HBO GO® for Android... my experience playing with it on my HTC Hero (CDMA)

As you have probably heard, HBO has released a new application to the Android Market called "HBO GO®". 
Web Market Link

Once I heard this, I immediately had it downloaded and installed on my HTC Hero and my Viewsonic gtablet.

I was unseccessful when attempting to login on the gtablet. I get a constant FC, but only when I attempt to login. That being said, it works pretty good on the Hero running CM7.0.2

As far as I can tell, it works well when connected to a wifi point. I was getting an error when trying to watch over 3G. Something about not being able to stream the audio and that I should connect to wifi. I did just that and was able to watch a couple of minutes of Band of Brother as well as Boardwalk Empire (two of my favorite HBO programs).




NOTE: You must be an HBO subscriber to utilize the app as it was intended. I was able to login using my Comcast (Xfinity) account without issue.

Video chat? On GTalk?! NICE!

Google officially announces Google Talk Video for Android

Just wanted to show off my gtablet homescreen...

Again, I just want to show it off a bit. Take a peak!

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Easy way to post Blogger to Twitter

While I was on the hunt for a way to automatically post my (new) Blogger posts to Twitter, I stumbled upon TwitterFeed.com. 

If you haven't already, you should check it out. I'll be testing this later via the official Google Inc. Blogger App for Android. This is actually a test post right now! You're part of my own personal "Beta Test"! Be proud. You deserve it.


UPDATE: It appears that twitterfeed checks for new blogger posts at a minimum 30 minutes. Would be cooler (much cooler) if we could turn the scan time down a bit.

Found some sweet icons for my gtablet!

So, last night I was playing around with my gtablet (per usual). This time I was reworking the home screen and with the addition of VT-Lab's VTL.Launcher, by gojimi and the team at VEGAn-Tab, I thought it needed some high-res icons to fill the graphical void left by the stock icons. In my search I came across this forum on xda, and more specifically, this post. I thought that these were pretty sweet! Being that I was into the comic book collecting back in my day, I thought these suited me pretty good. Here is a quick sample (please go to the original forum to download if you choose):

And a shot showing how they look with VTL.Launcher:

Click to Enlarge (that's what she said?)