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Bartsidee Repository

The best boxee repository and apps without any doubt is the Bartsidee Repository. The best app in this repository is BartsideeTV, including all of the other singles apps in the repository. It's a great looking interface and layout and it's very easy to use. The bartsideeTV consists of the following source modules:

- Hulu (not working on boxee box)
- BBC iPlayer (including hd and subtitle support)
- Dutch channels ( sbs, uzg, nl24, tmf)
- Youtube
- svtplay (Swedish)
- CBC (Canadian)
- Navi-x (No script support)
- Zdf and ARD (full mediathek + subtitles)

You could select individual modules and put together those you want most. You could search inside one module or search across several. The Navi-x module is actually functioning better than the original navi-x app.

Add the following to your "add repository" list: http://boxee.bartsidee.nl

Here are some screenshots:

Hakluyt Society First Series

I have just bought The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India, over a period from the middle ages to the late eighteenth century.

Kylo Tv Browser on Boxee

A few of you out there has probably become very frustrated about the bad default integrated web browser in the boxee box, not functioning at all, well here is a solution to your problems. The excellent Kylo tv browser is made just for the purpose of web browsing on your TV with your computer connected to your TV. Head over to the Kylo pages and download the exe file (just Windows support). If you are running Linux like myself it's no problem, first download the exe file to your desktop or a memory stick (if you are running boxee box without a computer attached to your TV).
Then you have to make sure you have the excellent launcher application from the excellent 3rd-party repository Fuzzthed, just add http://dir.fuzzthed.com to your repositories under applications.
Launch the launcher and add application in the left menu, pick the kylo.exe install file and pick a directory of your choice to install to, if you are running Boxee Box make sure it is installed to your memory stick. Then after installation remove the application you made for executing the kylo.exe install file and pick the kylo.exe self-executable, if you want an image to the launcher file pick the same path as the executable and write kylo.ico instead of kylo.exe. Now you have a fully funtional TV Browser. Enjoy!!

Readability-An Arc90 Lab Experiment

"Readability™ is a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you're reading".
You could choose your settings and drag Readability button to browser's bookmark toolbar and it will function as a bookmarklet. Just press the bookmarklet and the page you are visiting will be readability enabled.

Library book classification today at NTNU University Library

Another book is added to our already great collection of tattooing and bodymodification collection, Kat Von D's "Tattoo Chronicles".


The lovely Kat Von D is telling about some of the persons she has tattoed through her career, everything from superstars,cops,pastors,prostitutes to homeless teenagers. Some nice stories and tattoos.

Library book classification today at NTNU University Library

One of the books that caught my attention today when classifying books was Paul Rabinow's book: "Marking time".








Paul Rabinow presents his most recent refelections on the anthropology of the contemorary. Michel Foucault, John Dewey, Niklas Luhmann and... research is being examined and studied.

VODO-free-to-share films

VODO is a site dedicated to share legally free films available through bittorrent. Thanks for the link from Pascal Braak

Photos of the Jarawa people on the Andaman Islands

Here is some beautiful photos of the isolated Jarawa people on the Andaman Islands in India taken by the french photographer Olivier Blaise.

Ever wondered about Facebook statistics by country?

Here comes the statistics from facebakers

British Academy Portal-Anthropology and Geography

This page from the British Academy provide an annotated list of links to social anthropology and human geography Internet resources which include gateways, projects, dictionaries, databases, papers and reports. There are also an A to Z listing and 'What's New' page for the main portal.

OFFSTATS - The University of Auckland Library

OFFSTATS:Official statistics on the web. Web links are arranged by country, region or subject.

GEOnet Names Server(GNS)

The GEOnet Names Server (GNS) provides access to a database of foreign geographic feature names. The database is maintained by the US National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA).The database contains over 3 million features and 5 million names and is updated bi-weekly.

GEO Data Portal-Global environment outlook

The GEO Data Portal is the authoritative source for data sets used by UNEP and its partners in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report and other integrated environment assessments. Its online database holds more than 500 different variables, as national, subregional, regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets (maps), covering themes like Freshwater, Population, Forests, Emissions, Climate, Disasters, Health and GDP. Display them on-the-fly as maps, graphs, data tables or download the data in different formats.

