Nexus S 2.3.4 update fail issue resolution

Maybe this helps someone out there who has been struggling with the automatic update fail from Android 2.3.3 to 2.3.4 on the Nexus S. 

Steps:

1. Download the file: http://db.tt/6kN1JtS
2. Place it in the root of your storage.
3. Turn your phone off, reboot into the bootloader by holding volume up while you turn the phone back on.
4. Using the volume buttons, choose “Recovery” from the list and use the power button to select it.
5. You should see a triangle appear on your screen and at that point, hold down power and press the volume up button and you should see a list of options. Choose the file you just downloaded to update to Android 2.3.4.

Location Based Music Playlists

Chances are that you don’t listen to the same music everywhere. Locations like gym’s, yoga centers, clubs, your home, your office, etc have a certain “mood” with which you associate the music you want to listen to when you are there. Based on this premise, music services (amazon, spotify, iTunes, etc) should offer mechanisms via which I, as a listener, should be able to group tunes based on the frequency of play at particular geo-fenced locations (obvious why pure lat/long won’t work).

This becomes even more effective if cloud based music services can aggregate tunes based on locations and offer them as dynamic playlists…I’m always interested in knowing what other people are listening to when they are at the gym :)

Who’s gonna do it first?

time taken by a tweet to reach millions of people on variety of devices is a couple of seconds but dns changes still take hours to propagate…something’s wrong with that picture.

If your fb vanity url is busted, try this…

Hopefully this will save somebody a lot of search grief. The (potential) reason why your facebook vanity URL is not working is because your profile is not publicly searchable. To fix that, head over to Account->Privacy Settings->Apps and Websites and enable Public search.

Your vanity url is now working.