I love the Galaxy S2, It is a really well built piece of kit. There are, however, a few little annoyances with it, some of which can be fixed if you don’t mind getting your hands dirty. Here’s what you need to do to get going. Root the phone (this…
It’s not often I write reviews, but the new British Gas app for Android has prompted me to do so. The app offers a curious mix of genuinely clever ideas and some glaring oversights. It’s a beta release, so I’m writing this mainly to help the development team on their…
I’ve just got myself a shiny new Samsung Galaxy S2. I’m not going to write a big old review of the whole thing here, there’s plenty of others elsewhere. Ubuntu users may have difficulty mounting the phone via USB. Getting ugly errors like this… “Unable to mount SAMSUNG_Android Error initialising…
The Internet is awesome, no doubt, but it can be a challenge to keep track of all the information that’s flapping about these days. I’ve tried various techniques and technologies to help me manage the various streams of information that I like to keep an eye on. I thought I’d…
I have just this minute heard about a company, Xtify, which produces a communication framework for sending messages to mobile users based upon their location. This could be seriously amazing! You know when you hear something and it sends ideas pinging off in different directions like a particle collision? Reading…
Google have launched a handy tool for building Android Apps without requiring any programming knowledge. It’s called App Inventor and is built upon the Open Blocks platform. With it you can create mobile apps simply by dragging and dropping program ‘blocks’ in to place, similar to Lego Mindstorms. The video…
Based on the interweb’s new favourite toy, Andy Yang’s What the Hex, I’ve created an android app that’s sort of the same thing really. Search for “what the hex” in the android market place. Enjoy!
MyLineup is a simple app for Android phones which allows you to keep track of the artists you want to see at all the festivals your going to this summer. Please note, this is still in (very early) beta, so if you encounter any bugs, let me know in the…