Android: Send notifications to Pebble using Llama

Android: Send notifications to Pebble using Llama

If you want to skip my pre-amble, you can jump straight to the juicy bits. I was lucky enough to receive my Pebble watch a couple of weeks ago (I’m a day-1 backer of a black watch, living in the UK). There are already plenty of in-depth reviews so I won’t go into detail here [...]

Android app progress

Android app progress

My android app is developing nicely. There’s a couple more core features I want to add before it’s ready to share (the ability to delete entries from the search history is the main one). I’m hoping to get that finished this weekend as I won’t be working on it for a couple of weeks after [...]

Scratching an Android itch

Scratching an Android itch

A few weeks ago I was using the SayNoTo0870 website to find an alternative to the premium rate number for my electricity supplier’s helpdesk. The website is  a great little money saving service, but the interface is pretty horrible (it should learn from Google that all it needs is a big search box to enter [...]

Best Android Apps 2010

Best Android Apps 2010

I’m a big fan of Android. I got my first Android phone (an HTC Hero) just over a year ago and it ran the 1.5 (Cupcake) version of Android. I’m now on my second phone (Orange San Francisco aka zteZTE Blade). They’ve both been rooted and had custom ROMs installed. It’s incredible how far Android [...]

Zebra striping with CSS3

Zebra striping with CSS3

What is it? Zebra striping is when alternate rows in tabular data are shaded in different colours to make the table easier to read as shown in example below: To implement this, we need to be able to identify the alternate rows and use our stylesheet to format them differently from the other rows. There [...]