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The grand 2010 recap post

Wow, cant believe its that time already. 2010 was a pretty great year for me. In Nov 2009 I moved to the User Experience team hoping to be the voice of technology as new projects were conceived and features enhanced. So the year began with me learning the workings of the UX team which was [...]

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Some interesting videos on alternate/future Android UIs

I love Android, I really do. Probably more so for geeky developer-y reasons than anything else. I love the application architectural concepts of Activities and Content Providers that can be mixed and matched to form a complete experience, as well as the fact that it supports true multi-tasking, not the pseudo multi-tasking that iOS supports [...]

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Android Tip: Managing podcasts using Google Listen and Reader

One of the best parts of moving to Android is getting away from iTunes. I have never been a fan of that software and it seems to be getting more and more bloated as time goes by. These days, all I need to do to move songs into my device is just connecting it via [...]

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A month after moving from my iPhone to the Android: some thoughts

For the last few months I have been looking closely and the Android platform. Originally I had expected the Android platform to be a knockoff of the iPhone OS (which I am getting really comfortable developing for), but was pleasantly surprised to discover that under the covers, it was a completely different idea. Between that [...]

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