Archives for May 2010

Macro on the Cheap

Macro Lenses are expensive, prohibitively so for me. I bought an Opteka Macro Lens from Amazon, which is a tenth of the price, and just screws onto the end of the standard kit lens, with excellent results. The depth of field is tiny, but with a bit of tweaking you can get excellent results. An album of my first try with it is on my Picasa.

Mixcloud + Android: An Excellent Combination

Android MixcloudFroyo’s Flash for Android works great with the Mixcloud player. It even stops playing if you get a call/notification and resumes automatically afterwards without any fuss, and it can be tucked away in a browser tab and minimized while you’re doing other stuff, exactly as you would on your laptop.

QR code included after the jump: (more…)

Upgrade your Nexus One to Froyo (Android 2.2) Now

This guide at xda-developers works great:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=686593

I updated from Cyanogen 5.0.6