One of the things that was surprising to many people was the simplicity of the camera in T-Mobile’s G1. The Android platform always seemed ideal for a really feature-rich camera, which isn’t what the G1 shipped with. Even the camera in the Cupcake OS release is a little weak.
Camera Pro is an app that replaces [...]
Camera Pro: High End Functions in an Android Camera
RepliGo Reader Brings PDF Viewer To Android
One of the things that an Android based phone should do well is work as a document reader. Until recently, there were a number of Portable Document File (PDF) viewers available free, but none that did everything well. That changed with the release of RepliGo Reader from Cerience Corporation. Currently at version 1.3.0, RepliGo was [...]
Lock 2.0 Reviewed For Android
One of the criticisms of Android based devices that has often been leveled by corporate IT departments is security. With only pattern based security, by default, the number of possible pattern security combinations is fairly small. The chance of someone being able to replicate a default security pattern by watching an Android user unlock his [...]
GDocs: Google Docs Text Editing & Spreadsheet Viewing
One of the frustrations of the G1 was its lack of an editing interface for Google Docs. A lot of people had figured that the T-Mobile G1 was “with Google” and would contain good integration with Google Docs. Until recently, that was not the case.
Poor support of Google Docs editing ended with the release of [...]
Robo Defense: 120 Levels of Tower Defense Madness
People who know me well know that I am an absolute sucker for a good tower defense game. In fact, I’m a sucker for any tower defense game, quality isn’t important. Preventing the “enemy” from crossing the field is something that tend to get a little obsessive about.
I’ve played a number of excellent free tower [...]
Move Cache for Root Users
Over the past couple of weeks, a number of people have asked me how I’ve moved the cache for my browser, the cache for the Android Market, GMaps’s cache, my Street View cache, the cache for my gMail account and the cache for Steel to the SD card in my T-Mobile G1 with Google. The [...]
NubiNews: A High Performance News Aggregator
One of the many reasons people buy smart phones is to read the news. For news junkies, the T-Mobile Android G1 with Google is either a Godsend or a reason to develop another 12-step program for news addiction. As an unrepentant news junkie, one of the first things I did with my G1 was to [...]
Two Months of Use: A Retrospective Review of the T-Mobile G1
Deciding to switch from BlackBerry to the Android based G1 was not an easy decision. The reliability of the BlackBerry network, the familiar BlackBerry interface, and the library of apps that I’d come to rely on were all things that kept me from making a quick decision on the G1. After two months of use, [...]
Ecorio: Track Your Carbon Footprint
Over the past few years, many people have become interested in tracking the amount of CO2 they personally create. For some, CO2 estimates help with making lifestyle changes. For others, the estimates of CO2 output helps in figuring out what carbon offsets to buy.
If you are interested in tracking your real time carbon dioxide output, [...]
Steel: G1 Web Browsing Without the Clutter
The native web browser for the T-Mobile G1 with Google is good. In fact, it is very good. However, some features, like the zoom buttons, get in the way of reading the text on web pages. Steel solves this and adds gesture based browser tools and a larger area for web browsing. In addition, Steel [...]
