a technical blog with some other crap thrown in for good measure
Google’s response to Siri is codenamed Majel, could... Interesting. I've not tried Siri nor do I know anyone that has an iPhone 4GS that can give me reports on it. By all accounts it's the dogs nutsack so hopefully this app will be just as good. Google’s response to Siri is codenamed Majel, could be released by end of year | Android and Me.
Carrier IQ: How the Widespread Rootkit Can Track Everything... This post is especially for the paranoid amongst us. Recently an Android Developer discovered a rootkit called Carrier IQ that is capable of logging everything you do and worst of all it comes pre-installed on almost all smartphones, including Android, iPhone and Blackberry. Click on the link below for more information
Carrier IQ: How the Widespread Rootkit Can Track...
SSH Tunnel - keeping you safe online I own a HTC Desire HD and I find it extremely handy when it comes to banking online or checking out my social networks.
With the emergence of software such as Firesheep and Faceniff I feel that mobile security is more paramount than ever.
This is where SSH Tunnel comes in. SSH Tunnel allows you to connect to a secure SSH (secure shell) server and pipe all your internet...
HTC Desire HD from Froyo to Gingerbread I've been meaning to root and flash my HTC Desire HD for a while now and today I finally took the bull by the horns and attempted the procedure.
I'm not sure if it was just me or if the process was actually as difficult as I made it. After approximately 5 hours of tinkering I eventually rooted the phone and installed a custom ROM called Cyanogenmod 7.0.
First impressions...
Android App of the minute (for me anyway) SMS Backup+
I'm really getting into all this cloud stuff and I'm after finding it very handy to be able to back up all my contacts and images to the cloud. Until now I just figured that SMS messages would have to be backed up manually, maybe that was the case before but not with this app.
SMS Backup+ backs up all your SMS messages to your Gmail account. It creates...
Category : Technology
I’ve an FTP Server running on my home network and I wanted a way to mount it so that I could rsync my MySQL databses and my web folders to the FTP drive using cron. The page below shows a simple way of mounting an FTP server as a local file. Once the folder is mounted you can use the previous rsync article to rsync your folders … simple!
