Testing the E-mail-To-Post functionality of Blogger and LiveJournal

This post is to test out the functionality of both Blogger's and
LiveJournal's E-mail-To-Post features. While each platform will post
the email as it was originally created, I'm hoping that sending them
an e-mail with the content of its body being wider than the width of
the post stream of the blogs themselves so as to get the posts posted
properly instead of in one slim stream. How this'll be done on a
mobile phone is beyond me although tablets should have no problem, so
that's good, right?

Posting to all of Gadgetic Musings via Email

After publishing "Posting to Multiple Blogging Platforms using
tarpipe", I decided to continue and work on adding more platforms to
the mix. All posts, however, are published via email, so it does it
not matter what the platform is, which simplifies the work that myself
and the editor have to do. Currently, I have Gadgetic Musings hosted
on three platforms (<a href="Http://www.blogger.com/">Blogger</a>, <a
href="http://www.tumblr.com/">tumblr</a> and <a
href="http://www.wordpress.com/">WordPress.com</a>) along with the
three that I found today. I plan to add more platforms as time elapses
to further disaster-proof it. Gadgetic Musings represents my two
passions of industrial design and consumer and business technology. It
also represents my hope for the future, where many of my musings have
become reality either through myself, other individuals or a team
effort. With so much riding on this, why would I not want to have
Gadgetic Musings be as highly available as it can be?
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This question is what has led me on a search for more platforms where
I have found <a href="http://blog.com/">Blog.com</a>, <a
href="http://blogetery.com/">Blogetery.com</a>, and <a
href="http://www.weebly.com/">Weebly</a>. I will be setting up,
configuring and theming Gadgetic Musings on them within the next
couple of weeks. I also remembered the web host where one of my old
blogs "<a href="http://soul-est.doc776.org/sotp/">Soul Of The
Prestige</a>" was hosted. I will be setting up, configuring and
theming Gadgetic Musings on there as well once I figure out whether to
use <a href="http://habariproject.org/en/">Habari</a> or <a
href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> for it's underpinnings.
With all these platforms in place and being posted to via email, I can
now turn my attention toward the next two items on my to-do list
regarding Gadgetic Musings which I'll talk about in a later post.
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Tweaking the Sony Ericsson Urushi (Xperia Ray)

Ever since I got the Urushi (Xperia Ray), I've wanted to port Android 4.0 to it. Unfortunately, having received the carrier branded variant of the phone, the phone's bootloader is not fastboot enabled. Therefore, the bootloader is not unlockable via Sony Experia's bootloader unlock site. I was,  however able to root the device using the method found here. (Thanks again DoomLord!) I have done a bit of tweaking to the pre-installed ROM which I'll describe below.

Automatic Light Sensor Hack:
This was rather simple.. so simple in fact that I was surprised that no one found it sooner. The hack involves two files, the hw_config.sh and als_curve.conf files in the /system/etc directory. In the hw_config.conf, find the line that looks like this:

echo 0,0,0,0 > $dev/lcd-backlight/als/params  #[gain],[filter_up],[filter_down],[offset]

and edit it to look like this:

echo 3,2,2,0 > $dev/lcd-backlight/als/params  #[gain],[filter_up],[filter_down],[offset]

Then, using Terminal Emulator or another app capable of executing scripts, run hw_config.sh. *Make sure you have the backlight set to a value higher than 0 and lower than 100 or else the hack will not work!*

SD Card Read Cache Tweaking:
This one was also as simple if not more simple than the above hack. All thanks go to arcatarc for this hack (which you can find here). It requires either the use of Terminal Emulator, SD-Booster or any app capable of modifying text files with root privileges. ADB can also be used for this if you prefer to work with a full size keyboard. In Terminal Emulator, ADB, or similar go to /sys/devices/virtual/bdi/179:0/read_ahead_kb and change the value from 128 to whatever you choose. When using SD-Booster, all that needs to be done is input the value you want and tap the Apply button. I currently have the read cache set at 1152 and the the write speed has increased to 6.8 MB/s from 6.1 MB/s while the read speed has increased from 15.3 MB/s to 26.8 MB/s. This latter hack as proven to be the most useful of the two as the speed increase is clearly evident when shooting and reviewing photos.