Use the New Gingerbread Keyboard on Your Rooted 2.2 Android Phone [Downloads]

Use the New Gingerbread Keyboard on Your Rooted 2.2 Android Phone

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Android: The keyboard in Android 2.3 is one of its best new features, and if you’re itching to try it out right now, you can download and install it on your rooted Android phone.

The keyboard is certainly an improvement over the stock Android keyboard, with better targeting, better auto-correct, and easier number and symbol typing. The download is just a simple .zip file that you flash to your phone just like you would a ROM, theme, or kernel (which you can do either through ROM Manager or through your recover image). Make sure you back up before you install it, in case it causes any problems on your phone. Hit the link for more detailed instructions and to download the keyboard.

The Gingerbread keyboard is a free download for rooted Android devices running a 2.2-based ROM. Droid 2 and Droid X users, make sure to take note of the extra step mentioned on Droid-Life before proceeding.

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Installed this last night, this is the awesomesauce indeed.

Toy Story Eggs

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My 2yo son is obsessed with Toy Story, like watching all 3 multiple times a day if we let him.  So every once and awhile when he won’t eat, we tell him the food is toy story eggs, or whatever the food is.

This lie usually works for him, but when we saw this in a Super Target over the weekend, we almost died laughing.  This really is an evil marketing ploy, because that’s all the kids will see.  I didn’t notice the price of the Toy Story apples, but I’m sure they are much more than the regular apples.  Well played marketers, well played indeed.

A Vegan No More | Voracious

This is an amazing read

A Vegan No More

by Tasha on November 19, 2010 in A Vegan No More

 

As a vegan I didn’t like to think about the fact that without animals’ waste products, bones, and blood, farming is literally a zero sum game.

It broke my vegan heart to learn how unavoidably essential it is for humans to stop the use of fossil fuel fertilizers and reintegrate animals back into farm life. As a vegan I didn’t like to think about the fact that without animals’ waste products, bones, and blood, farming is literally a zero sum game. Without organic matter to feed the plants and the hungry soil, the precious topsoil will die and nothing can grow, a fact of life we are seeing play out around the globe as the millions of fossil fuel dependent farms collapse. When we expend resources like water and food on animals we are repaid tenfold. Not only does the water and food get used again in the form of manure that nourishes the soil in a way simple water never can, but the animals are eaten by us, and the remnants of their bodies used to feed the hungry earth. It was shocking to realize I had been expounding on the need to transform agriculture and farming without even knowing the bare minimum of what it takes to keep an ecosystem healthy. I now realize that the statistics I used to quote about environmental devastation, grain and water consumption, pollution, and ill health, were all based on numbers from factory farms, not from the realities of traditional land base specific farming, which is the only kind of farming that can heal our planet and us.