Aneki.com

Aneki.com dedicated to world rankings and records. The say this about their own site"Aneki.com is an independent, privately operated website based in Montreal, Canada. We are dedicated to promoting wider knowledge of the world's countries and regions. Our website serves as a comprehensive source of continental and world rankings in an increasing number of categories. The data for our compilations is derived from numerous sources including United Nations agencies and the United States' Central Intelligence Agency's World Factbook".

Sage Reference Online

NTNU Library now have access to the following SAGE e-reference titles

Taxi. A photographic journey

"Taxi En fotografisk reise" by Sigbjørn Sigbjørnsen is a 20-year photoproject, taking him through 5 continents, 74 countries and more than 1000 taxi photos. This book is just showing us some of the photos taken. You will find some amazing photos, I especially like the photo taken on Greenland.

Podcasts from the University of Oxford

Podcasts and audio recordings from the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography.


Podcasts from African Studies Centre


School of Geography and the Environment Podcasts

Photographs of Africa Collection-University of Florida Digital Collections

At the University of Florida you will find a nice collection of historical African photos in their digital photographs of Africa Collection.

"The Photographs of Africa Collection includes photographs of Africa from various research projects and photographers. Currently, this growing collection includes select photographs by cinematographer/photographer Martin Rikli (1898-1969) documenting his Ethiopian (Abessinien) expedition from 1935-36, which coincided with the second Italo-Abyssinian War."

Their general African Collection you find here.

Sabinet-African Journal Archive

"The African Journal Archive is a retrospective digitisation project of full-text journal articles published in Africa, in the Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities, providing access to a multi-disciplinary, multi-country digital archive of Africa’s research and cultural heritage contained in its journal literature."

African e-Journals Project

"The African e-Journals Project makes journals published in Africa and about Africa more available to scholars worldwide.

The project offers two major resources. First, a directory of journals about Africa provides information about where to find tables of contents and abstracts, full text of articles online, and journal webpages, where they are available".

Maps of Africa

Columbia University Libraries has made a great list and overview of free map resources for Africa.

Google Baraza

Google recently developed a new service "to allow people in countries across Africa to ask questions and to post answers to questions from others".

English version
Version francais

Google leanback

Google leanback: Fullscreen view and navigation. Relax in the comfort of your chair and leanback and enjoy. It's easy to jump to the next video by the same artist, at the bottom of the screen you get a small thumbnailed preview of other videos by the same artist. Just use the arrow keys to easily navigate to the next video.

Paid apps android market

Finally paid apps on the android market is available for Norway, meaning several thousand "new" apps to play around with. Haven't yet had the need for this missing apps, but now.....

Linkable-Access your bookmarks online.

You have several online services offering to store your bookmarks so that you could easily access them anywhere in the world as long as you have internet connection. Delicious is probably the most popular one, then you have Xmarks, soon to stop it's service 01.01.2011. One week ago I found the very easy to use and appealing Linkable, with a great look and easy access. Here is my links at linkable.com.

Driver:Digital Repository for European Research

Driver: "Access the network of freely accessible digital repositories with content across academic disciplines with over 2,500,000 scientific publications, found in journal articles, dissertations, books, lectures, reports, etc., harvested regularly from more than 249 repositories, from 33 countries".

Sally Collister photographies of West Papua

Once again I am addressing the ongoing conflict and problems of West Papua (take a look on other earlier blogpostings).


Taken from Sally Collisters webpage:"In December 2007 I returned to West Papua, documenting the stories of its indigenous people who have been living under a brutal Indonesian military occupation. Its tribal people are being slaughtered, and their unique environment destroyed. Due to technical problems, my photography was limited to this small set, taken at a village in the Baliem Valley.
For more information about the shocking situation in West Papua, or to donate to the Free West Papua Campaign please visit www.freewestpapua.org"

Some really wonderful photos.

Search Table of contents for ISBNs

Search Table of Contents for ISBN number by using the Syndetic solutions for Table of Contents. I have made a bookmarklet with the proper Syndetics search string to find TOCs for books based on ISBNs.

Problems with low internal memory on your android phone?

Regardless of the fact that Froyo 2.2 has included a function called Apps2SD it's quite a few apps that you are not able to move to your SD card because of the simple fact that the developers of the app didn't make this an option in the first place, if you are stuck on an older version of android it's not possible at all unless you have rooted your phone. Depending on your phones model the amount of internal memory storage is varying from model to model. If you have very little it's even more important to do something about the situation. One of the very best ways to free some internal memory is of course to not install a lot of applications, but if you are like me you love your applications so you will probably seek other options, the best one is to clear the cache of your applications. You could do that by going to settings and manage applications and clear cache or you could use a very good application like "Quick App Clean Cache". Some of the big cache eaters are especially the browsers like, Dolphin and Skyfire and The Android Market, but you also have other "hungry" applications eating away on your memory. Leaving the job over to a professional cache freeing app is probably the best method.

