Android Resources
Rooting, restoring system apps, etc...
Below are some resources I found useful to clean out my phone and also repair when things go wrong.
Phone Apps
GPS Test -...[More]
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Nothing But Nothing
Always in a rush because you'll do nothing but nothing if you die... And who knows how long it'll be before you're reborn again.
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Dreaming in a Coma
Living the dream until waking to find you've been dreaming in a coma...
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Theme de La Cite des Enfants Perdus OST 1C
Thème de La Cité des Enfants Perdus OST 1C by Angelo Badalamenti
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Chrome as a Spider
Helping Google find pages not necessarily linked anywhere...
Interesting discussion at Webmaster World on how Google might be indexing pages that are otherwise private or hidden from the rest of the world. Ran into this a few times myself when trying to set up a few heavy-load test scripts, only for it to get indexed and get outside hits as well. <_<Some of the discussion floating around has been centered on the parsing of URLs in gmail messages, as well as indexing pages someone using Chrome or Google toolbar visits.
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Can and Saw in Delicatessen
Recently watched "Delicatessen" by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro (very interesting film by the way
). Ironically what caught my attention a lot more in the film were the toys, particularly the moo-ing can and saw used as an instrument.
For a while, I could not figure out what the can was actually called (Googling something without a name is hard), but I managed to find the item here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001K7OHNI/
They call it...[More]

For a while, I could not figure out what the can was actually called (Googling something without a name is hard), but I managed to find the item here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001K7OHNI/
They call it...[More]
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Favorites
My lists here will be quite sparse compared to other people's. I generally put a lot more weight into what I consider a "favorite" before adding, so there are works and inspirational figures I probably like but aren't here simply because they didn't leave a strong enough impact.
My interests are pretty wide ranging and hard to bucket, probably from the diversity of works I was exposed to having spent most of my childhood online, in books, and in movies/games. I read pretty much everything I could get my hands on as early as 3rd grade, though it's toned down a bit now. I probably read too much in elementary, going through as much as a hundred novels a year and ending up with 5.0 diopters of nearsightedness by 7th grade (though I've trained myself to never need glasses outside of reading, even in skiing or tennis). For music, I started off more in games, world/ethnic, and (Goa)(Psy)Trance/Techno/DnB before starting to listen to film and...[More]
My interests are pretty wide ranging and hard to bucket, probably from the diversity of works I was exposed to having spent most of my childhood online, in books, and in movies/games. I read pretty much everything I could get my hands on as early as 3rd grade, though it's toned down a bit now. I probably read too much in elementary, going through as much as a hundred novels a year and ending up with 5.0 diopters of nearsightedness by 7th grade (though I've trained myself to never need glasses outside of reading, even in skiing or tennis). For music, I started off more in games, world/ethnic, and (Goa)(Psy)Trance/Techno/DnB before starting to listen to film and...[More]
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Fixing a Mac White Screen or Not Booting
Failure to Boot on a Mac, White Screen of Death...
Had a few friends who have run into a white screen on bootup for their Macs after dropping it or having a power failure. Rather than have to send in for repair (time + money), a much easier fix is detailed at The Pabster's Notebook.
The basic idea is that the Hard Drive boot sector got corrupted, but the Mac continues to try to boot from it. The system disc doesn't help because the OS doesn't try to boot from anything else unless the hard drive is first disconnected.
Once that...[More]
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Freedom, Power, Purpose
Freedom wants power. Power wants purpose. Purpose wants freedom.
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Heart and Mind
The heart longs to move forward but does not understand.
The mind is all-knowing but does not think it can.
The mind is all-knowing but does not think it can.
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Intel 320 80GB SSD vs Mushkin Chronos 120GB SSD
Just a bit background on why I bother - had a disappointing upgrade from the Samsung 64GB SSD that came with my Dell XPS M1330 to Intel's 320 80GB SSD. The Samsung drive was already several years old, so I thought it'd be worth upgrading to a modest SSD - Intel seemed safe. Turns out after running the drive for a while, I noticed programs tended to load rather slowly. I had installed my Samsung drive to another computer and decided to start up the same programs in parallel - the Samsung drive was up to a quarter faster at times. Definitely not very happy about that, considering it was several years older (did technology downgrade over the years???)
Anyways, for space reasons again, I went out to upgrade to another SSD. This time to the Mushkin Chronos which is rated generally among the same speeds as the top performing drives currently, though much less expensive. Fairly content with it so far. It is definitely faster than the Intel at...[More]
Anyways, for space reasons again, I went out to upgrade to another SSD. This time to the Mushkin Chronos which is rated generally among the same speeds as the top performing drives currently, though much less expensive. Fairly content with it so far. It is definitely faster than the Intel at...[More]
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Messing with EQ and Mastering
Just spent all evening looking through EQ tutorials. Fun stuff. 
This one was most helpful imo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESVRCT28d5o
You really do need an analyzer to pick out the bad frequencies to cut. I wish I knew this stuff sooner - would save me a lot of headaches trying to make my stuff sound cleaner.
Current song in experimentation is "Nightfall." We'll see how clean I can make this next piece...

This one was most helpful imo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESVRCT28d5o
You really do need an analyzer to pick out the bad frequencies to cut. I wish I knew this stuff sooner - would save me a lot of headaches trying to make my stuff sound cleaner.
Current song in experimentation is "Nightfall." We'll see how clean I can make this next piece...

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