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

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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

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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

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Droid Tips & Tricks: Widgets and what they can do for you

Widgets take the dynamic functions of an app and place it on your desktop. They can customize the user interface or keep changes in an app front and center. Widgets run all the time in the background. Widget features pictured … Continue reading

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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

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Droid Tips & Tricks: Google adds free maps & navigation to earlier Adroid phones

Google Maps Navigation is now available for Android 1.6 devices as well. That means anyone with a T-Mobile G1 or myTouch 3G can download the app (actually an updated version of Google Maps) for free. PCmag.com I saw the Google … Continue reading

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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

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Droid Tips & Tricks: Free turn-by-turn navigation is Google maps animated, on steroids

The free turn-by-turn navigation on the Droid is familiar Google Maps unleashed as a mobile navigation tool. This evolution for turn-by-turn navigation incorporates Google’s street view photos that move along with you real-time. Using a button on the navigation screen, … Continue reading

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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

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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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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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