Category: communication

One Month Review of G1 HTC Android.

Posted onAuthorTruXter

Well I have had my G1 for one month.

On day one, it crashed about 3 times.

On day two it got an update to something, no clue it happened so fast and I had no idea how to work anything on it, that I may never know. After the update I had crashes the whole day . Finally found the applications and what ones I could install.

I have to have all background processes turned off, otherwise it is super dead slow. Barcode scanners all seem to be just advertisement for national companies. Mostly target and  some drug store. Read More about the Android Barcode scanner here.

While searching the apps online, every single app has some clown saying ” app froze would not run had to uninstall found better one” then they say the name of  the supposed better one. I have come to the conclusion they are smearing  and trying to promote their own app..  If it freezes, turn background processes back on.. you will move slow, but yeah, it will work.

Storage,
I hate the limitations of this cell phone. I have an 8 gig memory card in the machine, but it seems to only install new apps to the phone, not the memory card. That bugs the hell out of me, because default storage for the phone is like one song. There is no way to change that.

The phone has been out for just over a year, yet they already have the G2 on it’s way to the shelves? if not already released???? why? they knew it sucked?

Screen area is huge and the resolution is remarkable. The camera takes an amazing picture, audio is pretty good through good head set, if you have the right adapter. Internet is super fast if you use the wifi settings and have a fast connection at your house (lol). I have actually seen over 2 megs a second, considering I have a 20meg a second connection, it is possible. Pandora Radio and ars radio are the best features. Other than running around in your skivvies playing with the light-saber app.

yesterday I pulled out one of my old Motorola phones, slapped my sim card in it, and bam, I get a bunch of text messages.. Has that freaking phone been missing my texts? Is that why she dumped me ? is that why i lost that bid for the job? what in the heck ???

Not happy, selling pretty soon.

I will be going back to my Blackberry 8100, just hope I can get used to the double tap simi qwerty keyboard.

A Online Radio ap for For Android

Posted onAuthorTruXter

A Online Radio ap for For Android

This aplication is amazing. I love the thing. It shows speed of downloads, and volume of downloads. Hundreds if not Thousands of radio stations. I did not get to try them all. Just found the ones I wanted and I was good. I set my G! to use my Local area Wifi Network here at home ( I get 20mbs) and it streams to me from aol/winamp radio at an amazing rate. Since they use aol, they need to use aol video also.

I really like this application.

ZXing Barcode Scanner for Android

Posted onAuthorTruXter

The Zxing barcode Scanner for Android system telephones

The data they have on their website about the ap.

ZXing (pronounced “zebra crossing”) is an open-source, multi-format 1D/2D barcode image processing library implemented in Java. Our focus is on using the built-in camera on mobile phones to photograph and decode barcodes on the device, without communicating with a server. We currently have production-quality support for:

This library is divided into several components; some are actively supported:

  1. core: The core image decoding library, and test code
  2. javase: J2SE-specific client code
  3. android: Android client, called Barcode Scanner
  4. androidtest: Android test app
  5. android-integration: Supports integration with our Barcode Scanner app via Intent
  6. zxingorg: The source behind zxing.org/w
  7. zxing.appspot.com: The source behind our web-based barcode generator

Some modules are contributed and/or intermittently maintained:

  1. javame: JavaME client
  2. csharp: Partial C# port
  3. cpp: Partial C++ port
  4. rim: RIM/Blackberry-specific client build
  5. iphone: iPhone client + port to Objective C / C++ (QR code only)
  6. bug: Client for BugLabs’s BUG

Works great if you are scanning stuff to find where to get that item online or what the best online price is, but beyond that, meh.. nothing special..

Does not tell you where to get it cheaper locally.

It still is great reassurance when you use it and find that online is about the same price. if you consider shipping and handling and the amount of time shipping takes and all that junk. Shop Savvy seems to do the same thing but it shows local. You get similar results with the two of online deals. but I still keep both because there some times seems to be differences.

I suggest you do the same, use both, you can’t really go wrong.

***Update***

There have been plenty of really good updates to zxing barcode scanner.

Dang thing is really cool. You just kind of have to drop the understanding you have of the other  bacode scanners.

Zxing is now one of my “must have” aps

Android, Shop Savvy Barcode scanner

Posted onAuthorTruXter5 Comments

The Shop Savvy Barcode Scanner for androids

The application gives some sense of security. Knowing that you can scan an item and check local prices that might be better than what you are about to pay for the item at the establishment you are at currently. There is a downside though.  It seems the application only finds Target Stores, I mean the store with the big circle looking like a dartboard target.

