May 2012
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For Sale: 2005 Jayco Eagle 305BHS 5th Wheel and...
Yes, you read it right! We are selling our 5th wheel trailer and truck. The fifth wheel trailer is a 2005 Jayco Eagle 305BHS and the truck is a 2005 Ford F350 Lariat 6L Diesel Crew Cab, Long Bed.
See all the details HERE!
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April 2012
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Is Your Mac Infected By The Flashback Trojan...
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A Mac infected by a virus used to be something of a rarity, and it was the best argument you could bring to a Mac versus PC debate. But with Mac adoption surging in recent years, it was inevitable that Apple’s operating system would become a target for...
February 2012
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‘The Road to Cars Land’ Coming to Walt Disney...
There’s a big update coming to Walt Disney Imagineering Blue Sky Cellar at Disney California Adventure park on Wednesday, Feb. 29. “The Road to Cars Land” will be a sneak preview of the plans for Cars Land, featuring a model of the land, maquettes of some of the new ride vehicles, and sketches and early concept art.
via Disney Parks Blog.
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Nova Launcher & Prime for ICS 4.0 for the Win!
Nova Launcher has made it’s way out of the beta stage and into the Android Market. This Ice Cream Sandwich launcher is chock full of features you won’t find in the stock launcher, and comes highly recommended by our own Android Central forums Super Moderator Cyber Warrior. A look at the feature list and we see why:
Custom homescreen grid
Scrollable dock
Scroll effects
Infinite...
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Create A Personal Google Maps Pin Map With Your...
To utilize Foursquare to create pin map, just follow these instructions:
Login to your Foursquare profile from an internet browser
Now that you’re logged in, go to your feeds page. To find your feeds from your profile, you can click on “History”, then scroll down to the bottom of the page and find the RSS icon to access your feeds.
Copy the .kml feed (the second one) and paste it into the...
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Apple at it again, calling for injunction against...
Apple has once again called Samsung into court. This time it’s about the Galaxy Nexus and four patents that Apple says it infringes. The patents in question are:
U.S. Patent No. 5,946,647: a patent for data being used as a hyperlink
U.S. Patent No. 8,086,604: a unified search patent
U.S. Patent No. 8,046,721: a slide-to-unlock patent
U.S. Patent No. 8,074,172: a word completion patent ...
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Official Google Blog: Introducing Chrome for...
Introducing Chrome for Android
In 2008, we launched Google Chrome to help make the web better. We’re excited that millions of people around the world use Chrome as their primary browser and we want to keep improving that experience. Today, were introducing Chrome for Android Beta, which brings many of the things you’ve come to love about Chrome to your Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich phone or...
January 2012
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Latest Apple patent lawsuit targets Galaxy Nexus...
The latest installment of Apple vs. Samsung saga sees Cupertino taking offense with the lockscreen on the Galaxy Nexus. The complaint, filed once again in Germany, is the first directed towards the Android 4.0 flagship device. The claim made is that the Galaxy Nexus infringes upon Apple’s own slide-to-unlock utility model.
FOSS Patent’s blogger Florian Mueller describes this utility...
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Top 1% of Mobile Users Use Half of World’s...
The world’s congested mobile airwaves are being divided in a lopsided manner, with 1 percent of consumers generating half of all traffic. The top 10 percent of users, meanwhile, are consuming 90 percent of wireless bandwidth.
Arieso, a company in Newbury, England, that advises mobile operators in Europe, the United States and Africa, documented the statistical gap when it tracked 1.1 million...
December 2011
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The Next Big Thing - Galaxy S II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4VHzNEWIqA&feature=colike
via The Next Big Thing - Galaxy S II - 90sec - YouTube.
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Merry Christmas - from Android
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcG0Ev27Qr8&feature=colike
via Happy Holidays - from Android.
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Installing the Android SDK | Android Developers
If you are looking for help in installing Google’s Android SDK, Check it out at android.com
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How to: Unroot the Galaxy Nexus, Re-lock the...
Unlocking the bootloader and rooting your Galaxy Nexus is really only half the battle. There may come a time when you need need to lock everything back up, including that bootloader. Thanks to the Android team, we have the factory images that can not only fix a bootlooping or soft-bricked device, but make it look like you just pulled it out of the box.
Instructions:
1. Download the Android...
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How to: Root the Galaxy Nexus 4G LTE, Flash a...
Time to root your Galaxy Nexus now that @Koush has released official Clockworkmod Recovery for the LTE version. We have gone ahead and posted the manual instructions for you, because well, if you have a Nexus you should probably know most of these standard adb and fastboot commands. It’s not hard by any means, especially knowing that you all have the SDK set up after unlocking your bootloader....
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Video: How to Unlock the Bootloader on the Galaxy...
If your Galaxy Nexus future includes custom ROMs and kernels, you should stop what you are doing and unlock the bootloader of the device first. With an unlocked bootloader, your phone is opened up for you to essentially do as you please. Not only that, but you get that sweet little unlock icon on the boot screen.
