Yes! You can easily customize how your keyboard on your Android phone looks and feels. It’s incredibly easy and only takes a few minutes to do-so.
I personally like the way this keyboard behaves with its text input, and word replacement suggestions!
At the end of it all, you’ll have yourself some awesome looking keyboards like below:
Looks cool right! Read on to find how you can have your customized keyboard in just a few minutes.
There’s been a fair amount of hype recently around the security of both operating systems, specifically in relation to the Android Market and Apples App Store.
I’m going to take a quick look into both, look at the hype, look at the history, and hopefully clarify some things along the way.
So you’ve just got yourself something like the Nexus One, HTC Desire, Motorola Droid or HTC Incredible (Just to name a few). You’re the proud owner of one of the coolest phones on the planet, largely due to the fact that it runs Android. I mean, let’s face it, it’s incredibly easy to find yourself a phone that has a 1Ghz processor, 512MB RAM, 5MP Camera … the hardware these days is largely the same. So, your phone is special, and (in my opinion) the best, because of Android!
What you have to understand however, is that your phone is also different. If you’ve previously used a PC, or you’ve had yourself another Smartphone like the iPhone, there’s a few things to be aware of, and a couple of nifty features of your new awesome-phone.
I’ll also give you the heads up on some cool apps that are well worth the look at which will compliment your new investment in portable telephony quite well!
(Screenshots / pictures below)
Warning: This is a completely personal post, my own thoughts and feelings, and largely digresses from the semi-professional tone of most of my others. There are also no pictures, sorry.
Now, I’m an activist, and I’ll freely admit it.
Not in the traditional poster-protester style, but I will gladly debate anything I feel I know enough about to be “fluent” in the subject-matter (Read: Technology, not something like gardening for example). If I don’t know, I’ll freely admit it, or simply keep my mouth shut.
What really bugs me is when people make half-assed statements that they have clearly put no thought into at all, and are simply venting because they feel more secure doing so behind their keyboard and monitor!
I call these people cowards, and idiots.
I’m also reminded of the statement “It is better to let them think you a fool, than to open your mouth and prove it so”, yet some people are just all too keen to prove to the world they are a fool. I’m not sure why, but each to their own.
I’ve subscribed to John Keys Facebook page. Not because I specifically like the guy, but its an interesting way of keeping up with changes going on. I also keep tabs on other things like Labours blog, Maxim Institute, Family First, and other such things.
One thing that I’m constantly disturbed by is the amount of plain ignorance displayed by the masses.
So the end of financial year rolled around a while ago. I thought “What a great chance for me to check my taxes”, considering I’d not been employed half the year.
I’m glad that I did! I was entitled to a rebate.
Now, I could just use a service like I have in the past such as taxrefunds.co.nz, but they charge something like 15%. That might not seem like much, but when your refund is $1,000, they’re taking $150 just to do something you can do yourself in a few minutes.
The whole process only took me about 5-10 minutes in total, and was surprisingly stress-free!
Here’s how (With pretty pictures):
Yes it’s surprisingly easy, and yes you too can have it today!
This is still very much a work-in-progress, as we’re merging two unfinished products and I’ve not had enough of a chance to test it thoroughly either so I’m hoping for some response from the community on this one. I think this is quite possibly the first time that FreePBXv3 has been tied into a major distro, and I reckon it’d be cool to see Elastix-2.0 support FreePBXv3 officially.
I have however tested Ext’s registering happily, calling each other, so I know that FreePBXv3 is tied in correctly.
Anyway, I’ve tar’d up a slightly older version of FreePBXv3, as they’re undergoing some design changes right at the moment which mean that the current version doesn’t install. So, we’ll be using this.
Total installation should only take about 5 minutes, so this How-To will be nice and short!
Edit: The best phone in the world is now available direct from Vodafone NZ! This won’t help if you’re importing to use it with Telecom (XT), but if you are, then you can get it directly here: http://tinyurl.com/n1vodanz
So I’ve recently imported a Nexus One. I live in New Zealand, and it’s not “officially” available here.
The Nexus One works both on XT and Vodafone, and at USD$529 including free shipping (In the states) you should be able to land it for around NZD$900 (Roughly, depending on exchange rates etc).
Here’s a few thoughts on importing it, using a mail-forwarder, avoiding unneeded taxes, getting it here ASAP and selecting the right phone for your network.
Continuing with our screencasts, we have a short How-To on installing the Power DNS Recursor (pdns-recursor) package as a way of getting around certain DNS issues in Asterisk.
When Asterisk loses connectivity, it can also affect the likes of PSTN fallback, not to mention Asterisk just outright behaves funny with DNS at times. The pdns-recursor package I’ve found works better than the likes of dnsmasq.
Starting off a new line of Screencasts, we have the first one on securing the default Elastix WebGUI passwords. This may seem obvious but many people only do *half* the job, leaving their system totally wide open when they port-forward TCP 443 so it’s publicly accessible.
See for yourself by going to your Elastix system and adding this in to the URL:
/admin/
You will see yourself presented with a new login box. Type in “admin” as the Username & Password.
Many people don’t know, or don’t change the Unembedded FreePBX password, so we will show you how to fix this issue.
This is the first of hopefully many screencast tutorials.
I’ve had my iPhone 3G for 1 month shy of 2 years now, and it’s been a brilliant phone. Admittedly I had it replaced after 3 months because the GPS on my first one was horribly inaccurate, however the whole replacement process was superb: Full phone replacement in under 2 hours of dropping the device off!
When I bought the Nexus One, I waited first for the iPhone4 to be officially released. Everybody had seen engadgets breakdown of the new look, and it does look slick, but I wanted to know about the OS and other features before deciding on a new iPhone or a Nexus One. How did I decide? Here’s some of the reasons:
