New Google+ Page!

    I created a Google+ Page for the blog to try and gain more followers. I hope that more people will start following once again. I'm going to try and start posting more and I also need more writers for my blog so if your interested contact me! This is just for fun it's not a job or anything I just do it for a hobby. Anyways I hope you guys like the blog and what I'm posting hopefully I Get more interesting stuff soon!

You can find our page HERE!

New Go Launcher Ex Themes

Lately I have been making more Go Launcher Ex Themes and uploading them to the Android Market. A new ThemeFactory has been released and I encourage Artistically talented people to make a theme or two. If you like my themes please consider buying one of my paid themes as a donation!

GreenDroid Donation

Market Link

SpaceOdyssey

 

Market Link

Rainbow Circles

Market Link

retroPlus 

Market Link 
This is a CM7 Theme I ported to Go Launcher the Original can be found HERE,


Screenshot Gallery of all my Themes
My Go Launcher Theme Thread on XDA

Note: My Zelda Theme and Facebook Theme are no longer on the Market because of Copyright issues so if you want them they can be found in Theem Thread.

Why I don't like Apple.

Most of you know I don't like Apple (I make it pretty obvious) I have multiple reasons why that is. I've had many bad experiences with Apple's products. In high school I used Macs for two years in my media production class because of data corruption (which happened for no apparent reason) my 3 week project was lost this happened to me twice.

A lot of people don't know this but for 3 months I owned an iPhone (it didn't have service though) but honestly that didn't matter the fact that it was so uncustomizable and was locked to one computer and forced you to use iTunes made it horrible.

Now let's evaluate this more. Yes in many ways mac is better in that it has (until recently) better security than Windows. Next up it has a lot of good software that comes with it iMovie, garage band, ect. It is based off of Unix (but if I want to go that route I would choose the better free OS Ubuntu which I dual boot already). They are made to be so insanely simple anyone can use them (or so I'm told I have yet to find that to be true but I haven't learned all the new shortcuts on it).

Now here is why it isn't good. All Apple hardware is "proprietary" but after IBM ditched Apple and Intel started making the hardware that became mostly a lie. Yes the adapters and such are all custom but the actual hardware is exactly the same hardware that is used in a PC. Now that brings me to my next reason why I dislike Apple all their products are horribly over priced your paying for hardware that you can get on a PC for $300-$600 on a Mac it cost $900 to $2500. If I wanted to use Mac OS X I could download it and install it on a computer I paid $300 for because it's the exact same hardware just in a different package. The software for Macs is very limited and uncustomizable I have thousands if not more of applications for a PC or a Linux computer than a Mac.

My conclusion is that if people did their research and tried other products they would find much better products for less money with more options and openness. Now for phones, tablets and media players (not a lot yet but very soon there will be quite a few) there is Android which is an open source operating system based on Linux created and maintained by Google. You can do anything you want on Android devices from installing non-market applications out of box to completely replacing the OS with another unofficial customized or newer version of the software. I plug my phone into my computer and it comes up as an external drive I can drag and drop files to it or use any program to sync to it. Or I can throw files on it over a network. My homescreen is completely customizable with apps, widgets, live wallpaper, and themes on IOS you have an endless row of unorganized apps and you can have a different wallpaper no custom anything without jail breaking your device and even then the unofficial stuff is limited by what the OS allows.

For computers there are many options if you don't like Windows I understand Windows does not have a good track record for being secure and 75% of viruses are for Windows XP (so get a Win7 PC that resolves this problem!). The main security issue is the user, if you use good Anti-virus software which you should on any OS and you exercise caution you won't get viruses. I haven't had a virus effect my computer for like 5 years (excluding the time I was away for two years I couldn't protect what my sibilings did to my pc) so it is possible not to have viruses attack our PC every second of the day if you train your self the right security precautions.  If you want to use something other then Windows use Ubuntu Linux it's probably more secure then Mac OS X and best of all it's FREE and 99% of the software that runs on it is FREE. It will do everything your Mac does and most things a PC will do. I choose to use Windows because I am more proficient with it but if the new version goes in a direction I don't like I'll just switch to Ubuntu Linux. Now the reasons I will never use macs are that they are overpriced and completely closed off, they force you to use their software, their unupgradable/unfixable hardware, they sell you a product that does less for more of your money when other products that cost less money are in reality better. This is all from my experiences with technology in all three major OSes of Computers and other electronics of course everyone has the right to their own opinion on the matter but I hope that you re-evaluate yours based on the information I have presented to you in this blog post.

