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I finally got around to making a sort of light box out of some k’nex and a blanket and I must say, it turned out pretty well. I uploaded several photo’s I’ve taken in it.

Check them out in my photostream:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/flakepardigm/

Death Grip (and still getting service!)

You can check out putting froyo on your Droid here:
http://www.droid-life.com/2010/06/08/download-newer-motorola-droid-froyo-leak-frf57/
(Also, there are some newer baseband updates available on droid-life)

Here is a list of all of the new features – the links will take you to a sreenshot of new feature in action.

All screenshots I have taken for this article are free to use as long as they have proper attribution – http://tan-com.com/blog/licenses/.

An index of all of my froyo screenshots is available at
http://tan-com.com/tyler/screenshots/froyo

1. New home screen.
   1. Phone and Browser quick launchers on either side of the
   2. 3D app drawer (Which now works in landscape mode!)
   3. Buttons bottom left and right on the screen that change screens along with the usual dragging.
   4. When pressed and held, previews as a sort of shortcut (which also works in landscape) to get to any of the
   5. 5 home screens
   6. Power Control widget has new Auto Brightness setting
   7. New widget: Home screen tips
   8. New widget: Market
2. New look for the recent app list (list is longer – 8apps)
3. Search bar has option to choose between “All, Web, Apps, Contacts”
4. Changed Settings Menu (Settings)
   1. Under Wireless & Network settings, the ability to tether – right now it only has USB tethering available (Settings > Wireless & Networks)
   2. Enable and disable Edge/3G data connection (Settings > Wireless & Networks > Mobile networks)
   3. Sound and Display items separated
   4. Ability to set specific rules for vibrate (Settings > Sound) this setting will determine what the silence/vibrate slider will do on the lock screen.
   5. Volume management for Ringtone, Media, and Alarm in one place (Settings > Sound)
   6. Sounds for locking and unlocking the screen (Settings > Sound)
   7. New screen lock options – PIN and Password along with the original Pattern method (Settings > Location & Security > Set up screen lock)
   8. Tab based filters in application manager (Settings > Applications > Manage Applications)
   9. Ability to move apps to the SD card (Settings > Applications > Manage Applications)
   10. New voice recognition settings (Settings > Voice input & output > Voice recognizer settings)
   11. “Power Button Ends Call” (Settings > Accessibility)
5. Market gets some updates
   1. “Update all” option
   2. Choice to automatically update specified apps
   3. Separated Description and Comments tabs for apps
   4. Search suggestion (and other search features, I have heard)
6. New Enable USB storage or Disable USB storage screen (Accessed from the notifications tray still)
7. New camera app
   1. Icons will rotate no matter which direction you turn the phone
   2. Video recorder does not do this though (yet?)
   3. Video recorder supports using the flash while recording
8. New Car Home
   1. Has a second screen accessible from the first.
9. New Clock app
10. Dragging finger off the top of the software keyboard will bring two extra rows of numbers and symbols onto the screen
11. Apps with light themes
    1. Messaging
    2. Google Talk
12. Gmail app gets updates
    1. Switch accounts by tapping the current username in the top right
    2. Colored Labels
    3. Previous/Next buttons when viewing emails
    4. Install apps (.apk) from an email
13. Call log items are grouped together
14. Contacts list view settings
    1. Sort list by first or last names
    2. Contact name options (First name, last name vs. Last name, first name)
15. Landscape mode also available when device is turned to the right

Other things I missed:

1. Multiple Google calendars
2. Threaded download history

source: http://www.droid-life.com/2010/06/07/additional-froyo-tips-for-motorola-droid/

A collection of computer graphics that I have made.

Flickr > Flakeparadigm > Graphics

TIMPA.org

I just finished up the timpa.org web site – http://timpa.org/

Film Dump – Pen, originally uploaded by flakeparadigm.

Direct scans of my negatives. The only photoshop work was inverting from negatives and adjusting curves and levels to make the picture visible. More coming up, Just used a whole roll and am going to post them too.

Ubuntu Lucid Lynx

Well We are now around to Ubutu Lucid Lynx (10.04) and it looks like nothing has changed support wise, so to get the backlight to adjust, just add:

nomodeset acpi_backlight=vendor

to the “GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT” section, right after “quiet splash” and before the closing quotation mark. Now run

sudo update-grub

and you will be good to go! Reboot and try out your freshly brewed screen backlight adjustments!

35mm – Typewriter, originally uploaded by flakeparadigm.

I have uploaded two still life photos from photography class.

The PocketNienhouse

The PocketNienhouse: A project I intend to work on some time in the future (perhaps this summer?) that I figured would need a pretty nice theme.

The PocketNienhouse (http://PocketNienhouse.com/)

Spring time in the desert.

I’ve uploaded several spring-time desert pictures to my Flickr! All the plants are blossoming after a wet winter!

Go to Flakeparadigm’s Photostream

Animals – Giraffe, originally uploaded by flakeparadigm.

I’ve uploaded an interesting combination of pictures from the SARA Desert Heat 2010, a 35mm film photo project, and the start of our animals photo project.