I recently received the Android-based Noble Nook Simple Touch ebook reader as a gift, which I enjoyed very much except for one insanely annoying issue with it: the Nook comes with two “books” on how to operate the reader which apparently cannot be removed by normal means. There is no option to delete them from the Nook [...]
Getting Work Done On Android
With increasingly powerful Android smartphones and tablets, and the vast usability enhancements Android itself has gotten through its various incarnations, it’s increasingly likely that your day to day computer use can be reduced or eliminated by using your mobile device. I myself have not had a desktop computer since 2010 when I first got an [...]
Android 201: How To Automate Your Build
Welcome to Android 201, a series for the Android developer that already has some experience, but wants to take things to the next level. In other words, this is not an Android 101 column focused on teaching new developers how to make an Android app. This is a column focused on teaching developers more about [...]
Sail Free: How To Escape Android’s Pirate Trap
Disclaimer: We here at The Powerbase don’t support piracy of any type, there’s no reason you can’t spend 99 cents on an Android app. The Pirate Trap Anyone who has ever “sideloaded” a paid Android application has probably run into this miserable little quirk in Google’s Android ecosystem: once the Play Store (Market) has seen [...]
Slay Odin With The Mighty Heimdall
This weekend I took on the project of getting Ice Cream Sandwich installed onto a Samsung Galaxy S phone, the Verizon branded Fascinate. Getting the Fascinate to comply with what I believed to be a reasonable request was made difficult by some annoying traits of the hardware itself, but that is a story for another [...]
Kmail 2: Fix ‘Failed to fetch the resource collection’ error and get on with life
Not everyone uses the web to check their mail- though it certainly makes sense to do so. If you are using KMail 2 in Kubuntu 11.10, you may have seen this error. KMail encountered a fatal error and will terminate now. The error was: Failed to fetch the resource collection. This error happened even when [...]