Now that Cyanogenmod has summarily shut down, there is a planned new forked version, at http://lineageos.org/ Remains to be seen whether this will flourish, and whether it will survive any potential legal shenanigans, but at least it shows one of the core benefits of Open-Source code..! Robert Gadsdon. December 27, 2016. … Continue reading →
I now have my replacement Hudl 7in tablet, and have been trying out the various options for working browsers – with Flash support. On my phone, I found that Chrome worked well, but this tablet always gets the ‘full’ website, rather than the ‘mobile’ version, and so Flash doesn’t work, any more. Even implicitly typing in the … Continue reading →
Probably of more interest to the Android folk, but it has just been announced that the original Kernel 3.0 will be moving to EOL (End Of Life) soon, as version 3.0.100 is released.. From Greg KH, on the Linux Kernel Mailing List: —————————— NOTE! The 3.0.x kernel series will be moving to End-Of-Life soon, within a week. … Continue reading →
I ordered a Tesco Hudl online as soon as they were available, and got mine delivered 24 hours later – which was faster than expected. It is an excellent device – especially at that price point – but mine turned out to be one with a defective display (grey areas were heavily red-pixellated).. I returned the device to … Continue reading →
Opinion: I started out with Linux in 1997, and at that time Mosaic was looking a bit old-hat, and Netscape Navigator was the app that had the most use (along with GIMP). After moving – over the years – to Mozilla, and later to Firebird (quickly rebranded to Firefox), this has always been my browser of choice. … Continue reading →
Well… This was supposed to be an article on Linux on the Zealz GK802… Sadly, that is not going to happen. The device I received in July 2013 died after only 20 minutes, and after a tortuous exchange of emails I managed to get a replacement sent, after I returned the faulty one. This took (literally) months, … Continue reading →
Now that I have several Android devices – having just taken delivery of an ‘inexpensive’ 7in tablet – I decided it would be interesting to run the OS in a VMware virtual machine.. You can get a ‘VirtualBox’ Android 4 image at http://androvm.org/blog/download/ and then convert it to a VMware VM, by opening the xxxx.ova file using … Continue reading →
I had been happy to use Swype on my old Samsung Galaxy ‘droid phone, but it was – sadly – not available on my new HTC One V.. Now, that has changed.. Swype (Beta) is now out, and I have installed it, and it works just fine.. http://beta.swype.com/ I have found that Swype is a bit … Continue reading →
I had – for many years – been using a Palm Pilot (later Sony Clie) to sync calendars with JPilot on Linux, and this worked fine, especially after USB support was added, all those years ago.. I now have an Android so-called smart phone, and simply want to sync my calendar with my desktop (KDE 4.9.2).. This … Continue reading →
After problems with my old Samsung Galaxy Ace – mostly due to the cripplingly small amount of phone memory in the device – I finally decided to ‘upgrade’. Budgets are tight, but I – for better or worse – have come to rely on my ‘droid for so many things.. So, after some research, and not being … Continue reading →