Boldly goes where no coder has gone before... and other ramblings :)
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Anyone that has a Google Apps account and wants to access other services like Google Reader, Google Voice etc. knows that the username and password of the Google Apps account does not work for these services, since those are not available for Google Apps accounts. To get around this limitation, what you could do (and what [...]
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The newest version of the Android Operating System has been codenamed Froyo (as in Frozen Yogurt). After the Google I/O presentation (day 2) I knew I wanted to have it on my phone. I could not wait for the update so after a lot of research and trial and error I managed to upgrade my phone to Froyo – Android 2.2. In this blog post I outline my experience with the upgrade as well as the new OS!
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Everyone more or less has some sort of electronic presence. That presence can easily be seen on Twitter, Facebook, personal blog, Google account, Buzz etc. The recent uproar against Google and Buzz because it was initially Opt-Out and not Opt-In should be revisited by comparing it to other companies such as Internet Service Providers, Financial Institutions and Utility companies. People will be surprised as to how many of those companies default to Opt-Out vs Opt-In.
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References: “Leaving the iPhone” by Matt Cutts, Android Equivalency Table and “Good Things: Ubuntu and Android” by Alex Payne. I am pretty sure that there are other reviews and how-to’s on the Internet, outlining that one of the above (or none) is the killer of the other. I am just posting what I did to [...]
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Continuing from Part 2. I had to shut the computer down because I had a train to catch. However booting up again the computer on the train and trying to enter the chroot environment produced some errors. It might very well be the fact that I do not have an Internet connection (at least a [...]
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Continuing from Part 1. The download took quite a while, so I thought it might be a good idea to split this post in parts, so as to ensure good readability. I need to create some symlinks. Also a good place to add my repository is /usr/local hence the commands for Chromium OS and Chromium [...]
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A lot of hype has been generated on the Internet a few months back regarding Google’s announcement that they are building a new operating system. The announcement was met with skepticism but also enthusiasm/anticipation by a lot of people who are puzzled as to what direction Google is taking and where are they looking themselves [...]
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A week or so ago I read a blog post in my Google Reader about Google providing now more storage for less money. To be quite frank I did not read the whole post but I did get the message. Google was offering 10GB for $20.00 and now they are offering 20GB for $5.00. This [...]
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I was one of the first people to beta test GMail when the only way you could get an account was by an invitation. I did manage to get one and created an email account which I still use until now. Since then Google Mail has grown and has been enhanced so much that in [...]
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