What’s been keeping me away from the blog…

No, I haven’t given up blogging. The odd thing is that I’ve written very little this past month and blog visitors has steadily increased, driven primarily by my review of the Droid X. Here’s what is going on in my tech world.

1. I rooted my HTC Incredible before the OTA upgrade with Unrevoked3 and Unrevoked Forever (S-OFF). Following the root, I downloaded Titanium Backup and ROM Manager from the Market. ROM Manager is terrific and shows all the latest ROMs available for your device. I installed the SkyRaider ROM because I couldn’t get Cyanogen to stream music by bluetooth (known bug). While I get all kinds of goodies by rooting and running this ROM, what I particularly like about it is the Kingklik kernel which has dramatically improved battery life when combined with an app killer and JuiceDefender (UltimateJuice).  I also flashed the new antenna after flashing Froyo (S-OFF required). The best set of instructions I could find for rooting and ROMing an Incredible are at Jonamerica. That post includes all things root that you need to know, including how to make nandroid backups.

2. While I really like DropBox (please sign up; it’s free and I need referrals), I also signed up for Evernote which has some added features. The primary difference is DropBox is great for online storage (I drop APKs in there all the time and then install them on my phone through the app) but Evernote actually makes everything searchable, including voice notes. Evernote is a cloud-based journal of sorts.

3. I was granted access to Google’s App Inventor. If you are interested, you can sign up here. In a few hours, I was able to put together a paint program, a phone dialer, a whack-a-mole game and a trivia game.,. and I don’t know the first thing about programming. The online tutorials are awesome. You might want to check them out even if you don’t have access yet to Inventor because they’re easy to follow and you’ll have a head start. Here’s my buzz about App Inventor.

4. Semi-breaking news, that was announced on Google Buzz: My6sense released an Android app for social networking. It learns your behavior, I hear, which enables it to prioritize content.

5. If you haven’t seen my “Google, My Best Guess at What it Will Look Like” post, it’s generating a ton of traffic. While I could be way off, I think you might find it interesting.

6. Samsung is on fire lately. The Galaxy S is a smashing success and the Verizon variant will be released tomorrow. The Galaxy Tab is also generating a lot of buzz. Speaking of which, SamsungUSA is actually on Google Buzz. Follow SamsungUSA for product announcements.

7. Facebook has given me access to “Facebook Questions,” a new feature on the site. It’s much like Yahoo! Answers and should roll out soon.

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