Gaalxy Nexus 7 and speed

I wasn't too happy about the speed of my Galaxy Nexus lately.  The performance was pretty sluggish after I turned on the phone for a while, and it didn't seemed to have anything to do with any specific app I opened.  Eventually I turned on [Setting], look under [Apps], and found that there are some games and process that kept running at the back while I was totally not usually them, particularly for those social games from Zenga, Bloomberg, United Airline and so on.  I was pissed and had them removed, and now my phone is back the quick and responsive that I used to love when I first brought it.  Awesome.

Addicted to emulator

Ever since I found out how to use my Wiimote as a control to place console emulator games on both my Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 7, I got so addicted to playing emulator games on them that I totally ignored all other gaming on other devices like my XBox, PS3, iPad, Nintendo 3DS and so on.  The instant save and load feature combine with the Wiimote configuration is just awesome.  I just wish, though, that I have more keys to play with because playing Super Mario World causing me problem because I don't have all the keys I need, and I can't have per game based key configuration.  I can of course buy a Classic controller and thus gives me all the keys I need.  But then I will have to deal with another dangling item, which, to me, sort of defeat the casual ease of use advantage of this Wiimote Android setup.  So I decided, at least for now, simply ignoring those games that requires more keys.  After all, just finishing all the games that utilize regular key configuration will probably already takes me the entire lifetime anyway.  Why bother creating more trouble to myself?

Connected Galaxy Nexus to PC, and found that files were missing on PC File Explorer

Here's the odd situation I encountered:  I used FolderSync to sync between my android device and a Dropbox folder, which as the result sort of allows me to sync emulator .sav files between 2 android.  But that was not the main point.

The main point is that after a FolderSync session, there were some folders created on my Galaxy Nexus file structure, and I can actually see them when I use File Manager to view the files.  The problem comes when I hook up my Galaxy Nexus to a PC, and then from the PC File Explorer exploring the file system on my Galaxy Nexus, I DID NOT see those newly created files (and of course neither the files in those folders).

At the end, I solved the problem by rebooting the Galaxy Nexus, and found that after then all the files show up properly when hooking to a PC.  But still this is annoying, and I still don't understand what was going on.

Finding speed adjustable video player for Nexus 7

I was trying to find a video player that allowed me to adjust playback speed.   And the end I found DicePlayer.  It allows me to slow down the playback all the way to 50%.  It also does not have the annoying advertisement when you pause the screen.

Wiimote and Nexus 7, yeah!

I successfully set up all 5 console emulator to work with my WiiMote.  The set up is pretty straight:

• Download Wiimote Controller from Android Play Marketplace.
• AlunchWiiMote Controller, press button 1 and 2 together on your Wiimote to activate searching, and then click [Search] button on the Wiimote Controller app.  And then set the Wiimote as the current "input method".
• On the emulator:
• Make sure you turn on "Use input method" under "Other Settings"
• Go to "Input Setting" to make sure that all the keys are mapped properly.

And that's all.  Now you can have fun using WiiMote as the controller.

Also, don't forget to "quit" the "Wiimote Controller" application.  Otherwise it will continue keeping WiiMote alive, and thus killing batteries on the WiiMote.

Playing a playlist of video: BSPlayer > MoboPlayer

I tried playing a series of video from my Nexus 7.  While MoboPlayer keeps giving me error and kicks out in the middle, BSPlayer handled to playing of playlist gracefully.  It even, by default, started to play back in the loop, which was what I prefer.

Once again, ***k you RIAA

I am starting to prepare my trip to Hong Kong, and suddenly think of something: can I access my files and music on the cloud while I am in Hong Kong?  I did some research and found out the answer: file, yes, music no.

It started with me trying to upload audiobooks to my Google Music account, and then found out that I already used up by 2 account linkage restriction (imposed by Google).  My account X and account D are linked to my office M6500 machine, and so I can't use that machine to upload music to another Google Music account.  Also, Google Music Upload Manager doesn't work in VM (VMWare).

But then, it's the internet. so when there's a will, there is a way.  Someone created a Chrome app to bypass the restriction, called Music Alpha.  It seems to work ok with real music files, but have problem with audiobooks, and eventually I gave up on uploading audiobook.

But the last nail on the coffin comes from my friend in HK.  He tried and told me that he couldn't access Google Music both on desktop or on Google vote.  So, game over.

However, access, Google Drive still works fine.

So you can guess where I will upload my audiobooks to.