MIUI Theming Mania!

I made the mistake of having some free time on Sunday, so I got sidetracked putting the latest version of MIUI on my Droid X. I'll do a quick side note for anybody who wants it on there too: You'll need some files, so start downloading: The latest version of MIUI (1.9.23) or direct link Your Droid X should ...

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Hacked!

My apologies to anybody who got redirected to some spammy site after visiting here. I didn't discover that I'd been hacked until last week, and it took a while to track down. Anyway, I thought I'd write a bit about how they did it and what to watch out for. Symptoms I used to have open comments ...

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Soliloquy

Design of Information just get's more interesting! For our 3rd homework, we had to take Shakespeare's plays (XML-d by Jon Bosak) and display their data in some interesting way. I went with Android as it's the medium I'm most comfortable with. Soliloquy is the app's name and it was churned out in about 6 hours ...

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Journal #1: HW1

This is the first post in my blog-based journal for my CS 4364 capstone class at Virginia Tech. It is Design of Information, and we are being asked to write journal entries throughout the class relating to homeworks, projects, and just about anything else worth writing about. I may move it somewhere else later, but ...

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OneSeven: How to get the time zone

Over the weekend I got bored with my homescreen. I tried several widgets like BattStatt, Tajm, dClock, and TypoClock, but they all took up at least 2 rows of my homescreen, or I didn't need the information. I loved dClock's week display since the actual day isn't obviously visible on Android anywhere but the lock ...

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