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Flash Player 10.2.157.51 – Features and Enhancements
The complete set of release notes can be found here

Sitting around on your Xoom tweeting with friends while watching the same program on the television? Well it looks like soon enough on the Xoom you will be able to chat it up with them while having an interface to the show you are watching. Press release here.

She is still a little rough around the edges but the beta is looking good. The only glaring issue I can find is when you go to set up the the toggles, the list comes up but it blank. You can still choose them and they work but you play guessing games on what you are selecting.

Try it for yourself. Download now.

I actually prefer this over Encore but it does the same thing. Hear a song, click listen, it tells you what it is and where to find it or buy it.

• Blazing fast music recognition: name tunes playing from a speaker in as little as 4 seconds
• The world's only viable singing and humming recognition
• Voice recognition music search: just speak a title or band name to check it out
• Lookup song lyrics
• Song previews allow you to listen and sample tops hits and new discoveries
• Buy link for instant music downloads, including Amazon MP3
• Song mapping allows you to see where you discovered your songs on a map, and can be viewed later in your History
• Social sharing: it's fast and easy to share your song IDs via Facebook, Twitter, SMS, and e-mail
• Optimized for both phones and tablets, including Motorola Xoom and Samsung Galaxy Tab

Download it for free today on Amazon

For those totally not sold on the Amazon App Store yet, here is another incentive. Amazon gives away one application that you usually would have to pay for FREE everyday. Since the price is right you may want to swing over everyday and check to see what it is.

A new Busy Box was released on the Market. Now if you are asking yourself, “What the heck is busy box?” I can understand that. Basically busy box is a set of Unix commands other programs can call to do whatever it is they need to do. (See Wiki on Busy Box) Many root type applications will need a copy of busybox to run correctly. One such program that relies heavily on busy box is Titanium Backup. Up until today Ti backup was a bit “crippled” because you could not backup, freeze, and restore system level applications. The new BusyBox fixes this.



If you do not see an information screen in Titanium Backup (like the one above) that points to the new (BusyBox 1.18.x from system), then you may have to go to Applications > Manage Applications > Titanium Backup > Force Stop the app. Then remove the cache and data for the app.

Why is it so important to have Titanium Backup or other such program running correctly? Because once we start seeing a lot of new custom builds for the Xoom you will take a full backup of all your USER apps, install the new ROM, then batch restore all your applications with all your personal settings back to your tablet. Once you get good at the whole process it will not take you more than 15-20 minutes to backup all your data, wipe your Xoom, install the new OS, then have all your applications running again. In addtion, if you do not like any of your SYSTEM applications you can back them up and remove them or “freeze” them. Then when an OS upgrade comes around you can restore or “defrost” them all and take the upgrade. GOOD STUFF!

Notice now on my Xoom I can see both system and user apps from within Ti BU:


And if you have never seen the batch menu in Ti Backup it looks like this:

Once we get a working SD card I am sure we will see a torrent of new OS mods and custom upgrades. Stay tuned.

Can’t seem to figure out how to attach a non picture file. Gallery is the only option?

I guess I never thought about this. I do not use the default e-mail client, I use K9 for all my mail accounts (including gMail) all set for IMAP so my mail looks the same on my computers, phone and tablet. @dan_root on Twitter reminded me that the Exchange support on K9 can be a bit lacking so I understand some folks need to run the Xoom eMail client. But the client being used is not the problem here.

The problem is your Xoom does not come with a way to pick a file except though the gallery so you are kind of stuck. I always had various File Explorers loaded, day 1, so again I just never dawned on me.

So if you cannot find a way to chose an attachment using the default mail client you are NOT crazy. Just pick one of the many File Explorers out there, install it, then attach any file you want.

For those folks chomping at the bit for Flash I am sure you got it already. Did the world change? No huh? ;)

Well for the rest of the folks out there that did not have a life dependent on having the actual released version of Flash and not the “spooky” leak the real version of Flash is out. You do not have to uninstall the leak but, if you are not prompted for an upgrade automatically got to the Flash link on the market and click upgrade.