Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
Welcome, one and all, to Burnie’s new concept, the bus blog! I’ll write short entries about whatever is on my mind while I translate myself from home to campus! And what’s on my mind today, you inquire? Why, Burnie’s Bus Blog, of course!
Burnie’s Bus Blog will be notoriously void of images, sadly, a consequence of always being written on my delicious phone, the HTC Hero. I just flashed a new ROM on it, actually, so I.guess I’ll.talk.about that.
“But Burnie, what does that even mean?” You cry out, as the mixed excitement at all these new concepts hits your frontal lobe. Flashing a ROM onto a phone is a kind of dark magic, similar to the act of installing a new operating system on your computer, except the process is much more hacky (read: user-unfriendly).
Bloody hell it’s cold outside! The wait between buses is the worst part of my day.
Where was I? Oh, right. Anyway, for the past months I’ve been using team Villain’s ROM Froyd, which was the best 2.2 ROM for a long time, but the main develiper, Ninpo, ceased development, and in this scene you can’t expect to be on top for long. I don’t know for sure who has the best one now, but the one I flashed last night was Floyo, with the flykernel. It is also 2.2, and is based on Cyanogen’s brilliant mod, just like Froyd was. Cyanogen is still going strong, probably because it isn’t confined to the Hero.
Anyway, Cyanogen and Floyo has incorporated some of the stuff you see in the new HTC Sense interface, which I still feel is the finest Android shell out there, although I left it long ago due to a lack of updates. I’m beginning to realise that this topic might not be suited for a bus blog, it is much too large.
There are rumors of an official 2.2 ROM with sense for the legend next week, which will surely be ported to my phone! That will be nice.
I’ve arrived!
See you 🙂
On the day that Google turns 12, BRBcoffee gets its 150th blogpost, and its 7th author! I’m working on moving the site to a new, better host. I say better, because in terms of features they are, but it’s taking some time for them to activate my account… Anyway, as soon as that happens, I have lots of stuff planned! I think you’ll all like it 😉
Oh, and since I can’t blog without being political… Yo Netanyahu, what you’re doing here is generally known as a dick move! It’s usually not a good idea to resume building big fucking shit on other people’s land, especially if you’re currently engaged in peace-talks with said people, and especially if said people are are already super pissed with you because you built big fucking shit on their land!
Let’s get the song of the blog rolling again!
Song of the blog: Annihilation (APC)
Yours inconsistently,
Bjørn
Hi again!
I promised you a final blogg about my HTC Legend. Well, Initial reaction:
Finally. I have a phone with Spotify. With awesome apps. With Android!! With
Wait..
What’s this?
Unable to start Wifi. Unable to start Wifi. BLARGH!!
[calling] Hello? Can you hear me? Dude, you’re just giving out a bzzzzzzz sound [/calling]
So i have to send my phone back, and get a new one that hopefully works. Having to do that really makes me mad. When I cash out for a brand new top-of-the-line phone, i expect it to be able to make phonecalls and wifi without throwing a fit. Durr!
Vegard
Good news, everyone! You read this in my voice!
So, I have decided to purchase me an Android phone. More specifically, the HTC Legend:
Lovely, isn’t it? Currently, I am using a Nokia N900. The best part about it, is that it has a physical keyboard. It also has an awesome calendar function, a great notepad function and it’s awesome at multitasking. It really is quite an awesome pocket-computer with limited phone capabilities. Limited in the sense that it can not send or recieve MMSes (most noteworthy flaw). It also can’t send stuff over bluetooth, and is a bit wonky when making phonecalls.
I want an Android phone, because I miss being connected to the internet wherever I go. I miss spotify on my phone, and I miss apps. The N900 is a great phone, but it is not a capable smartphone in a market with Android and iPhone. I have ordered my phone, and be patient, await my review of it in part III.
Until then, so long friends
Vegard
Hi.
Allow me to start with what is on everybodys mind. The Freedom flotilla, an international convoy of ships bearing several hundred peace activists, medicine, food, paper, building materials etc. heading towards Gaza, was boarded by Israeli navy elites. At least 9 activists were killed, they claim to have been attacked first. A few things strike me as interesting about this.
First of all, if you are the navy elite forces of one of the worlds largest military forces, you ought to be able to disarm someone with a bat without shooting them. Secondly, if you are at all familiar with war and stuff (even I know this), you don’t drop one lone soldier in the middle of the mob of people. Thats fucking retarded! Also, Israel, if you expect people to believe your side of the story, DROP THE FUCKING MEDIA BLANKET. Only sending out video tapes filmed and edited by you “proving your innocence” only broadens suspicions. But obviously if they allowed everyone to investigate and report freely, the suspicions would be confirmed quite rapidly. Part one of the blog entry is completed by this: Boycott the hell out of Israel. Free Palestine!
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Android I
So i have a Nokia N900 phone. And I love it. It is awesome, and sexy and easy to use, and i really have no complaints about it. It is everything i want in a phone and moar. Unfortunately, I am a phone junkie. The thing I hate the most about phones, is that in order to afford them I have to sign an agreement to pay a smaller sum every month for a year.. 🙁
Currently I am paying for both an iphone and my dearest N900, and still i urge for another phone, more specifically an Android phone. I was supposed to buy an Android phone when i got the N900, but ended up with my N900 due to physical keyboard. Damn.
Suppose I’ll have to wait until the internet perfects an android clone for my phone. And please don’t comment on the lovely irony of most phones having Intel Atom processors. I am aware.
Sincerely,
Vegard