Michael de Silva Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to my blog.

My interests are rather wide and varied, from reading to writing with fountain pens as well as enjoying great food with even greater company.

Consider having a look at my Flickr photostream, if photography interests you. I have also authored some texts on Mathematics, Physics, and Engineering. Last but not least, my Curriculum Vitae.

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Hot Chocolate at 0407 hrs

Last evening I decided it was time to upgrade my Google phone. Started off by grabbing the latest version of fastboot from HTC’s site, updated my Amon_RA’s recovery to Passion 2.2.1, and performed the recommended steps for updating the ROM to CyanogenMod 7. The best app I came across as a result was the Android [...]

Android – Multithreading in a UI environment

For the past few days, I’ve been getting up to speed with concurrent thread execution in Java, namely for Android. I only just stumbled on to this excellent blog post on the topic. I will therefore organise the rest of this post in reference to the link – do read it! Threading as per Android [...]

Google Maps 5 APK

For those running baked ROMs, you can grab the apk directly here. The 3D view of New York is well impressive, although London was a disappointment… xD

Android fragmentation…it’s the hardware too.

I was just reading a re-cap of a blog post by Rovio on Engadget where they have been experiencing many issues with older and underpowered devices as well as older flavours of the OS. At one end of the fragmentation issue is the version of the OS installed, but when it comes to games most [...]

Updated Gmail 2.3 App for Froyo 2.2

Grab the updated Gmail app that supports ‘Priority Inbox’ and more here. Simply copy the zip to the root of your SD card and flash over with Amon_RA.

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  • Nexus One

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