Get free Google Wave invites

Got 24 of them, don’t know where to send them, just post a comment and you will get one
PS: Your IP’s will be checked for duplicates, so please dont try getting more than one, you will get more invites yourself anyway…

HTC Hero – Using the adb shell commands in Ubuntu!

My god I have been reading a lot in different forum threads, so I think there are more people then me that needs a little help with this.
Tried to gather the most relevant and working methods, and just make a little forum post on how to use the adb (android debug bridge), part of the Google system developement kit (sdk).

Download the SDK .tgz package from google and unpack the android-sdk-linux_x86-1.1_r1 folder.

Move/copy the adb file from ~/’downloadfolder’/android-sdk-linux_x86-1.1_r1/tools/ to e.g /usr/bin/adb
and make it executable (it not already) by

$ sudo cp ~/'downloadfolder'/android-sdk-linux_x86-1.1_r1/tools/adb /usr/bin/
$ sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/adb

or export $PATH as wanted.

Now that you have “installed” adb, all you gotta do us run adb to see the help file

$ sudo adb


Now you can see the help file, and all the commands you can insert. Start off with plugin in your Android device, and run
$ su
$ adb device
$ adb logcat

and you can see your mobile listed, (the number that is shown is your serial number) and then a full log of whats happening on your phone. Try doing different stuff while running logcat, you’ll understand.
To find out a little more about what you can do, visit Googles ADB site.

Radio streams like NRK radio-streams on your Android

As a Norwegian, the most popular radio channels to keep in your pocket is NRK’s radio-streams. Thanks to the awesome guys in “NRK beta”, they have gotten us some links that let you stream their channels on Android powered phones.

I use StreamFurious that you can find in the (google) Android Market. Once installed, just press on the links to the different streams in browser and StreamFurious will automatically open the stream, pre-buffer and play your radio channels.

Of course, if your favorite radio-channels allow you to download their streams, you’re more then welcome to play them as well.

You cand find NRK’s stream here

Making cheap and even free international calls

Can’t say I’m nothing else then relieved, finally, after so much searching for cheaper sollutions to call friends and family from my home country to other countries.
In my case I’ve been calling from Norway to my girlfriend over at the UK, at rates that goes above ~1.3USD / minute.

A friend of mine has been using RebTel for a while, and now I’m sure I aint going to use anything else. Just watch this, and learn how to even make FREE international calls:

How To Make a Free Call from Rebtel on Vimeo.

Even if you arent registered in both ends of the call, you can make extremely cheap calls to both mobile and landlines, plus ofcourse your local rate.
The more the marrier we say, so the more people using this service and throw skype at the wall, especially for us Android users, register and call cheap!
Yeah, I know, free advertising, but this company deserves it!

Connect to wep with terminal

$ iwconfig wlan0 essid key s:
$ dhclient wlan0

Get Spotify account without invitation!

Since Im located in Norway, I’m not allowed to create a free account without invites. But, if you “pretend” to be british through a proxy, the job is done!

Before the job was a little worse, but now you can try this site:

http://spotify.rejected.se/?proxy

Just follow the instruction and be a happy Spotify owner.

Connect to wpa with terminal (ubuntu)

assuming your wirelesscontroller is named “wlan0″

First, stop network-manager:

sudo /etc/init.d/networkmanager stop

Then make a config for wpa_supplicant:

wpa_passphrase "ssid" "password" > wpaconfig
sudo wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -cwpaconfig

When you see from the output that you are connected, press [ctrl+z] to run wpa_supplicant in the background temporarily and type $bg to run it in background.
To be assigned to a IP:

sudo dhclient wlan0

What is Google Wave – A perfect introduction to this astonishing project!

Please, if you want to be a part of the future, read a little at http://wave.google.com, register for an invite as soon as Google can send them out to us mortals, and watch these to movies!

    

It is open source and the possibilities with this HTML5-based application is almost indefinite… I think… Cant wait for this to release full scale. For us students and other people that will be working on several projects, collaborating with colagues from different countries and so on, this is just perfect!
And to all you engineers out there; it’s open source! Put your name on something and start writing good apps!

HTC Hero exposed to humidity, now… it’s (probably) broken

My beloved HTC Hero has been gently lying in my pocket for about one and a half month now, and I must admit, I have never broken a phone as fast as this.
I woke up this morning, answered a couple of e-mails, texted a message to my girlfriend and everything seemed to be just fine. Went to school to discover that the SIM-card wasn’t registered (used to happen because of a little slack on the SIM-lock), tried to restart my phone but it wouldnt boot up again.

I then sat down, opened up the back lid and removed my battery, to see slight tracks of water beneath the battery and the moisture inidicatiors were pink, like it was dipped in water or something.
Fortunate for me, I’ve got a friend that has a lot of experience disassembling mobile phones and repearing these, so I’ve said my prayers and left it all up to him.

The curious thing about this, is that I was able to boot it up in Recovery Mode with the USB connected, so I was able to do a nandroid backup. Now I want you all to pray with me, that I wont loose my precious phone and the money that comes with it…

So for all of you owners of a new phone with the latest in electronics; keep your devices away from any sort of water, I havent used mine even in the rain, but appearently, my pockets aren

Personas – Skins for firefox

Was quite impressed with the Personas addon for firefox. Its really simple to use and uses very little resources.

Please visit : http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/