For those of you wondering how to get a tractor out of mud, I guess you can hook up a small log to one of the tractor’s wheels to get it out. Pretty simple idea, well executed.
For those of you who want to get your Android smartphone notifications on your desktop computer so you don’t miss calls while blasting your internet radio at work, there’s an open source Android app called “Android Notifier” you can install that works via bluetooth or wifi.
This project sends notifications to a desktop computer when certain events happen on an Android device, such as the phone ringing, an SMS being received, or the battery running low. The notifications can be sent over
For those of you who want to receive alerts for your GMail and Google Calendar notifications, there’s a nifty free software called Scott’s GMail Alert that you can use. GoogleChat also gives you GMail notications but Scott’s GMail Alert goes further by adding when you want updates:
I’ve been doing a bit of research lately on developing Android development and have found a slew of sites that could jump-start your Android-app development. Of course, there’s great books to read out there but what I like to do and how I learn best is by trying out different simple examples of programming.
Since Android apps are basically Java-based, it would help a great deal if you have done some Java programming before. Personally, I am a java engineer who has done many applications with embedded computers. This should be pretty easy for me once I get the hang
For those of you lucky enough to get ClearWire’s 4G internet service, you might still have trouble getting full signal if you happened to live in suburban neighborhoods.
But I guess there’s a pretty cheap fix for that, you can actually increase your signal a LOT by using a tinfoil and making an antenna sorta like above. I used to use this method actually for my wifi router couple years back, I think it works for 4G modems probably because they are wireless. Cool.
Lo and behold, as soon as I put that tinfoil dish behind our modem, the signal jumped
Well, today, someone broke into my car, breaking the driver side window. Last time I got jacked was when my friend left his digital camera in the back seat. Well, this time the jacker stole my Duracell Inverter.
But I am happy because they didn’t touch my golf clubs and my skateboard in the trunk, THAT would have driven me MAD.
Btw, did you know that you can call an auto window repl
Google has just announced their new addition of real-time search. Although it will be implemented on the regular Google search over the next couple days or access Hot Trends on Google Trends to see a demo, you can also get real-time results on your Google search query by adding the parameter &esrch=RTSearch to end of your URL.
So a Google search “GM”,
http://www.google.com
This is a funny article on how to get out of your Cingular contract. If anyone tried it, let us know.
via hackszine