Mervyn Alamgir on March 25th, 2009

Now that the Android Marketplace has been available for a couple of months, I thought it would be a good time for a round-up of the tether apps currently available. I have mentioned in an earlier post the types of tethering available and different configuration options with your G1 phone. I also wrote about the first [...]

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Mervyn Alamgir on February 25th, 2009

I mentioned in an earlier post the convenience of having your SMS message popup even when the screen is locked, well how about having the message spoken to you when it arrives? There is really no technical reason why it can’t come to fruition considering Android has a Text-to-Speech (TTS) app that can be downloaded [...]

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Mervyn Alamgir on February 22nd, 2009

It seems like there are a ton of SMS apps on the Android Marketplace, but can they all be great? I thought I would share what is working well for me and maybe that will help a small percentage of Android and G1 users find something that works for them as well.
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Mervyn Alamgir on February 15th, 2009

Over the past summer I was doing a lot of my work at the local coffee shops. I am a huge fan of coffee shops as workspaces especially if you are a consultant. It is a semi-quiet environment, you can listen to your music, there is a constant stream of caffeine  and most importantly, no one [...]

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Mervyn Alamgir on December 16th, 2008

After spending a couple of weeks with the Google Chrome browser, I now can see an advantage of the ‘new tab’ screen that presents your top 9 sites most frequently visited. On the right side you’ll see an image of my top 9 and here is a brief description of my daily Web browsing which [...]

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Mervyn Alamgir on December 1st, 2008

Today there was an announcement from Google about an update to Chrome that will support browser extensions. These extensions are very popular in Firefox because they enhance the Web surfing experience by removing unwanted ads, flash videos and other annoyances. In my previous write up about Chrome I didn’t mention extensions as a major hole [...]

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Mervyn Alamgir on November 30th, 2008

A couple of days ago I decided to try out Google’s Chrome browser. I had heard the browser was faster which is one of the reasons I wanted to test drive it. The other reason is that I had a lot of my other information already being serverd by Google (google reader, gmail, picasa, G1, [...]

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