apping the droid3

By basd on Dec 31, 2011 | In -arghhh!!

ok, so i was irresponsible. suddenly fake i won an ipad ads were hitting my notification bar. and i suppose my address book is being sold to commie terrorists in tne antarctic then, too.

well it was air-push, so i had to find the air-push detector app and kill the evil app. which was some taskmanager/battery maximizer that didn't any way and i thought i had already deactivated it.

and the genesis of that problem was that taskpad was banned from android market, then taskpad x morphed to taskpad extra and promptly disappeared too. despite the fact that for my needs it worked pretty well, but what gets you banned? maybe that app is not safe, too.

predicament. and i say that knowing i have not been at the forefront of the "phones are replacing computers" movement, though i was researching and dreaming about tiny handheld phone computers long befor they actually hit the mass market.

what i was hoping for was pretty much the droid3. because, the trade-off of small and agile versus large and capable is an interesting one.

i would say that the mobile smartphone is advancing way faster than the laptop or netbook is advancing. the small form size forces creativity and the small computer pushes us back to spare code and away from bloatware.

but, unfortunately, i am behind the parade because much of the commercialism that drives the smartphone does not interest me.

and, as you can see, i am too lazy to type caps on the droid3, which may not yet be 100 percent blog entry friendly. but it is way easier to whip out the droid3 than to boot up the netbook.

sooo...let's move on. it's interesting the way creativity and cutting edge move from project to project and difficult to keep up. as i have previously blogged, firefox has annoyed me enough that i have switched to seamonkey on my computers. and i tried firefox on the droid3, but it was too sludgy and i removed it.

which left me with the native browser . . . and that one lacks sufficient user control. but my spin around the block with airpush reminded me that i don't want to be at the mercy of google's commercialized needs. (which was not specifically related to airpush, just dealing with one caused me to worry about the other. eg, why was i tolerating flashing ads anyway?

well, the first adblocker i found required rooting the phone, which i am not ready to do. i will get to that soon, maybe on the cricket android i am not using.

but opera browser sounded like an option. now i have repeatedly tried the opera browser on my computer and been underwhelmed. but, the mobile version is a serious improvement over the native one. along with, now no ads.

yay!

(but, it won't access the wysiwyg editor here ...)