Episode 133 – Twenty Pounds of Awesome in a Five Pound Bag

By | February 5, 2013

The classic red-and-white Etch A Sketch model

Guru and Jere are joined by special guest, Pat Archibald.


Show Notes

  • In Other News
    • Andre Cassagnes, the Inventor of the Etch A Sketch dies in France at 86.
    • FTC Suggests Privacy Guidelines for Mobile Apps.
    • AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon agree to investigate sharing spectrum with the government.
    • Netflix unveils its first independent original series…releases whole 13 episodes at once. Is this the future?
  • How to Tag Wifi Access Points as mobile hotspots.
  • Apps? No root? Your Device Serves Others. The creator of the World Wide Web is in favor of open standards such as HTML5
  • App News
    • Pocket Casts 4 is coming, maybe sooner than later.
    • Carbon for Android the Twitter Client is now available. (Play Link)
    • Carbon for Android…the other one. A backup tool for Android that doesn’t require root, but does require a desktop app to install an app with privileges if you don’t have root. (Play Link)
    • Google Music updated, expands limit on instant mixes, increased shuffle, new default album art, previous button added to widget, and more. (Play Link)
    • HD Widgets 3.8 released, offers new theming support and notification widgets.  (Play Link)
    • Foursquare for Business allows managing locations from Android device. (Play Link)
    • ICS Task Manager/Switcher offers ICS-like recent app switch on earlier systems. (Play Link)
    • TWRP 2.4 continues to innovate.
    • Google+ is now updated with a new notifications tray, community moderation features, and support for adding a link when creating a post. (Play Link)
    • Wine on Android demoed at FOSDEM,
    • Delta App updated, allowing domestic flight purchase, trip extras and more. (Play Link)
  • Platform News
    • Cerberus helps user find phone as internet watches.
    • Google pushes 4.2.1 to AOSP.