To help you with this process, we tossed together this quick video. For the full...
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Android 4.0.3 Announced: Better Social App...
Say bye, bye to Android 4.0.2. In the coming weeks, the Android team will roll out the next version better known as Android 4.0.3. Through the new API that has also arrived, developers will have the ability to integrate their social apps into contacts like Google has done with G+ and Google Talk. You can imagine that this likely means Facebook and Twitter updates showing in you friends’ contact...
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Android Market: 10 Billion Apps Served So Far, And...
Android Market, the official, Google-sanctioned app marketplace for Android, is announcing a major milestone December 6th 2011: 10 billion total downloads. More important, the rate of growth is surging. Google says that it’s now seeing 1 billion app installs every 30 days.
To give some context to that, it took 20 months for Android to hit its first billion downloads, and another five months to...
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Verizon reportedly blocking access to Google...
Pop quiz: List, in alphabetical order, all of the Google Nexus phones that officially have access to Google Wallet.
If you aswered the Sprint Nexus S 4G — and only the Sprint Nexus S 4G — you’re exactly right. And it looks like it might stay that way for the time being. 9 to 5 Google, citing an unnamed source, reports that the Verizon Galaxy Nexus won’t have access to...
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Galaxy Nexus for Verizon Wireless hands-on photos...
From TheVerge.com: By Dante D’Orazio on December 3, 2011 05:06 pm
We got our hands on a Verizon Wireless-bound Galaxy Nexus today, courtesy of the Samsung Experience store in New York City (thanks to Droid Life for tracking this one down). Unfortunately the price and release date are still nowhere to be found, though we were told that it may be coming in “the next few...
November 2011
I’m at Portola/241 Exit http://t.co/j5wBNdXJ
$50 to Spend on Any Device or Accessory http://t.co/eA3W2qmd via @LivingSocial
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Proposed AT&T/T-Mobile Merger Hits Yet Another...
In a possible setback to AT&T and T-Mobile’s proposed merger, FCC chairman Julius Genachowski Tuesday circulated a draft order to seek a further administrative hearing on the deal, potentially placing another barrier in the road to one of the largest mergers in telecommunications history.
If the order is passed, the merger decision would then go in front of a judge presiding over an...
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Galaxy Nexus: An In-Your-Face Android Phone
Thanksgiving is coming, but techies are salivating over something that doesn’t involve turkey and stuffing: Ice Cream Sandwich—the operating system of the newest Google phone, the Galaxy Nexus.
The Galaxy Nexus from Samsung is the first device to run Google’s Android 4.0 operating system, known by its dessert code name. Ice Cream Sandwich is designed to be a blend of the Android phone and tablet...
Verizon going with ‘Nexus Prime’ after all? This Best Buy flyer sure thinks so | Android Central - http://t.co/4AyDMNIf
October 2011
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A Day Made of Glass... Made possible by Corning. -...
Be sure to watch this in 720p, full screen! Awesome!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cf7IL_eZ38&feature=player_embedded
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How to Get iOS 5’s Biggest Features in Android...
iOS 5, Apple’s latest update to its mobile OS, was released this week, and with it came a ton of great new features for iPhone and iPad owners. If you own an Android phone and wish some of those new features can be yours, they’re closer than you think. Here’s how you can get some of them, like Wi-Fi sync, cloud storage for music and documents, and free messaging right now on...
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Google, Samsung postpone phone launch event out of...
Google and Samsung have canceled an event planned for next week where the companies were supposed to announce the first smartphone based on Android “Ice Cream Sandwich,” a move reportedly made in response to the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
The two companies are said to have rescheduled the event out of respect for Jobs, sources told Ina Fried of All Things D. The companies...
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Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address...
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Steve Jobs: 1955 – 2011
Steve Jobs: 1955 – 2011
Apple is reporting that Steve Jobs has passed away today.
We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today.
Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve.
His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our...
September 2011
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Google+ Hangouts go mobile, get live streaming and...
Summary: All the focus may be on Google+’s new open door policy, but Google+ Hangouts also got a few compelling new features.
Everyone is so focused on Google+’s newfound openness to all comers that they’re glossing over the really cool new additions to Google+ that were also announced today: Hangouts for Android devices, the ability to live-stream and record video broadcasts, a handful of minor...
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VMware Updates Desktop Products: Workstation 8 and...
In an unusual move, VMware has given us a twofer and updated both its desktop flagship products today. VMware is releasing VMmware Workstation 8 for Windows and Linux, and VMware Fusion 4 for Mac users. The Fusion update makes Fusion “more Mac-like” and finally allows users to virtualize Mac OS X under VMware Fusion. Workstation 8 is aimed squarely at developers and professionals...
