Android – Page 9 – Boydo's Tech Talk

Feb 11 2011

Secure Online Transactions with VeriSign Identity Protection

By Boydo in Android, Apple, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Operating Systems, Security, Technology, Tokens

These days we hear horror stories of accounts being hacked and unwanted activity occurring under those accounts. In the worst cases, this can involve finances which can really cause major problems depending on what happens. So really, prevention is the best cure as trying to pick up the pieces afterwards can be time consuming and …

Android, Apple, Australia Post, Blackberry, eBay, Google, iOS, multi-factor authentication, PayPal, RIM, token, VeriSign
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Feb 09 2011

Nokia Wises Up to Their Shrinking Market

By Boydo in Android, iOS, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Technology, Windows Phone 7

For many years it has been widely acknowledged that Nokia, once the world leader in mobile phones and technology, has become nothing more than a random handset generator that uses a combination of numbers and letters to label its phones (possibly using a random alphanumeric value generator). Whilst there are Nokia handsets that are fit …

Android, Apple, content, ecosystem, Google, iOS, Microsoft, Mobile, Nokia, phone, smartphone, Stephen Elop, Symbian, WAP, Windows Phone 7
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Feb 08 2011

Avoid Waiting For Downloads with Skipscreen

By Boydo in Browsers, Chrome, Firefox, Technology

If you download a lot of stuff from services such as MultiUpload or RapidShare and you don’t have a premium account you may be all too familiar with having to wait up to several minutes before the site will let you download your file. I experience this all too often as I am keeping an …

Android, Chrome, Darky, Firefox, Galaxy S, ROM, Samsung, Skipscreen
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Jan 29 2011

Boydo’s Tech Talk – The First Year

By Boydo in 3D, Apple, Automotive, BD-ROM, Blu-ray, Browsers, Consumer Rights, Copyright, Display, Facebook, Film & Literature Classification, Firefox, Google, Hybrid Vehicles, Imaging, iPad, iPhone, Legal, Optical, Plasma, Social Networking, Storage, Technology, Toyota Prius, YouTube

Perhaps hard to believe but the blog has been up and running for a full year and many things have happened over the course of the last twelve months. At times, it has been a bit of a challenge to do a daily entry particularly with the demands of full time work as well as …

3D, 3DTV, AFACT, Android, Apple, Blu-ray, censorship, classification, Copyright, Facebook, filtering, Firefox, FireSheep, Google, home theatre, ipad, iPhone, iPhone 4, Kin, Microsoft, Panasonic, Plasma, Prius, R18+, Social Networking, Street View, Toyota, Viera, Wi-Fi, Xmarks, YouTube
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Jan 28 2011

Emulating a Classic Controller on a Touchscreen – Why Bother?

By Boydo in Android, Gaming, Microsoft, Nintendo, Operating Systems, PS3, Sega, Sony, Technology, Wii, Xbox 360

No doubt the avid gamers amongst us have been all over the news of the Sony NGP (Next Generation Portable) AKA PlayStation Portable 2 plus the announcement that Android phones and tablets will be able to download PlayStation games from the PlayStation Store and play them using an emulator. Sony is planning to put some …

Android, controller, Gaming, Google, NGP, Nintendo, PlayStation, PlayStation Portable, PSP, Sega, smartphone, Sony, Street Fighter, Wii
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Jan 08 2011

Samsung Galaxy S – Unleash the Potential with Darky’s ROM

By Boydo in Android, Apple, Connectivity, Flash, GPS, iOS, iPad, iPhone, Location Services, Operating Systems, Storage, Technology, Wireless

A while back I decided to try something new when the time came to get a new phone after having owned an iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS. During 2010, I had picked up an iPad so changing to a new platform for my new mobile was not throwing away my relatively small investment in iOS …

Android, Apple, ClockworkMod, Darky, Galaxy S, Gingerbread, GPS, iOS, ipad, iPhone, kernel, Mobile, phone, ROM, Samsung, Voodoo
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Jan 03 2011

Evernote – Cross-Platform Notes in the Cloud

By Boydo in Android, Apple, Browsers, Cloud, Firefox, Google, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod, iTunes, MacOS, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Storage, Technology, WebOS, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP

Some people, such as myself, are not entirely and completed wedded to a single content and device ecosystem in that I have the Samsung Galaxy S as my mobile phone (an Android device for those unfamiliar with it), a Windows 7 custom built desktop at home, a Windows 7 MSI Wind netbook and an Apple …

Android, Apple, Blackberry, cloud computing, Evernote, Firefox, Google, ipad, iPhone, iPod Touch, iTunes, Mac OS X, Palm, security, SSL, WebOS, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP
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Jan 01 2011

Six Months and Counting: Critical SMS Bug in Android Goes Unpatched

By Boydo in Android, Code, Communications, Connectivity, Google, Instant Messaging, Mobile, Operating Systems, SMS, Technology, Wireless

*** Update *** It seems after an intense amount of feedback, Google has elevated the priority of this flaw to critical. Just a heads up for those of you with Android based smartphones. A bug has been lodged with Google back in June 2010 regarding a bug in the sending of SMS from an Android …

Android, Bluetooth, bug, Froyo, Gingerbread, Google, Nexus One, Nexus S, SMS
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Dec 31 2010

Amazon: Lend a Friend an eBook

By Boydo in Amazon, Android, Apple, Content & Search, Copyright, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Legal, MacOS, Operating Systems, Technology

For those of you that use the Amazon Kindle platform or are in the market for a new eBook reader and have yet to make up your mind then this development may pique your interest. In a nutshell, one Amazon Kindle user can lend out a book to another Amazon Kindle user for a period …

Amazon, Android, Apple, Blackberry, eBook, ipad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kindle, Mac OS X, PC
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Dec 29 2010

Beware of Changes to Android Market Refunds

By Boydo in Android, Apple, Connectivity, Consumer Rights, Google, iOS, iTunes, Legal, Mobile, Operating Systems, Technology, Wi-Fi, Wireless

Whilst this news is a few weeks old I thought it was still important to bring to the attention of those of you with Android devices. In conjunction with an update to the Android Market application for the platform, Google also changed the arrangement when it came to automatic refunds for undesired applications. Originally, Google …

Android, Android Market, App Store, Apple, consumer rights, digital, digital goods, Google, iTunes, Wi-Fi
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