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Why I’m not upgrading to the official 2.2
Sep 1st
So the official OTA 2.2 Droid Incredible Update is finally live.
But I’m not upgrading.
So to install this, I would have to unroot my phone. There is no way to root this version of 2.2, so I won’t be able to use my beloved Wireless Tether.
Now I already have a leaked version of 2.2 so I get everything of 2.2 other than the 720p video recording, but I get my wireless tether. So it really becomes a tradeoff between the wireless tether and 720p recording. Now I know that 2.2 has the built in 3G mobile hotspot, but that holds me at 2GB and costs me another $20/mo. Riiiight.
So I’ve decided to stay how I am with a partial 2.2 update and stick with my Wireless Tether until they find a way to easily root this version of 2.2.
P.S. Sorry for the lack of posts, I have a few more coming soon. 
Wireless Tether with Droid Incredible
Aug 20th
So let’s just say that you are driving somewhere and you have your computer (or iPad or iPod touch for that matter) along with your droid incredible. Well now for free (actually, the expense of battery life) you can use your Droid Incredible as a wifi tether, so you can have an iPad on verizon.
Sadly, the speeds are dramatically reduced to a groping 70 kb/s. But I think it’s better than nothing. Can load pages, not so great for downloads and video/audio streaming such as youtube or pandora.
Step 1. Make sure your phone is rooted. Just do steps 1-4 of the tutorial HERE (continue the steps to install android 2.2, if desired!).
Step 2. On your incredible go to THIS LINK (try using chrometophone, review on that soon!)
Step 3. Once the link is downloaded open it and install the application.
Step 4. Open the application on your phone.
Step 5: Press menu and go into the settings and change around your preferences. change the SSID, and add a passphrase. Enable access control if desired.
Step 6: Press the big tether button.
Step 7: On your wifi enabled device go to the network selection and select the nework name that you had entered in the SSID preferences. Enter your asscode and Voila, you can connect to the internet!
One of the cool benefits of this is that you can be on the internet while in a car. Cool, eh?
OmniWeb
Aug 6th
I’m sorry. I really am. This is, indeed, yet another web browser.
I was recently at a technology summer camp (I’m taking a class about photoshop) and the same instructor that ended up switching me over to macs kept telling me about how mazing omniweb was. I wasn’t convinced until I finally decided to download it.
The first thing you notice is speed. I know that people call chrome fast, and, well, it is. But from tests on Good Morning Geek, it seems as though graphics render either faster or from top to bottom. I’m pretty sure omniweb prioritizes the top of the page for rendering, as the header seems to appear almost instantly, followed by widgets in the sidebar. In chrome, it takes a couple of seconds for the header to appear.
Other than that the big thing is tabbed browsing. So lets say I have a lot of tabs open in Safari. I mean a LOT. In the menubar it shows the tabs as txt, the name of the webpage. But when it gets crowded things get a little harder to make out.
(click to expand) As you can tell, it’s kind of hard to tell which news article that CNN page is about. What if I have ten CNN tabs open but all I see at the top is CNN:…
OmniWeb takes a new approach. Thumbnails.
I don’t even need to figure out what the text is trying to refer to, I can just take a glance at the tabs and click the one I want to look at. And even if I have 20 tabs open, the thumbnails don’t get smaller because you can scroll through all of your thumbnails.
Another cool thing is the ability to load tabs in the background. I know this isn’t new to the field of browsers but I find that the system it uses to tell you that a tab in the background is loading (and when it is finished loading) very unique.
When a tab is loading it is greyed out and has a spinny thing in the top right.
When a tab in the background has finished loading, OmniWeb does a nice job of letting you know.
If you open the tab the check mark wil go away.
Other than that there is one more key feature to this: site-specific browsing options.
On any website you can click a button in the top right and select your options for ads, appearance, security– let’s just show a screenshot.
The button to toggle the pane is shown in the top right.
As you can see there is also a page info pane where it shows you all of the images, scripts, stylesheets, and frames on a webpage. Here’s a gallery with pictures of each and every pane, plus all of the other screenshots from this post:
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- The button to toggle the pane is shown in the top right.
Well, back to making fun of Microsoft
Jul 16th
Unless of course you live under a rock, you have heard about the terrible antenna problems the iPhone 4 has been having. Basically, if you put your hand over the left black line, all of your signal drops. Apple was having a PR disaster, but today Apple held a press conference and it seems that the truths were revealed.
But I must say, Apple wasn’t playing fair here.
First, Steve Jobs ponts out how all of the smartphones antennagate. He showed test videos of many popular phones including the BlackBerry Bold. This is simply putting down the competition and saying “we can’t go against the laws of physics… yet.” [Steve Jobs]. Fine.
