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Wow, I cannot honestly believe I am writing this post today. Who’d have thought I would ever write a post about Magic Jack. For those of you who don’t know, Magic Jack is a VoIP product in the US. Known for their bad commercials and customer complaints, they’re a joke.

In any case, one of their commercials came on a few minutes ago. For some odd reason, I decided to look at their website. It’s actually not half bad. I took a look at their HTML and it’s pretty simple and straightforward. On their homepage, you’ll notice their banner:

Taking a look at their HTML, it would seem this banner isn’t what it seems:

And some of their JS would seem to back that up. Now, page counters are a bit outdated these days. But if you’re going to use a page counter, don’t lie about it. Don’t pretend it’s some indication of how many customers you’ve gained today.

T-Mobile has recently released a new version of their customer site. At a first glance, it looks like a vast improvement over the old one. The interface is much more friendly and slick, just for starters.

I own a G1. Today, I logged into the customer site and was doing a bit of tweaking on my services. I change my plan just fine, then proceed to the services section. Apparently, my “G1 Plus Service” (unlimited mail, messaging, web, etc) is no longer offered, and I’ll have to select the “T-Mobile G1 Unlimited Web + Unlimited Messages” service. Same price, so no big deal. This is where their UI fails.

I can’t seem to select the “Unlimited Web + Unlimited Messages” service by itself, it wants to select both that and the “Unlimited Web” service automatically. The point in this was to reduce my monthly bill, not raise it over redundant services…

I think the article pretty much speaks for itself: “Coming Soon: Adobe Flash on Android, WinMo and WebOS“.

All I can say is: about time! We’ve been dealing with rumors about flash on Android since the G1 launch. Nobody has given us anything concrete until now. Granted, I’m not a huge fan of using flash, but it will certainly make the browsing experience even more rich.

I spend way too much free time playing EVE Online, an MMORPG set 20,000+ years in the future in an alternate galaxy called New Eden.

I also spend way too much time coding up useless little things that nobody will ever care about or use except me. So I decided to write an Android application to allow me to keep track of my character using the game API. And I’m writing it as a ContentProvider, so it will be generic to any EVE API queries you could want to do. For what it’s worth, there doesn’t seem to be a library in Android yet for EVE, so I might actually be filling  a vaccum here (there’s already libraries in Python, PHP, .NET and I believe a few other platform/languages).

Tangentally, their dev blog is usaully boring and devoid of tech goodies for the geeks like myself. However, this recent post on some networking upgrades they’ve done is rather enlightening and interesting, at least to me.