In The Brilliance Of Your Compassion

In The Brilliance Of Your Compassion:

I stand here broken, beaten
Falling into the brilliant light of your compassion
Staring at the light as it moves
Over my wounds reflecting in the pools
The shallows of blood pooling
Your compassion
Your healing light
I stand here now
A new man a new vessel
Reflecting not on the past
But upon your grace
Your love
Your compassion
Your caring words towards me
You have moved me
You have healed me
I stand here today
Because of your three small words

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Dark Chocolate

Dark Chocolate:

So bitter sweet
This chocolate on my lips
To heal a broken heart
Or to break it more
Remembering the box
That bitter sweet box
You brought me on our first date
The small rose pinned to the top
I can remember how everyone
Everyone of those chocolates taste
Oh this bitter sweet
Dark chocolate how it heals my heart
How it breaks it more
This bitter sweet bite
These bitter sweet memories
Tear me down and rebuild me
All at once

A Constellation Of Wounded Existence

A Constellation Of Wounded Existence:

A constellation of wounded existence
And brilliant eyes staring
Up at the sky the stars
No more then scars
Wounds of the past
Hemorrhaging blood splatter
From comets of destruction
Bringers of pain and sorrow
Your words hit like meteors
Every slice of your tongue
Another crater in my heart
Another scar to form
I look down at my hemorrhaging heart
The blood splatter on the floor
A constellation of memories
Of a wounded existence
I stare down at the blood stains
As I would look upon the stars
Wondering how they were formed

Her Sweet Lips Like Shrapnel

Her Sweet Lips Like Shrapnel:

Her sweet lips how they seduce me

Draw me in and tear me down

Her word like shrapnel

Blasting from her lips

Tearing right through me

Why do I let her do this to me

She kills me every day

Does she even know it

One kiss and I'm craving

More of her sweet lips

One kiss and I'm picking

More shrapnel from my lips

I give her my heart

I give her my sweet words

And my loving touch

And she turns back

Blasting out shrapnel from her lips

I long for her

For the few moments of bliss

Before she tears me down

With those sweet shrapnel filled lips

Fallen

Fallen:

We fell here this day
We lost our wings
Were we ever more then man
Are we angels this day
Demons we be
Fallen from heavens grace
This day we reclaim
Our souls
Our wings forever clipped
Is this what we wanted
Is this all there is for us
To live among mortal man
To slave
To work
To stay alive
Are we this day evil
Are we this day man
Forsake the one we fought with
And become like them
Follow this demon
And our selfs become the beast
Fallen this day from heavens grace
This is the burden of our disgrace

Intolerable

Intolerable:

I try this day to bare
To hold my tongue
Bite down hard
I cannot bare you
Or tolerate
The way you do
The things you do
I breathe in deep
Let out slow
And try to not
Cut you down
The pest in my ear
The drip in the sink
All fail in comparison
To you
Your the nails on the chalkboard of my mind
You are the true meaning of
Intolerable

There For You

There For You:

This time
I will look
This time
I will see
This time your will
Will have no hold on me
You bother me
You trouble me
This time I will hold my tongue
Bid my time
And wait
Your mistakes
Your undoing
My hands your destruction
When you slip
I will be there
Not to catch you but to
Cheer the rock that tripped you
Your path is not my path
My path not a mirror
Simply the way I go
To insure
Your impending doom
You strike and I fall away
Slipping into the shadows
You cannot hear me
You cannot see me
Just know I am
Not there to catch you
But I am there for you

Curse You Karma

Curse You Karma:

Twisted fates
Oh sweet sorrow
Karma I have cursed you
Never returning what I have given
My heart in shambles
I care yet never cared for
I fall yet never caught
I cry never yet for joy
This day has your debt come due
Have my letters to you
Oh sweet Karma finally moved you
Is this the day you give to me
Give to me what you owe me
If even half of what I have given
If even half you return to me
I will forever be grateful
My sweet Karma
That my friend is enough
To mend my heart
To mend my soul
Oh sweet Karma is this the day
The day your debt to me comes due

Google Voice Goes Widget

Must say that I'm totally loving the widgets for the Google Voice app that was just updated not to long ago on the Android Market helping fix one of my biggest issues with the Android client with a quick easy way to change the call settings. Now with one touch you can toggle from Google Voice Call or Cell Network Call for those of us that got sick of the ask every time option having to stay on to get a easy way to toggle options.

Tweet Deck Android Beta Widgets

Well the latest version of the Android version of Tweet Deck is out and now with three widget option one of them is basically the some as another though so I think of it as 2 widgets. A post widget and a short cut widget NO stream feed widget which for me was a disappointment does anyone else seem to think this was a bit of a let down or are you happy with the current widget selections? As always the link to the latest version is http://www.tweetdeck.com/go/android/

Nightmares And Dreams

Nightmares And Dreams:
My poison and pleasure
Oh one in the same
My memories and nightmares
A blur in my mind
Haunted and teased
Why do you curse me
My mind you betray me
Sainity I miss thee
Sleep oh how I need thee
Deaths embrace I seek
Release
When can I dream again
Nightmares
Be gone let me lay in peace
My nights seem endless
As I long for someone's embrace

Tin Heart

Tin Heart:
I wish I know who
When and where
Your heart was lost

Who stole it
Who broke it
Were are the pieces now

I sit here and wonder
Will you ever love another
Without your heart to give again

Your eyes a window into your soul
An empty place where I long to go
The key long lost among your broken heart

The thiefs hand grasp long released
Did you see the way he parted
Or did he yet blind you

Oh how I wonder if
You could ever long another
Your heart I long to find

And steal it back before another

Future Without

Future Without:
I could not keep you
I could not hold you
No matter how hard I tried
Your will to strong to be contained
I'm left to wonder how
You are
Where
You are
And wish I was more then just a man
To rewind the clock
And try again
Or make me forget
It all again
To see a million futures
With out you in the end
Maybe I could see one
Were I would be happy again

The Road We Call Life

The Road We Call Life:
Come and walk with me
Along this broken
Lonely road we call life
Enduring the brutality
Battling off our demons

Relinquishing our dreams
Inquiring of our self
The nature of our own heart
The desires of our own soul
Entering into a darker door
Relinquishing our life in death, this is the road we call life

Ashes In The Wind

Ashes In The Wind:
A distant fire raging
The smell of sweet ashes in the wind
A cold chill running up my spine
The feel of your fire on my skin
This world nothing more then a mirror into your soul
This fire an image of your heart
Ashes floating through the air your way of calling out to me

Trillian For Android Open Beta - Update

I have been very impressed so far with the latest update to the Trillian Android Beta version the only bugs I seem to have lately is that the push e-mail does not seem to work from what I can tell. I cannot set my display picture and scrolling is broken in landscape mode. Other then that I think it is better then any IM client currently on the market but I will be giving Beejive a test run later on.

Just Want To Say Thanks

I just want to say thanks to everyone that has helped make the last three months of working on this blog worth the time. With the traffic I have seen grow pretty stably over the past 3 months I do not have any plans on stopping this blog now. Hopefully I well manage to keep the content coming sadly I started getting a little picky with the Android news topics. I would like to do more app reviews though if anyone has an app out there that has not been reviewed yet let me know. My old side project EverythingAnnoying.com is starting to come together now with the Android app from App Inventor helping people get a little more use out of the website. I should have a review for App Inventor coming this week and if you have not you should sign up for the beta for App Inventor its worth taking a look at. I may or may not make an app for this site as well when I get some time. The idea for the app at the moment is "TekHawk's Android News Reporter" hopefully letting some of my Android followers turn use it to help report the latest news as they discover to so that I can research and get you all the facts about the story.

Well heres to the next three months.

Tweet Deck Android Beta Update 5 - 0.9.5

The Android TweetDeck Beta has been updated to v0.9.5 and can be downloaded from: http://www.tweetdeck.com/go/android

The 0.9.5 beta contains the following changes and additions:

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  Full compatibility with all phones running 1.6 and above
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  Added option to remove Facebook, Buzz, or Foursquare accounts
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  Added option to delete tweets sent by you
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  Improved handling and refined UI for Facebook and Google Buzz attachments
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  Fixed bug preventing successful updates containing multiple photos 
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  Added multi-Twitter account compose
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  New "More" button on all Twitter user profiles and updates allowing
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    Reply All
  • 
    
    
    Sharing
  • 
    
    
    Translation
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    Copy update text
  • 
    
    
    Copy update URL
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  Tapping the column header now refreshes the column

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Inhibition

Inhibition
Inhibition my restriction
This life my prison
What moral holds me
Binds my tongue
Holds my lips
And brings me to this state of decision
To be one of society
Or to lash out at those who oppress me
Inhibition what keeps me from becoming the monster
The Beast within me
The Demon I hide so deep inside
To release all inhibition would be
To become more then just a machine
Conform no more but be released
Released by society
Released from life it self
Because without inhibition
I'm no longer fit to live amongst the rest

Sanity Insanity Crazy And Distorted

Sanity Insanity Crazy And Distorted
Sanity, insanity, crazy and distorted
What are these things
What is this state of mind
Sanity by definition is
The soundness of mind
Insanity, crazy & distorted
Are all of key together
One cannot be one with out tasting of the other
Crazy by definition is
Knowing that true sanity is
A figment of the educated mind

Tweet Deck Android 0.9.4 Notification Settings Finally

 Yes at long last "only a week in" we have notification settings the thing I wonder still how it was not in the first beta release. Over all the way it is done in the UI leaves a lot of wondering if it was the best way to do it or not and might leave a lot of users confused at first. But it does work and it works fine so far for me any comments on success of this feature for you are welcome.

The Android TweetDeck Beta app has been updated to v0.9.4 and can be downloaded from http://bit.ly/deckondroid904

This latest beta release contains the following changes:

• Updated column notifications & refresh rate settings UI
• Added Light, Sounds & Vibrate notification options
• Fixed bug which stopped Facebook updates from appearing
• Can now "Share" an image from the Android Gallery App to TweetDeck
• Can now "Share" a link from the Android browser to TweetDeck
• "Shared" links are auto-shortened using bit.ly

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Google Video And Voice Chat For Linux

Can you say FINALLY! This must be a sign that Chrome OS is not that far away and that they finally got this dialed down on it and wanted to share it with the rest of us Linux users.

If you’ve been wanting to use voice and video chat on Linux (our top video chat request), then we have good news for you: it’s now available! Visit gmail.com/videochat to download the plugin and get started. Voice and video chat for Linux supports Ubuntu and other Debian-based Linux distributions, and RPM support will be coming soon.

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Everything Annoying Blog

Well I think I will start putting more effort into keeping content flowing on that blog and could really use some community support for annoying content if anyone is interested in submitting post feel free to leave them as comments here or as comments on any post on that site. Or you can simply e-mail them to everythingannoying@gmail.com we will be taking most user submissions and posting them directly to the page.

http://www.everythingannoying.com

Trillian For Android Open Beta

Well I'm sure a lot of people have been waiting to hear about this or Pidgin for Android but Trillian beat them to it. I have not had much time on the app yet as I wanted to get this blog up fast it does seem to be the best UI so far of any IM client I have used on Android so far. Looks very good no connection issues so far and support for a good range of services including both Facebook and Myspace which seems to be rare to have a client support both lately.

Issues:
Cannot set Avatar without it FCing


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Trillian Android Page

Le Monde Mécanique Notre, Modus Operandi

Le Monde Mécanique Notre, Modus Operandi:

The world of clockwork and gears
Spinning cranks and broken leavers
A world of chaos within order
The whole greater then the one
But what clock can tell the time
Without the gear
What hand can move
Without the bone
How can our mechanical world maintain
It's method of operating
When the whole is no greater then the one
And the one is no greater then time
Our eternal decay
Our broken system
The instructions to our destruction
Le Monde Mécanique Notre
Modus Operandi

Songza A Truly User Controlled Free Internet Radio

Well I started off looking into a service I used to really enjoy called AmieStreet.com wondering if they had plans to enter into the mobile market anytime soon. Sadly it looks like that will not be happening at this time but the other service their company is evolved with Songza.com that is hoping to release both iPhone & Android apps but could not say much about firm plans on that topic. Having been using the service now for a few hours I'm rather impressed with the service and I for one will be waiting for the mobile app and hoping to see the Android one release first or along side the iPhone app. The service unlike most internet radio stations only plays songs you select for it to play not a random music selection basically giving you a streaming playlist. Sadly right now the stations are only in public form but they said that they are adding private stations soon enabling you to have playlist that are locked just to you and who ever you want to help add to it.

Correct. It only plays the songs that you have added to the list, making it the most user controlled free internet radio station currently online. Right now all stations are public so anyone can add a song to any station. We are about to add multiple features that will give you the ability to manage your station, who can add songs, deleting songs, and whether it is public or private. Right now, if you make a station and share it with friends, say the Caleb rocks station, it is unlikely that a lot of people will search for that exact station and start adding songs to it, so in that sense it's private.

I will be looking forward to those features as well as the mobile app but if the team working on this does this right this could be the best streaming service out there. And the community feature seems like a great idea and I for one could see this being a very useful tool for say a church service background music before and after service, and for other group and club meeting or just in the office. Hoping that there will be some way to enable scrobbling on the service something a lot of streaming service either over look or avoid as a possible competing service.

And just for fun people here is a station that I had users send me sujections for a Android Radio Station its a public station so feel free to help add tracks to it that make you think Android lets see what we can get going.

TekHawk Android Beats Station

Their Press Release:

"Look Mom, No Algorithms!”

Songza Launches Shared Radio:

Create a station, build it with friends, listen together

August 3, 2010 (Long Island City, NY) – Songza.com released today the simplest way for people to create their own radio stations, for free.

The new Songza.com gives users the ability to collaborate with friends, family, co-workers or even strangers to create the perfect shared station for any occasion, with a library of over 8,000,000 songs to choose from.

“Much of the joy we get from music comes from how it connects us to the people around us,” said Elias Roman, CEO of Songza. “Songza is unique in making it easy for people to connect using shared, collaborative radio stations. We believe this makes for a far more social and relevant experience than radio based on 'experts' or algorithms analyzing tone and timbre.”

Creating your own radio station on Songza is quick, free, and easy, and so is getting your friends and colleagues to add songs and help you improve it. Songza gives communities of any size and type—from classmates to co-workers to party-goers—a free and legal way to create the most relevant radio stations.

After serving more than 225,000,000 song streams in just over two years, the release marks an exciting new chapter in the company's history. The new Songza.com consolidates three streaming services (Songza Sets, Songza Radio, and the original Songza.com), incorporating many of their features and members as it moves forward pioneering social radio.

The new Songza is currently in beta with many features yet to be released, including mobile applications. The non-interactive radio service is DMCA compliant and ad-supported.

Songza on Wiki

Tweet Deck Android Beta Update 3

I wonder if that refresh rate will tie into when you get notifications and I wonder if this update will get my notifications to be more reliable or not. Let me know what you think bugs ect in the comments if you have a chance.

Android TweetDeck Beta Update 3 now available: includes improved data usage, adjustable column refresh rate

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Google Gmail Task With Android Goodness gTask

Well I do not know how many of my readers use Gmail on the desktop still but I know most of you have Android phones. If you have noticed in the last set of updates to the Gmail desktop website you might have noticed something that you never noticed before. Task, even though it has been in Gmail for some time it was never really in the spot light till the last update. If you have not given them a shot you should its a very simple feature that can go a long way if you are into check list or tracking stuff even a reusable list like my World of Warcraft Raid check list for what I'm saved to. What makes this all so useful though is a free app on the Android Market called gTask that syncs the list to your phone and has the option to display it in one of the cleanest widgets I have ever seen. Hope you all give this a shot I will try to get screen shots up as soon as possible.

Tweet Deck Android Managing Columns

Funny enough I found out how to do this stuff yesterday and was planning on writing a blog about it but looks like Tweet Deck did a video of it so oh well saves me some typing!



This is really one of the best part of this app if you take full advantage of it.

Fast Mfer #FollowFriday Made Easy On Android

Wonderful new app by Enatefox to make your #FollowFriday #FF posting easier on your Android powered phones. Its a very simple App at the moment with a timeline view and Tweet feature with more features already planned. The main feature that started this Apps devlopment was the ablity to mass post your #FF messages for you from a list you save to your phones SD card. I have not had a chance to test this out full yet as well its not Friday yet but I will be this Friday the App so far runs very smooth and is also now on the Android Market. Another thing to note that I missed earlier that is honestly one of the nicer parts of this app over some other Twitter using Apps is that Enatefox took the time to use the OAuth system so your information is validated by Twitter and not the App keeping it safe and secure. Hope you all give the App a shot this Friday with me and see how it goes.

Android Flash Player 10.1 Final Apk

Well here it is for all the people that cannot see it on market still the final release version of Flash 10.1 just pulled it off my system through Astro. It has been tested and works fine it might not work on some lower res phones though even with 2.2 because none of them officially support 2.2 so I don't think Adobe made this compatible with them.

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Cyanogen Mod 6 RC3

Just ran the update off of Rom Manager my self and I do not see to many changes yet I think the new sound control eq has its own icon now in your app drawer and the new power control widget is amazingly useful. It now enables you to customize the widget adding feature to it that do no come stock and removing features from it you do not need as well as make it transparent or round/unround the corners. Still poking around seeing what else I can find so far no soft reboot so thats already better then the nightly I was running from the 8th I think. I can get a download link up here if anyone needs one just let me know in the comments.

Tweet Deck Android Beta Update 2

Just got the Tweet from the TweetDeck account here is beta update round two with a better font size and some other remapping. Will add to this as I have time to play with it more. Not really noticing any other changes other then the font size slider which I think was a really good way to make this change to the app giving people a lot of freedom.

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To Cut or Not to Cut That is the Question

Okay so here is a full post as I cannot really fit it all onto Twitter but poll time since I need a push to do it. The question is should I get my hair cut or just keep it long which is the way I prefer it but people seem to not agree with me. So I ask you all short or not? Here are some example pics of what it used to look like and what not just @tekhawk short @tekhawk long to cast your vote on Twitter more votes I get faster the more likely I will be to cut it today or this weekend.

Went ahead and added a Google Docs form to this post to make this easier to track lol... and once it hits 100 votes I will cut it not time restraint this time.






So yea cast your votes and RT/Share this see if it can hit the goal if not the hair stays :P

Short:

Long:

Yea did not really have a better picture of long hair laying around.

Droid X Bootloader Starting To Fall

Well pictures say a thousand words right?

@Koush Source

For those asking: Droid X bootloader is still locked, but it's possible to hijack the Android or the boot process to start a recovery.

So the good news is yes custom roms are a possibility the bad news no custom kernels but with the speed of the newer phones I do not see this as such a bad thing personally. And I would think this means a Ninja Blur / Moto Blur free phone would be possible being maybe the best news about this. 

Clockwork Recovery Coming to a DroidX Near You!

New Release From Elevated State Of Mind

New shirt coming out from my favorite clothing line Elevated State of Mind should be for sale on their site here in a week or so been waiting for this one for a while now.

Official Google Chrome to Phone Release

Well at last it will not be a pain to install Chrome to Phone for Android as it has officially been release Google has been busy today. The app it self is on the Android Market now as a free download just search for "Chrome to Phone" a link to the new extensions page is below. A friend just pointed out to me that you can select text on a webpage and send it to your phone clipboard! Now if only I could figure out why my Chrome to Phone is not working.

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Google Enhances Android Voice Commands

Google really did go all out on improving the voice features of Android 2.2 got to try some of this stuff out today.

Speak any of these commands to perform a Voice Action on your phone:
send text to [contact] [message]
listen to [artist/song/album]
call [business]
call [contact]
send email to [contact] [message]
go to [website]
note to self [note]
navigate to [location/business name]
directions to [location/business name]
map of [location]



Small update for everyone you have to download this from market just search for "Voice Search".

TweetDeck Android Official Beta Information

To all those that have been wondering such as my self we can all go thank @conradoldcorn for sharing this little bit of information that was I'm guessing not exactly in the first place most of us where looking either that or I'm a blind bat. Link below with the information on getting the official beta release of TweetDeck for Android

Beta Sign Up Form
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Google Gesture Search Double Flip

How to take the most used app on my phone and make me love it even more simple make it open with a gesture. The last update to the Google Gesture Search is simply brilliant it lets you with a quick flip motion of your wrist "turning the phone face down then face up" open your Google Gesture Search. One less icon on my screen in my slide bars and hidden bars for my ADWLauncher and Launcher Pro. I do not know who at Google came up with this idea but they need a really big cookie for it.

Offcial Twitter, Google Buzz & Twitter Buttons Modified For Blogger

Here is the version of the official Twitter, Google Buzz & new Twitter button modified to work with the Blogger markups for the post url to save some of you some time.

<div>
<div style='float:left; width:100px;'>
<script>var tweet = {url : &quot;<data:post.url/>&quot;, count: &quot;horizontal&quot;, via: &quot;tekhawk&quot;, text: &quot;<data:post.title/>&quot; }</script><script src='http://xmlgadgets.com/ig/tweet.js'/>
</div>
<div style='float:left; width:100px;'>
<a class='google-buzz-button' data-button-style='small-count' expr:data-url='data:post.url' href='http://www.google.com/buzz/post' title='Post to Google Buzz'/>
<script src='http://www.google.com/buzz/api/button.js' type='text/javascript'/>
</div>
<div style='float:left; width:100px;'>
<a expr:share_url='data:post.url' href='http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php' name='fb_share' type='button_count'>Share</a><script src='http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share' type='text/javascript'/>
</div>
</div>


Select edit html for your Blogger then select "Expand Widget Templates" and paste the above code after "<data:post.body/>" hope this works well for everyone.

Announcing Spellbook – D&D 3.5

From the blog of my friend Jens Zalzala comes the announcement of his first publicly released and very useful Android App if you are into D&D this might be more useful for you then the dice rolling apps.

Announcing the release of my first Android App:

Spellbook – D&D 3.5 serves as a quick way to look up spell descriptions during a d&d gaming session. It includes all spells from the srd 3.5, and lets you store your spells in a custom list for even faster access.

My reason for building it is obvious if you know me. I love Andrdoid, and I’m an avid rpg gamer. One of the things that always slows down gaming sessions is looking things up, which unfortunately we have to do all the time. A common thing to look up is spell descriptions… what’s the range on that spell? How long does this spell last? How many targets can my Magic Missiles hit at 5th level?

Thus the Spellbook app was born. It is very fast, and lets you browse through all spells that are in the 3.5 SRD, which should be all the spells in the Players Handbook.

I hope you find the app useful, and can already promise a few enhancements in the coming weeks.

Happy gaming!

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Tweet Deck Android Beta Leak - Review

Well here is hoping that the bugs will be ironed out in the newer version that Tweet Deck is releasing tomorrow as this version is clearly flawed. But I will say this the app is amazing none the less with the Google Buzz, Facebook & Tweeter support all in one app. The UI is not bad on the eyes and the speed of the app is within reason. My biggest issue that I think they might overlook in tomorrows release is lack of options for notification settings.

Tweet Deck Android Beta Leak

Well here is a link for the Tweet Deck Android Beta that was leaked this download is off my servers and is not a media fire or other host that is being spammed by people reposting the link so hopefully people will have a little more luck getting the file from here. Let me know what you all think in the comments I should have a review coming as soon as I have some time to play with the app.

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Universal One Click Rooting App

Universal one click rooting app here is hoping for Samsung Galaxy S support and Cyanogen support for the Galaxy S series.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=747598

Devices currently supported:

• Google Nexus One (2.2)
• HTC Hero (2.1)
• HTC Magic (1.5)
• Dell Streak (2.1)
• Motorola Milestone (2.1)
• Motorola XT701
• Motorola XT800 (2.1)
• Motorola ME511
• Sony Ericsson X10 (1.6)
• Sony Ericsson X10 Mini Pro (1.6)
• Acer Liquid (2.1)
• Vibo A688 (1.6)

Devices not yet supported:

• Samsung i9000 (Galaxy S)
• Samsung i6500U
• HuaWei U8220
• HTC Desire / Legend / Wildfire

Hotmail Users Microsoft Says Use Chrome!

I cannot tell you how much this made me smile today it might have just made my week even. Microsoft telling people to use Chrome to get around a bug in the html/javascript coding used in their own web based e-mail service? Ah the sweet sweet irony of it all although it seems IE works as well Firefox and Safari are having issues with the page I could be wrong though as I do not use Hotmail I cannot confirm that IE does not have issues as well.


http://thenextweb.com/google/2010/08/10/microsoft-defines-irony-recommends-chrome-to-fix-hotmail-issues/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheNextWeb+(The+Next+Web+Top+Stories)

iPhone 3G Go Boom?

Okay folks my boss is going to give me his old iPhone 3G "or 3GS not sure which one it is" when he replaces his wife's with a iPhone 4. What shall we do to it? It is to be demolished in some way shape or form and the video posted here. I just need ideas of what to put this thing through! So start posting.

Android And Subscription Based Music

After a long review of both Rdio and Rhapsody I have found neither service is their yet Rhapsody give you more on the control you should have in the Android App. But at the same time the UI is very slow and its current lock of not having the offline mode done yet cripples it with its very high skip/drop rate while streaming. Rdio on the other had has some serious flaws in play back options as well as control that are not in the Android App but only on the website. Rdio though has about 50X faster UI then Rhapsody does it also has the offline play back working already. Both services are $9.99 a month a fair enough price I would rather see $6.99 or a mobile only package for $4.99 as they both offer web online for $4.99. For me if I choice to use one it will be Rdio unless Rhapsody releases offline play back soon back to the hunt for a better on demand music service.

Update:
After reviewing MOG it seems to have its act together as far as having a bloody shuffle all songs button <3 sadly I keep getting logged out of the service this could be because of text messages not 100% sure. I feel like you might have to force it to download the HQ tracks though the LQ ones are pretty low at least for the metal music that I'm listening to at the moment. Same price as the other services but not seeing a way to scrobble to last.fm which again is a deal breaker for me personally.

Update 2:
After reviewing Thumbplay I think I'm sold the only issue I have so far is if you use the shuffle all offline tracks option it will try to play songs that are not downloaded yet as well and fail. Same price as the others the UI is a little slow though not as bad as Rhapsody it has offline play back as well as track to playlist options which are missing in MOG and Rdio. It also has the playlist managment in the app something that Rdio is missing though I just realized in writing this.... no scobble oh why does Rdio and Rhapsody have to be the only two with this key feature.

So anyone else know a service like these that I have not reviewed yet?

Beer & Bratwurst

So this will be one of my first food post on the blog hope to do more if anyone has any ideas. I'm looking mostly to post about German dishes if you want to post one in comments I will research how to cook it then perfect it before telling you how I did it.

What you will need is 4-5 average size sweet onions, 5 Bratwurst, some olive oil & at least 1 12oz St. Pauli Girl imported German lager.

Brown the Bratwurst on both sides in a 14" skillet/frying pan with some olive oil use tongs to flip them you do not want to break the skin. remove then once they are browned do not worry about cooking them through this is mostly to help flavor the onions. Throw the Onions which need to be precut into rings into the pan with the grease and oil you will most likely want to add some more oil at this point stir them every few minutes till they are all golden but not browned. Add the Bratwurst back to the pan pushing the Onions around them so they are touching the button. Add the full 12oz bottle of St. Pauli Girl to the pan and cover cook till the beer is almost all cooked out and rotate the Onions and the Bratwurst every 3-6 minutes. This was all done with a gas stove set to 7 out of 10 the lager should cook down within 30 or so minutes. Wal-Mart sells some larger hot dog buns in the bakery called all natural hot dog rolls which work amazing with these.

All items needed for this can be found at Wal-Mart main reason St Pauli Girl was used.

The final product

Biggest challenge is smelling it cook and not taking it off to eat until the beer as cooked down properly but it is well worth the wait.

Rdio on Android

Mixed reviews on this one the app is better then Rhapsody in most cases but has some flaws to me. No way to edit playlist on the phone, no way to bulk add to play list on the website. And worst of all no way to tell it just shuffle everything I got because I have no clue what one CD I want to listen to... The app is snappy the selection is not bad it is very well built app and I hope that they listen to customers more then Rhapsody has been. This app could take the crown as the best subscription based music service on Android and iPhone if they play their cards right.

Sadly

Sadly the news on new Android related stuff is slowing down again nothing really news worthy to me has been coming out lately. Looking forward to the new stuff this holiday season though cannot wait to see what everyone is cooking up.

Eclipse

Eclipse:
Standing on the edge I look upon the sun
As falling circle blocketh out the light
Spinning death falling at my feet
As I release my self and take flight
If only I knew then that life handed me
A double sided coin

Tomb Me Here Within

Tomb Me Here Within:
I fall up I fall down
I fall upon this blasted ground
One more time it's hitting me
One more time it's breaking me
Is it the blow
Or the landing that's crushing me
One more time
One more hope for a brighter day
Why do we choose the easy way
The way life leads us
Even though what we want
Is down a harder path
That life teases
And mocks us with
Upon this ground I lay today
A broken battered soul
The Desert blows it's hot coals
Of burning sand over me
I give in I give up
And let the sands bury me
Tomb me deep with in
And burn my soul bitter sweet
How could I let this world
This time this place
Get the better of me

The War Of The Phone Makers

So thinking about it lately and with the push Samsung just made with the Galaxy S I feel they are making a much better effort to release some real phones then they did before. Which has me wondering who will have the crown with Samsung clearly making their phone more supportive of the Android idea by supporting all carriers. HTC making more phones then the world needs in a year and Motorola locking the boot loader which I think will cost them customers in the end. Who will be the king of the Android ring? I personally think Samsung could be positioned to take the title soon if they get a early launch on the LTE network for Verizon. Going to go ahead and throw a poll up again and see what people think. Feel free to leave comments on your thoughts and companies that you think I might have missed in the contender list.

World of Warcraft Forum Sig Generator

Some examples of forum sigs that I made using this generator.

http://www.best-signatures.com/wow-signature-generator.html







Retired

My First Poetry Contest On AllPoetry

Well I decided to spend the money to get some points to run my first contest because well after being on the site for 5 years I think it was about time right? Well here is a link to the contest if anyone is interested in entering or reading maybe even help judge when people start entering the contest.

http://allpoetry.com/contest/2493203

T-Mobile Social Buzz For All

Well I personally think they need a cookie for this though the software is not amazing it does enable Facebook, MySpace & Twitter contact sync all of which seem to work fine for me on Cyanogen Mod 6 RC1 except for Myspace *cries*. It is a little laggy the UI is not that bad though I hope they keep upgrading this software as it does have some very nice features with all the streams in one place. I would like to see a widget as many others have said on market already. But either way way to go T-Mobile for thinking out side of the box with releasing this to ALL Android phones regardless of service provider.


UPDATE: My Account > Sync on Myspace.com will let you grant the rights the tmobile app needs that it did not ask for fixing the MySpace part of the App

Launcher War! Poll

Please let me know in comments if there is another Launcher/Home Replacement that you would like to see added to the poll. This is much shorter then the last one running only 5 days. Lets see what launcher most of the readers like I will most likely make a small theme for the winning launcher if I can find the time to.

Droid X Might Never Be Rooted

Well the bad news has been getting around rather fast that the Droid X which is some amazing hardware is to use a signed boot loader that might prevent the unit from being rooted. Much like the Milestones boot loader has done for it which would be a real shame with the hardware its packing. This might also be effecting the Droid 2 which has most of the same hardware as the Droid X just sold as more of a Google phone like the Droid was. If the Droid 2 also has the signed boot loader this could be one of the worst moves Motorola could make and I'm sure will effect a lot of their customers that would other wise stay with the company and the Droid line because of the love for the first unit.

UPDATE: I stand corrected the Milestone has been rooted you just cannot flash a custom rom if the Droid X can do the same I guess thats not as bad as first impression but still not a thrilling thought.

Poll Closed

Well the What's your phone of choice poll has closed and after a month the Nexus One was still the winner followed by the Motorola Droid and the Evo.

Droid	12 (24%)
Droid Inc	2 (4%)
Nexus One	20 (40%)
Droid X	8 (16%)
EVO	10 (20%)
G1	5 (10%)
MT/MT3G	4 (8%)

Install Apps from Chrome via AppBrain

Well I'm very happy to say that the http://www.appbrain.com/ over the air installer their own version of what Google showed us at the I/O. Is now working on my Cyanogen Mod 6 RC1 Motorola Droid and the install is very transparent only works with free apps at the moment I believe but still an amazingly useful feature.

Android App Inventor -- Good or Bad?

More information available at http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/

The question is do you think this is a good thing or a bad thing.

I see this as a two sided sword now with the fact it is going to make a lot more trash on the market. But at the same time I'm sure some smart designers could make some interesting ways to communicate with their web communities and such with this. I do not see any good games really coming from this though which is what the site seems to use as examples. Any thoughts about this please post them in the comments lets see if we can get some constructive debate on this going.

Poll Closes In Two Days!

Just reminding everyone that the poll for what your phone of choice would be is closing in two days if you have an idea for the next poll feel free to leave the idea in the comments. Thank you everyone that voted I will move the finally tally to a blog post once it closes before I replace it with the next poll that will run a much shorter time frame.

Cyanogen Mod 6 RC1

Cyanogen Mod 6 RC1 is now on Rom Manager I believe for both Motorola Droid and the Nexus One I'm currently downloading the Motorola Droid version from there my self. If anyone is interested in links for the download due to not using Rom Manager please let me know in the comments and I will see what I can do.

Belle Mort Memento Mori

Belle Mort Memento Mori:

Beautiful death thee lay in wait for me
I hold my breath and pray to thee
Pray to feel your grasp around me
Hold me close kill me slowly
Remind me of my mortality
Their sins curse me
Mine hold me here
My mind wonders I slip into dream
Are those your fingers
Slowly sliding around me
My breath escapes me
You press tighter
The world goes black
No wake me
I surrender
I know my mortality
Belle Mort Memento Mori

Cyanegen Mod 6 Alpha 7 & Baseband Files Motorola Droid

Uploading the files right now if anyone is interested in taking a peak to see how it is coming along I will see if there is a newer alpha build in a little bit to post up and try to keep this updated with the latest alpha for people wanting to test. If you are running the alpha builds please go to the CM forums/irc and leave some feed back on bugs you find to help them out some. This build is not nearly as complete as 5.0.8 but it is getting there and I cannot wait to see the final version. Wow... so the alpha is moving fast I will finish uploading alpha 3 because I have tested it but I'm downloading alpha 6 now to test and will upload while testing. So far alpha 6 looks very stable it does not seem to add many more features then alpha 3 had though. But with how fast these builds are coming out I do not think we will be waiting to long before we enter beta phase of Cyanogen Mod 6.

Baseband

Cyanogen Mod 6 Alpha 3

Cyanogen Mod 6 Alpha 6

Cyanogen Mod 6 Alpha 7

AppBrain Chrome2Phone Like Install System

AppBrain is working it seem as its not working yet 100% a chrome to phone like install method for their website which I have had no luck getting to work with my Cyanogen Mod 6 install. Here is the QR for the app you will need to install on your phone along with the AppBrain app which this will ask you to install. You will need to make an AppBrain account as well.

Fast Web Installer for Android on AppBrain

Please let me know if you have any luck getting this to work and what rom you are using if you do.

Cyanogen Mod 6 (CM6)

Running the alpha3 of Cyanogen Mod 6 right now and if your interested please leave a comment or contact me and I will either post a link or give you directions on how to find a download of it. But back on subject it looks good it is running very stable but as it is still only an alpha it is not no where near done. There are a lot of the Cyanogen Mod features still not ported over and the screen rotation seems to be limited to 270% not 360% which I think would be an okay change. Not like that many people use the phone fully upside down anyways the enhanced music app seems to have been ported over which is one of the main things I was missing about Cyanogen Mod 5.0.8 when I started testing the AOSP builds.

Only Seven Days Left

Only seven days left on the phone of your choice poll and it still looks like the Nexus one is the phone to beat. Interestingly enough there has been some movement of the other phone. And it looks like the Droid and the Evo will be finishing very close to each other. I think from now on I will only be running seven day polls thirty days is far to long the poll gets old fast.

I Want Adobe Air

Ah... to make Android Apps for simple stuff that I used to make using flash for websites in a nice UI with nice design tools and not have to learn Java. At least until I want to make some power apps and what not Adobe you hear me get with the program get this s*it done soon please and thank you.

P.S Please do not make the IDE for Air cost an arm and a leg...

Thank You All

Thank you all for reading my blog June has been the best month traffics wise for my blog breaking 300 visitors and making me want to keep the blog running and updating. Before I had picked it up and let it go over and over due to really no interest from the community at large. But now that I have found something interesting for readers and I way of finding the news I think I will keep the site going. If you have not already figured out what I will mostly be reporting on is my take of Android related news and rumors flying around the internet. Checking sources and giving you my take on why I believe or do not believe the rumor. From time to time App reviews and phone reviews will be posted as well but I prefer to do those after I play with them hands on. Once again thank you all for the time you spent reading and I hope to keep you coming back for more news.

GingerBread Rumor Mill Put to Rest by Google

Looks like Google's Android tech tweeted saying not to believe everything you read so looks like Droid owners are not SoL when it comes to GingerBread yet. And I do not think that Google is ready to kill off the Motorola Droid user base yet anyways. As it is at the moment the largest Android user base out there I do think that 2011 though might be about the end of the main life cycle for the unit. As people slowly move to the 4G units and the new every two will be coming up in November 2011 for most early buyers of the Motorola Droid so we should expect updates to the Droid for at least the first half of 2011.