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February 26, 2013

5 fresh Android apps worth adding to your arsenal | Computerworld Blogs

Filed under: Android,Links — Landis V @ 10:10 pm

http://blogs.computerworld.com/android/21783/fresh-android-apps

Would like to check out Push Bullet, Action Launcher, and Press if I get time.

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February 20, 2013

Get Your Business Online Today

Filed under: Business,Internet,Links — Landis V @ 7:51 pm

http://www.gybo.com

Of course Google has a motive to get people online, but they’re right. It’s very simple to get a presence online, and it doesn’t cost all that much – less than $7/month for a package I use for my -personal- Internet presence, and there are even lower cost and “free” offerings. I still believe the immediate benefit for absolutely anyone who does it is the @yourdomain.com e-mail, but you might have something even bigger.

I don’t particularly like the Intuit “website in a package” they tie in with this, but there are a lot of other ways to do it. But having the ability to build your Internet presence – and NOT just through Facebook or Google+ – and just keeping it in mind, thinking about how you might be able to parallel or change your brick-and-mortar with an online presence has huge potential.

If you’ve thought about it but not known how to approach it, or if you’ve never thought about it and just have questions and don’t know who to ask, ask me.

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February 15, 2013

LXC in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS | Stéphane Graber’s website

Filed under: Links,Linux,Security,Virtualization — Tags: linux, lxc — Landis V @ 11:25 pm

https://www.stgraber.org/2012/05/04/lxc-in-ubuntu-12-04-lts/

Great article, looks like LXC development is continuing in good directions since I last took a look at it. I need to circle back to it for some things at home that I’d like to place in isolated cages. There are several pingbacks that were also worth taking a look at.

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January 26, 2013

Cyanogen mod 10.1 Nightly 20130123 on Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 wifi

Filed under: Android,Links — Landis V @ 12:14 am

I have been running a build of Cyanogen mod that I initially discovered at http://galaxytabhacks.com/galaxy-tab-10-1-roms/cm10-jelly-bean-rom-for-galaxy-tab-10-1-android-4-1-2/ when I initially received the tablet from my wife back ATC Christmas (and had upgraded from Honeycomb within just a few hours). Since I’ve got the next week off from work and I had really wanted to get a little better performance out of Google Now, I decided to finally give one of the nightlife a try this evening. I did my Nandroid backup and performed the update, then updated gapps t the latest version from goo.im. Still working some kinks out, and indeterminate at this point whether I will remain on this version (Google Now does appear to b working great) or restore the Nandroid.

My major complaint with the nightly is that the keyboard crashes every couple of seconds; that’s a Royal pain in the ass, as its surprising just how much text entry I do on my tablet. After more pissing around than I really like, I did finally locate a replacement keyboard that is fairly similar to the AOSP version (which I find comfortable for typing and pretty accurate at replacing words with what I intended to type) and that doesn’t crash. In case you find yourself in the same boat, check out Jelly Bean Keyboard. It’s not identical, but thus far I have found it comfortable. I’ll give it a couple of days and see how it grows on me.

In hindsight I probably would have just stuck with the 10/30 build from the post I originally linked, and I may yet revert. It was ridiculously stable and the battery life was absolutely unbelievable. Also still unable to update to the most current version of Google Search from the Play Store – crashes every time I attempt to launch it after installing the update until I roll back to the default version. Still, I will give it a couple of days before I firmly make up my mind.

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