Sunday, May 22, 2011

L.A. Noire Crashes on Final Scene

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Google Weather on Mobile is missing today's info



Google added special mobile formatting for when you query the weather. Unfortunately it's missing one of the most important pieces of information. What's the high and low going to be TODAY.

At a glance there is no way to tell if I need a jacket, short or long sleeve shirt or shorts.

If it's not clear from the picture. The high that day was in the 80s. Sliding the slider would show 81 or so around 1pm but the high/low displayed is 65/57 assuming that is meant to be high/low since it's clearly not displaying the high.

Monday, April 18, 2011

Android and 2 or more browsers

Unlike say OSX or Windows or Linux Android doesn't like having 2 browsers installed. Why would you want 2 browsers installed?

Well, maybe you prefer one but it's missing features. For example Opera supports websockets, the built in browser does not. Firefox supports WebGL the built in browser does not.

Maybe you want to keep one browser logged in to a certain account on a certain service and another browser logged in on a different account on the same service. Why would you want to do this? Because re-logging in on any phone sucks. Typing in names and passwords, especially "strong" passwords with upper/lowercase, numbers and symbols is no fun.

But, Android doesn't like 2 browsers installed. It asks "which browser" every time a link is clicked, every time the browser is redirected, and every time a browser is launched. If I set a default for clicking a link to browser 1 then clicking a link in browser 2 launches browser 1. WTF!? I know technically why it does this but it was arguably the wrong design.

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Chrome crashes in gmail


Happened 3 times in 3 days. Took every other google related tab with it.

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Android Gallery Loses Folder



I deleted about 5 images from my "Camera" folder and all of a sudden my entire "Camera" folder was missing. It came back after rebooting the phone. WTF!

Can't sign up for Google Voice


No matter what I did clicking "Continue with current account did nothing".

Tried in Firefox as well just to make sure it wasn't a browser problem.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Too many Ninjas


So a while ago I posted that trying to add or move icons was mot working. Apparently they all ended up in this folder.

Nexus-S reboots during a call!

Today I got a call from an old friend. She was calling from Paris! About 10 minutes into the conversation my phone REBOOTED!!! WTF!!!

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Waiting forever for Slickedit

This is the kind of thing I have to wait for a few times a day

From Technology Suxor


It probably took me at least half a minute to remember to get my phone out to film this. On the one hand this is a big project and so it's forgivable that it takes a long time. On the other hand, lots of developers work on big projects and for example Visual Studio does this in the background.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Android doesn't show music for 2 days

I didn't manage to grab a picture but I added music to my Android through the USB connection. Android is supposed to find your music automatically. It didn't. I tried killing the music app and relaunching and seeing if that fixed it. No.To play the music I had to resort to ES File Explorer which was really annoying because it's music player is modal. Meaning if you try to do anything else the music stops. A couple of days later the music finally showed up in the built in player. WTF!

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Vimeo's user home page is broken. Tried both Chrome 8 and FF 3.6 :-(




Friday, January 14, 2011

Work Mac freezes on reboot

The second time in as many days. Gave it 15 minutes to shutdown. Finally held the power button to hard cycle it.

Friday, January 7, 2011

Boxee is xenophobic

Okay, I know that's harsh but WTF! It's 2011!!! You'd think they'd pick a font that can support more than just English.

Android Flash is broken

Why is the first picture bright and the second dark? No idea. The flash turned on in both but apparently Android's timing is off.


Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Firefox Beta Hardcrashes Nexus-S

That means the only thing you can do to recover is remove the battery. I tried holding the power button for 20 seconds but apparently Nexus-S doesn't have that feature.