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Droid with a taste of Froyo

This morning I woke up to see that apparently a ROM of Android 2.2 (FroYo) had been released by the Android community. After backing up by current ROM, I installed FroYo with great success! As you can see from the Quadrant benchmarks below, that FroYo brings great performance benefits. I have the 1.2ghz P3 Kernel [...] Related posts:

How to force checking for updates on Android devices

While waiting for the Verizon 2.1 (AP: ESE81/BP: C_01.3E.03P ) Droid update that was released today, I stumbled upon this little nugget of information on a forum. Normally your phone has a process which checks for pending updates every xx hours, but what if you want to force the device to check for updates immediately? [...] Related posts:

Enabling SPNEGO Logging in Windows

While troubleshooting a Sharepoint Kerberos/SPNEGO issue, I came across a post here which mentions enabling of logging of the SPNEGO process. This is supported on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2. Apparently it might also work with a checked build of lsasrv.dll on Windows XP. Steps to enable SPNego [...] Related posts:

Graffiti CMS is now Open Source!

As promised by @Scott GraffitiCMS is now Open Source! You can find details around Graffiti here. The new Codeplex project is also live here. Now, let’s see what the community can do, and how painful it might be to migrate back from WordPress. Related posts:GraffitiCMS to go Open Source The writing is on the [...] Related posts:

Browser Issue with Verizon Droid 2.0.1 Update

It appears there maybe an issue cropping up on Droids which have the 2.0.1 Android update that is rolling out now OTA. While the overall performance of the Droid is improved with this update, it seems that using the browser is having performance issues when browsing certain sites. It does not appear to be all [...] Related posts:

Verizon releases OTA update for the Motorola Droid

Verizon Posted System Update information for the droid: Verizon Wireless is pleased to announce new software enhancements for your DROID by Motorola smartphone. The Droid by Motorola software version AP:ESD56/BP:C_01.3E.01P update includes numerous improvements. The following enhancements to the Droid by Motorola have been made: OS stability is improved. Battery life is improved. Camera auto [...] Related posts:

GraffitiCMS to go Open Source

According to Telligent’s Scott Watermasysk (@scottw), GraffitiCMS is going to be announced as Open Source Software (OSS) this coming December. I am happy to announce GraffitiCMS will be released as open source on Dec 11, 2009. More info will be posted as the date nears. I really did like GraffitiCMS, but Telligent’s lack of [...] Related posts:

Motorola put the Droid in Android: Hardware

So all the Verizon hype about “Droid Does” really didn’t drag me in since I had a Smartphone which already did much of what Droid was expected to deliver. Apple’s iPhone while a nice platform really didn’t appeal to me since of Apple’s self made limitations on the ecosystem, and it’s requirement of using AT’&T’s [...] Related posts:

Zune HD Screen Flicker

Some have noticed that the Zune HD has a screen flickering issue while browsing content over WiFi. I originally thought my Zune might be defective, but from the number of users who have reported the issue, it might just be normal with the OLED screen. It really doesn’t seem to be a problem, and [...] Related posts:

WiFi network issues with the Zune HD

One of the anticipated features of the Zune HD was the inclusion of the built in web browser, which I thought might be nice for casual web browsing. While I have both a Blackberry Bold and a HTC Touch Pro handy, I liked the screen interface of the Zune HD better for reading sites [...] Related posts: