{"id":28,"date":"2010-06-21T20:45:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T20:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2010-06-21T20:47:44","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T20:47:44","slug":"becoming-more-of-a-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/21\/becoming-more-of-a-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming more of a Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In preparation for purchasing an Android based device, I started researching some items I think I will need when I make the switch.  My main priority is to find a way to not use Google for every damn function on the phone.  I think I have found alternatives to most items and then some:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Software<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/vcardio\/\">vCardIO<\/a> &#8211; An free software to import contacts in the vCard 2.1 format<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZGb39w7X9aM\">Video showing how to use vCardIO<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jaqpot.net\/netcounter\/\">netcounter<\/a> &#8211; A free software to monitor your bandwidth consumption on an Android device<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/ancal\/\">ancal<\/a> &#8211; An free software PIM software package<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sites<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.technobuzz.net\/google-android-apps\/\">70 Awesome Android Apps<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/android-tips.com\/\">Android Tips.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Development<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mylifewithandroid.blogspot.com\/\">my life with android<\/a> &#8211; Blog about various programming experiments with Android<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vogella.de\/articles\/Android\/article.html\">Android Development Tutorial<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More to come when I actually make the purchase.  Right now I am looking at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.htc.com\/us\/products\/aria-att\">HTC Aria<\/a> since we already use AT&#038;T.<\/p>\n<p>Now I must stew over this and wait to see if I really want to take the plunge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In preparation for purchasing an Android based device, I started researching some items I think I will need when I make the switch. My main&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[166,13],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android","tag-android","tag-google","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}