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One of the many things that gets thrown about regarding the “failure” of Google Wave has been the lack of Mobile support. After all, what could be more instant than being able to collaborate no matter where you are? Personally, I love Wave. I use it for a LOT of my projects that require multiple...

I love Black Friday. Sitting outside, meeting new people, laughing at the soccer moms who curse like sailors and the fistfights, OH the fistfights! Two years of Best Buy retail kind of ruined my stress receptors, what can I say? The deals. Everyone goes crazy for the deals, and now Verizon is getting...

I have been on the Google Kool-Aid since they first released Gmail Beta. I still use nearly all Google products for my work, my family, anything I can. When Google Voice came to Android, I was more than excited. I bought my wife a Cliq, took text messaging off my G1 and her phone, and never looked back....

Something really incredible has just happened. You probably already know parts of it. Heck, you might even know most of it. I haven’t been able to get it out of my head, I have barely slept. Such an amazing display of caring, of compassion, and of community… I feel it must be written...

I really love the Android Community. I feel a very strong pull to its ever growing members list and the great things we are capable of together. Sometimes, though, we get a little overexcited. We do silly things like vote 250,000 times for a pumpkin via a script, push 1GHZ phones to 1.6 GHZ to say that...

You know how everyone is complaining about the Market and how Google needs to make some serious changes in order to keep people from wanting to use other Market Alternatives? I do. In fact, I’m one of the complainers. It’s in dire need of a change, and that was one of the things we were promised...

If you haven’t read, heard, or watched someone talk about the eBay Auctions of a pink Android Beanie for Breast Cancer Awareness, it’s high time you found out. The really great team at AndroidBeanies.com in cooperation with Keyan Mobli (@kmobs from Team Douche) and the guys at RadioAndroid.net...

Remember that GarminPhone? I do, it was adorable, albeit kind of useless. I know two people who bought them, and returned them quickly. Their decision to release that phone always confused me, since I have always enjoyed Asus’ quirky looking but extremely functional hardware. Asus did not, however,...

Oh Android, you just can’t seem to keep your nose clean. Everywhere you go you are picking fights. You’re like that kid in school who just HAS to go pissing people off, even if you haven’t done anything wrong today. Well, that’s not my opinion, but it certainly seems to be that...

Live Wallpapers are one of the few things I typically do not talk about. There are so many, and most of them do the same thing… inappropriately use resources. It’s a pretty difficult thing to do just to get me to install a LWP. There were guys at the Big Android BBQ walking around with...

Since the day before the Big Android BBQ 2010, the Android Community has been aflame over one of the simplest, most amazing accessories to any Android fan’s wardrobe. I’m talking about the Android Beanies. If you haven’t seen one, you live under the biggest rock ever, and I demand you...

I complain a lot about the state of the mobile web. Even with Flash being as stable as it is on Android, it’s still not easy to use sites that are just plain poorly designed for the mobile environment. One of the first examples that comes to mind is booking a flight. It’s not really easy...

The interwebs get more and more complicated for web developers every day. In the Smartphone world, optimizing for mobile is really a generic, unimpressive thing unless you resign to a single platform and decide everything else can suffer. Smartphones aren’t the only mobile concern anymore either,...

Gaming for Android has long been the topic of conversation, and typically they have been negative conversations at that. Plain and simple, gaming on Android has been lacking, until very recently anyway. The announcement of several quality games over the past few months from several studios, not to mention...

If you are anything like me, you gave your digital soul to Google long before Android came out. Your email, contacts, document, webspace, and so much more. One of the critical benefits to Android is the deep integration with Google’s products, integration which can not be found anywhere else. If...