Google and Android

Let’s be honest: Lock and slide to unlock screens aren’t for everyone. Or they are for people when they’re on the move with the phone bouncing around in their pocket but not when they’re at work or on a long train ride or home, a category into which I fall. Android doesn’t seem to have … Read more

VPlayer, though still in alpha, is a simple and light video player by this guy, like RockPlayer though with a community consensus of being better all-around, that can handle pretty much any video format including divx, xvid, mkv, wmv (yuck), mp4 and a bunch of others. Probably your best bet to able to handle your … Read more

Samba is the thing you (or your dad) probably use in your office to jump onto public drives through the lan as if the thing was another folder on your hard drive, drag and dropping, double clicking, printing, the whole nine. Both PCs and Macs do Samba, along with Linux and UNIX (for which it … Read more

I was breezing through the Locale plugins on the Android market and stumbled upon RemoteStick, a free app (or you could spring for the $1.50 donation version) which is a companion, a client technically, to the TellStick system, $90 or so bucks from the Swedes, $95 from the Brits, which is a little USB stick … Read more

It’s that simple. Think I’ll let the video do the talking this time. BlindType website here, rumor mill / speculation / wow XDA thread here. Suck it, Swype nuts and hard keyboard hippies! Doug Simmons