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Missing Sync for Android, iPhone, Pre Mobile Phones
“Trumpy, you can do stupid things!” So an Android, an iPhone, a Blackberry and a Palm Pre walk into a bar in sync. Get it?!?! Not gonna’ happen. Or is it? If you’re a Mac or a Windows user and you don’t mind the ole’ cradled sync, and you’re an absolute gadget-head, then the Missing Sync is for you. We’ve used it for years with Blackberry and back in the days before Microsoft purchased and summarily hastened the already upcoming doom of the Sidekick platform. But now, it supports Android! So if you’re like some of us and you need to always be accessible and therefore travel with 2 mobiles,…
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Stupid Projections – Android vs. iPhone
In 2048 Microsoft will go belly up. Really? How could I make that kind of prediction? I CAN’T!!! Who knows what will happen in all those years? Cell phone technology: 3 years ago, if someone had told you that the Apple iPhone would be such a dominant force in the market, what would you have said? Certainly it’s cool, but you’d of called them a fanboy – and if you hadn’t then you should have. Every single Linux conference I’ve ever been to, there is always a speaker who is extolling the virtues of Linux as an enterprise desktop and talking about how it will replace Windows as the dominant…
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Looking at Google Android's Internals
Google’s Android is a very small Linux distribution. Recently I needed to test some applications that were developed by a couple of friends of mine. Rather than run out to T-Mobile I figured I’d just install the new LiveAndroid disk and thought I would write up how to get setup using VMware Fusion and then go about doing some tasks with Android. To get started make sure you’re running the latest Fusion (or Parallels or Q or VirtualBox). Then download two ISO files from http://code.google.com/p/live-android/ liveandroidv0.2.iso.001 and liveandroidv0.2.iso.002. Once you have downloaded the two ISO files we’re going to need to join them. To do so cat liveandroidv0.2.iso.001 liveandroidv0.2.iso.002 >…
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VMware for Mobile Devices
I am one of those weird techies that just likes a phone that works. It seems like the more I do to my phone, the less it works. Therefore, I don’t do much to my phone at all any more. I guess VMware is trying to change that. You see, if I had a bunch of Virtual Machines on my phone then I would have infinitely more games to waste time playing while waiting in line at the bank (OK, so who goes to the bank any more – whatever), I would be able to test code and sites from multiple OS’s and I would be able to hack around…
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iPhone Skin
A few months ago I noticed that a pretty hefty percentage of my visitors came from an iPhone. Looking at the site from an iPhone was pretty darn painful, so I added a skin (Plugin) to the site that is specific to users of mobile devices. While I have slightly modified it for my own purposes (testing in the Simulator every step of the way), I must admit that I didn’t write it. I’ve received a few comments about it so to give credit where it’s due, it’s the WPTouch Plugin from Brave New Code. It’s a really small Plugin, easy to install (drop into your plugins directory and then…