Month: January 2013

Answering the Call

  By Tarzana Joe    ❧❧❧❧ Just about the time Joe Flacco’s touchdown pass was thrown My focus was distracted by the ringing of the phone   I said, “Please hold the wire,” but the voice would brook no stalling “Hello,” he said, “The National Republicans are calling.”   I turned back to the game because I didn’t want to miss it. What genius at the RNC chose this time to solicit?   I told him that his timing could have used a little tweaking It didn’t seem to matter ‘cause the guy went right on speaking   I didn’t...

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Hughnivision + Ustream chat for Android (Google Nexus 7)

  (Thanks to Jon Purnell for this article.)   If you got a Nexus 7 tablet for Christmas, you might have been disappointed, as I was, to learn that the supplied Chrome browser cannot be used to view Flash video clips that are posted on many web sites. Even worse, you cannot access Hughnivision or the Ustream chat room using Chrome on the Nexus. Dang! To get around this surprising limitation, I first tried to install an Android version of Adobe’s Flash Player. Unfortunately, Adobe no longer supports Flash for Android devices, and the back-alley version of Flash I found via the CNET site...

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