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Real Genius Politics | Wednesday September 16, 2009 | By Kent

I caught part of a story on NPR on the way home last night with a Captain Tucker of the national guard. He blogged while in Afghanistan and recently published a book from that material. During his interview he related a story in which his unit had received...

Real Genius Android | Friday September 11, 2009 | By Kent

I suppose it was bound to happen eventually. Let me first say that I already knew about the Market hack where users can "buy" your app, then request to cancel within 24 hours for free - but they've already gotten the download! I protect my apps by...

Real Genius Android | Monday September 07, 2009 | By Kent

Sitting here with Melanie and waiting for the kids to get done at the state fair, so I thought I'd try blogging from my G-Phone. Last night I started on my port of WordBox to Android. I should have it mostly working in another day or two except for the solve...

Real Genius Android | Wednesday September 02, 2009 | By Kent

After the first full day of my first three Android apps being on the Market, here are the stats (Trial versions): Firefly - 151 downloads, 86 installs still active Foggle - 169 downloads, 66 installs still active Taxi Run - 698 downloads, 413 installs...

Real Genius Android | Monday August 31, 2009 | By Kent

While working on Foggle, I came across an interesting but frustrating problem. Google searches turned up some other coders with the same problem, but no real concrete solution. The problem was having a view that wanted to respond to gestures, but was itself...

Real Genius Android | Monday August 31, 2009 | By Kent

About 6 weeks ago I found out about the Google Android Developer Challenge 2. I had read about the first version of the contest about a month after it had ended, and could have kicked myself for not finding out about it in time to enter. So with just 6 weeks...

Real Genius Politics | Thursday May 28, 2009 | By Kent

Oil was over $80 a barrel not that long ago, and OPEC would love to see it there again. As the OPEC leadership is fond of saying, when it comes to oil the demand sets the price. And as much as we hate to admit it, they are right. This is the real truth behind...

Real Genius General | Monday April 13, 2009 | By Kent

The late Paul Harvey could well have termed this The rest of the story.... You are being lied to about pirates