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Episode 123 – Jere isn’t Wearing Pants

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Guru
– November 26, 2012Posted in: Android Buffet

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Jere is tired and pantless, Guru closes the show.
Show Notes

In Other News

Student’s expulsion for refusing to wear RFID tag put on hold until next week
Republic Wireless exits beta, offers unlimited service for just $19 a month. only one phone, the Motorola Defy XT, available for [...]

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Episode 122 – This Episode isn’t a Turkey

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Guru
– November 20, 2012Posted in: Android Buffet

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Another week
Show Notes

Platform News

Samsung asks to see the HTC-Apple settlement as part of their continuing issues with Apple
Google-Moto and Apple considering Arbitration to Resolve Their Entire Patent Dispute
New version of Google Play, allows deletion of items from the new Wishlist and [...]

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Episode 120 – Please Pause for Station Identification

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Guru
– November 6, 2012Posted in: Android Buffet

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Guru returns with new thoughts.
Show Notes

Special Feature – Hurricanes and Power Outages

Biolite Camp Stove – charge your cell phone using twigs, pellets, or other things that burn. Make a cup of tea at the same time
Crank-charging your cell phone would take hours and you’d likely get rather [...]

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Episode 115 – Droid Buffet Take One

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Guru
– October 4, 2012Posted in: Android Buffet

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Episode 111 – Guru’s Junkyard

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Guru
– September 3, 2012Posted in: Android Buffet

300px-NATIONAL_METALS_JUNKYARD_-_NARA_-_545303Guru offers more of his treasures as prizes to those who participate in the show.

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Episode 108 – The Seven Types of Poop

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Guru
– August 13, 2012Posted in: Android Buffet

300px-Suri_Cruise_PoopJere and Guru discuss all the poop.

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Episode 103 – The Specific Nonpalindromic Podcast

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Android Buffet
– July 8, 2012Posted in: Android Buffet

Guru and Jere celebrate two years on the air with special guest, the Door to Door Geek

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Show Notes

  • Guru did not suffer injury at the end of the last show.
  • Guru has a surprise for Jere for their anniversary
  • The Big Android BBQ is back for 2012, October 19-21. This year, the Big Android BBQ moves to Dallas-Ft. Worth. Ticket sales open July 11th.
  • In Other News
    • Google claims $4 million in legal fees from Oracle over Java lawsuit.
    • Mozilla is halting development on its Thunderbird mail client. Will maintain security/stability fixes. Is client-based mail dead?
    • Apparently, you aren’t allowed to sell your Soul on Ebay
    • AT&T will launch a new service for reporting and blocking stolen devices on Tuesday.
    • files appeal against FCC, says Net Neutrality violates the Carrier’s Free Speech Rights, as well as Confiscating its Property without just compensation 
    • 999, the world’s first emergency number, turned 75. In 1935, a house fire in London killed five women. Though a neighbor tried to phone the fire department, he was put on hold and unable to get through, leading to an outraged letter in The Times and the beginning of emergency phone service as we know it.
  • App News
    • Tweet Lanes – a new ICS themed Twitter client, is getting interest in beta. Appears this may be a power user app when complete. (Play Link)
    • ACLU’s Police Tape app lets you discretely record and backup police interactions. Lots of reports of instability. (Play Link)
    • Wordlens comes to Android. Translate signs and replace text in original image. One language included with the paid version, have to pay for additional languages. Supports Spanish, French, Italian to/from English. (Play Link)
    • Movies lifts restriction on rooted devices
    • Let’s Create Pottery, a game where you make pottery, sell it, and use the proceeds to make better pottery. (Play Link)
    • LIbreOffice posts progress on Android port, now able to cross-compile for Android. Android interface not yet fully baked.
    • Let your Android device teach you how to tie your tie. (Play Link)
    • SocialFrame Free HD(Slideshow) – Acts as a fully connected digital photo frame(RSS, Social Media, time, weather, etc) (Play Link)
    • TBS for Tablets…allows for full episodes, after authenticating with your provider. (Play Link)
    • iFixit now available as an Android app. (Play Link)
    • Official VLC Beta goes live…outside of the US. (Play Link)
    • Costco’s Official App allows you to shop, save, and more, but is little more of a wrapper around the mobile site. (Play Link)
  • Platform News
    • Heat causes top of jelly bean statue on Google Campus to pop off. Jellybeans stolen.
    • Youtube Android Player API allows for a full Youtube experience within another app. 
    • 10 will be Jellybean, should be out quickly, as very similar to ICS. The vast gap between Gingerbread and ICS is what has caused the delay in CM9. 
    • Nexus S 4G now fully supported in AOSP. CDMA phones such as the CDMA Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S 4G had been removed as images due to licensing issues with CDMA technologies. Hoping for additional support in future.
    • ICS finally on 10.9 percent of devices, 8.5 months in. 64% on Gingerbread, 17.3% on Froyo. 
    • Google Play Store now allows, as promised, developers to post privacy policies. 
    • Android team, in addition to USB audio support, working on low latency audio, which could allow for using Android to create and edit sound. There are many tools for musicians on iOS. 
  • Taking Stock – Two Years In…

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Episode 102 – Google I/O Superepisode

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Android Buffet
– July 2, 2012Posted in: Android Buffet

Google I/O occurred, and there is lots of news…barely enough to fit into one hour.

Show Notes

  • Next week’s episode, 103, will be on Sunday, July 8th at 9PM
  • Guru goes rack..because once you go rack, you never go back.
  • In Other News
    • Sunday was Canada Day. Happy Canada Day to our Canadian listeners
    • Wednesday is Independence Day in the United States. Happy Independence Day. 
    • Google launches Amazon EC2 rival, Google Compute, still in limited beta.
    • You can buy a special Google Glasses Developer Edition for only $1500
  • Android 4.1 Jellybean
    • and HTC issue statements on Jellybean updates
    • USB Audio Output support, which will allow for new docks that support digital sound, the possibility of audio input for digital recording.
    • Project Butter – Designed to improve UI responsiveness – Triple Buffering in the Graphics Pipeline for more consistent rendering, 16ms vsync timing across all drawing and animation, touch events etc. Attempts to anticipate touch response, and boosts the CPU speed at each touch event. 
    • Enhanced Accessibility – new APIs for accessibility and related improvements
    • Bi-Directional Text Support, which should improve Hebrew and Arabic support. 
    • User installable keymaps allowing you to change the layout of keyboards. This may also work for custom buttons, like Vol +, Vol -, etc.
    • Expandable Notifications – expand and shrink notifications with a pinch, new embedded content, actions can now be embedded in a notification.
    • Selectively disable notifications on a per app basis
    • Automatically resizable widgets.
    • Simplified Task Navigation, allowing for better management of “Up” navigation. 
    • Transitions to Lights Out and Full Screen Modes 
    • Live Wallpaper Previews
    • Higher Res Contact Photos, up to 720×720. 
    • Apps can register for notification when new input devices are attached by bluetooth, USB, or other connection types, or query the capabilities of input devices, control vibrator services. 
    • Android Beam improvements
    • Wi-fi network service discovery using multicast DNS. 
    • Wi-Fi Direct improvements
    • Network Bandwidth Management, allowing apps to know if a network is metered and act accordingly.
    • Media codec access
    • Audio record triggering based on completion of a playback track.
    • Multi-channel audio over HDMI, and internal encoding/decoding of AAC 5.1
    • Audio preprocessing
    • Media Router provides mechanisms for deciding where to play media. Headphones, bluetooth, etc.
    • Browser improvements: Better HTML5 video, improved performance, Javascript, etc. 
    • Google Cloud Messaging replaces C2DM…improved push notifications
    • App Encryption,  will help protect application assets by encrypting all paid apps with a device-specific key before they are delivered and stored on a device.
    • Smart App Updates – Delta APK…only deliver changed portions of APK, to reduce bandwidth
    • Google Play Services – OAuth authentication, Google+ Sign In, +1 button, Google+ History.
    • Face Unlock now can require blinking, to avoid people using a picture
    • Offline Dictation/voice input
  • News from Google I/O
    • Android PDK Could Help Manufacturers Update Devices Faster – Could be given to hardware manufacturers 2-3 months before the code drops
  • Platform News
    • Adobe to discontinue Flash for Android August 15th, will not support Android 4.1. 
    • to offer Save to Wallet functionality…save an offer from a website directly to your wallet. 
    • Google+ History allows apps to submit lists of history to a queue and manually post them to Google+, as opposed to automatically. Still no Write API.
    • Apple v. Samsung: US Judge grants Apple injunction on Galaxy Nexus.
    • Google Now is part of Voice Search, learns from you to predict what you want
    • Google Play now offers purchase of TV/movies.
    • Google Docs now has offline editing. 
    • Cyanogemod 9 RC1 now available for 37 devices
    • Google Plus now supports Events.
    • Google offers Nexus Q, expensive ball that can only by used with Android devices and Nexus 7, $200-250 7 inch Jellybean .
    • Google Play website now allows for updates, viewing system apps, and uninstalls.
    • Android surpasses 400 million total activations, 1 million new activations per day
  • App News
    • Mint to format app for 7 inch tablet and to adopt ICS/Holo Design. 
    • Google Analytics App for Android (Play Link)
    • Google Currents will become part of GAPPS.
    • Currents, Youtube, and Drive updated – Youtube now allows preloading of videos while on wifi. Drive now allows upload and download of all file types…
    • 3 is number one on Google Play. 
    • Netflix now supports Jellybean
    • now supports offline caching.
    • Chrome for Android leaves beta.
    • Foursquare announces connected Apps for Android, allowing you to build your app into the Foursquare app.
  • Developer’s Corner
    • Android SDK Revision 20 launched.
    • Jellybean offers Systrace, to improve app performance
    • Android Development adds Multi-Configuration Editing, a way to visualize your layout on multiple configuration at once. 

