I love that it's good with cursive. Actually better in some scenarios. Woot! And it's less of a scramble/compromise than voice so far.

The thrill will wear off, but if my stylus is already in my hand for other reasons, it's a great option.

I have found thst cursive is almost always better for handwriting recognition than print. When it knows what id the entirety of the word it is far more likely to guess the correct thing even with incorrect letters.

Incorrect spacing and capitalisation are what made me try it consistently. I don't always need to go back and cross the ts and dot the is for long words to be recognised.

I was so happy to be able to put Grafiti on my Android smartphone -- that's the entry system carried over from my Palm Pilot days.

So, iPhoto over the NAS. Should I just give up now and bust out a USB cable? I could swear it used to work...

A guy at work just got the latest Note phone, partially to help evaluate corporate email clients and management packages and seems open to suggestions about Android since he came over from iOS. *He* is like a new toy, showing him around the platform andworking out the phone implementation of the stylus. l hope he keeps letting us mold him...

Fucking awesome phone, BTW.

It is pretty. I am perfectly satisfied with my Note 2, but am hoping that some of the software features get back-ported by Samsung or XDA.

Anyone use D-Link routers? Some of them have a backdoor.

Reverse Engineering a D-Link Backdoor

It's an interesting read on how the backdoor was found.

Here’s one true hack (Google cache link) for our dear Hackaday readers. On a Saturday night, as [Craig] didn’t have anything else to do, he decided to download the firmware of an old D-Link DIR-100 router (because who wouldn’t?). His goal was to see what interesting things he could find in it. He fired up binwalk to extract the SquashFS file system, then opened the router webserver on the multi-processor disassembler/debugger IDA. [Craig] discovered that the webserver is actually a modified version of thttpd, providing the administrative interface for the router. As you can see in the picture above, it seems Alphanetworks (a spin-off of D-Link) performed the modifications.

Luckily for [Craig], the guys at Alphanetworks were kind enough to prepend many of their custom function names with the string “alpha”. Looking at the disassembly of the http identification functions revealed that a backdoor is implemented on the firmware. If one malicious user has the string “xmlset_roodkcableoj28840ybtide” as his browser user agent, no authentication is required to gain access to the router. One of the comments on the reddit thread points out that reading that string backwords results in: ”edit by (04882) joel backdoor”.

What are the good podcast managers for Android these days? Does Downcast have an Android app yet?

(My mom wants to buy me a new phone for my birthday so I'm toying with jumping ship and abandoning iOS. Not a fan of iOS7, think I'm ready to try something else.)

The Note 3 is probably too big for me but it's SO SO PRETTY.

Go fondle the Note and use the stylus (if you have cursive, I don't have enough good things to say about the handwriting keyboards--just, why aren't there more alternatives in English??). It wasn't as big as I was expecting to hold, but the screen looks huge because it's taking every damned millimetre it can get. Also because it is. But I could manage it easily like my current Nexus--maybe they aren't that different in profile.