Give your android some more memory by freeing some cache!

dmoz open directory project

dmoz open directory project has been mentioned on this blog before but that's probably 3-4 years ago. Since than a lot has happened. Trying to search topics like: geography under the heading science/social sciences gave 1048 links. When trying the same with anthropology under the heading science/social sciences it gave 824 links, considerably more than a few years ago.

Free ebooks from Openlibrary.org

A simple search with the broad keyword "Africa" inside ebooks only gave a nice search results list containing 2,297 hits .
2,174 hits are in the category Accessible books and 153 hits in the category protected DAISY, meaning not open readable. You will find quite some interesting titles on the list.

Give openlibrary.org a try yourself!

The Grazr service is dead

The Grazr service is dead. Grazr was a free RSS to widget converter that allowded you to create cool custom widgets for any RSS, RDF, ATOM or OPML feed. For all of us having used their services is their other services that could be used?

The Optimal OPML browser could be a good replacement.

Here are some examples of Widgets made by the Optimal Browser, the opml has been made and exported from the ticTocs service (RSS/OPML Journal Tables of Contents Service):

Anthropology dictionary for android phones

The company Deep Powder Software has created a anthropology dictionary for android phones. Only available in countries having access to the android paid app market.

I havent been able to try the app yet so it's hard to say anything about the quality. When I manage to grab a copy I will let you know.

"http://www.freewestpapua.org-For a Free and Independent West Papua

Join the Free West Papua Campaign and help the people of West Papua in their struggle to regain their freedom and independence.




Here is an article given you all a small peek into what the conflict is all about.

Geography Vocabulary Quiz for android

Review or learn the geography vocabulary terms.

Includes multiple-choice quiz (Brain Bites), flash cards, and dictionary/glossary listing.

Send report card of incorrect answers to email.

Quiz or ask a friend a question by text message.

Track scores and post for global ranking.

GeoQuiz for android

GeoQuiz by Brain Cafe is a multiple-choice quiz game with a main purpose to ‘test your knowledge of the planet Earth and all its wonders’. Sleek and well-presented, GeoQuiz is part game, part visual tour of Wikipedia.

Scan to download the app to your android phone.

Peru inventor 'whitewashes' peaks to slow glacier melt

A very interesting project is taking place 4,756 metres above sea level in the Peruvian Andes. Inventor Eduardo Gold is planning to splash whitewash onto loose rocks and paint a total area of 70 hectares (173 acres) on three peaks in the Andean region of Ayacucho in southern Peru. "A white surface reflects the sun's rays back through the atmosphere and into space, in doing so it cools the area around it too," explains Gold.
"In effect in creates a micro-climate, so we can say that the cold generates more cold, just as heat generates more heat."
In that way he wants to recuperate the country's melting glaciers.
Read more about the project

OpenstreetMap and NTNU

WikiProject Norway/NTNU goal is to create detailed maps of campuses run by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.


An example, Dragvoll campus at NTNU

SlideIT keyboard for android

SlideIT keyboard from Dasur is really excellent. Such a easy way to express yourself, not writing but sliding your words, search terms, url's etc.....SlideIT is available for Windows Mobile, Symbian, Android and iPhone.

Give it a try. A wonderful experience saving you a lot of time. I will never go back to any ordinary keyboard again on my android phone.

No access to android paid app market? What's the problem?

It's really not a problem when you have android file repositories like 4share or blackdroid allowing you to download apk files directly to your phone or PC, both free and paid apps. The only disadvantage is that you don't have the possibility to update the paid apps the way you update the free apps from the android market. Well it's not a big problem, you just visit those repositories regularly and install a newer version if it's available.

IT and development at the IME faculty, NTNU, Norway

On their "development" page you could for instance find 3 different bussoracles developed for Android and iPhone, telling you when the bus is departing and arriving in the Trondheim region, you could also find a timetable generator for NTNU students.

Sharing your android apps with friends?

