The Problem
After about a year of enjoying how well my Ubuntu Linux home server downloads, organizes, and serves video files to my TV, I started to think harder about serving up music to devices around the house, and to my phone and/or PC while I’m at work. In the past, I’ve made my music library [...]
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The most popular post on my blog is how to set up the Ubuntu Server firewall via ufw, the Uncomplicated Firewall. I recommend UFW for any standard server, but you might want to move to something more advanced to expand your firewall knowledge, to set up a network gateway, router, or firewall, or to conform [...]
I hate getting up in the morning, and have long had trouble falling asleep at night. These two apps by Mobitobi work together to make it a bit easier.
Gentle Alarm
Thanks to the Motorola Droid’s dock and clock (ahem, “Multimedia Station”) mode, my phone became my alarm clock the day I brought it home. (Of course, [...]
Here are instructions on how to overclock your Motorola Droid. I learned how to do this through various forum posts and a blog posts, some of which were a confusing mess of information and misinformation. My goals is to summarize what I have learned in one place, to act as a more-or-less definitive guide.
Root your Droid. [...]
I bought my Motorola Droid the morning it was released to the public. The first app I installed on it was Locale, which promised to automatically set the phone’s volume, wifi settings, and so on, based on its current location. I thought this was a great idea: I could automatically silence my phone at the [...]
Today I learned a different way to configure the firewall on my Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Server: the ufw command. UFW stands for “Uncomplicated FireWall,” and it’s just that. It provides a simpler interface to add or remove firewall rules to iptables, the default Linux firewall. It’s installed on Ubuntu Server by default (and has [...]
NewsRob is a paid app* that I use every day to access Google Reader. You might think that it is a mindless luxury, because Google Reader actually has a decent mobile site. That said, the Android Browser is pretty slow, and loading the content often took more time than was worthwhile.
NewsRob solves the loading time [...]
Verizon charges a monthly fee for Exchange access, which is exorbitant and ridiculous. For the first couple months I owned my Android phone, I didn’t have access to my company email or calendar, because I wasn’t willing to pay an additional monthly fee.
Later, a coworker recommended I try out Touchdown, a $20 app that integrates [...]
As a consultant, sometimes I have to take a plane or train to work and back each week. Last year I stayed in hotels almost 50 nights—and that was a pretty light year for travel. Traveling is stressful. Trains are late. Flights get cancelled—sometimes when I’m sitting on the plane. Gates get switched three or [...]