I just ousted Robert H. as the mayor of 241/Lake Forest Dr on @foursquare! http://t.co/JyNO0d5
What do Obama and Apple Computers have in common ????? Give up ???? The answer is: no Jobs !!!!
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Disneyland Fireworks Show, September 10, 2011
Enjoy the Disneyland Fireworks show, from September 10, 2011. The Video was shot from the Flag Pole are of Main Street USA!
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I’m at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church (600 St. Andrews Rd, Newport Beach) http://t.co/eTnCaOI
Lunch with the @doschinos and @limetruck (@ Street Chef Stop) http://t.co/qF1KX4S
I just ousted @lackeymark as the mayor of Portola Clubhouse on @foursquare! http://t.co/Y5KOxTP
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10.7: How to download the OS X Lion Installer or...
There’s been a lot of talk about how to get the OS X Lion Installer after you installed Lion. The main purpose of this may be to get the Installer dmg to create a bootable Installer disk, as described elsewhere. Many missed doing that before installation, me included.
But actually this hint will work to force download any purchase on the Mac App Store.
There’s an easy method to...
Having lunch with the @kogibbq truck in Irvine, Spicey pork! Yummy!
Ironman Dinner and the Word! Gonna be an awesome night! Calvary Chapel San Juan Capistrano http://t.co/oyDmahY
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Google May Be On The Verge Of Resurrecting...
In 2006, Google was internally testing a project codenamed “Platypus”, an online storage service. When it was accidentally disclosed during an analyst meeting as “GDrive”, it quickly captured the web’s imagination. Google seemed on the verge of transforming their servers into our own personal hard drives in the cloud. Plenty of startups were working on this (and still are), but the presumption...
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Gmail Offline - Google Launches Offline Versions...
Google is launching a new Gmail web app and updates to Calendar and Docs, in an effort to increase its products’ offline utility.
Google users have called bringing Gmail, Calendar and Docs offline an essential step for improving productivity, Group Product Manager Rajen Sheth told Mashable. The problem, he explained, is that when users need offline access to their email or calendar, they really...
August 2011
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Official Closing Date Announced For Sunshine Plaza...
We are reaching another major milestone in the ongoing expansion of Disney California Adventure park. On Monday, August 29, the Sunshine Plaza area will close to allow crews to start the transformation of the current park entry into Buena Vista Street, reminiscent of what Walt Disney encountered when he first arrived in California in the 1920s.
While the shops will close to make way for Buena...
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Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
To enable hidden files/folders in finder windows:
Open Finder
Open the Utilities folder
Open a terminal window
Copy and paste the following line in:
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defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES
Press return
Now hold ‘alt’ on the keyboard and right click on the Finder icon
Click on Relaunch
You should find you will now be able to see any hidden files or folders. One you...
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New Android Market Version 3.1.3 – New +1 Button...
A new version of the Android Market has unexpectedly started rolling out to handsets this morning as version 3.1.3. The update includes a couple of nifty new features to add to this already snazzy new store – most notably is the +1 button in app pages and the ability to set a PIN to prevent unwanted purchases of apps on your phone. A nice feature for those of you out there with little ones who...
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Lion Recover Disk Assistant - Apple releases tool...
For those who are unable to use the web-based recovery tool for OS X Lion, Apple has released a new Mac application that allows users to create their own OS X Lion recovery/installation external drives. Specifically, this drive lets you reinstall Lion, repair the disk using Disk Utility, restore from a Time Machine backup, or browse the web with Safari. You need a recovery HD already setup to...
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Apple iCloud: What it is, and What it Costs
With Apple revealing iCloud price details along with the beta version of iCloud.com, now seems like a good time to explain what the service is to anyone who missed Apple’s announcement in June.
iCloud basics
iCloud does not replace local storage on iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches. What it does is keep your data in sync between any Apple device or PC that you own. For example, if...
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Android vs iPhone by state: Who is on top?
Android vs iPhone by state: Who is on top?
Would you like to know what mobile operating system dominates in your state? Planning to move anytime soon? Here’s a map that can guide you in the right direction! Stats and info graphics are always fun, but today we have something extra special for you.
This map shows which US states are dominated by Android, Blackberry or iOS. Android and iOS are...
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Google Chrome Mouse and Track Pad Swipe Gestures...
Three finger swipes still work in Google Chrome. The issue you’re having is that default swipes in Lion are two fingers. Go into System Prefs, then into trackpad and change the swipes from 2 fingers to 3. You can also make it both 2 and 3 finger swipes to accomplish the same thing, in which case swiping will work in Chrome and you’ll see get the cool two finger swipes in Safari that...
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HTC Details Upcoming Bootloader Unlocking Process...
Per HTC’s Facebook Page, here are some info on how the unlocking will work!
“The Web tool … requires that you register an account with a valid e-mail address and accept legal disclaimers that unlocking may void all or parts of your warranty. Then plug in your phone to a computer with the Android SDK loaded to retrieve a device identifier token, which you can then enter into the Web...