So I got curious and asked I wonder if my phone does this…
Well, I gutters its back to making fun of microsoft…
That concludes this postapalooza…
Jun 27th
Our first postapalooza lasted from June twelfth to the twenty fourth! We had a total of twenty three posts!!
This postapalooza ended because I missed a day among all of my travel to Japan. If you think I missed a day or doubleposted, its just because of the time zone change.
Another reason is because I ran out of things to blog about. That’s why id like to have your suggestions. Click the suggestions tab on the left and suggest something that goes along these guidelines:
Technology related
Won’t cost me more than $5 (if its an iPhone or iPad app)
Thanks! I’ll try to make a postapalooza happen every quarter. 
Media Temple (mt)
Jun 22nd
If you’ve been reading Good Morning Geek since 2008, you may remember the times of maxswisher.blogspot.com. I liked that because it was completely free and easy. Then you may remember the times of goodmorninggeek.wordpress.com. Just as easy and free. Then, you may have realized that goodmorninggeek.com worked. That was just a redirect.
I was getting tired of not having much flexibility and storage (I was on Hurricane Electric which gave me 5GB/mo.), and because I was now earning some more money, I decided to get some real hosting of my own.
After asking around at the Teens In Tech conference, I concluded that Media Temple would be right for me.
I signed up for the Grid Server (gs) plan, which is 100GB, $20/mo (or $200/yr), and 1TB of bandwidth.
I had no idea that those $20 gave me SO MUCH.
I got
- Email with built in spam filtering
- FTP
- 24/7 help
But there were 2 things that really made it for me.
1-Click applications
Using this service I installed wordpress on this domain with a FEW (:O) clicks. I then imported the posts from goodmorninggeek.wordpress.com. You can install wordpress, drupal, and zen-cart with 1 click.
Multiple domains to one service
Because it is grid server, I can have different domains linking to different directories on a single hosting. That means that maxswisher.com, goodmorninggeek.com, teentechie.net, and every sub-domain is on a single $20/mo. hosting plan.
Definitely recommend this to everybody who is looking to host their own website. In fact, skribit (they power the suggestions tab on the left) uses (mt). Who knew?!
http://mediatemple.net
[BUGGED] Favorite→RT
Jun 19th
You may not know this, but it is possible to favorite a tweet. It’s supported in all twitter clients and the website.
Unfortunately, it is difficult to see what tweets a user has favorited (I haven’t been able to). But this service from my friend Spencer Schoeben makes it so a [yourtwitternamehere]favs account will retweet every tweet you favorite.
For this example, I will be using the TeenTechie twitter account.
Step 1
The account that will have the favorites is considered the “Primary account”. For this example, that would be TeenTechie. We need to create the favorites account that will retweet the tweets that TeenTechie (the primary account) favorites. That account should be [primaryusername]favs (TeenTechiefavs). Go to twitter and create the account.
Step 2
Go to http://spncr.me/favrt and click Sign in to Twitter at the bottom of the page.
Step 2
Frown in disappointment about the errors that occur.
Don’t worry, the problem should be fixed in a little bit. Once it is fixed, I’ll write a post that shows you how to create the account SUCCESSFULLY!.
In the meanwhile, save that [primaryusername]favs account, and while you wait, you might want to create a picture by taking the Primary account’s photo and putting a star in the bottom right (to denote the favorites account).
Thanks! I’m sure it will be fixed soon, Spencer says he’s ON IT and fixing it ASAP. Now smile in happiness for what is to come. 
Cooliris
Jun 19th
We all have media we want to look at. These days, video and images are quite the hubbub. Cooliris is a way to “immerse yourself” into your content using a 3D wall.
Using it is very simple. Go to a google image or youtube search and click the cooliris wall button in the top right (in Safari). Your google image search will be displayed on a 3d wall. To go across the wall, you can
- Click and dragx
- Click the arrows at the bottom of the screen
- Click and drag the blue doohickey to the left of right
- Horizontally scroll with your mouse
If you find an image you like, you can click on it to view it and get more information about it.
This process works on many different media sites including flickr, YouTube, and more.
When you are in the cooliris wall you can search these sites instantly with the search bar on the top. You can also use the sidebar on the left to navigate through different sources like news, entertainment, featured, etc. You can even view pictures on your computer!
Here’s a video showing cooliris in action:
Sorry, the video isn’t in good quality.
Currently, I am an intern at Cooliris doing bug testing a brainstorming. I did in fact do a review of Cooliris a long time ago, but many new features have been added (and more are on the way).
Cooliris homepage
Cooliris download page
