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CyanogenMod Android love for the Hardkernel Odroid U2

Hardkernel’s Jelly Beans aren’t the freshest beans going around, still Android 4.1 isn’t exactly the most stale version of Android. More than 60.7% of android users are running Honeycomb, Android 3.x, API level 11 – 13, or earlier. The majority, 47.4%, of users are still running some version of Gingebread, Android 2.3.x API level 9 [...]

Notes on building your own Android HTPC

A while ago I set out to try and build an Android based HTPC using Hardkernels Odroid U2 Android development platform and XBMC for Android. Well I finally got around to it, it is possible to roll your own Android HTPC. The best bit is it’s not hard at all, in fact it’s quite easy. [...]

Hardkernel Odroid-U2 Android HTPC

They say good things come in small packages. And they do, things like my Hardkernel Odroid U2 which comes in a tiny package measuring 48 x 52 mm, about half the size of a credit card sans the heat sink. Even with the heat sink the unit is still tiny, measuring a midget like 59 [...]

The Android HTPC Project Pt 2

A few days ago I shared my thoughts about using Hardkernel’s ODROID-U2 for an Android based HTPC. I decided that it’s such a good idea that I’m going to try and build an Android based HTPC. The plan is to build an Android based HTPC that offers as many full fat HTPC features as possible. [...]

Android HTPC

I was an Android user before Android was cool. My first real smart phone was a HTC Magic. It was the bees knees and I knew then that Android’s popularity was going to make like the Space Shuttle Challenger and explode. And that it has, it’s one of the best iOS challengers, and it’s rolling [...]

HTC, Android, and screenshots

If you break out your favorite search engine and search for “Android Screenshots how to” you will most likely be informed that you need to root your phone and install an accompanying application just to take a screenshot. This may well be true on some phones but I know some HTC phones like the Desire [...]

How to use QR codes to easily update passwords

I use KeePass password manager to generate strong passwords, by strong I mean gibberish passwords like this: &ýJ8½u@è[ Aqîsñ«qÓÉ\8ÎzB Good luck cracking a password like that, if it ever did get cracked it would probably be useless anyway because I would have changed it. Unfortuantly not every service lets me choose a real secure password, [...]

5 awesome free Android games

For the uninitiated those funny square pixelated bar code looking images are QR (Quick Response) codes. If you have a QR bar code scanner on your phone (like Barcode Scanner) you can use it to scan the QR codes, open the URL in your browser, and download the games from the market without having to [...]

Rotten Apple

Apple has gone a little bit litigation happy lately, suing HTC, as well as Motorola and Samsung. By suing these companies Apple is attacking Googles Android platform because HTC, Motorola and Samsung all use Googles Android OS on their phones. Apple fan boys will defend apple to the rotten core because they are one eyed, [...]

Smart phones

I ditched Symbian when I ditched my Nokia 3650 and got a Sony Ericsson w810i because it’s ‘feature’ was that it was basically a MP3 player with a phone, it also other features that I liked, mostly that it wasn’t a Nokia and it wasn’t using the Symbian OS which was good for it’s time. [...]

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