Have you ever wanted to share your android apps (.apk files) with friends? If you use the app called OnTheFly Backup you could safely backup your apps to the SD card or backup to your PC.Share all those lovely apps is just a question of seconds, the easiest way is just to make a zipped archive and share as a single file, you have several zip readers for android able to read zipped archives.

Good luck.....

New list of apps on my HTC Magic

Here comes a new updated list of apps for my HTC Magic running cupcake v.1.5
List as before made by the application calles Appdragon:

3D Wallpapers (4.5.0)
3banana (1.17)
91PandaHome (1.9.2)
ACast (3.1.23)
APKtor (1.0.8.6)
Airplane Mode Toggle (1.0.1)
AndAppStore (1.5.8)
AndroBlogger (1.1.0)
AndroZip (0.9.9.8)
Android Desktop (2.1.2)
Any Cut (1.0)
ApalyaTV (1.0.1)
App Dragon (1.22)
App to QR (1.4)
AppAware (1.6)
AppBrain App Market (3.2 (improved sync, direct link to detail page, bug fixes))
AppManager (0.5)
Apps Organizer (1.5.5)
Aptoide (1.2.0)
AudioManager (2.0.9)
AudioManager Pro (1.3.2)
AudioManager Skin: Glass (1.3)
AudioManager Skin: Retro (1.0.1)
AudioManager Skin: Smoked Glass (1.0.1)
AudioManager Skin: Transparent (1.3)
Aurora (1.5.8)
BUUF Brown (1.4.1)
Bar Control (1.1.0)
Barcode Scanner (3.31)
Battery Widget (1.6.4)
Better Terminal Emulator Magic (3.02)
Better Terminal Emulator Pro (3.13)
BetterBookmarks (1.91)
Bluetooth File Transfer (3.01)
Bluetooth OnOff (2.4.0)
Boingo Wi-Fi (1.5.0012)
Brightness Level (2.0.1)
Bussdroid (1.1)
Buuf Icon Pack (1.1)
Camera 360 (0.9.1)
Camera Magic (1.3.1)
Camera ZOOM Android Shutters (1.0.0)
Cleanoid (1.2.2free)
ColorNote (1.8.0)
Commantalb (0.8)
Compass (1.1)
Contact2Sim (1.21)
Cyan Candy (1.0)
DPFrame (0.1)
Discogs For Android (1.1.0)
DiskUsage (1.5.2)
Dizzler (1.0)
Dolphin Browser (2.6.2)
Dropbox (0.9.8.6)
ES File Explorer (1.4.2.2)
Easy Note (2.0.2)
EmailAlbum (2.6.3)
Engadget (1.0.5)
ExportContacts (1.3)
Facebook (1.2)
FlightTimes Norway (1.7)
FlyCast (0.8.4)
FxCamera (0.6.2.1)
GDE (0.4.0.5)
GDocs (0.8.12)
Glared Icons (1.0)
Gmote (2.0.4)
Go To Url (2.8.3)
Google Services (1.0.0)
Google Translate (1.1.1)
Grooveshark (1.0.0)
Gule Sider (1.0.2)
Handango InHand (1.0.0)
Handcent Font Pack3 (1.0)
Handcent FontPack (1.0)
Handcent SMS (3.1.1)
HandcentFontPack2 (1.0)
HelloTXTroid (HelloTXTroid v1.7.1 $Rev: 250 $)
Href.To (1.0.5)
Internal Memory Widget (0.9.1)
