Tag Archives: android

Find my device or anything that saw it recently and has travelled 15km or so

Posted on 12 September 2024 by stuff writer

Google’s “Find My Device” function does a pretty good job of finding a device. It has a few mechanisms: That last method, bluetooth snitching, produces some interesting results. I dropped my phone by accident, and discovered it missing when I … Continue reading →

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Invasion of the evil androids

Posted on 17 November 2016 by stuff writer

Google says you are too stupid to rule your own life.  They say this by their Android phone operating system, in which they do not give you, the owner and operator of the device, root permissions.  This means: You cannot … Continue reading →

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Android Emergency

Posted on 13 March 2014 by stuff writer

On the way to work one fine morning, I stopped at a road accident scene, with some rather traumatic injuries – I thought someone had died, but instead of being dead, that someone spoke to me and asked me to … Continue reading →

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