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An alpha of CyanogenMod 6 for the Droid has been released, and is up for download. The link, along with the link for FRF85B’s GApps (Google Apps) package, is below.

Google Apps Package FRF85B

Prerequisites for install

• Your Droid must be unlocked.
• Your Droid needs a custom recovery image (Clockwork Recovery, Amon_RA, etc).
• You

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Today was the day Abduction! reached 2 million downloads, so it seems appropriate to announce the sequel will soon be ready for a closed beta.

If you’d like to help out by becoming a beta tester, read on.

Requirements:

- You must own an Android phone or other Android device (no emulators, sorry)

- Ability to install an apk to your phone

- Willingness to provide regular feedback

- Understanding that there is no guarantee of quality, stability or potential to crash your phone

How to apply:

Email beta @ psym-mobile .com, with answers to the following questions. Please note, there are no correct answers, we are looking for a cross section of users so please be honest.

• Your name
• Android phone(s) you own
• Android version you are running
• Have you played the original Abduction?
• If so, how would you describe the difficulty? Too easy, about right, too hard?
• How would you class yourself as a gamer? Casual/regular/hardcore?

Depending on the response, we hope to mail out more details to those chosen within a week.

Droid-Life has a source, including pictures and a video, showing that the Droid Incredible will be getting an OTA update… sometime. They don’t have an ETA, but it shouldn’t be far off. The key new features it brings are 720p video recording, 3G mobile hotspot, and (most importantly of all), the usual “DROID” red eye bootup.

Pretty awesome that when Android phones get OTA updates, they tend to bring awesome new features. Gotta love the Goog’.

[Source: Droid-Life]

Angry Birds has been a hugely popular iPhone/iPad game, ranking #1 for awhile now. Developed by Rovio, Angry Birds is a great physics game where you shoot various birds out of a sling shot to destroy buildings and defeat the evil green pigs (this sounds awesome, doesn’t it?).

Rovio, however, is not satisfied enough to dominate the iPhone Apps Store, so they’ve now set their eyes on Android, which means this summer we will all get to enjoy flinging birds out of slingshots, all without getting arrested.

Gameplay

Angry Birds offers a lot of gameplay with different...

We've seen not one, but two posts this week where we used an ActionFilter as the solution to a problem. ActionFilters are powerful. ActionFilters can inspect and modify action parameters and action results. They can cover almost any cross-cutting concern in ASP.NET MVC: caching, security, auditing, etc.

But, should you use them everywhere?

[Log, UnitOfWork, PreParseParams]
[CommonData, VerifyRedirects, HandleError]  
public class BusyController : Controller
{
    
}

Think about the other options:

HttpModules see the big picture. They can hook into the beginning of a request before a request even knows it's destined for a controller. Modules are configurable at runtime and can drop into any web site as a completely decoupled component (example: ELMAH).

Custom ModelBinders can build and tweak models, build action parameters, and provide some validation support. I'd use a model binder instead of an action filter if I wanted to change or inspect model or parameter values (see: tips for model binding).

Custom ActionResults can encapsulate what happens after an action finishes executing. Modify HTTP headers, set response properties, and more (example: custom ImageResult).

Don't default to using an ActionFilter if another solution is a better fit.