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Hi,
yesterday i received a email from the android market (i’m subscriber as developer, i hope to launch a app soon 
) saying that are introducing content level rating to the app’s listed at the android market.
the level contents available are:
- All
- Pre-teen
- Teen
- Mature
there is needed that all the app’s have set a content level before November 30, you can do it on your developer console at http://market.android.com/publish. if you don’t do it, the app will be marked as mature to ensure the user experience.
you can get more info about this change here: http://market.android.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=188189
Regards,
Shadow.
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Hi,
if you are looking a easy way to root your android phone, i found this app yesterday:
Universal androot. the app let you root or unroot the phone with 1 tap. it do not work with all phone (in mine, motorola backflip didn’t worked) but there are success case in several HTC and motorola phone, in almost all android versions.
you can download it from here
i hope it help you in some way 
Regards,
Shadow.
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Hi,
yesterday i found this program, called SuperOneClick, that in theory let you root your android phone with 1 click. i tried it myself with a motorola backflip and it didn’t worked, so i’m not sure if it works or not (even other say that have worked for them). if you want, can download it from here (require you create a user in the forum)
the process to root the phone is:
- set the phone under the debug mode: go to configurations -> applications -> developer -> usb debug mode
- connect the phone to the pc
- start SuperOneClick, and click on Root and wait till it finish
and also, if you have a motorola phone, you need the ADB driver, that can be downloaded from here.
i hope it works for you.
Regards,
Shadow.
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Hi,
today i noticed on my recently brought android phone that when i made a app search, android paid app’s showed as options, something that before didn’t happened.
so i made a quick search and i found this on the official android blog.
so now, 20 more countries can buy and sell app’s including argentina
Regards,
Shadow.
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Hi,
as i said in a earlier post, i brought a android phone, and some days ago looking for the app’s to install, i was looking for some MSN app. in my first search i found ebuddy, a service that i never used but i know that hey existed for years. so i installed the app, created a new account and link my hotmail credentials. all worked flawless so i continued doing my stuff. hours later, i starting to receive bounced emails from my contacts, send from my hotmail account, that was more than obvious that was spam. so then i changed my hotmail password and the spam emails stopped.
how i know that the fault was from ebuddy? i’m more than careful with my mails and important accounts, all of them have a different passwords that i change time to time, i do not use any web service, all open source app’s as AMSN in case of msn, and i only login on my computer or in this case phone, i never login on a public or strange computer for any reason. and BTW, my computer is running ubuntu, so virus are not a possibility
so, i don’t know if they sell your data to the spam people or have a big and important security breach, but avoid using ebuddy at all cost, from my side i reported the app and downloaded an app that directly connect to the msn service called “MSN Talk”.
Regards,
Shadow.
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Hi,
recently, i brought a android phone (a motorola backflip more exactly) so, i will be making some app reviews for my fellows developers and users .
today i’m bringing you an app to make ssh connection with the phone, called Connect Bot.
i know what you are thinking, that is a pain in the ass to use ssh in a phone, and you are probably right, but if you are in charge to have some servers up and running, you should be able to fix it from anywhere right? and a ssh connection is essential for the server admin work. the app is really simple. have a bookmark of connection, letting you specify the user@ip:port and connect. if you have a physical keyboard as me, is more easy to use, usually the virtual keyboard is a pain in the ass when you need to type fast. in overall is just a simply ssh console, with the add that have the control and alt keys as virtual keys on the screen, that popup when you tap on it. very useful when you need to edit documents with nano. also, it let you have several ssh sessions at the same time and switch from them.
even that the app works almost flawless, it have some annoying bugs that i think need to be solved as soon as possible:
* you can’t popup the symbols and the icon for the keyboard on the screen do not work. this could be a simple thing, but is a pain in the ass when you need to go back from the app, write a underscore somewhere, copy it and then paste it on the console why you can popup the symbol or the virtual keyboard.
*if the command takes too much time, the session hang up, anyway, i need to check if this is not a problem that can be solved from the server, enabling the keepAlive directive.
*you can’t copy text from the console.
if you want to try it, just scan with Barcode Scanner this qrCode below, will take you to the market to download the app
Regards,
Shadow.
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Hi,
today i wanted to write a opinion about this 2 mobile operating system, basically why appeared the new iphone 4 and i was excited to compared with what comes apple to compete with froyo.
Disclaimer: i never have an iphone or an android device even close, my opinions are based on technical spects, and videos, i mainly focus my opinion of this type of product from the point of view of the developer and the end user.
The people who know me, know that i’m always to the side of the open source and liberty, but when it comes to this i try to see the thing in a objective form.
The key of the new era: usability and features
this 2 news OS versions are bringing new really nice features in the mobility devices, as multitasking, video edition (in the case of iphone), photos, music and games. also, to integrate all this features in a small devices as a phone, is needed a new way the user should interact, why there is no a psychical keyboard or mouse. the multitouch technology have helped a lot in this matter but also the engineering to create easy to use commands to use anything (a program, a mobile device, a website etc..) is not something easy (i talk with experience in this matter)
iOS4 is winning over the general user and developer market
the demonstration that apple give i think have been a great defeat for android, and i’m not talking even for the available app’s, the new hardware or even the new especial features, i’m talking that apple is delivering a perfect product for all the markets, the simple user , the hardcore user, and a complete pack for the dev to deploy applications and get revenue from it.
as many developers i hate the apple policy, but need to be honest that the policy is make it possible to deliver a robust product, open a new market for developers and new features for users to enjoy.
android, same history as J2ME
i’m seeing that android is having the same future as j2ME. J2ME is a java api that was promoted to develop mobile application to all devices just building once. the problem with J2ME is that the manufacturers implemented the API as they want, so the portability was impossible and only big companies (as gameloft) could develop games or app’s and port it to the almost all the existent devices. happened the same with android, devices with 8 different types of versions on the market and depending from the manufacturer to upgrade to a new version.
android started ok, as an open source project, delivering features that the competitor wasn’t able to do etc.. (we already know that) and the good of this is as open source, at least i expected a explosion of android powered devices but it started too late, from the day android was announced, take like 1-2 years to start to see android devices in the market, most of them on the high end market.
also, android is not open as apple to the devs (ironic to say this right?). yes, apple don’t approve the app’s that they want. and don’t give any explanation, but at least anyone who pay’s the 100$ can publish and develop commercial app’s. for android, is only limited to countries that have google checkout supported (USA and UK).
The future is in non-fragmentation
of course that new features will give to the users new attraction but from my point of view, the way that android could be a stable and all-users platform is avoiding the fragmentation by the manufacturers. a good solution to make this will be the same as linux make, a repository. so, basically all the android devices can be upgraded to the most newest version and having available the features depending of the hardware where is installed. also a more open policy for developer will be a good thing to have more apps on the store.
anyway, i going to still buy a android device when i can, but of course, is a developer decision more than a normal user
surely it will not help you but is just my opinion
Regards,
Shadow.