 

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Episode 100 – ARM Race

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Android Buffet
– June 18, 2012Posted in: Android Buffet

Welcome to our 101st episode extravaganza…Jere and Guru are back from Charlotte with another exciting episode.

Show Notes

  • `Southeast Linux Fest wrapup…Jere tries openSuse and Fedora, among others.
  • Guru and Jere meet the fans.
  • Guru learns to live without an SD slot.
  • As an experiment, Guru sets up a subreddit for Android Buffet. Who wants to do our work for us?
  • In Other News
    • Nothing “Unhealthy” on the McDonalds menu, according to Head Chef Daniel Coudreaut. “The average fast food goer eats at McD’s about three times each month, so he questions what’s going on with the other 87 meals.”
    • to switch from unlimited data and limited voice and text to the other way round. $40 per line, plus $50 for the first gig of data.
    • Try the Booster Brolly, a Solar Umbrella that charges your phone and boosts wireless signal.
  • Platform News
    • Deeper Smarter Fishfinder for Android up for pre-order for $149.
    • Samsung brings NFC to the Masses with TecTiles Programmable Tags, 5 for $15.
    • Apple opted not to delay the launch of the Galaxy S III, so that the case goes to trial sooner. A hearing is set for 6/21 and trial for 7/30.
    • A non-profit organization called Linaro has posted code that significantly boosts Android performance, and has now been baked into AOKP.
    • Try a Lamborghini , only 75,000 rubles($2300) and doesn’t even have .
    • CM9 code freeze has begun. Release Candidates will be done over coming weeks for first round of devices, with additional devices coming afterward.
    • CM7.2 released, adds some backported features from ICS, additional devices supported, and will be the end of the road for some devices, and a stepping stone for those devices that can support CM9.
  • App News
    • NextCall Helps you Keep Track of Contacts You Haven’t Called in a While. (Play Link)
    • New Android Eyes-Free Assistant, Robin, goes nationwide.(Play Link)
    • Android gets an Xbox Live app. The app can be used to view and modify your 3D Xbox avatar, track your achievements, connect with Xbox LIVE friends, and even get news and information from the Xbox Spotlight feeds. (Play Link)
    • Aviary Photo Editor, for when the stock editor is not enough. (Play Link)
    • American Red Cross First Aid App, First Aid being essential. (Play Link)
    • Holo Launcher – Make your Froyo or Gingerbread device look like ICS. (Direct Download Link)
    • Kinectimals comes to Android. Please no… (Play Link)
    • Vonage updated, offers better battery life, bluetooth, and and better voice quality. (Play Link)
    • Amazon Mobile updated, offers new sort and filter options, barcode scanning shortcut, faster navigation, and more. (Play Link) Still no tablet version.
    • Kindle for Android enhanced with tablet experience, including two pages in landscape mode. (Play Link)
    • Magic Piano arrives on Android, Guitar-Hero like game. (Play Link)
    • Hovernote is a Floating notepad app for tablets. (Play Link)
    • Google Authenticator updated with internal clock sync, to avoid generation of incorrect codes.
    • Fast Burst Camera allows pictures up to 30 frames per second if your camera can handle it. (Play Link)

