20120325 USB Tethering with wicd, an Android phone and ArchLinux

It seems wicd doesn’t automagically use the tethered interface, unlike GNOME’s network manager. So to get it to work, first we need to find out the name of the tethered interface (i.e. you need to have the phone connected and tethering enabled at this point already). It should be something like usb0. To find this [...]

20120314 aafm revision 4

It’s been too long since the last update to aafm, “the Android ADB File Manager”, which is a shame! I guess I should apologise, but I’ve been horribly busy these last months. I didn’t even have time to write a post apologising about not having time! Hah! Anyway, let’s fix it right now! The latest [...]

20120228 MWC 2012

I had the opportunity of visiting the Mobile World Congress this morning. This was my first time there, so I didn’t know what to expect!

20120219 Android SDK with Open JDK 1.7 and IntelliJ IDEA 11

I updated my installation of IntelliJ IDEA to the latest version and suddenly I couldn’t compile any Android project, getting a message telling me the .class files couldn’t be found. Very puzzling! I tried upgrading the JDK from Openjdk 6 to Open JDK 7, but the Android SDK refused to compile because it wanted a [...]

20111116 Instantanea 1.4.2

I uploaded the update yesterday, but the Market was still showing the old description and pictures, so I didn’t bother posting about it until they flushed their very jealous cache. Which means that Instantanea has an update! The first in many months! (I actually had been working on a myriad of things since then, so [...]