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By BrianSawyer : 06 January 2010 - 09:43 AM

Did you grab the Nexus One within hours of Google's announcement yesterday? If you're a runner, cyclist, or other distance athlete training for a significant event, you may just find Google's My Track...

By adfm : 08 January 2010 - 05:26 PM

This excerpt from Joseph Adler's R in a Nutshell introduces the R console. If you use R, you'll spend most of your time interacting with the console. The R console is the most important tool for usin...

By adfm : 08 January 2010 - 04:20 PM

The following excerpt from Joseph Adler's R in a Nutshell introduces the R Graphical User Interface. This is helpful if you would like to know what the R GUI looks like on other operating systems. ...

By bjepson : 07 January 2010 - 07:10 PM

Tim recently posted instructions on how to capture screenshots from an Android device. You can use the same underlying technology to capture video (albeit at 5 or 6 frames per second). To do this, ...

By Philip Rideout : 07 January 2010 - 11:33 AM

On many platforms, line anti-aliasing is an easy way to improve the perceived visual quality of OpenGL ES applications. It reduces the stair stepping effect seen on low-resolution displays by renderi...

By adfm : 06 January 2010 - 05:06 PM

Here's a live video demonstration of of the new contacts app on Google's Nexus One phone running Android 2.1. With the Quick Contacts feature you can access any of the available communication feat...

By adfm : 06 January 2010 - 04:48 PM

Here's a live video demonstration of some of the new search and customization features on Google's Nexus One phone running Android 2.1.

By adfm : 06 January 2010 - 04:38 PM

Here's a live video demonstration of some of the new media features on Google's Nexus One phone running Android 2.1.

By timoreilly : 06 January 2010 - 12:34 PM

In a recent blog post, I complained about the inability to take a screenshot on an Android phone. In comments on the post, I got a good answer (at least for people like me who want to document stuff ...

By jwikert3 : 04 January 2010 - 04:01 PM

My daughter dropped her iPhone recently and wound up shattering the digitizer (the clear display that sits atop the LCD and interprets your taps/gestures). I didn't take a picture of it but it lo...