Jamendo (0.9.9.1 BETA)
KeepScreen (1.7)
Kranten (2.0)
Launcher Dock (1.1.6)
Layar (3.5.1)
Listen (1.1.3)
Mashable (2.3)
Maverick (1.2.0)
Memory Booster Lite (1.3)
Memory Usage (1.0.26)
Meridian (0.19.1)
Mid-autumn festival (1.0)
Mini Info (1.2.3)
MixZing (2.4.0)
MixZing Upgrade (1.0)
Mobentoo Marketplace (3.3)
Moozone (2.00)
More Icons Free Widget (2.7.1)
MountUSB (2.2)
Music Junk (3.0)
My GPS Status Free (1.0.23)
My Maps Editor by Google (1.1.6)
My Tracks (1.0.15)
NOS Teletekst (1.0.3)
NRK Nyheter (1.2)
NRK P3 (1.0.0)
NRK RADIO (1.0.0)
Norwegian dictionary (1.1)
Note Pad (1)
NubiNews (12.3)
OI File Manager (1.1.3)
OI News Reader (1.1.1)
OI Update (1.0.2)
OSMonitor (1.1.5)
On Air (0.9.2)
OnTheFly Backup (1.1.2)
Ongoing Music Adapter Lite (1.3.0)
OpenSearch (0.9.22-1)
Opera Mini 5 beta (5.0)
Paste Wallpaper (2.0.2)
Photo Explorer (3.5.2)
Photoshop.com Mobile (1.2.0)
PicSay (1.3.0.7)
Picasa Tool (2.5.11)
Picasa Uploader (2.1.1)
Places Directory (1.0.22)
PlaysVideo (1.1.3)
Power Manager (1.6.3)
Prodigal Sun Icon Pack (1.2)
Qik (0.04.05)
Quick App Clean Cache (1.8.2)
Quick Uninstaller (2.2.3)
RMaps (0.8.2)
Radio.nl (1.0.1)
Recordoid (3.2)
Red Candy (1.0)
RemoteDroid (1.4)
Ringdroid (2.3)
RockOn (1.3.2)
Rusty Metal (1.2)
SR Player (0.9)
Save MMS (2.1)
Scandinavian keyboard (1.4.3)
Seesmic (1.3.1)
Shazam (1.3)
Shopper (1.1)
Shorten (1.01)
SilentMode OnOff (2.0.0)
Skyfire (2.1.0)
SlideIT Keyboard (2.0.1)
SlideIT Norwegian Pack (2.1)
SlideME Marketplace (3.44)
SlideScreen (1.21)
SlideScreen Pro (1.13)
Smart Shortcuts (1.2.1)
SnapPhoto (1.2.7)
SnapTell (2.2)
Sound Manager (2.0.0)
Spare Parts (Ad Supported)
Startup Auditor (2.1.3)
StopWatch (1.10)
StreamFurious (1.0.9)
Synthesis (1.7.2.6)
Sysinfo (0.6)
TTS Service Extended (2.0)
TV Guide (1.0.5)
TaskPanel (6.4.0)
Television (v1.5.3)
Toggle Settings (2.1.2)
Trippo Mondo (1.1.5)
TuneWiki (2.02)
Tunee Music (1.1)
URL Juicer (1.5.1)
Ultra Notes (2.2.2)
Useful Switchers (1.2.4)
VoiceIt (0.9.1)
Volume Control (1.40)
WC 2010 - FotMob (1.0.1)
Wapedia (1.7.8)
WiFi OnOff (2.1.0)
WiFinder (1.5)
Wifi Analyzer (2.4.2)
Youtube Spotlight (1.0)
Yr.no (1.3.1)
Zoek & Vind (1.93)
aBTC (1.3)
aCurrency (3.12)
aHome Font Bundle 1 (1.0.0)
barcode2file (4.3.5)
deciBel (0.7.6)
eoeAppInstaller pro (2.0.2)
i Music (1.0.59)
i Video (1.0.8)
iSearch (1.4)
imeem Mobile (2.1.6)
rss to Bloglines (1.0)
xScope GL (5.02)
xScope Theme (1.06)

Skyfire browser for android with flash support

Skyfire Launches the First Flash Video Enabled Mobile Browser for Android. It's actually working quite well to watch flash videos through the Skyfire browser. The browser could be downloaded here. The only other way to get flash on your android is to sign up for Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta and wait, according to Adobe this will happen sometime in may this year.

Following to many of Twitter?

I have recently followed to many on Twitter. I decided to remove multiple users. Luckily I came across a very nice Greasemonkey script allowing me to remove followers not following me in a very easy way. Take a look yourself.

My current android apps

Here is a list of my current installed apps on HTC Magic running android cupcake v.1.5. The list is made with the android app called App Dragon lister indexing all your phones applications.

3D Wallpapers (4.2.2)
3banana (1.17)
91PandaHome (1.9.2)
ACast (3.1.10)
APKtor (1.0.8.6)
AndAppStore (1.5.8)
AndroBlogger (1.1.0)
AndroZip (0.9.8.2)
Any Cut (1.0)
ApalyaTV (1.0.1)
App Dragon (1.22)
App to QR (1.3)
AppAware (1.3)
AppBrain Market Sync (3.0 (Added version update, browse hot apps, categories, live apps, search, faster sync))
AppManager (0.5)
Apps Organizer (1.4.10)
Aptoide (1.2.0)
AudioManager (2.0.3)
Aurora (1.5.7)
BUUF Brown (1.4.1)
Bar Control (1.1.0)
Barcode Scanner (3.22)
Battery Widget (1.6.3)
BetterBookmarks (1.91)
Bluetooth File Transfer (2.80)
Bluetooth OnOff (2.4.0)
Boingo Wi-Fi (1.5.0012)
Brightness Level (2.0.1)
Bussdroid (1.1)
Buuf Icon Pack (1.1)
Camera Magic (1.3.1)
Camera ZOOM Android Shutters (1.0.0)
Cleanoid (1.2.2free)
ColorNote (1.6.6)
Compass (1.1)
ConnectBot (1.6.2)
Cyan Candy (1.0)
DPFrame (0.1)
DiskUsage (1.3)
Dizzler (1.0)
Dolphin Browser (2.5.0)
DropBox (1.2)
ES File Explorer (1.3.11.0)
Engadget (1.0.3)
Facebook (1.1.4)
FlightTimes Norway (1.7)
FlyCast (0.8.4)
FxCamera (0.5.5)
GDocs (0.8.11)
Glared Icons (1.0)
Gmote (2.0.4)
Google Translate (1.1)
Gule Sider (1.0.1)
Handango InHand (1.0.0)
Handcent Font Pack3 (1.0)
Handcent FontPack (1.0)
Handcent SMS (2.9.36)
HandcentFontPack2 (1.0)
HelloTXTroid (HelloTXTroid v1.7.1 $Rev: 250 $)
Href.To (1.0.5)
Internal Memory Widget (0.9.1)
Jamendo (0.9.9.1 BETA)
KeepScreen (1.7)
Launcher Dock (1.1.6)
Layar (3.0.6)
Listen (1.1.2)
Locale (0.698 beta)
Meridian (0.15.2)
Mid-autumn festival (1.0)
MixZing (2.3.2)
Mobentoo Marketplace (3.3)
Moozone (1.51)
More Icons Free Widget (2.5.1)
MountUSB (2.2)
Music Junk (3.0)
My GPS Status Free (1.0.23)
My Maps Editor by Google (1.1.6)
My Tracks (1.0.11)
NOS Teletekst (1.0.3)
NRK Nyheter (1.2)
NRK P3 (1.0.0)
NRK RADIO (1.0.0)
NorwegianDictionary (1.0)
Note Pad (1)
NubiNews (90)
OI File Manager (1.1.1)
OI News Reader (1.1.0)
OI Update (1.0.2)
On Air (0.9.2)
Ongoing Music Adapter Lite (1.3.0)
OpenSearch (0.9.18)
Opera Mini 5 beta (5.0)
Paste Wallpaper (2.0.2)
Photo Explorer (3.5.0)
Photoshop.com Mobile (1.1.0)
PicSay (1.3.0.7)
Picasa Tool (2.4.2)
Picasa uploader (2.0.2)
Places Directory (1.0.20)
PlaysVideo (1.1.3)
Power Manager (1.6.3)
Prodigal Sun Icon Pack (1.2)
Qik (0.1.93)
Quick Uninstaller (2.2.2)
Recordoid (3.0)
Red Candy (1.0)
RemoteDroid (1.4)
Ringdroid (2.3)
RockOn (1.3.2)
Rummble (1.09.2)
Rusty Metal (1.2)
SR Player (0.8)
Save MMS (2.1)
Scandinavian keyboard (1.4.2)
Seesmic (1.2.3)
Shazam (1.3)
Shopper (1.02)
SilentMode OnOff (1.5.1)
SlideME Application Manager (3.42)
SlideScreen (1.17)
SnapPhoto (1.2.7)
SnapTell (2.2)
Sound Manager (2.0.0)
Spare Parts (Ad Supported)
StreamFurious (1.0.7)
Synthesis (1.7.0.9 (beta))
Sysinfo (0.6)
TTS Service Extended (2.0)
TV Guide (1.0.5)
TaskPanel (6.4.0)
The Weather Channel (2.1.9)
Toggle Settings (2.1.2)
Trippo Mondo (1.1.5)
TuneWiki (2.01)
URL Juicer (1.5.1)
Ultra Notes (2.2.2)
Useful Switchers (1.2.4)
VoiceIt (0.9.1)
Volume Control (1.40)
Wapedia (1.6.8)
Weather forecast widgets v2 (2.6.1)
WiFi OnOff (2.1.0)
WiFinder (1.5)
Wifi Analyzer (2.3)
Youtube Spotlight (1.0)
Yr.no (1.3.1)
aCurrency (3.00)
aHome Font Bundle 1 (1.0.0)
barcode2file (4.3.3)
com.twofuse.droidrecord (2.07)
deciBel (0.6.5)
eoeAppInstaller pro (2.0.2)
fring (2.0.0.13)
gvSIGmini BN10 (null)
i Music (1.0.59)
i Video (1.0.8)
iSearch (1.4)
imeem Mobile (2.1.6)
rss to Bloglines (1.0)
xScope GL (5.02)
xScope Theme (1.06)

