Yesterday I ran into someone on IRC who suggested I give Grooveshark a try (Wikipedia entry). I’d never heard of it before, but I was told it was sorta similar to Pandora Radio. For those that don’t know, you give Pandora a song or artist and it creates a “radio” station of similar music and [...]
Archive of entries posted on April 2010
Video: Android Folder Demo
Today is another one of my Android/Video series. The video is very short, just over 2 minutes in length, and it focuses completely on the folder aspects under Android. (View in high def) I’m just going to quickly reiterate the 3 aspects of folders in Android that I covered: Standard Folders – The main purpose [...]
I fucking hate Bad Company 2
Let me preface my little spiel here by saying that I like Bad Company 2, and it is one of the first console shooters I’ve played online and enjoyed doing so for a long period of time. Heck, I’ve already got my 5 days of service award (and am only 1 achievement away from getting [...]
So I bought a pickup
It’s a truck For the last 2 years, I’ve had a Prius. It was a good car, with some nice electronic toys to be sure. It most definitely gets fantastic gas mileage. That being said, it is a bit… meh. Now I didn’t get rid of it because it was “meh” (IE unexciting), I got [...]
Problem solving: A “normal” person versus a programmer
So here’s the situation: You want to read some manga offline. This manga is not currently available in print, in the United States. So you go online and start searching for it. Search as you might, you can’t find anywhere that lets you download ALL of. Sure, you can get some of the more recent [...]
Jon’s Broken, come back on Monday
As you may have seen on my twitter, Akido killed me last night, nothing useful to post today.
Developing on an Android device under Windows 7
One of the first things I did after getting my shiny new Nexus One was to plug it into my computer for development. After all, development was the entire reason I bought this very expensive new toy (well, it might not be the only reason, but it is the one I use to justify actually [...]
Video: First impressions of the Nexus One (AT&T)
As I previously promised/threatened: more videos. Here’s my first impressions of the Nexus One after about 12 hours of playing with it. The video is short, just 5 minutes. I move fairly quick and don’t show off a lot of depth, but I’ll cover more detailed aspects down the road in separate videos. (Click to [...]
How to Export Contacts from Outlook 2010 (Beta)
You’d think it is fairly easy to export something in Outlook 2010, but apparently Microsoft has decided that anything that isn’t in a ribbon should be completely counter intuitive. So here’s how to export: File (tab) Import (Yes… Import) “Export to a file” Next “Comma Separated Values (Windows)” Next Select your Contacts folder Next Select [...]
Video: Four Generations of Cell Phones
Well, I previously threatened to make some video blog entries and now I’m finally making good on that threat. THIS IS NOT A VIDEO DIARY. In fact, if all goes according to plan, you’ll never see my face on camera. So before I get into the entry itself, a quick bit about making the videos. [...]