Andrew Cullison

Within a week of each other, Windows and Apple declared legal war on Google in two separate arenas. Windows Earlier last week the European commission started an anti-trust probe. There were suspicions that Microsoft was behind some of the complaints. Last Friday, Microsoft acknowledged that they were. (Aside: If Google is guilty of anti-trust violation, [...]

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A team of computer scientists from Rutgers University recently revealed a range of nasty things a hacker can do with some simple, difficult to detect, malware. A hacker could text your phone and drain your battery, turn on your microphone and eavesdrop on important conversations, or even turn on your GPS receiver and figure out [...]

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That was fast. Apple announces the iPad, and we already get a response from Google. I definitely would want one of these. Story here.

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Sweet! I’ve been using Wp2Go for Android. I love, and it turns out that the folks at Wordpress love it too. Wordpress merged their Android App project with Wp2Go. Itt looks like this new has a wide array of additional features. If you already use Wp2Go you’ll still need to download the app. Search “wordpress” [...]

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I’m back. The break was great. We went to Jamaica just before Christmas with my wife’s side of the family, and we just finished Christmas with my side of the family. It’s time to start doing some philosophy. The really exciting news is that my wife and my folks went in together and bought me [...]

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UPDATE: androidforacademics.com develops Android Apps for Teachers. Right now they have four apps: Gradebook, Attendance, Grade Rubric, and Grade Ticker. Three of them are free and a free version of the fourth one will be available by February 11, 2011 UPDATE: All of the apps I list below are now annotated. I’ll annotate the other [...]

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Two things happened yesterday. I had my wisdom teeth pulled, and FedEx brought me my new smartphone - the Motorola Droid. So on balance, yesterday was awesome. That’s how great this thing is. Don’t get me wrong,

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UPDATE: 12/28/09 It only took the people over at NookDevs a week to jailbreak the Nook. There is a now a softmod that gets you a web browser. This is what I love about having an eReader that runs the Android open source OS - the odds of us getting the eReader to do what [...]

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I’ve been waiting for the perfect eReader to sweep me off my feet with its native PDF capability and huge file capacity. I thought it would be the Nook, but it looks like the annotation function is missing some desirable features. There’s also salient possibility that PDFs of journal articles will be too small to [...]

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I mentioned how excited I was for the Nook here. A large part of the enthusiasm was that, as an academic philosopher, I really want an eReader that has native PDF support. I want to build a huge, awesome eLibrary of philosophy journal articles. I’m still excited about the Nook, but this enthusiasm has been [...]

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