On some occasions it does  show Walgereens. Really it should show  more than one  vendor location. instead what ever vendor  they choose, they show all locations of that vendor. It is supposed to show you the cheapest place to purchase the item. See  I think that might be a bit of bs. I have a feeling it’s a sponsored  programs, like just an advertisement market. it does no search other than your location, and how to find their sponsor who carries said product. See I bought a coffee bean  Grinder from Kroger for 9.99 (I am not paying $100+ for a grinder, I’m just not. While standing in Kroger I scanned it, the results I got said  Target for $12.99. i looked down at the price on  the shelf, 9.99 ..

The model I got was  proctor Silex fresh Grind  model number E160B. Barcode 0 22333 91600 1 . Here it is at Target  for 12.99 . Sorry Kroger does not have it on their site but

Reciept picture

Reciept picture

LOL that should do. Don’t bother scanning car parts, because clearly they have no car parts sponsors.

Tmobile and Sprint Merger Bad Karma?

Posted onAuthorGame News

Rumor hitting the net now about Tmobile and sprint merging.

From this Uk News Article

Hopefully this means teh end of sprints crappy CDMA signal and growth of Tmobiles more dominant gsm signal.

One of the greatest features of gsm is the ability to just yank your sim card out and plug it into another phone you have and make it work, until you can replace your broken phone. So if this happens, cross your fingers and hope for gsm. Some people like to travel, and many people like Tmobile.

Oh yeah, and a good signal.

Testing out wordpress/Twitter App

Posted onAuthorGame News

So far all of the sign up part was easy and fast, but I do not know if the posts are automatic from the blog to twitter. I also want to know if it will summarize them and fit a link in, or will there be some other crazy method

as of now I am uncertain.

For your help the programs is called “tweetable.1.0.7”

Make sure you have php5 or greater. 4 will just not work.

and if you are on the same service as I am, you have to wait a few minutes after

updating your php from 4 to 5.

Oh crap, I have to check all of my other sites.

Ok checked the rest of my sites.

php 5 made them a little bit faster. Maybe I should have upgraded a while back.

Thunderbird will not Launch

Posted onAuthorGame News1 Comment

Ok, so you installed the latest Thunderbird update “2.0.0.22” and now it is acting funny?
I have the fix for you. It’s quite simple. But let’s make sure you have the same issue.

You right click an item and select “send to email recipient”. and you get some error saying that you have to
update/install/uninstall Mozilla Thunderbird or it even says to reinstall outlook.
See at my job we have a mess load of computers, and one by one after the updates, they all started doing that.

I got puzzled after the second one. I lobbed it around a few minutes trying to unscramble this issue.
I headed to internet options and set it to default Thunderbird as the primary email client. Yeah that did not work.
The stupid thing kept trying to use outlook, and it was showing outlook as being buggy. Well the girl I was helping the computer said
“Hey I don’t care just set me to outlook as My email client and I will be fine”
Ok the light bulb flickered twice and then quickly went out.
so I just give in and set her primary email as outlook.
She says ” ok cool thank”
and what do you know?????
As an automatic idiosyncrasy she heads straight to Thunderbird and clicks it. as soon as I saw her mouse over the shortcut, the light flickered again above my head and glowed bright. I screamed “STOP” as soon as she clicked the shortcut to Thunderbird.
An error type message popped up saying that Thunderbird was not the primary email do I want to make it my primary and should Thunderbird always check?. well I said yes to both.
Blamo…… issue resolved. Thunderbird is now her primary without a hitch email client again. So I head back to the first machine at the office that had that issue, did the same thing, and it worked. The IT guy who was scratching his head over it, watched and had teh same look on his face as I did “WELL DUUUUUUH!”

Of course as soon as we declared the issue well resolved. I get another problem from someone else in the building. A lady was working with a program called ” PeachTree”. It will let you automaticly send office files straight from the program through Thunderbird to the recipient. ok cool. but she gets a similar error. So I just hop in and do what I did before and we try again, I try about nine different ways to solve the problem. Nothing worked. I go back to my desk and decide to call the IT guy and let it be his problem. No sooner than me hanging up the phone he came around the corner and told me the “well duuuhh” statement. in options just ask Thunderbird to look to see if it currently is the primary email client. “WEll Duhhh”

Good luck all.

Face Book With Vanity Urls

Posted onAuthorTech News1 Comment

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/10/facebook_vanity_urls/

http://www.facebook.com/username/

Wow how cool is that?

Face book catches up to 2001.

Good thing they stopped that whole ” ehh we are too good for that let’s be like tiny url”

Sorry all I hate face book, I call it the anti social network.

It’s not social if you can’t add friends by browsing strangers.

You are not social if you are an E-Hermit.

But back on topic.

Does that mean ” facebook.com/myspacegigolo”

Will be available ??