"I have to get though this the best way and that to me is to hold no anger and let him be at peace and hold him in my heart"

This video was shot with a Motorola Droid using Android

Donations help victims of a Jan. 17 fire get necessities.

Ctrl is the key furthest most left key in the third row with the arrow and line above it. Press all three keys down at the same time and phone will boot.

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A free app called "1Kill" in the Android Market will reset the desktop without booting the whole operating system.

The action takes a split second and will correct occasional kinks with widgets and desktop actions.

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TasKiller, a free app from the Android Market that offers a quick kill of multitasking apps.

I like it's desktop widget that tells you how much memory is left and lists the apps running. You can also set it to close apps when the screen is shut off and custom set an ignore list.

The family Bulldog leaves a parting comment on the 25 year old tree in Dover, Pa.

On Android based phones, you don't have to wait for operating system updates pushed to the phone to try new features in development.

Currently in the Navigation are labs for a scale bar, terrain overlay, popular categories, a layering button and compass arrow.

You can access labs navigation by accessing "More" from the menu key.

If you like the YouTube embed lab in Google talk chat in the web interface, it's also part of the Android Google talk chat on the phone, embedding a thumbnail and quick link.

As stated by Google, "Labs is a testing ground for experimental features" giving you a chance to see what the developers are working on for future updates.

"They may change, break or disappear at any time."

A prayer for a student with family in Haiti.

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.

Sync now can be used by third-party applications such as Twitter and Pandora. It even provides a Web browser and Wi-Fi hotspot. The new version of Sync is based on the Microsoft Windows Embedded Auto platform. Separately, Ford has announced it has opened the Sync interface to third-party applications running on smartphones. The driver controls the device and application through Sync and the touchscreen. gearlog.com

Current app syncs include, hearing your tweets as they come in, Pandora and Stitcher radio.

It's great to just pull out a phone and supplement a story with a quick video hit, one less piece of junk to drag along and weigh you down when you need to hit and run.

Record-holder Howard Helmer's claim to fame is cooking up 427 two-egg omelets in 30 minutes. He is demonstrating at the Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg.

sal gullo writes: I bought police stream app for my g1 and my touch and I can't get it to work.always asks for order number,when put in say number already used, just so many differant problems, I would have paid much more than 99 cents just to have a good reliable police steam app,could u help me?

PoliceStream has updated their app constantly. You must now enter your original Google order number that came with your emailed receipt to update.

If you have trashed the email receipt, you can get it by logging into Google Checkout

A widget for the desktop was recently added that displays a start/stop button for your most relevant the feed without having to directly open the app.

I haven't had to enter the Google order number yet for any updates, so I haven't had the opportunity to experience your issue.

I would contact the app developer directly at gmlvsk@gmail.com

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 is a quick way to reach people on your Gmail list in "real" time. It's the same chat that resides in the Gmail web interface and standalone Windows desktop application.

On an Android phone, Google Talk is integrated into the operating system.

You can reach a person by seeing their status from the contact list. (Here a green dot means they are available) or you can reach them via the green dot embedded in a Gmail.

Floating over the Gmail link to Google Talk will give you a slider of all available connections to that person, email address, facebook, etc. (Here the red dot means that the person is busy)

By sliding Google Chat windows side by side, you can scroll though people avalable for chat or multi-task between multiple conversations.

The first line of a new chat, like texts, will appear momentarily at the top in the phone's status bar before a notification icon appears and stays until the chat is responded to.

Need more chat on Android? Check out the Android Market for apps for Yahoo, AIM, and others.

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, Motorola Droid users running 2.x, can use this function for searching by a long tap of the magnifying glass key.

You can search the web or by saying key words, like "Map", before the rest of the search ties you into different functions.

Try, "Map of Restaurants" and the results will give you a push pin map of restaurants in your GPS location. Tap on the pin's label and you can navigate, call etc.

SpeaknTweet Lite, an incredibly simple free app, appeared in the Android Market today.

SpeaknTweet Lite only has two buttons. You speak, than tweet !

If only life was that simple.

I found SpeaknTweet Lite text speech recognition as accurate at the search function, which is pretty good.

Text to speech on Android can be tweaked by selecting "Text-to-speech" from the menu key. This will give you the ability to select between six languages and customize according to your speech rate. There is also an example of speech synthesis in English.

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 time difference all the time, I went to the Android Market and pulled a free time zone widget that uses the phone's internal clock and pushes your desired time zone to the desktop.

Go to the Android Market on the handset and search "time widget" for a list of options. and download the widget.

To use stand alone widgets and those incorporated into apps go to the menu key > Add > Widgets, for a list of available widgets.

Note: if your desktop is full, "Widgets" is grayed out. You can add widgets to any of the three desktops on the Droid by sliding to an alternative desktop.

Another of my favorite widgets syncs an abbreviation of the current Google Calendar event on the desktop. The widget doubles as a link to the full calender.

It complements the IMAP solution (greenmesh 11/11/09) and the paid Yahoo premium solution that allows POP access to your Yahoo account though the combined inbox on the Droid.

I tested Yahoo Mob. Sending and receiving emails worked as did receiving attachements. There is also access to a Yahoo News categories and Yahoo Search.

I still prefer the IMAP solution for Yahoo as it combines your contact lists and sends notifications for emails automatically.

Manual settings to set up Yahoo Mail as IMAP in the Droid combined Inbox as the original link I referred to is down.

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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 have found a 32 GB Micro SD card out there anywhere? I have been looking and looking but unable to find a place to buy one.

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 to simulate zooming. Zooming in makes the file size smaller.

On the Motorola Droid, the maximum file size is 2592 x 1936 pixels.

I have found no reason to preset at the smaller file sizes as it doesn't slow down the image processing and sizing up a compressed image later (if you want a large print) is always a bad idea.

The phone comes with 16 gigs of memory on a removable card, with an easy swap to 32 gig, so there isn't an issue with storage either.

If you crop down the picture to give it a custom crop or edit out things that distract, the final image file size will also be smaller.

On the Droid, you can crop and rotate the image in the phone's gallery.

I prefer to crop in the camera before opening it up in an editing program, since most of the photo editing programs currently available in the Android Market only work with a trimmed down file size.

Next: Taking a look at Photo editing apps Photo Droid, Photo Effects, Photoshop and PicSay Pro.