T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant Android 2.2 Official Update

After many months of speculation T-Mobile has finally approved an official release of Android 2.2 (Froyo) for its Galaxy S Virant phone. This update will not be done via OTA (Over The Air), but rather users will have to download the official Samsung Kies Mini software on a PC or MAC to do the upgrade. The official instructions for upgrading are posted on T-Mobile (T-Mobile 2.2 Froyo Galaxy S Vibrant Upgrade). I did the upgrade on my Galaxy S and it worked great.

Operation Repo - Fake

So I turned on this show, Operation Repo. I immediately figured out something was weird. I guess the show is all fake, or re-enactments as they say. What a weird show.

No More Guitar Hero

Look what the Beatles did to this franchise. Oh well more room for Assassin's Creed in my schedule.

Homefront Game Trailer

This looks like a really cool game that is coming soon. Fans of 80’s war movies like red dawn will appreciate this one.

The Daily – A New Age In News

Today I got my first look at The Daily, a new interactive newspaper offered daily for the iPod. I was very impressed with the layout and use of interactive features of this app. It costs $39.99 a year, but it looks to me to be worth it. I believe that Apple has made great strides in new ways to present us all with information.  For the first time a truly interactive presentation of the daily news can be presented. I am not what you would call an Apple guy by any stretch, but I do think that the iPad has brought technology to a whole new level. And The Daily is the next progression of the type of media that people are going to expect from the major news agencies. It struck me as amazing that they were able to get a 360 degree picture out of Egypt, But that brings up a whole new subject. Bottom line, check out The Daily for good news presented in a great way.

Google Launches Their App Store

I opened my browser today to find the headline that Google had launched its new App store. In my mind I envisioned an online place I could go to get new exciting cool apps to run on my PC. The end result was not quite what I expected.  While their are some interesting applications, it turns out that most of them are business class and subscription based. Some of these applications may be useful, but I guess that I expected something more along the lines of the new apple type apps for the Mac.  Maybe the Google App Store will grow on me. We will see.

One Stop Linux Server Setup

Have you ever wanted to set up a server to help automate things around your office. The usual way that it starts is with an internet search for some type of software that does what you want. The way that it ends, is with you buying the enterprise version of some software and paying maintenance for the rest of your life.  Why not start your search with the site Turnkey Linux. This site offers over 45 free web appliances that come prepackaged in a Linux based ISO. You simply download the ISO, put it on a disk, and load it on a clean computer.

Linux can be very intimidating, but these builds are all packaged and ready to do exactly what they are designed for. The best way to load these servers is within virtual environments. VMware offers a free server version that works great to create a Linux server array. The Media Wiki build works great and is a good place to start with experimenting with this technology.