A friend at work gifted me an old Nexus 7 (2013) which originally shipped with android 4.3, but had gotten official updates up to 6.0.1. I knew when he offered it that it was very likely I'd be able to get a more recent version on there since the official Google devices are very well supported an...
It being so close to St Patrick’s Day, I decided to finally deal with the non-working music on hold at work since it gave me a good excuse to put Irish music on. Many years ago I had set up an ancient PC running Damn Small Linux (DSL) with mp3blaster running in shuffle / repeat mode connected...
Ever since I first got an android based ASUS Transformer model TF-101 back in 2011 I've been a fan of the tiny netbook sized laptop form factor. The Transformer could be separated from its (optional) keyboard but I never used the Transformer in tablet mode anyway, and the few times I did it was...
I was running Cyanogenmod 11 (android 4.4.4) on my Samsung S3, using a SNAPSHOT from Aug, 2015 and not getting any more updates. Finally looking into why it turns out they had moved on to developing for Lolipop (5.x) so to upgrade I'd need to wipe and install from recovery. I decided to go with a...
The wife has an older LG Optimus S (LS670) (late 2010 vintage) which she got when we first signed up for Ting.com service (phone service based on Sprint run by the Tucows folks in Canada and their pricing is great compared to the major carriers). Its an old phone as android phones go, only sp...
Call me old school, or out of touch (pun intended) but as big a fan of tablets and the touch-screen enabled operating systems (OS) that run them that I am, I just don't see these devices replacing laptops. I'm a huge Star Trek fan, and I recognize the tablet form factor as the classic PADD from...
editor's note: I've updated this story many times since I first posted it. For the current status, scroll all the way to the end of the story as I've appended update notices to the end each time I upgraded or switched Roms.
Back in December, 2011 when I first got my ASUS Transformer TF101 it...
I was spending a lot more time playing D&D when this board game came out, but it was a big deal back then. All of the accounting for the game was handled by the tiny computer in the Dark Tower which was placed in the center of the board. The fact that the tower was actually a full up computer game...
I originally posted this to the G+ app on the tablet, but have rewritten large parts of it here.
I was reading an article linked below on the tablet when I clicked a little "sharing" icon in my browser which passed the link to another application (G+). According to a recent ruling, you won't be ab...
A few weeks back I got an ASUS transformer which is ostensibly an android (3.2) tablet, but with the "optional" docking keyboard its more like a netbook running android. It was shortly after testing an Acer Iconia A500 for work that I decided I couldn't live without one of these things and ran...
