June 2011

Update: Acer Iconia A500 Tablet:

Submitted by Brett Richter on Thu, 2011-06-30 01:09

i've been the proud owner of the Acer Iconia A500 tablet for about 2 months now. I thought it was time for a update and follow up post/review on its been going

If you've been using my how-to on rooting your Acer, there have been some major developments since then. (see updated post).

Video: Android: Rooting the Acer A500: Updated 6/29

Submitted by Brett Richter on Thu, 2011-06-30 00:29

Update 6/29/2011

This video how-to is only for 3.0. or 3.0.1, if you have updated to Honeycomb 3.1, the procedure is a bit different now.

For Android 3.1

Download to your tablet the following: file
Goto Settings->Applications and enable "Unkown sources"
Copy the file to your Iconia (if you downlowded it to your computer)
Install the APK & start the tool
Click "root"

Special thanks to the guys over at XDA and sc2k for his quick work!

For Android 3.0. 3.0.1

"Rooting the Acer A500 Tablet"

Resolution Revolution!

Submitted by Brett Richter on Wed, 2011-06-29 11:25

Viva La Resolution!

I was thinking this as I setup my 27" iMac and 27" cinema display here at my office. That is allot of Desktop Real-estate! But how did we get here? It wasn't that long ago we were starring at a flickering VGA screen thinking, wow 256 colors! Find out more after the jump!

Resolution

History

iMac

What Would MacGyver Do?

Submitted by Brett Richter on Wed, 2011-06-22 11:19

Yesterday i was filming 2 upcoming how-to's and i realized i had lent a friend my video camera, kind of hard to film without one right? not so! with some good old fashioned "macguyvering" and my trusty iPhone 4 i was able to finish my task, and the fix was as simple as one paperclip some bailing wire a stick of chewed gum (eww), hah kidding find out after the jump!

First Impressions: Apple iOS 5, Are you pondering what I'm pondering?

Submitted by Brett Richter on Wed, 2011-06-15 08:23

Imitation is the highest form of flattery as they say, and looks like the droid should feel mighty flattered! As the (fabulous don't you think?) graphic suggests it seems Apple has decided to "adopt" a few of Google’s ever improving mobile OS features.

More after the jump!

Quick Tip/Fix: Mac OSX Start up Disk, "The case of the missing disk space"

Submitted by Brett Richter on Sun, 2011-06-12 23:52

This Picture says it all right? If you don't recoginize it, its from "Sex and the City" Carrie and Adian are at "Tech Serve" (pre apple store days) Trying to recover her crashed "wallstreet powerbook" hard drive, after she recieved the "sad mac".

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June 2011

Update: Acer Iconia A500 Tablet: