Monday
Aug242009

Rooted G1 For the Win

I rooted my G1 this weekend after being convinced by an article on Lifehacker.  I think it was a good decision.  I installed the latest Cyanogen Mod, which was just released this weekend.  I really like the new camera, the power widget and most of all the snappyness of the phone now.   Cyanogen says it uses more battery than the standard ROM, but honestly I feel like I was spending so much time waiting for the phone to respond to what I wanted it to do, I suspect that the real trade off in time is very little.

The thing that took the longest was backing up my 8GB SD card.  I also found the MyBackup app to be very handy in quickly getting all of my apps and shortcuts back quickly. (Although I did have to set each one back up... ).   DoggCatcher has a very handy back up capability but a non-obvious way of restoring.    I was able to short circuit the way described in the FAQ by using taskiller to kill the doggcatcher task and then the Lynda File Manager to delete the done.txt.

 

Thursday
Jun252009

MotoRokr T505 + T-Mobile G1 = meh

I recently purchased a Motorola MOTOROKR T505 to enable bluetooth in my car (Honda Civic Hybrid).  I previously used a connector for my phone that let me connect power and a headphone jack to the car.  The audio went to an auxillary jack that was built  in to the car.

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Tuesday
Jun162009

New Beginnings

New college class, new exercising, back to fighting, making a change in schedule.

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Saturday
May302009

Altering the Look of the DNN FAQ Module

I had an issue with the way that the DNN module for FAQ's was behaving. Some extra space was appearing around my lists of questions and breaking up the way the page was supposed to look.  It turns out that the questions were getting these extra <p> tags around them.

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Sunday
May242009

SCA Online OP Improvements, Link to Dynamic Forms Module - Part 2

The purpose of all the settings was to enable a link to be made from my Online OP module to the Datasprings Dynamic Forms module I have set up to take Award Reccommendations.   The first part was to customize this form a bit more so that it would even recognize this data.  The Dynamic Forms Module allows for data to come in in several ways, cookie, session, and querystring.   I decided to use the querystring to send this info forward.  In the advanced options of the question I found the setting I was looking for.

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