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DROIDx or Droid X

I’ve now had my Motorola Droid X from Verizon Wireless for close to a year and half or so.  I love it.  And it being a Unix-based OS, on it’s own, it never needs rebooting.  On its own that is.  But it’s funny as you add apps, how the thing gets a bit flaky on you.  But as I’ve learned through the years, the more software you add to your computing platform, the more likely it is you will start to develope issues amongst competing drivers and what not.  It seems to be the name of the game.

Over the many months, I’ve tried, played and deleted many an app on the phone.

I tread wearily when I tried apps so I can avoid some of the horror stories I’ve seen, IE:  bricking the phone, etc..  Treading carefully means means that when I hit up the Droid App Store, (the Market), I look carefully at the reviews.  A lot of reviews are not from the greatest minds on the planet, so I weigh them out and ponder the sources, but if I see a pattern of issues from multiple reviews, I tend to go on my merry way and ignore the app.  Of course, there are those apps that come from outside the Market, but I only install those apps from trusted sources, or huge name companies, etc..  Organizations that I have had good dealings with.

But even large name orgs sometimes have problems, as, you will see.

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Consumer User Observation on Hootsuite / Firefox

I’ve been running the beta versions of Firefox for some time now and the last few weeks I’ve been tangling with Firefox, the software has been hitting up my pagefile pretty aggressively.  When a system accesses the pagefile instead of memory, it bogs the process down.  I’ve been sitting around, waiting for my application anywhere from 5 to 30 seconds for it to respond to my instructions.

I’ve been experimenting with different applications while running Firefox, turning on and turning off things until I finally hit on the idea that Hootsuite has been dogging my system.  I’ve had Hootsuite running to monitor Twitter feeds for a site or two for various reasons.

I found that as soon as I turned off Hootsuite, Firefox lit back up again and I’m no longer hitting my pagefile with every action.

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Consumer User Review of the Motorola Droid X – Pt 4, [The HOME and Right Menu Screens]

November 17, 2010

Consumer User Review of the Motorola Droid X – Pt 4, [The HOME and Right Menu Screens] I’m having a blast with this phone and I think anyone that picks it up, will too. Today I will chat about my right-hand screens/menus and a bit about the Home Screen and what I’ve done to it.

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Hootsuite Hooks You & Now Offers a Pro Version

November 17, 2010

After two years of existence, Hootsuite is now offering a Pro Hootsuite version that has no limits, versus new limits they’ll be enforcing on the free accounts we’ve all been using.

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