Google+

Google+ for Android

I just thought I would take a little time to talk about Google+ or G+ as a lot of people are referring to it now. G+ is Google's new social network to rival Facebook. When it first came out I wasn't sure if I liked it and how simple it was but as I dove in more and more I was able to find that G+ has many useful features that Facebook lacks.

First of all it's different in the fact that if you have someone in your circle (instead of friends you have circles) you are following those people and you may or may not be in the other person's circle. Similar to following people on Twitter, circles are independent of everyone else's profile so if you or the other person chooses they can be removed with out anyone ever knowing. It's also a simple way to conveniently separate people into their proper social groups aka Family, Friends, Acquaintances, and people who you're just following.

Next up in G+'s line of features is drag and drop sharing of pictures and videos and soon files as well. I find it way more time consuming to upload pictures to Facebook, on G+ I just type my comment drag and drop my pictures or videos and click share, choosing who I want to share it with (everyone, extended circles, specific circles, or only certain people.). Personal messages can be done privately via the main page by simply choosing only that person to share a comment with, thus resolving the dreaded personal message wall posts Facebook is plagued with.

Now my all time favorite feature offered by G+ is the Hangout. When you "Hangout" on G+ you enter into a multi-person video chat which you can have up to ten people in, simultaneously, all with their own webcams and microphones! In addition to that you are able to have text and watch YouTube videos together even videos that have a live feed! To hangout you simply click the green "Start a Hangout" button on the right side of the screen and choose who you want to invite (just like sharing things, you can choose everyone, extended circles, specific circles, or only certain people.). Once you do this it will post an invitation that shows who is in the hangout and it will show up on everyone's feed who was invited. You can also add people by sharing the url that the hangout has which is unique to that specific hangout.

In Addition to the actual website that G+ has, there is also an Android application which has an auto-upload feature for pictures and videos you take with your Android device. It has many other features which I won't be covering in my review of G+. The app can be found at the link at the beginning of this review.

I hope you enjoyed my small overview of Google+ and what it is. I hope to see you on Google+ soon!

Get started with your Google+ here!

Here are some useful links to help you get started with your Google+ experience:

Google Plus Nick
Google+ Tutorials

Start Google Plus Website

The Unofficial Google+ Wiki

Earth Eternal: Reborn

I've been waiting a long time to play this game and it is amazing! My brother, a few of my friends, and I have been playing this game for the past week or so and it's pretty awesome there aren't any humans in the world of Earth Eternal only animals! So you get to choose to be a Wolf or one of the many of races available as well as there being several classes to choose from. Please keep in mind this is an open beta and it has a few bugs here and there and unfortunately after the beta all characters will be wiped to start fresh for the final version of the the game. I encourage you to check it out! You don't need to create an account just use your Facebook account to login. The game is free and will continue to be after the final release.

http://www.eartheternal.com/

New Team Bamf Website!

As I posted before I have an HTC Thunderbolt I use a custom rom known as Das Bamf by a group called Team Bamf and they have an awesome new website and forum for anyone who wants to check it out it's the best rom out there for the TB! Anyways check it out!

http://teambamf.net/

Go Launcher Ex Themes!

I have not posted on my blog in forever! Please forgive me anyone that is actually still following me! Lately since I've been home from my mission I've been getting into the Android Dev community and such. I'm also going to start school soon and I will be taking an Android Development class as part of my degree, since it counts and will also help me learn Java. Anyways I've been messing around a bit and I made a couple of Go Launcher Ex themes I thought I would share with you guys. Of course the first one is The Legend of Zelda. The second one is totally random it's a Facebook Theme. Anyways here they are! If you don't know what Go Launcher Ex is, it's a replacement launcher for Android that has a lot of customizable features including extra home screens, press to hold delete, and themes of course. I use all of GO Dev's products you can find their site located HERE!

My Themes

Legend of Zelda Theme:

Download

Facebook Theme:

Download

More Screenshots

My original post on XDA can be found HERE. It also includes a small guide I wrote to help you get started so you can make your own GO Launcher Ex Themes!