Android enthusiast out there has successfully hacked their device and install Ubuntu on Nexus one and HTC Evo 4G in this week alone. The folk at nexusonehacks.net and htcevohacks.com which is run by the same brilliant guy has achieved this feat and making it looks pretty easy. The end result is neat and awesome. If only if I have this device, I would try for the same, but sadly HTC Magic that I own is too slow to run this stuff, just my guess.
Rooted phone is the main perquisite to get this stuff running, in case you’re interested to do so at home. The instruction as well well as videos to install Ubuntu has been posted in respective site, with I have linked below, so enjoy! Based on the result, it looks like Ubuntu is running slightly faster in Nexus one than HTC Evo, but the result may vary.
One the features long requested by Gmail users are finally available today. Rich text signature, or you may call it ‘fancy signature’ is one simple stuff, but it is no-brainer why it took this long to enable it. Anyway, good to have it now, and you can start drafting your fancy signature by getting to the ‘setting’ page from inside your Gmail, where you can find signature editor as shown below.
I have been copied in one lengthy email last week from unknown sender. I thought it is spam email, so I waste no time flagging it as spam. But I found out when I check the spam folder later, other recipients in the email start replying to each other and it become quite long threaded email. So what’s going on??Why am I copied in this email??
It appears that the email was incorrectly addressed to me. The reason is the dots (.) in the email address.
Apparently Gmail doesn’t recognized dots as character in your email address. It’s quite funny considering that dots is widely used in corporate email address. Here is Gmail explanation on this when I click the ‘learn more’ button.
Gmail doesn’t recognize dots as characters within usernames, you can add or remove the dots from a Gmail address without changing the actual destination address; they’ll all go to your inbox, and only yours. In short:
Google has announced that Android 2.2 or Froyo will be officially available for all Nexus One smart phone beginning yesterday. The update notification will be sent to all Nexus One phone over-the-air (OTA) from which the update can be downloaded and installed. You also can try check the update from the smartphone manually, via WiFi connection if you don’t have data plan.
We have seen how certain bloggers and media has received an update to Android 2.2 as early as last month, fueling speculation that Google is prioritizing power user to be the first to have the update. But this news should end whatever speculation out there. Google Nexus one users is definitely cheering this update, but for the rest of Android users, you gotta wait the news from the phone provider.
OK, now I’m impressed!! How brilliant Google Search it is. Or to be more accurate, kudos to engineers who had engineered this stuff.
Well, I’m looking for GP Malaysia F1 result, and just by querying ‘F1‘ as the key-phrase, Google Search lists the driver standing directly on the query page result on the spot, without even needs me to browse the website. That’s genius one, Google!
It seems that it can read my mind, erm. Sorry if this looks outdated to some of you, but I can’t just let it slip out of my radar. Btw, so there you go my first post after 1 week in ‘hibernation’ mode.
