Check out this creative and talented parody of The Shining. I envy people with this much talent. It’s really awesome all the work they put into this kind of stuff. It really doesn’t matter that it is an ad for JavaZone201t. Check out the video after the break.
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The new Google wallet is looking pretty good. Luckily I have the requisite phone, the Nexus S. Only problem is that I don’t have a MasterCard to use it with. The good news is that Google also announced today that most of the other card issuers have made available their NFC specifications.
I can see some really neat things coming out of this. Imagine not having to carry around a wallet anymore and having all your cards at the ready. I’m not speaking of just your credit cards here but rather your frequent shopper cards like Food Lion or BiLo. Also what about coupons. No more clipping those things and having to take them with you. It will be a wonderful world when we all NFC.
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Finally got Windows 8 Dev Preview installed today in VirtualBox. Don’t know why I didn’t think of that first. Oh well. Here’s the settings I used. The networking is specifically important seems a lot of people have had trouble getting it set up. I will update this more later. Looks great as you can see from the picture below. Tiles look just like Windows Phone 7 and are designed for tablets users. My settings are after the break…
From time to time you might want to get a copy of your contacts from your Android phone. Normally any contacts that you add to your phone will automatically be uploaded to your Gmail account. However, for one reason or another they might not have. For example if the phone was never set up with a Gmail address or was set up with one after the contacts were added. Either way its a good idea to have a backup copy. How to do this will vary with which version you have. The steps below are for Android 2.1 (Eclair) but will also work on most other versions with minor changes.
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Just tried to install it on my system but failed with the 64 bit version. After installed system failed to setup based on incompatible hardware configuration. I think I’m going to wait till the next version comes out to play with it.
Also not very keen on the new boot manager. Causes the system to reboot every time a different OS is selected.