Brett Richter's blog

DIY: Adapt a Galaxy Tab media dock into a Galaxy Tab 8.9 media Dock!

Tired of waiting for Samsung to release the media dock for the Galaxy Tab 8.9 (GT-7310/7300). don't want to pay $90 for the privilege?

Continue Reading for my answer!

Android: Galaxy Tab 8.9 running Ice Cream Sandwich?

That's right! I compiled a booting version of Android 4.03 for the Galaxy Tab 8.9, I am not the first, that glory belonds to poisike and _motley over at XDA, I am hoping to work with them to build out a working rom.  RIght now the best it does is boot, and rotate, the touch screen doesn't work (they have a working kernel, so its not hopeless.

EDIT, we have touchscreen working!

keep track of our progress here

Download of the "day" AirReceiver

Question?

Ever wanted the features of the Airport Express on your media center connected Mac (or hackintosh lol)?

Apple AirTunes (note not the newer AirPlay) is a great feature, who wouldn't want to stream music from their (or a guests) laptop to your super mega sound system?  Many new receivers have AirTunes/AirPlay built in but not all of us have the magic seeds to grow money, I present a alternative... Find out more after guess what? The Jump!

Android: Ice cream Sandwich running on Samsung Galaxy S II - AT&T

That is right, just days after Google Released the src code for Android 4.0 aka "Ice Cream Sandwich" your's truly has a early port running on his AT&T Galaxy S II!.  I can't take the credit for creating the rom, the guys in the i9100 xda forum (the international version of my phone) are hard at work, I was just brave enough to try it.  Low and behold it works!  No modem, audio, wifi or bluetooth yet but come on its only been 3 days!

iTweakiT going Google +

 

You may have noticed (or not) the addtion of the "plus one" button next to the "like" button, want to press plus one instead? read on!

Announcing iTweakiT and google +, want and invite, sign up for a FREE iTweakiT account today and be invited to the fastest growing social network from my personal google + circle, see side bar for details.

Becoming a member of iTweakiT is easy, and now rewarding!

OSX Lion: Quick Tip, Where the Hell is Java?

One of the new features of Mac OSX 10.7 "Lion" is the removal of Java (along with flash).  Heres a quick tip on how to install it.

How To

  • Open Terminal and type "java" (no quotes), and hit enter, it will state "No Java runtime present, requesting install."
  • up will pop the software update utility and it will download and install java for you from apple.com

There maybe another way (haven't searched) but here you go, a quick and easy way to get your morning java on Lion.