Recent content by tbessie

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    with kitkat, Google is transforming android into a Google now device

    Will I be able to turn OFF all the "Google Now" features? I don't want voice activation, I don't want "relevant to where I am" results, etc. I sure hope all these new features are disable-able! - Tim
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    My Apps - Auto Update - Always enabling its self without my consent

    I have a Galaxy Nexus, and this auto-update setting reversion (i.e. I set it to NOT auto-update, and then that setting reverts to "auto update over wifi" without me setting it that way) has been happening at least since Android 4.2, perhaps earlier. The phone just updated to Android 4.3, and it...
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    google Play Store just auto updated all my apps on its own WTF

    Same thing happened to me just now (on my Galaxy Nexus). Never happened before. It didn't even happen automatically after the last Google Play Store update, but several days later (from what I can tell). I checked, and the update settings had changed without my changing them, as people have...
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    AT&T detecting (and interfering with) tethering?

    I don't know about tethering, but I use my Galaxy Nexus (unbranded, bought from Google) for SSH and FTP as well as the other usual protocols, and just as of this week, FTP and SSH connections are terminated (I'm guessing by AT&T) after about 10 seconds. I have contacted AT&T 2 or 3 times, and...