro tips
There have been many threads over the past week that the Motorola Droid has a bug in the auto-focus system that doesn’t allow it to focus. The scenario is that the red focus bars stay red and never turn green … Continue reading
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Tagged auto-focus, Droid, Touchstone.
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Droid Tips & Tricks: The group-guided, Populist Android Market
An open testing ground of ideas and consumer police keeping things in check make the Android Market a platform that fans innovation and limits risk. I like to check out the “Just In” tab of the Android Market on my … Continue reading
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Tagged Android, Android Market, Droid, milestone, paul kuehnel
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Droid Tips & Tricks: #Droid Twitter feed – a love found, a day with actors and the blood of Lincoln
paulkuehnel: Droid fell in love with a farm hand made out of an international harvester and now he can’t multitask well http://twitgoo.com/57kg9 paulkuehnel: A manager throws hands as Richard Dreyfuss keeps talking w fans. They loved him during Lincoln cele … Continue reading
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Tagged College, Dreyfuss, Droid, Gettysburg, Lincoln, paul kuehnel
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Droid Tips & Tricks: Two docks and an app that makes one free
There is a multimedia dock and a mobile navigation windshield dock for the Droid. I found free app in the Android Market, DockRunner, that puts the Droid into the multimedia dock mode without the charging base. The multimedia dock mode … Continue reading
Droid Tips & Tricks: A compass used in apps augments reality
The built in magnetometer (compass) on the Droid is used in apps like Google Sky Map and street level navigation. The sensor provides information to the Droid about how the position of the phone is changing, useful when GPS is … Continue reading
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Tagged accelerometer, Android, Compass, Droid, Gravity, milestone, proximity
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Droid Tips & Tricks: Beware of magnetic cases, a generic solution for war Droids
Aside from your hand or pocket, there are two ways to carry a Motorola Droid available from the Verizon store. One is a hard plastic snap in holster where one face of the phone is exposed and the other a … Continue reading
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Tagged Droid, holster, iPhone
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Droid Tips & Tricks: #Droid Twitter feed – photos in print, a live stream
The morning started with a last minute do or die! (in my mind) trial of live streaming from the Droid. It worked! At first, our web platform wouldn’t update the code embed fast enough, but our graphics editor Chris Glass … Continue reading
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Tagged Droid, milestone, streaming, streaming live video, twitter
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Droid Tips & Tricks: York Daily Record streams first live 3G phone video
It’s a moment in a journalist’s career akin to watching the first man walk on the moon. Someone FINALLY made a cell phone, an operating system and combined it with a wireless network that can reliably stream acceptable live video … Continue reading
Droid Tips & Tricks: Three live video streaming apps, one streamed well
There are a few solutions for replacing that bulky live TV truck with Android, your 3G data connection and a streaming Flash window embedded in a web page. I tested Qik, Bambuser and Ustream.tv All three apps worked well interfacing … Continue reading
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Tagged Bambuser, Droid, Qik, Ustream, Verizon
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Droid Tips & Tricks: #Droid Twitter stream today
Some testing today of live streaming and a Droid photo zoomed in from a moving car. paulkuehnel: Deaf & partially blind, she likes to help people and listen to their problems. Reads their lips & prays for them http://twitgoo.com/54tmp paulkuehnel: … Continue reading
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Tagged Droid, journalism, twitter
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VIDEO: Celebration of the Articles of Confederation
Life is easy today not worrying about a king lopping off your ear or a day in the stocks. It’s the time of year we remember York’s role in adopting the Articles of Confederation.
Droid Tips & Tricks: Listen is a search way to think podcasting
There are many apps in the Android Market for podcasting. I choose Google Listen first because I want to understand the philosophy behind Google’s push into the smartphone business. Once telling a friend how much I enjoyed podcasts using a … Continue reading
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Tagged Android, Android Market, Droid, Google
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Droid Tips & Tricks: Google AdSense beta in apps and a vote “Good” or “Bad”
It’s interesting to watch the evolution of Google and how they plan to extract revenue out of “free”. Open source operating system, open app development for the masses, and free services… and along comes Google AdSense. I received an automatic … Continue reading
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Tagged Android, Droid, Google, Google AdSense, milestone
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Droid Tips & Tricks: #Droid Twitter stream today
Using twitvid.com as a video service off of twitroid on Droid provides the choice of two different mobile stream sizes along with the Flash that comes up on desktop browsers for the same link. A cool universal feed for directly … Continue reading
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Tagged Droid, milestone, twitter
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Droid Tips & Tricks: The totally synced mobile Google Calendar
The native synced calender for the Droid is Google Calendar. It does everything the web version can do with the addition of swiping between days and months. Tap on the bubbles and you can edit and save your entries in … Continue reading
Recycled plastic used for railroad ties and bridges
The U.S. Army has contracted two bridges made from a thermoplastic composite and recycled plastic. To demonstrate its strength a 70-ton M1A1 Abrams tank was driven across the bridge at its official unveiling in September. According to Axion, the company … Continue reading
Posted in All posts from the start, Environment, Innovation
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Droid Tips & Tricks: A totally mobile, refundable, app store you can author
Android takes the future of the app store and hands it over to the developer, consumer. It is an entirely mobile app stream where refunds and updates are all accomplished from your handset. It starts with a search field but … Continue reading
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Tagged Android, Android Market, Droid, Motorola, Verizon
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Droid Tips & Tricks: Google Voice completely integrated
Note 06/10: Using Google Voice to call using Verizon now uses minutes during your prime-time calling plan. Google Voice is a free data based calling system that gives you a new telephone number, messaging and voice mail services. Calls within … Continue reading
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Tagged Droid, Google, Google Voice
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An LED bulb that actually can replace 60 watt incandescent
Philips has developed, manufactured and will bring to market an LED replacement for the common 60-Watt incandescent light bulb taking first place in a competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. The L Prize is the first government-sponsored technology … Continue reading
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Droid Tips & Tricks: #Droid Twitter stream today
Building the combined inbox, some web update photos and a Droid Yahoo solution paulkuehnel – droid comb inbox, lost a compose by jumping between apps, brush a wrong button?…it almost always has been saved in drafts automatically paulkuehnel – RT … Continue reading
Droid Tips & Tricks: Mounting the USB drive
To mount the drive via USB on the Droid. 1. Plug in USB 2. Pull down notifications shade and click on the USB notification. 3. Another option will appear to mount the drive. This way the drive isn’t mounting every … Continue reading
Droid Tips & Tricks: Filling in the combined inbox
I added a Yahoo mail account to the Droid’s combined inbox along side my work Microsoft exchange account. You can connect to Yahoo mail for free using IMAP and this solution from mobiletech.knguyentu.com Update: above link is broken. Settings listed … Continue reading
Droid Tips & Tricks: #Droid Twitter stream today
I like Bloo better than the native facebook app Verizon ships with the Droid. The latter doesn’t push notifications consistently. I set my location seeking preferences to WIFI yesterday for when the phone isn’t in a GPS location *(off by … Continue reading
Droid Tips & Tricks: VIDEO – Droid does feature
I didn’t have access to one of our pool Sony HVR-Z1U video camera’s today… so my Droid came to the rescue! And I wanted to play with it anyway!! Today, I put the Droid on airplane mode to shut off … Continue reading
Posted in 2012-09 VIDEO ARCHIVE, Android 2.x Tips & Tricks
Tagged Droid, trains, Verizon, video
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Droid Tips & Tricks: #Droid Twitter stream today
Set up Exchange 2000 today, we have it configured it though IMAP. It synced up right away will little troubleshooting. The centralized mail in box asks the right questions for an IT person with the right info. Saw an app … Continue reading
Droid Tips & Tricks: VIDEO – Droid does news
This video was a last minute deal today at a news event that wasn’t too active. My instant web update was satisfied and it was time to train baby Droid. The DVD quality video (720×480 resolution) of up to 24 … Continue reading
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Tagged Droid, journalism, news, Verizon, video
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Droid Tips & Tricks: Review of App PoliceStream
The Android Market pushed a $.99 cent app overnight for journalists and scanner junkies called PoliceStream. The App has archived over 2500 police scanner streams and streams them from your Android phone. Cities are searched by letter or state and … Continue reading
Posted in All posts from the start, Android 2.x Tips & Tricks
Tagged AT&T, Droid, iPhone, Motorola, Verizon
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Droid Tips & Tricks: Amazement, hate and finally a love of multitasking
I’ve gone from amazement, to hate and concluded with love for the Verizon Droid. There is always a learning curve when you are shifting out of a device (Blackberry Storm) that you have figured out an efficient work flow. Today, … Continue reading
Droid Tips & Tricks: Droid, Blackberry, Iphone is a blend beyond
If I hear one more news clip calling the Droid an “iPhone killer” or a blogger saying it’s not, I’m going to throw up. Verizon’s Motorola Droid Android 2.0 smart phone was released yesterday. After a weekend with Verizon’s Droid, … Continue reading
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Tagged Blackberry, Blackberry Storm, Droid, iPhone, Motorola, Verizon
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An electric vehicle is less efficient than my cat
I once heard an electrical utility use the marketing phrase, “Electric heat is 100% efficient” The logic is that 100% of the energy available at a heating element becomes heat. The amount of energy lost to get that heat out … Continue reading
Posted in All posts from the start, Innovation, Solar, Water Power, Wind Power
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VIDEO: Drive the Rutter’s 1936 Thorne gasoline, electric milk truck
I just revived a 2006 video i produced for Jim Mclure’s blog York Town Square, Milkman’s relic humming around York County today. Jay Crist, of Manchester Township, let me drive the 73 year old Rutter’s electric stand & drive he … Continue reading
Warren Buffet buys railroad
Warren Buffet stretched his resources today and bought the 131-year-old Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation for $26 billion. nyt.com Reason: As the economy revives transportation increases. Trains are more efficient than trucks and that efficiency climbs as fuel price climbs … Continue reading
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VIDEO: Vote! Three generations volunteering remind me of that privilege
Three generations of a York family have gone to the polls as soon as they can vote. Eula Ritter, age 69, Daniel Glover, age 48, and Keyon Davis, age 6, were volunteering at Shiloh Baptist Church on Election Day in … Continue reading
