Comments on: Ask NerdGirl: I Am Alive! A New Home, Reinventing the Calendar, and It’s Not That Hard!

By: How to Screen Capture on an Android Phone | Artiss.co.uk

How to Screen Capture on an Android Phone | Artiss.co.uk — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 06:51:47 +0000

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By: Phil Barrett

Phil Barrett — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:01:34 +0000

Seconded. Jorte is a little slow, but it’s the only calendar I use because it packs so much text onto my high-res Desire screen.

By: The_Omega_Man

The_Omega_Man — Mon, 31 May 2010 07:24:29 +0000

Check out Jorte as a calendar replacement..It has Widget support as well. Works great for me!

By: Afront

Afront — Sun, 30 May 2010 11:03:54 +0000

No really though, for screenshots: what a palaver! I still can’t get it working. It looked like I also had to download some HUGE Java developer install thing and run through all sorts of setup for that just to get started. That didn’t work, so I uninstalled that and installed jdk-6u20-windows-i586 but I still get an error message when I try to run ddms on my Windows 7 box:

\Documents\android-sdk-windows\tools>ddms

WARNING: Java not found in your path.
Checking it it’s installed in C:\Program Files\Java instead.

ERROR: No suitable Java found. In order to properly use the Android Developer
Tools, you need a suitable version of Java installed on your system. We
recommend that you install the JDK version of JavaSE, available here:
http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/

You can find the complete Android SDK requirements here:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/requirements.html

At this point I give up…

By: Sparx

Sparx — Sat, 29 May 2010 17:41:07 +0000

@John has mentioned dxTop as a launcher replacement. Although, not free, it does include the ability to capture a screenshot by long-pressing the camera button or the center button / trackpad.

On my Samsung Spica, it worked without the need for root and on Cupcake and now with Eclair too.

By: Antonio Wells

Antonio Wells — Sat, 29 May 2010 16:06:48 +0000

Thanks! We got that updated

By: Hypercubed

Hypercubed — Sat, 29 May 2010 15:59:32 +0000

You should mention that you need to enable debugging mode to get the ddms to work. Settings -> Applications -> Development -> US Debugging

By: John

John — Sat, 29 May 2010 15:45:02 +0000

There is an even better home replacement, and is called ADW Launcher free in the market.
Is very hard to decide between this and the Launcher Pro.
Open Home, Pandahome,Dxtop ,aHome,Freshhome are a thing of the past.
GDE is slow. Home++ good on Droids but never updated.
HelixLauncher updates are not public, only to donators,but still good.
Not excellent as the 2 LauncherPro and ADW Launcher.

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