Monthly Archive for November, 2010

Android screen grabs – no rooting required.

I originally pooh-poohed the idea of grabbing screens from my N1 via a USB-connected computer, but the only rooting solution that I’ve tried so far didn’t work out. So this morning I Googled up some n00b-friendly instructions for screen capture using the Android SDK on a desktop installation of Ubuntu Linux…

Carrier contracts: Your table awaits…

If this sounds completely ridiculous, it’s exactly what I had to sign up for with my current wireless carrier. I’ll be giving my thirty day notice today — and yes, I’ll be paying the maximum penalty…

Art imitates life in PhoneShop.

Though more about high street sales culture than the mobile phone industry specifically, each episode of PhoneShop is good for a jab or two at prepaid customers — i.e., the ones who don’t sign on for multi-year contracts…

A requiem for just about every commercial mobile office suite ever.

I first caught the news via the Android Guys a couple of days ago, and it’s fairly huge. Google is now making Google Docs editable on Android devices — and for good measure the wildly-popular hobbled Apple Internet appliances as well…

Show off your Android apps with AppBrain.

Over the next few posts I’m going to highlight some of the stand-out applications for Google’s Android OS. We’re going to kick things off with AppBrain.

To call AppBrain an alternative Android Market would kind of be missing the point. There is certainly some unnecessary duplication in the form of its own set of user-generated reviews, but that’s its weakest selling point if you ask me. Three additional features make AppBrain truly amazing…