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Episode 95 – Anyone Want to Sell Guru their Phone?

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Android Buffet
– May 14, 2012Posted in: Android Buffet
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No studio audience this week, instead…a guest.

Show Notes

  • Special Guest – Pat Davila – His first computer was a Commodore Vic-20…Pat currently resides in Pennsylvania and runs a collection of Linux machines, as well as Android devices and MythTV setups. He is the co-host of the MythTVCast with former guest Dan Frey, and also of The Linux Link Tech Show. Pat joins us to talk about why Pulseaudio is a bad idea on Android.
  • In honor of Mother’s Day…Me, Android, and my Mom..Son makes ultimate sacrifice, shares tablet with mother. 
  • In other News
    • Wi-Fi Blocking Wallpaper may be commercially available next year. Blocks wi-fi signals, but not cell phone signals
    • In-Flight VoIP call on a smartphone gets founder of Viber escorted off plane. 
    • The Floppy Disk means Save and 14 other anachronistic icons…Radio Buttons, Clipboard, Bookmark, Address Books and Calendars, Voicemail as a Reel to Reel, Manila Folder, Handset phone icon, Magnifying Glass and Binoculars, Envelopes, Wrenches and Gears, Microphones, Polaroids, Televisions, Carbon Copy, Blueprints…
    • Wolfenstein 3-D turns 20 years old, and there is a free browser version.
    • Wi-Fi Alliance is making headway with Passpoint Initiative, which will certify hotspots and routers to handle seamless handoffs between cellular and local wi-fi.  For example, if you’re on AT&T, your phone could potentially transfer to a certified hotspot at a nearby Starbucks (which uses AT&T’s land line broadband connection to serve its Wi-Fi) without having to log in using a browser-based landing page or even an SSID/password combination. T-Mobile is the only carrier committed to Passpoint, the other carriers have indicated interest, but haven’t comitted. 
  • Platform News
    • There’s a new spammy ad system called SellARing that allows associated apps to replace the sound you hear after dialing a number with 10-second audio ads. 
    • Thai government has signed a $32.8 million deal to deploy 400,000 Android 4.0 tablets from Shenzen Scope at $81 each, with an option for 530,000 more. 
    • Are smartphones ad other personal gadgets making us mentally ill?
    • Android is Google’s weapon in the Ecosystem War. 
    • Companies may accept sturdier Android Tablet. There may be stronger interest in Android tablets due to customization possibilities for ruggedized constructions.
    • Requiring a warrant to use cell tower location data would ‘cripple’ criminal investigations, says to DOJ. 
    • The future of 7. CM9 continues, but CM7 will continue. 
    • AT&T CEO says that Google determines update schedule for phones, Google denies this.

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