Serial surfing.
Let’s root my slide!
That’s right I finally got it to work. Here’s how I did it and what you might expect if you’re trying to root a myTouch Slide 3G from the fiends at T-Mobile (and HTC).
Why I did it:
1) I HATE THE BOOT SCREEN (more…)
Today in apps!
Last night I went uninstall crazy. A good thing too, because at dinner last night Tom the Talking Cat was requested the cutesy parlor trick it is. I ended up taking Broadsides off too. I loved the game, the writing was phenomenal. I figure I reached the best and worst possible endings and was skimming most of it so I feel like I outgrew it. I’m ready and waiting for them to come up with a new story though! They did a great job on it. I took out Craps and Othello because I never really played them.
This is the second time I’ve put taskswitcher on my machine. This would be a helpful app, but I need it to overtake the homebutton longpress. The current options of search longpress and home press simply don’t work on my phone due to the genius crapware from T-mobile that I haven’t been able to root out.
This looks like it could have been a pretty powerful app for contact list management. There are two problems. One, it took me on a contact by contact odyssey that I just don’t have the patience for. And two, I have come to the realization that the contact access on the phone is good enough that I don’t really care about duplicates etc. I need to just stop being attracted to all the OCD contact management apps
This probably could be a great grocery list manager. It purports to sync family lists, it organizes items by category and store and well, it’s a list manager. I’ve got SpringPad to do that for me. I realized it just as I finished the install and I immediately just deleted it off my phone for the precious space. Sorry.
I also removed Financisto, Google Sky and my weather widgets to make room on the system memory. Financisto looked to be an awesome finance app, but I already have one (mvelopes, which needs an app version). Google Sky is mostly a parlor trick app for me. It was fun for the double moon night, Friday and when I’m hanging out on the back porch with friends and brews. But it isn’t really worth it day-to-day for the size it costs. I’m still looking for the perfect weather widget since I switched to launcher pro and can’t use the HTC widget. The one I just removed did weird things with time and location that I just didn’t feel like dealing with, twice.
Apps for the day!
It has been well over a year since the last time I posted. I wanted to highlight a few things that I’m using lately.
http://www.appbrain.com/my_apps
In addition to learning how to build apps on android, I’ve also gotten my very own android based phone. I found appbrain to be the best alternative to the Android Market. It syncs my apps and tracks them in a shareable way. I find that its recommendations are terrible and never really changing, but I do love the “hot” listing. It changes frequently and I’m always finding new.
My other new awesome app for your desktop is the Vista Switcher: http://www.ntwind.com/
I used to use the XP advanced switcher when I was on XP, and then Vista’s tab switcher was OK. I recently found this in one of my software feeds and I’ve really liked it. Moving forward it will be my new must-have switcher.
