Google Wave

@ the Google I/O 2009, day 2, Google unveiled it's latest new web app, the Google Wave. It's basically Facebook, but with an added touch of real timeness, live editing collaboration. Did I mention it has a built in spell checker, which they affectionately named it "Spelly"? It is definitely faster and more fluid than Facebook. It supports drag and drop! Right now it is still under development, but I can see in the future, this will replace organizing events in gmail. There are a bunch of neat gadgets/extensions under development (aka apps in Facebook). See for yourself.

The reason why the Wii is #1

So is there really any reason to doubt the Wii's success in the video console market? I know... it doesn't have next gen graphics, and third party games suck. But come on, Nintendo systems are totally hackable, in a user friendly kind of way. Someone has figured out how to back up and play Wii games from an external hard drive, without soldering or even taking your Wii apart. Need I say more? Go do it now!

Jing - Video Capturing for Free

Here's one I didn't freeload off lifehacker.com. Jing is a free video web capture program for your video capturing needs. There is a lite and pro version, but the lite version should be sufficient. The only difference is lite records the videos into a .swf file, while the pro is in mpeg. That won't matter since we can always find a way to convert it.

Show Document makes web collaboration easy

Want to collaborate with your classmates or colleagues via the net for free? Show Document makes it easy for you to work on a whiteboard, document, even share a browser session. I love productivity web apps. = )

Unrooted G1 to Rooted with Cupcake

Here's a guide from Android and Me that will take your unrooted G1 all the way to the Cupcake update (plus root it along the way). I decided earlier to use the Haykuro's HTC dream build, but I later found JesusFreke already had a custom 1.5 build. The JFupdater app couldn't have made it any easier. On screen keyboard and video recording here I come!

The nifty thing about the update is that the mountd.conf no longer exists and the init.rc has been modified. Here are the contents of init.rc

on system
mount cramfs loop@/system/modules/modules.cramfs /system/modules ro
mount cramfs loop@/system/xbin/xbin.cramfs /system/xbin ro

To my surprise, my SD card's ext2 partition was automatically mounted. The apps on my SD loaded without any problems. The initial boot after you update to cupcake may take a long while, so don't fret.

Oh by the way, don't forget to update the cupcake radio image!

Android HTC Hero Build

What is this HTC Hero build you ask? Good question. I just learned about it myself, but it seems to be the same build they are using for the HTC magic. The cool thing about it is, you can port it to your G1. This HTC build has the android 1.5 cupcake update, and much more. Looks like I will need to do some modding on my phone once again. I will update once I get a chance to update my phone.

Wolfram Alpha

This is an interesting search engine. At Wolfram Alpha, you can search for computational answers rather than search links. Whether it's mathematical, scientific, historical, or geographical info, this website can compute it. You can read more about it at lifehacker.com. This site would have been helpful during my high school/college years.