Category: mobile

06/05/12 10:32 - ID#56520

on{x}

Normally I hate Microsoft but this system seems pretty awesome

Its based on a standard language, its free and it runs on android.

The system basically allows you to program event based actions for your phone using JavaScript or by deleting pre-written recipes.

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Category: mobile

04/30/12 02:13 - ID#56410

Phone Hacked?

I haven't barely searched on my phone today and I got this. I hope it is a glitch.

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Category: mobile

04/03/12 12:06 - ID#56312

Paper in the ipad vs Note app on galaxy note

You can see the tool and color options on the note are so superior.

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Category: mobile

03/09/12 08:52 - ID#56192

Who knew android could easily take USB

I saw an article about a USB host mode chord for android phones and decided for $3.50 it was worth a try. Holy crap was it worth it. You can connect external keyboards, drives and even a mouse. The system says "Mouse connected" and you get a mouse pointer on the screen that works just like on a computer. Totally worth $3.50 and way easier thqan dealing with batteries, syncing, etc that comes with bluetooth. Plus it is ultra super fast.

Here is the purchase link

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Category: mobile

02/26/12 09:55 - ID#56136

PDF annotation for the galaxy note

Is this what you were looking for (e:tinypliny)?

tinypliny writes at 11:28:35 02/26/12 - Comment #67744: But as I said, ezPDFReader (one of your awesome recommendations is pretty good!)

tinypliny writes at 11:27:26 02/26/12 - Comment #67743: BOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOO. from your link: "Your device isn't compatible with this item"

Okay, I am officially jealous now. Both Nexus S and Nexus One are not compatible! It doesn't turn up in the regular marketplace because of the incompatibility.

tinypliny writes at 09:49:36 02/26/12 - Comment #67739: I say whoever hates on styluses should not be allowed to use any pens and pencils for the rest of their life. And they are ridiculous. And I won't smile at them more than once (once because I need to find out first if they are stylus-haters).

You obviously went out of the way to get a phone with a stylus, that makes me like you even more! (here's where I draw silly hearts fluttering around a stylus and you next to it).

paul writes at 07:40:28 02/26/12 - Comment #67737: I believe they do have it for ipad also. And whatever to those people that think styli are stupid and "if there is a stylus included they fucked up" Those same people need to examine why all of the ipad/iphone styli were sold out at best buy.

paul writes at 07:39:07 02/26/12 - Comment #67736: Its just an android app in the marketplace :::link:::

tinypliny writes at 07:35:42 02/26/12 - Comment #67735: Says it's an ipad app. Come on now, spill it! Did you hack the thing to work on android?

tinypliny writes at 07:35:00 02/26/12 - Comment #67734: I can't find this in marketplace. How on earth did you get it on the Android platform?

tinypliny writes at 04:30:02 02/26/12 - Comment #67730: Yes!! Is it on the android market/available for linux? I am actually pretty happy with ezPDFreader on Android. I really would like something for linux main OS though... Does this work on linux?

heidi writes at 11:55:01 02/26/12 - Comment #67724: I want it! The Galaxy Note is the closest thing so far that I could see replacing my client meeting notebook.

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Category: mobile

02/11/12 09:03 - ID#56052

orange and green

This lime ipad with the orange phone attachment is my favorite color scheme but when I saw it on my desk I couldn't help but think fisher price. It just doesn't look serious.

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Category: mobile

01/22/12 12:45 - ID#55966

The orange phone

(e:Mike) got me the orange phone for my birthday. Maybe this means I will talk on the phone more. The sound on it is really great.

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Category: mobile

12/27/11 12:16 - ID#55804

The New Android Estrip App

I finished a new version tonight. It works great on the nook with gingerbread now. Gingerbread enables bluetooth on the nook color which makes me question why the device did not originally enable the bluetooth chip that was obviously inside. I was able to pair it with my apple bluetooth keyboard the way I do with my ipad. The ipad is pretty great but the nook is so much more portable. Its large enough to have a lot of screen space but small enough to be jammed in some big coat or jeans pockets. I only wish it had its own 3g chip the way that the ipad does although I guess tethering with the phone is actually a better deal because it does not require an extra account or monthly fee.

Here is what it looks like on the nice big nook screen.

Version 1.23 had a bug that forced the app to quit on reload. If you are having issues make sure you are on 1.24. Check the market and see if there is an update. If so update it.

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Category: mobile

12/26/11 11:37 - ID#55803

Texting Gloves

One problem with the move from stylus driven resistive touch screens to capacitive finger driven ones was winter and glove covered fingers. The problem exists no more with new gloves that transmit your finger energy through the pointer and thumb. So glad I found these as I was getting sick of using my nose.

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Category: mobile

12/21/11 08:03 - ID#55784

Android Lync Chat Client - Data Security Danger

I was playing around with the microsoft lync client for android today when I discovered just how insecure the data from your chats are on your phone. I can't understand how it could be allowed in a very controlled corporate environment like you would find in banking, healthcare, etc.

Microsoft admits freely that the conversation history is stored on the device.

What they don't say is that basically, the client stores all of the chats you have a in sqlite database that is pretty much plain text accessible.

Using the android development toolkit and grep (basic free tools) I was able to locate the lync data store on the phone at /data/data/com.microsoft.office.lync/

You can easily pull it off you adb connected device with this. It will grab the data and put in a directory on your local computer called lync.

adb pull /data/data/com.microsoft.office.lync lync

Say you send someone a message with secure data e.g. "the secret pin for my bank account is 1234"

Then someone steals your phone, adb shell into the phone copy the data over the computer or an sd card for safe keeping.

then they can extract whatever they want.

grep -r -a secret com.microsoft.office.lync/databases/DataStore.sqlite
and two minutes later they find

"the secret pin for my bank account is 1234"

So what that it might have a little binary content on either side.

Not only that but lets say you are the investigative, computer type - the app lets you send off any conversation as an email. So any app that accepts email intent (gmail, mail, text messaging, etc) accepts the content and passes it from that app to the world at large. If you have any special controls over your corporate exchange, like outgoing filters to look for sensitive data, they get bypassed going out through something pretty insecure like plain text email or text messaging.

I can see how they wanted to side with convenience. At the same time I can't understand how this can appeal to the customers they tend to appeal to most (government and big business). Why would they not encrypt this data on the phone at least.