YT Mobile Android App Are you tired of YouTube stop playing when turning off your screen or minimizing the app? Don’t want to pay for YouTube or Google Music? Try: Summary This app provides a convenient place to browse the mobile web version of YouTube, and allows you to play YouTube in the background! … Read more
I have been using a custom build.prop file for a while now on my Droid X. There are several benefits [example] for doing so; the main one for me is a higher virtual screen resolution, also known as “LCD density”. This can be done via various methods, including programs such as LCD Density Changer, or manually … Read more
March 2011 With the help of Motodev Studio for Android, I’ve extracted the android-opencv JNI camera example and spawned a fork of my original computer vision app, Viewer, to an OpenCV version: ViewerCV. Both are available on Git Hub as open source software example of doing Computer Vision on Android with OpenCV. Viewer Features: *FAST Features (default android-opencv example) *Square detection *Sobel … Read more
January 2010 Over the holiday break, I finally created an Android app that allows image processing on the camera’s raw data, and displays it back on the screen. It only uses Java on the CPU for now, but in my free time I’ll be porting the code to OpenGL ES to run on the GPU, and … Read more
About Accordion Hands is a fun way to interactively “play” a virtual accordion! The app was inspired by discovering the funny Life Accordion to Trump YouTube videos. This app is not meant to be a real accordion simulator! In its current form, the app is purely just a tech demo (just for fun), but I … Read more
In an effort to simplify my life and establish more balance, I’ve decided to write down everything that I spend a significant amount of time doing. This started with just a list of hobbies, to help me narrow-down and prioritize my “free time” [free-time is almost not a word in my vocabulary 🙁 hence this … Read more
Today Google released an app “Cardboard Camera” for Android in the Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.vr.cyclops A free app to create 3D virtual reality photos (stereoscopic 3D 360° panoramas). VR Photography The app takes a three-dimensional panorama you can view in the Google Cardboard app. The result is a 360° image where near things look near, far things look … Read more
In this post, I compare the Samsung Galaxy S6 SM-G920 (Release date: April 2015) against the Samsung Galaxy S5 SM-G900 (Release date: April 2014). Notes: I’m not trying to compete with dedicated phone review websites, rather I just wanted to share my two cents on how these two phones compare. Also, I currently own an S5 since it was released … Read more
As mentioned in my previous post, A little book made for you, I’m a fan of inspirational quotes and motivational sayings. Over time, I have collected quite a few bookmarks of the ones that I enjoy. I’ve decided to create a gallery website dedicated to sharing lots of motivating quotes and inspiring pictures: I will … Read more
I recently upgraded my phone from a Motorola Droid X to a Samsung Galaxy S3 (finally!), and WOW what a difference! Below is a giant chart comparing the two phones, but first I’ll list some random thoughts about owning and using the GS3. Not surprisingly, everything about the Galaxy S III is just amazing! When … Read more