Tag: Google
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Google is the Internet!
That is a pretty obvious statement with the size of the company and the services it offers, but I did not have enough of an appreciation for that statement until recently. It is easy to dismiss the statement as an obvious one, but it is a little scary to me. No one company should affect…
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Google’s broken privacy policies
Privacy is a thing of the past, that is not secret. The best you can do these days is make it a little more difficult for some information to be found but sometimes even that proves to be difficult. This story started when I resold my Nexus 7 a few months back. I had had…
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Automating Android Builds
In order to have a fully regression tested application, it is necessary to have an automated build process to ensure all checkins are validated nightly ( or whatever your schedule is). This is a simple task for most Java projects, however you may run into some issues with Android that I point out here. If…
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Google’s Got Nothing on Apple
I’ve been reading some articles recently, comparing Apple’s productions to Google’s Nexus line, and it just seems bizarre to me. It just reminds of when AMD had come up with the first true multi-core processor and was trying to educate us not to compare its processors to Intel’s on just the CPU speed. Its the…
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The Curious Case of the Missing YouTube App
Yesterday Apple released the latest beta version of iOS6, and with that the blogosphere went a little crazy over conspiracy theories as to why the YouTube app is no longer part of iOS. There were lots of speculations, but I think the case is clear cut. It had much less to do with the history…
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Feed Your Sweet Tooth With Jelly Bean!
The Jelly Bean (4.1.1) update for the Nexus S is finally here. I got the update notification yesterday and I must say that Google has done a tremendous job of turning things around with Android 4.x. Even though the Nexus S is now and old phone by all standards, it is snappier now on Jelly…
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Configure Witopia VPN on DD-WRT
I like using a VPN service for a more secure browsing experience and I have used Witopia for the past little while with great success. The only issue was that I had to install it on all the PCs that I wanted to use it with and then remember to turn it on, etc which…
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Android Browser is the IE of the mobile Web
For years Web App developers have dreaded the browser fragmentation and having to support IE. It required a lot of extra finess in both Web frameworks and Web App code to make sure things worked close to intended across all browsers specifically IE. Now that the focus has shifted to the mobile web, history is…
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Google NaCl
Google recently announced a new beta version of Chrome that supports NaCl, or Native Client. It allows C/C++ code to be natively executed inside the browser with restrictions. The new API is called Pepper, but it sounds much like the plagued ActiveX technology that Microsoft offered with IE a few years ago. What do you…
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Why there is STILL no iPhone killer!
And there probably won’t be one anytime in the near future. For anyone that doubts this, let me just say that Apple just surpassed Microsoft this past quarter in revenue and that is no small feat. Well it seems pretty simple enough to answer, right? Apple has a very simple formula: Make it simple Guarantee…