Mistical.com

Michael Jackson’s death causes huge spike in AT&T traffic

// June 26th, 2009 // No Comments » // Blog, News, mistical.com

I am sure every other network like T-Mobile, Verizon, etc saw one hell of a huge spike in their network as well for text messages. Yesterday, AT&T reported that at one point that they were reaching 4 million text messages per minute, more than 60 percent above normal values.

It is their largest in history on their network since the 9/11 attacks. Nearly 65,000 text messages were being sent per a second. The voice call rate was about 10 percent above normal.

The news of Michael Jackson’s death also brought down popular websites such as Google News. It also caused interruptions with Twitter. Rest In Peace Michael Jackson.

Source: BNO News

My Top G1 Apps #3

// June 24th, 2009 // No Comments » // Blog, Reviews, mistical.com

This is my third list of my top G1 Apps. I think I will do this every so often months just to give some people a fresh list of what is out there, what is better than previously was and so forth. If you would like to, you can read my previous top G1 apps lists here, #1 and #2.

I have since rooted my phone as of last week. I am sure if you have rooted your phone by now, you have already installed aNetShare if you at any point in time plan to tether your phone to your laptop/other devices. Also Advanced Task Manager is key to have to close apps in use.

If you use JesusFreke’s root, make sure you grab JF Updater if you have not. I however am not nor going to use any type of App2SD, I do not recommend using Move Cache either (see an earlier post of mine about this).

If you have not rooted your phone, unless you plan to tether, control tasks or do something else that requires root then you do not even bother to, though it is very, very easy to accomplish.

Since before I have removed AnyCut and replaced it with Better Cut. I actually decided to make my phone more Apple theme like using BetterCut to replace a few icons on the desktop (I am an Apple fan just not an AT&T fan).

I also decided to replace the default virtual keyboard that came with Cupcake with Better Keyboard.

If you do not know by now, make sure you download the new version for Google Maps. You will find it much better with more features, it sadly does not show up for an update until you do this. Google also just came out with a new application about 2 weeks ago called Places Directory and boy, what an amazing new app by Google. Very good and useful, I highly recommend adding it to your collection.

Here is the “full” app list I am currently using that I recommend that most people have or try out not including root apps: AK Notepad, Better Cut, Better Keyboard, aTrackDog which will check apps for updates, Movie Finder, My Account, MyBackup Pro which backup text messages, apps, contacts and more, OI File Manager, OI Flashlight, Places Directory which will find nearest gas stations, restaurants and more, ShopSavvy, Weather Channel, TuneWiki which is the best music player, Twidroid best Twitter client so far, Txtract which backs up text messages and WeatherBug.

T-Mobile Releases 2 New Apps in Android Market

// June 24th, 2009 // No Comments » // Android, Blog, News, mistical.com

T-Mobile has released 2 new apps into the Android Market. The first one is Mobile Backup. This sync’s or backups your contacts with T-Mobile’s server.

That way if you lose your phone, you still have your contact with T-Mobile. This could be quite useful in case you ever get rid of the G1 for another phone where you would not be able to connect and sync your contacts with Google.

The other application released by T-Mobile is called HotSpot.

Now if I remember correctly there already was another app like this in the Market. Now you officially have one by T-Mobile is all. This app will find you T-Mobile WiFi HotSpot locations.

If you do not already have the app My Account by T-Mobile, then grab it already. They released months ago and it lets you check your minutes used, text messages used, bill summary, phone storage information and much more.

Pixar grants girl’s dying wish to see ‘Up’

// June 19th, 2009 // No Comments » // Blog, News, mistical.com

Pixar granted Colby Curtin her dying wish to see the movie ‘Up’. The company flew an employee with a DVD of Up, which is only in theaters, to the Curtins’ Huntington Beach home on June 10 for a private viewing of the movie. Colby died about seven hours after seeing the film.

It is good to know that good people still exist out there and even more so from companies like Pixar. More companies should take notice and get more into dying wishes. I know some do but it needs to be done more. It honestly can not really hurt them much what so ever. Seeing how it is a dying wish for someone especially when it is not there fault and a victim of cancer, a rare one at that.

This is a very sad story and to end it, Rest in Peace Colby Curtin. I am glad you got to see Up, that your wish was granted and enjoyed a great movie as I saw it with my girlfriend Jordan and thought it was.

Source: OCRegister.com

Android Move Cache Back to Internal Memory

// June 18th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Blog, mistical.com

So yesterday I finally decided to root my Android G1. Basically so I could tether its internet to my laptop as where am I at, the WiFi signal is so low and bad. Well I decided to use “Move Cache” from the Market place which allows you to also move your cache for apps such as Browser, Market, Maps, Street View, GMail and Steel cache to your SD card instead of using Internal Memory.

Well I decided just to try it out and use it only for the Browser, Market, Maps and Street View. Well things only went downhill from there, force closed so much in each of those maps or it would be utter slowness like in the Browser. So storing cache back to Internal Memory was never really a problem, just wanted to try it since I do have an 8GB SD card that only uses 1GB. So I selected the options from Move Cache to move it back to Internal Memory, rebooted and removed Move Cache.

Well everything seemed to work until I went to the Market and then later Street View. The Market would prompt you with the following message: “A Server error has occurred. Retry, or cancel and return to the previous screen.” So if you want to go back to storing your cache in your Internal Memory than do the following in Terminal Emulator (or any other similar app out there). Especially if you went through a process similar to what I did to remove.

Make sure you are the root user. Run the following command if you have any problems: This obviously will only work if you have rooted your phone such as with JesusFreke’s builds.

su (press enter)
id (press enter)
*It should ask you to allow access, allow it.*

Market Cache to Internal Memory

cd /data/data/com.android.vending
rm -R cache
mrdir cache

Street View Cache to Internal Memory

cd /data/data/com.google.android.street
rm -R cache
mkdir cache

Facebook and Twitter integration coming to Xbox Live

// June 3rd, 2009 // No Comments » // Blog, Gaming, News, mistical.com

Last.FM integration is also coming to Xbox Live but is not shown in this video.

G4TV E3 Live Modern Warfare 2 Hands On

// June 2nd, 2009 // No Comments » // mistical.com