Having got my Samsung Galaxy humming by using a non-standard ROM, over the next few posts I’ll let you know what my favourite applications are (at least at this point in time!) So without any further fluffing around, here are my five Social Media applications. Plume (Twitter) The joy of android over iPhone is the [...]
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I have been reminded of this clip by so many people lately, so a hat tip to all of them! I have to wonder as well, with all android releases being named after sweet food, what Ronnie would do with that. Enjoy.
Read MoreIf you recall, in my last post, I at last isolated the problem with connecting my Samsung Galaxy S with Telecom New Zealand. The new ROM I had loaded onto my phone to improve the speed and reduce my frustration was not set up to operate on 850 MHz. A further search of the good [...]
Read MoreWell that was a mistake wasn’t it. Clearly in my last post I shouldn’t have said that “tomorrow’s” post would be entitled “Two Days of Worry”. Because that would make this post very very late wouldn’t it. As we all deserve to go through life with at least one justification per day, here it is [...]
Read MoreSo having decided that I didn’t want to go through life totally frustrated, I did some research on alternative ROMs that would be suitable for a Samsung Galaxy S. The main thing I wanted was to fix the lag - that incredibly frustrating time of waiting from pressing a button until someone actually happened! A very [...]
Read MoreIn my last post I told you why I chose the Samsung Galaxy over the Motorola Milestone and why I chose Android over iPhone. Having got my shiny new toy, I was extremely excited and started to have a play around. Very quickly, I became aware of the “ugly” – the fact that the Telecom [...]
Read MoreHere I sit… At headquarters… Waiting for my laptop to be re-imaged (and apparently even though it was a standard lease option there’s no “correct” image available for it!)… So it seems a good time to write a post on my new Android phone about my new Android phone, the Samsung Galaxy… At least that [...]
Read MoreAhhh, it great to be on leave. Nothing to do and all the time in the world to do it. So I tweeted and facebooked: To which a friend with a sense of humour immediately shot back: Facetious in the extreme I thought. But when I thought about it a bit more I realised just [...]
Read MoreI‘m lucky enough to work only about 20 minutes walk from where I live. Friday morning dawned beautifully fine so I decided to walk my 4 1/2 month old puppy Georgie to work with me. My plan was for a brisk 20 to 25 minute walk (I knew we might have a stop on the [...]
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I hated Lotus Notes! This is the second organisation that I’ve been with that uses Lotus Notes. In each case although I could see that there was a lot to Lotus Notes that the organisations weren’t using I got frustrated with it because it seemed merely to be a clunky e-mail client. But then, to [...]
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