Month: June 2010

New Blog Feature: Related Posts

June 16, 2010

Website Related

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Thanks to a great WordPress plugin and some database magic, I enabled related posts on my blog. Under every post, you’ll see 5 other things I wrote that are similar to it.I enabled this on other WordPress blogs I managed, but didn’t get to it on this one. Well now I did.

So read on m’boy (or girl).

For Fucks Sake

June 15, 2010

Rants, Website Related

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First of all, fuck fucking WordPress and piece of shit Firefox. I was in the middle of an epic rant bashing Apple iOS 4’s multitasking and hit some keyboard shortcut and it lost everything.

Fuck Firefox for its stupid ass keyboard shortcut and fuck WordPress for not autosaving. Fuckin shit should model Google Docs and AJAX save every word I type in in realtime. Christ. Now I need to write this crap all over again.

And for fuck’s sake, get Google Chrome already. Firefox’s Javascript engine is slower than my grandma.

Joe, Stop Writing about Android Already

June 11, 2010

Website Related

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No.

The Droid 2 Looks Kind Of Eh

June 11, 2010

Computer/ Tech Related

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EDIT: THIS INFO IS OUTDATED. The phone specs below were prototype and it’s not the official Droid 2.

Are the people at Motorola on crack? I’m reading articles on the Droid 2 and it looks absolutely no different than the original Droid. The “leaked specs” better be a joke, because it is a complete embarrassment. It’s original Droid with 2 minor hardware upgrades and no one in their right mind should pay to upgrade.

I mean are people at Motorola stupid? You don’t look at the HTC Droid Incredible specs, EVO 4G specs or iPhone 4 specs and try to beat them?I mean they took the original device, changed the keyboard, added a few hundred MHz to the processor. The Nexus One, Droid Incredible, iPhone and EVO 4G all have faster processors and have been out already (well not the iPhone 4 yet). And Motorola is going around releasing something worse than crap that’s been out for months. Awful.

Droid 2 Specs:

-Android 2.1 (really? no 2.2 froyo?)
-3.7″ screen
-750MHz OMAP processor (Big deal – the original Droid has a 550MHz processor)
-8GB internal memory
-8GB SD card preinstalled (Thanks, the Droid 1 came with double that)
-New keyboard
-5MP camera (no chage here)
-New version of Motoblur (What did I say about skinning Android? This sucks ass)
-No HDMI port
-No front facing camera

BIG DEAL… The processor gets upgraded from 550mhz to 750mhz and the keyboard changes a little. The camera is the same. They put that Motoblur swill on there to clog up the user interface. No HDMI or front camera. This is utter garbage and if it’s released, it’s dumb as hell.

Stop Skinning the Android

June 10, 2010

Computer/ Tech Related, Rants

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Look at this ugly ass screen. The time is already shown on the status bar. Why do you need a huge ass clock? It's a waste of app space.

You know what’s ruining the Android OS for smartphones? Custom user interfaces developed by hardware companies. I’m talking SenseUI and MotoBlur. Absolute wastes. What is wrong with the standard Android user interface? It’s fine. Anything to fragment the OS more…

So what’s so bad? 1)They’re ugly 2)They slow the phone down and 3)If Google releases an OS update, you can’t get it right away – either because it’s not compatable or because HTC has to tweak it before it gets updated.

Second of all, HTC is a hardware company – what do they know about software and UIs? This is why I hate the Droid Incredible. Hardware wise, it’s really good. But I’m just turned so off by Sense that I probably wouldn’t get it.

It’s bad enough Verizon has to mess around with the Android UI on the Droid. See, when 2.1 was released, Verizon took about 3 months removing features from it. Seriously, what the F? The original Android 2.1 OS was supposed to have a 3D app drawer and 5 homescreens. Verizon was like “nope” and kept the laggy assed app drawer and kept the three screens. The closest device to a pure Android experience is the Nexus One, which already got 2.2. I want 2.2 badly, but Motorola and Verizon devs need to probably strip all the cool shit out of it before sending it over. Mark my words, I won’t be seeing Android 2.2 on my Droid until next fall or later. (Such a shame because 2.1 is SO SLOW).

See I love Android to death and am not a huge fan of Apple, but I have to admit – having only one device helps. You release a new OS and everything updates at the same time. Not this notion that when a new Android OS is released every carrier and manufacturer needs to tweak it first before everyone gets it.

I was going to write lot more, but just read this Gizmodo article. It sums up my point to perfection.