Monthly Archives: November 2009

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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