The Insomniac Coder

Google's Androidify app helps you make your own Android robot avatars | Android Central This is what an Insomniac Coder is supposed to look like: I think the green skin is pretty much dead on.  Related articles Androidify yourself with Google's new Android app (downloadsquad.switched.com) Android fan? Androidify yourself with the official mobile app. (thenextweb.com)

Warning: This is a technically oriented rant. It has nothing to do with the money side of PayPal . It is simply about things that shouldn't happen the way they currently do. Dear Geeks That Work for PayPal: I don't know if you people are lazy, or stupid, or simply use cost benefit analysis before you fix the stupidest dumbest fucking things that plague your platform. Somebody came up with an amazing idea: let's add two-factor authentication , and the sonofabitch works just right. I have used your two-factor mechanism with SMS on no less than two carriers, and the VIP token application in iPhone , Blackberry and Android and they all do the job perfectly. The problem is that you have external apps that rely on authenticating with PayPal, and these apps can't handle the two-factor authentication. The first this happened it was with the older version of Blackberry App Word. I assumed that this was the BBAW programmers not implementing the mechanism correctly. I...

Image via Wikipedia I just ran into this service while going through what is almost a regularly scheduled, weekly paranoia attack over my backups. I had just checked pricing on maybe upgrading my online backups service, or my social accounts online backups service, when I noticed that iDrive now has contacts backup for free for Blackberry , iPhone and Android.  I am already using Google Sync , but it wouldn't hurt to have a plan "b" in case Google takes a shit, so I decided to give it a try. The application has nothing to configure beyond signing up for the free account and letting it run the backups. As far as I can tell from the exhaustive four minutes I spent testing this, you can only backup manually, there is no way to let it run in the background. With Google Sync you just let it run and that's it. Also, it mangled my contacts, the fields in the contacts I checked in my Blackberry don't match the contacts as seen in their website. I modified a contact,...

Image by pvera via Flickr Wondering why the hell your emails from your Blackberry append this: Sent from my BlackBerry® powered by Virgin Mobile. To your emails even after you specifically changed the setting in your Blackberry email preferences menu? Simple. You have to remember that your emails go through RIM servers, which is their excuse for what I call the "Blackberry Tax" (every Blackberry provider in the country will tack some kind of fee to your bill and call it something like "Blackberry Service," in Virgin's case it is $10/month). You need to go to RIM's server and change your preferences there. For Blackberries serviced by Virgin Mobile, it is not even hard. All you need to do is go to  http://virginmobileusa.blackberry.com/  from your blackberry and it should recognize your device. From there you can edit or remove that annoying signature.  Make sure you do this from your Blackberry, otherwise it will ask you to enter your PIN and your Devi...