Author Archives: Ben

Turning off HTC Sense UI on the HTC EVO 4G, Incredible and similar Android phones.

Posted on May 23, 2010 by Ben

If you are lucky enough to have one of the new smoking fast, beautiful Android phones from HTC the Incredible or the EVO 4G you have little to complain about… but… well… some of us just aren’t in love with … Continue reading →

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Wow… ‘spy’ Plays a Small Part in Helping Volcano Stranded Travelers

Posted on April 19, 2010 by Ben

Photo: Sverrir Thor It’s so humbling to see simple social networking tools like spy which I created on a whim be discovered and serve purposes on a level I never would have anticipated. I first saw this when people found … Continue reading →

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Building on the Open Web for the future… there isn’t an App for that.

Posted on January 21, 2010 by Ben

This post is cross-posted from AppliedHTML5.com Photo: Scott Beale / Laughing Squid There is an interesting article I picked up today in Fast Company that quickly and succinctly cuts to the point of what these critical moves forward on the … Continue reading →

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Early Experiments with Web Sockets

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Ben

This post is cross-posted from AppliedHTML5.com Photo: z6p6tist6 Web Sockets are set to revolutionize the way the “real time web” works, today most websites use AJAX as a way to fake a real time dynamic experience… think a stream of … Continue reading →

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Experiment: Browser Based Geolocation – HTML5 Points the Future of the Web

Posted on January 5, 2010 by Ben

The adoption of HTML5 and its surrounding cast of powerful new features is going to be a huge boon to web users and points towards a very positive direction for the future of the web. From the smoother interfaces of … Continue reading →

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A Hands on Post From and About Google’s Chrome OS

Posted on December 28, 2009 by Ben

In order to get my feet wet with Google’s Chrome OS (in it’s current developer build state, Chromium OS properly) and test a real world workflow with this “web only” device I figured I’d put together a blog post with … Continue reading →

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Installing Google Android for Mobile Browser Testing on Mac OS X

Posted on November 6, 2009 by Ben

Browser testing is critical to any web developer, designer… really any web professional. You need to know how your users or customers are seeing your work through the multitude of browsers and devices available to them, new ones become available … Continue reading →

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Embedding my first Google Wave into WordPress!

Posted on June 3, 2009 by Ben

This is a test! Below I embedded my first Wave “Hello World… I mean Wave!”… The first of many likely… let’s see what it looks like out in public… I know many of you probably can’t see it… This is … Continue reading →

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Best Buy speaks Google App Engine at Google I/O 2009

Posted on June 2, 2009 by Ben

I was very excited to not just attend but be a part of Google I/O 2009, Google’s annual developer conference. A Best Buy contingent of Steve Bendt, Gary Koelling and myself as well as uber developers Curtis Thompson and Thomas … Continue reading →

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Problem Solving: Get Google App Engine working on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)

Posted on May 3, 2009 by Ben

By default the Google App Engine SDK doesn’t run on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackelope)… You can fix it! After a little searching I noticed neither posts about this issue nor a quick fix were top of the Google rankings… hoping … Continue reading →

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