Introducing Voice Actions for Android Well, finally this is out on Android. I wonder how it fares compared to the iPhone and the upcoming Windows Phone 7, which also has this Voice Action features. To find out more, read Just speak it: introducing Voice Actions for Android Let’s cut to the chase. How do you [...]

For those wondering where your Flash Player 10.1 Beta is, you might have to download it from the Market. Just do a search for “Flash Player” and you should be able to find it. If not, just open this link on your browser: www.adobe.com/go/getfp10android and it will load up Market with Flash Player 10.1 Beta. Let [...]

For those who can’t wait, here’s how you manually update your Nexus One to Froyo. Download the update from Google – http://android.clients.google.com/packages/passion/signed-passion-FRF50-from-ERE27.1e519a24.zip Rename the file update.zip and copy it to your microSD card via USB. Turn off your Nexus One. Press “Volume Down” button together with the “Power” button to get to the safe-mode screen. [...]

Yesterday, Daniel Tsuo and I did a live ustreaming video on the Nexus One Unboxing. There were as many as 15 people joining us live asking us questions about the Nexus One. We had a great time and special thanks to Honcheng for letting us have a first look at Nexus One. For those who [...]

The Nexus One is an Android phone that has max-ed out whatever hardware capabilities available out there to become the “super” phone. The problem now lies with the software side, where various manufacturers like HTC and Motorola can start competing to differentiate themselves. Since the hardware is already awesome, what else is there but the [...]

For those who bought the Nexus One and have some 3G problems, here are the steps to set up your connections. For SingTel customers, the Nexus One should auto-connect to their 3G network.  For Starhub and M1 customers, they will need to enter in their APN settings to connect to their 3G network.  This can be done by [...]

Here’s a simple quick tutorial on how to install Go Language from Google on the Mac OS X. Install XCode Install Macports Open Terminal and install mercurial from macports and wait. sudo port install mercurial Edit your .profile to include the Go environment variables. This is required to build the Go Language. Add the following: [...]

Google’s Closure Tools contains 3 set of tools for web developers: Closure Compiler – A Javascript Optimizer One of the benefits of not working on the web is you actually have a compiler to pre-check your errors, optimize your code, and warns you about common problems with your code. Javascript is a runtime dynamic language [...]

Yesterday I saw something interesting on my Google search page. And when I move my mouse: Can you spot the differences? Interesting. Google is testing some interesting features on my account. I’m running Google Chrome 4.0.223.11 on a Windows 7 x64 PC.

Today is the anniversary of the Invention of the Barcode. When you use a barcode scanner (I used my HTC Hero) and scan that image above, it reads Google. Very interesting indeed. Read more about barcodes and the history of how it came about. For those interested, I used “Barcode Scanner” that’s available on Android [...]