daniel_solano

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by daniel_solano 15y ago
Quite true; what good are 100,000 choices if none of them solve my problem? A second problem: 50 apps look like they might solve my problem, but how do I know which suits me the best?
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
Having said this though, it sure seems that software is alot more unreliable than most bridges and buildings, so the question is, "Why?" That's a good question. Off-hand, I would say that part of the reason has to do with experie
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
I too have been running my own mail server for a couple of years now using Postfix (SMTP) and Courier (IMAP). I never got around to setting up webmail. Despite not doing much beyond SPF, I have never had any problems dealing with my outgoi
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
I don’t think that Motorola had the hardware, or the software, ready at all. That’s why the LTE upgrade will require mailing the tablet to Motorola and a one week turnaround time. Apparently, it’s a software issue, but the SD card doesn't
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
Slowly but surely, there are new Honeycomb tablets being shipped. In the US, this past week has seen the release of two new tablets: the Acer Iconia A500 and the Asus EEE Pad Transformer. Both of these tablets have functioning SD card slo
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by daniel_solano 16y ago
My primary phone is a N900, a Maemo phone. I have also used a Nexus S and a Xoom, primarily for development. There are a lot of things that I really like about Maemo over Android; here's some off the top of my head: 1. It's much more hacka
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by daniel_solano 16y ago
With respect to only having to "worry about one resolution", I disagree. Android does give you a set of tools for working with multiple screen types, but it's a bit more complicated than "2 sets of art assets". This only addresses one asp
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by daniel_solano 16y ago
There is an important flaw with this analysis. It is using Google's worldwide platform statistics with US-only numbers. Worldwide Android use is estimated at about 50 million, giving an estimate for Xooms sold closer to 100,000.
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by daniel_solano 16y ago
For a free and open source effort, check out https://github.com/koush/androidmono . I just came across this and have not used it, but it looks promising.
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Creating Android applications without Java from TXLF 2011(deepbluelambda.org)
3 points by daniel_solano 16y ago|1 comments
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by daniel_solano 16y ago
> Doesn't Android use the Linux kernel which is GPL'ed (among other parts)? Can they legally withhold code for a shipping product by saying the software isn't finished? Yes, the kernel is GPL, so they have released that source. It's th
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by daniel_solano 16y ago
I doubt it. I am sure that had it gone Android it would have been a high profile partner with Google. I am inclined to believe Nokia went with Microsoft primarily because Microsoft needs Nokia more than Google needs Nokia, i.e. Microsoft o
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by daniel_solano 16y ago
Honeycomb SDK time line: 27 Jan 2011: Preview released 22 Feb 2011: Officially released 24 Feb 2011: First Honeycomb device publicly available 3 Mar 2011: Fragments API for pre-Honeycomb release So, there was less than a month before develo