Monthly Archives: January 2010

VIDEO Love for fire victims

Posted on January 31, 2010 by paul kuehnel

A 5-year-old girl gives the contents of her purse, and the purse, to a West York, Pa. fire victim who is also a fellow student. Donations help victims of a Jan. 17 fire get necessities.

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Android Tips & Tricks: Three Droid speed reset options

Posted on January 26, 2010 by paul kuehnel

Ctrl+Alt+Del on the physical keyboard will boot the Motorola Droid without going though the shut down menu and physical shutdown switch. Ctrl is the key furthest most left key in the third row with the arrow and line above it. … Continue reading →

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VIDEO Wind Storm

Posted on January 25, 2010 by paul kuehnel

Mike and Phil Mengelkamp drive a GMC Jimmy out from beneath a tree that fell during Monday’s wind storm in York County. The family Bulldog leaves a parting comment on the 25 year old tree in Dover, Pa.

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Android Tips & Tricks: Google labs is eternal beta bliss

Posted on January 23, 2010 by paul kuehnel

People have poked fun at Gmail’s eternal beta status, but it makes sense with an interface that is constantly in evolution. On Android based phones, you don’t have to wait for operating system updates pushed to the phone to try … Continue reading →

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VIDEO Prayers for Haiti and unity

Posted on January 18, 2010 by paul kuehnel

About 100 people stood in the Crispus Attucks gym Monday afternoon, their hands clasped together at the end of Crispus Attucks’ Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service celebration. A prayer for a student with family in Haiti.

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Ford is Sync-ing with smart phones

Posted on January 16, 2010 by paul kuehnel

The idea is that electronics change rapidly, while cars are in service for years. Deploying a development layer that can be swapped out easily, extends the life of the car’s electronics so that today’s Sync doesn’t become tomorrow’s 8-track player. … Continue reading →

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Android VIDEO: Fastest Omelet maker wows farm show crowd

Posted on January 15, 2010 by paul kuehnel

More mixing 720 x 480 Android phone video with stills. All sound on video was generated by a Motorola Droid. It’s great to just pull out a phone and supplement a story with a quick video hit, one less piece … Continue reading →

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Android Tips & Tricks: Reader issues with PoliceStream & its new widget

Posted on January 15, 2010 by paul kuehnel

Update: PoliceStream asked me for my order number. I went to the receipt stored in my Google Checkout list and the app verified sal gullo writes: I bought police stream app for my g1 and my touch and I can’t … Continue reading →

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Android Tips & Tricks: The Google Talk slider, shortcuts to chat

Posted on January 14, 2010 by paul kuehnel

Beyond the most obvious shortcut on Android phones, the notification shade, lurk many ways to jump between tasks. The notification shade pulls down from the top of all screens and jumps you to updated content pushed into apps. Googe Talk … Continue reading →

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Android Tips & Tricks: Google voice recognition spreads across platform – SpeaknTweet

Posted on January 14, 2010 by paul kuehnel

Android 2.1 implements the speak-to-text function across the platform into any text window. For those of us who don’t have a Nexus One and are waiting for the Android OS update, the function is starting to appear in apps. Currently, … Continue reading →

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Android Tips & Tricks: Those handy little widgets

Posted on January 11, 2010 by paul kuehnel

A handy, free widget to push another time zone to your desktop. I text and chat with a friend all the time who is in Germany for four months and our communication hasn’t changed much. Instead of thinking about the … Continue reading →

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Android Tips & Tricks: A new dedicated Yahoo news / mail app

Posted on January 11, 2010 by paul kuehnel

A dedicated free Yahoo app called Yahoo Mob pushed to the Android Market today that allows access to your Yahoo mail, news and search. It complements the IMAP solution (greenmesh 11/11/09) and the paid Yahoo premium solution that allows POP … Continue reading →

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Droid Tips & Tricks: Where is the 32 gig micro SD card?

Posted on January 9, 2010 by paul kuehnel

Reader writes: By Randy on January 9, 2010 10:10 AM Just one quick question for you…you said, “phone comes with 16 gigs of memory on a removable card, with an easy swap to 32 gig.” I was wondering if you … Continue reading →

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Android Tips & Tricks: Max your 5 megapixils for mobile photo editing

Posted on January 8, 2010 by paul kuehnel

Phone cameras that create large image file sizes help maintain a usable picture resolution when zooming and then editing on mobile photo editing programs. Since most camera phones don’t have a mechanical zoom lens, the actual file size is trimmed … Continue reading →

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Droid Tips & Tricks: Making the most of free Google Voice text messaging

Posted on January 6, 2010 by paul kuehnel

You can forget about your text (SMS) message restrictions entirely by using Google Voice. Update: Google pushed an update tonight for Google Voice and corrected double text issue in landscape mode using the virtual keyboard. The interface is similar to … Continue reading →

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VIDEO Students link with Seniors

Posted on January 5, 2010 by paul kuehnel

More than 70 years after living through the Great Depression, four men from the Windy Hill Senior Center talked to students about their experiences. But they weren’t face-to-face. They weren’t on a phone. They hooked up through an Internet program … Continue reading →

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VIDEO Kim Bracey sworn in as York’s first black mayor

Posted on January 4, 2010 by paul kuehnel

Kim Bracey was inaugurated as York’s 24th mayor this morning on the steps of City Hall. The little girl who trembled when National Guard tanks rolled past her city home “stands before you as mayor of York,” she told the … Continue reading →

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