Tag: mobiles
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Intercepting HTTPS Traffic from Android Emulator
A brief guide to decrypting HTTPS traffic sent to/from Android apps.
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Review of Vodafone
This review of Vodafone originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan. Vodafone, 3 Cornmarket St, Oxford OX1 3EX, United Kingdom. Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ Like most mobile phone shops, this one enjoys a confusing layout and less-than-completely-helpful staff.
If you know exactly what you want then you can have a reasonable experience, but if you … -
AMP Is Poisonous
AMP, Google's technology that tries to make the mobile web faster by giving Google a monopoly over it, is fucking poisonous and it destroys everything that makes the Web great. Reject AMP!
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Pocket Searching
Accidental pocket-dialling is so last decade. Dan's been practicing accidental pocket-searching, and he's coming up with some strange results.
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Phone Security == Computer Security
Dan gets paranoid and despairs about the ease with which mobile devices can be stolen, the wealth of personal information stored on them, and the under-use of readily-available encryption tools.
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Cardless Cashpoints
RBS Group banks now offer the ability to withdraw cash from ATMs without using a bank card, by making the withdrawal request from their mobile app. Dan gives it a go, and shares his thoughts on the process.
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One Hundred And Sixty
Dan reminisces about old mobile phones, text messages, and those 160-character limits we learned to work around. Twitter could learn from this...
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Searching For A Virgin
GMail's Contacts search surprises Dan by returning an unexpected result. Also, Dan is a beautiful person: his mobile phone says so.
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Idea: mobile app that uses camera and shifts colour-balances to make colours "visible"
I'm not colourblind, and I'm not really a mobile developer, so maybe there's something I've missed, but I've got an idea for an app and I thought I'd run it by you guys to see if there's something I've missed.
Mobile processing power is getting better and better, and we're probably getting … -
I have multiple GMail accounts. I'd like to see a different notification icon for each. Any suggestions?
The first of the two apps mentioned in this article - "Gmail Notifier" - sounds perfect, but doesn't seem to exist any more.
GMail Notifier + Widgets looks like it might do it (it's designed to do different icons depending on labels). Does anybody have any experience with this?
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What's Wrong With My Phone
Dan finally puts his finger on what it is about his new phone that he doesn't fully get on with, and goes on to complain about the state of smartphones and mobile devices these days, which are being "dumbed down" to the lowest common denominator.
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A New Sensation
Dan's phone breaks, and even though the damage is minor and repairable, he gets a new one, simply because (a) he loves to get new geeky toys and (b) he thinks that the Universe talks to him through the medium of technical faults. Here's his review of the HTC Sensation, his new phone.
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Mobile One-Time-Passwords in Ruby
A Ruby-based implementation of the Mobile One-Time-Password system, providing two-factor authentication for Rails applications, among other things.
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Geeky Winnage With Bluetooth
Geeky winnage! This evening I wrote a pair of applications enabling me to use my new Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone as a remote control for WinDVD, the DVD playing software I use on my computer.
Not just a geeky project, this is fuelled by a genuine need: every Troma Night, when the pizza arrives, we end up … -
Off To Norfolk!
Claire and I are leaving Aberystwyth for Norfolk! Off to spend Christmas with her folks before heading up to Preston on Boxing Day to be with my family.
Have barely begun wrapping presents. For that matter, I still haven't had delivered my mum's present. Or one of Claire's. Damned freaky postmen. Or something.
In any case, I'll …