March 2011
12 posts
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Uninstalling System Apps in CyanogenMod
While I like CyanogenMod, an alternative ROM for Android phones. I don’t necessarily like that some apps are installed as part of the system. It’s not bloat ware like you find on stock phones from AT&T, Verizon, or Sprint. Rather, these are apps that Cyanogen adds for convenience.
I ran into a problem with Google Maps today. While trying to enter a search, Maps would just die....
Tenuous Chains Of Trust In Digital Certificates →
Hot on the heels of RSA suffering an attack of unknown origin and resulting in a loss of unknown data with an unknown impact, news that a certificate authority, Comodo Inc, issued nine fraudulent…
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Amazon Android Appstore Opens →
The store opened and WoW, the useability of Amazon’s Appstore is top notch (unlike Amazons video on demand features). You can search and sort apps easily. You can filter based on ratings. It’s got all the tools that make finding apps easy. The best parts?
Save for later. I love this feature since there are times when I see an app that looks interesting but for one reason or another, I...
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How to Get Good at Making Money →
I found this story inspiring. Fried’s approach is not to make money to get rich, but to make a good product or service that is better than everything else and you are proud of and that others will purchase even in the face of free or lower cost alternatives.
It’s a good read.
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Amazon App Store Taking Over Android Market? Maybe... →
Hrm. I am not too convinced that Amazon’s App Store will be a killer here. Yes, getting Rovio as an exclusive is a coup and good for them, but Amazon better have a better method for finding apps than is available.
While finding stuff on Amazon.com is pretty easy, they have failed miserably at making video on demand easy either with their Tivo offering or their Premier offering (My Panasonic...
Standardizing Cloud APIs Is Useless →
In a session on open source in the cloud at the Cloud Connect show in Santa Clara, Randy Bias of Cloudscaling dropped a bombshell of a statement, “API’s don’t matter”. The context of that statement…
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Cloud Connect, All About Automation →
Automation. That is the theme I continue to come back to while at Cloud Connect. I think organizations are going to be getting the most benefit from automation in the near term and automation is one…
Beware product bias →
It always bugs me when someone tries to come off unbiased, bit really is. Especially when it’s so obvious. This post is one of those. IPad is going to beat every other tablet because it is cheaper and does cool stuff.
Yawn
Lamarche has some fundamentals wrong and as I am sitting in ORD trying to tap this out, I won’t pick it apart piece by piece.
I do think that users will buy...
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DataViz Docs to Go and Google 2-Step...
If you use Data Viz to connect to Google Docs and you have Googles 2 Step Authentication enabled, you won’t be able to login from Docs to Go using your regular Google account password. You will need to authorize the application in your Google Account.
While on Google.com, go to Account Settings->Authorizing applications & sites->Generate an Application Specific password.
Once...
