Marcus Hellberg

I’ve gotten off to a good start with my new blog in my opinion. The hardest thing about blogging in the beginning is thinking of things to write about. I’ve had a few websites before, but all of them ultimately grew stale without any new content. So the most important thing is to just start [...]

Sure, there are a lot of top lists for Android applications. But there is not yet one for my top Android apps. So here are my top 5 (or so) applications for Android:
1. MyTracks

MyTracks is Google’s sports tracking software for Android, much like Nokia Sports Tracker is for S60 devices. With this application you can [...]

Ever since the day the iPhone was released, I wanted one badly. The sleek design and intuitive user interface seemed like everything I could ever ask for in a phone. The marketing and hype easily made up for all the (major) shortcomings of the device, like the inability to have any third party applications. But [...]

Today, Engadget had got their hands on leaked Nexus One documents, showing a unsubsidized price of $530 or an option of a 2 year T-mobile contract + $180. The price is certainly higher than the previously rumored $99-$199, but much more believable.
Interestingly, the agreement text hints at international shipping. If the device shipped to Finland, [...]

Merry Christmas everyone!
//Marcus

As a present to all readers, I’m handing out 17 invitations to Google Wave. All you have to do to get your invitation is to be among the 17 first non-spambot commenters in this post.
Update: There are still 11 invites left.

Watching digital tv in Linux with em2880 devices
Note: This post is from my earlier site. I moved it over here because I see that a lot of people are trying to access it without finding it. It is written in 2007, so all content may not be up to date. You can report successes/failures in [...]

I bought a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ7 camera a few months back and recently noticed that it had developed a cluster of purple dots on its display. The dots are in the upper right quadrant of the display and can be seen in the image below (click to view full size image).

The weird thing is that [...]

Lately, there have been a huge buzz around the internet about Google starting to sell their own Android-based handset.  Apparently, Google has given out phones, called Nexus One,  to Google employees for internal testing before the launch. This has resulted in a lot of blurry pictures and descriptions of the new mystery device.
If this is [...]

Google has apparently found my blog quite quickly, it has indexed all pages in less than three days.The funny part was seeing how Google approximated the number of indexed pages.

Sure, when there are millions of pages an estimate that is within 20 of the actual number is fine. But when there are only 24 results [...]