Google released a rebranded Android Market yesterday, now named ‘Google Play’, dropping the Android specific name. Same content is still available: apps, music, movies & books. To celebrate the fact there’s bargains on apps and music all this week too.
VirtualBox vdi disk image failed
I’ve had physical drives fail before, but this is a first. I’ve used VirtualBox on and off for years for those times when you need to fire up a guest os and it’s always worked fine, no issues. I just installed Fedora 16 on a new virtual drive image and on the first reboot after installing the VM crashed. After that point VirtualBox wouldn’t boot it any more saying the vdi headers were corrupt.
Wow, ok. Other than messing with headers physically in the image file, it appears there’s no repair options or tools. This is the first time I’ve seen this, so giving it the benefit of the doubt, I downloaded the latest version, 4.1.8, created a new vm and new disk image, and I’m installing again.
Installing Java on OS X Lion
I’m sure there’s plenty of posts about this already, but I just upgraded to Mac OS X Lion today and it seems Java is not preinstalled. When you first attempt to launch a Java app though, Software Update launches and downloads a Java 6 JVM for you. Very nice.
850k Android activations A DAY
This is incredible news from Google this week at the Mobile World Congress conference. Every day there are now 850 thousand Android device activations.
That’s right, you read that correctly. 850k A DAY. That’s incredible!
The daily number of activations are still increasing since 700k a day in December 2011, and 550k in November 2011.