AppBrain Market Sync

A very good and handy app, AppBrain Market Sync, is making it possible to install Android apps from a web interface. Sign in with your Google account and start browsing new apps, delete old ones or sync your apps.
More info:

AppBrain AppBrain Market Sync


The App reviewed by AndroidTapp

WikiLook add-on for -firefox

Today I came across a very nice and handy add-on for Firefox called WikiLook

A very fast way to define words in any webpage. Just press Ctrl or Shift or Alt and make a RightMouseButton click on a word.

Defaults: Shift+right-click is a Wiktionary lookup, Ctrl+right-click is a Wikipedia lookup, Alt+right-click is Uncyclopedia lookup.

SyncML calendar sync and Android phones

After getting a question yesterday about SyncML calendar sync and android phones I conducted a small scale research to try to come up with a good answer. I finally found out that the swiss company Synthesis has released a beta version of their SyncML client as a android app. The *.apk file you could download if you are willing to register (free) and login as a registred user.

I had some trouble in the beginning setting up the Version 1709 (Android Client Beta 1709). I mailed:
Beat FORSTER
Dipl. El. Ing. ETH
Dipl. NDS ETHZ in Betriebswissenschaften
Managing Partner
beat.forster@synthesis.ch

I got a very quick and kind answer back (actually in 30 minutes), but in the meantime I had found the solution to my problems, it was not caused by the app, but the actual default settings in my cupcake v.1.5 for android. I had to turn off the active sync for my Google calendar, otherwise it was actually syncing twice, first against my oracle based calendar, full of calendar data and secondly against my Google calendar that was empty. So the reason why I in the beginning always was ending up with a empty calendar was simply that it finally was syncing against my empty Google calendar, but by turning off the active sync I at last got my oracle calendar data.

No I am very pleased with the Synthesis app. Give it a try! http://www.synthesis.ch

The app is functioning on every phone running android v.1.5 and above.

This is how is looks on my HTC magic with android v.1.5:

HTC magic with android cupcake 1.5 and WPA2 Enterprise encryption

A real pain in the "ass" fact for those of us still stuck with android cupcake 1.5 on our HTC magic is that we are not able to connect to WPA2 Enterprise encrypted WIFI networks, meaning a big disappointment taken into consideration that a lot of university campuses around the world is using Eduroam, fully relying on WPA2 Enterprise encryption. You will find a lot of user manuals around on the web giving you the solution by altering your phones WIFI settings, but firstly you have to root the phone (no real option for me). I would deeply appreciate any feedback on a easy solution for cupcake android. I saw one solution but than you have to boot and download two recovery roms and even temper with the wpa_supplicant conf file, no option either.

A "real" cry for help....

YouTube redesign

ReadWriteWeb posted a interesting article today about some of the new features that YouTube plan to launch when redesigning.

* New playlist design, which shows all of your queued videos above the video your watching.

* Queuing from search capability, which allows you to add videos to your queue when you search from the video page.

* The comments section will now list both text and video, so that video updates become a bigger and more integrated part of the discussion.

Emtacl10 widget from Widgetbox

Emtacl10 Google map

A Google map especially made for the emtacl10 conference. Here you could find placemarks for bars, restaurants, sightseeing destinations, the conference hotel etc. For those of you attending the conference be kind to leave comments if you like to add other placemarks to the map or have general questions about destinations in Trondheim.

Emtacl10 earlybird registration

26 – 28 April 2010 • Trondheim • Norway


Earlybird registration (before 15 February 2010): EUR 360

Androidzoom

Androidzoom
Browse the Android Market and search from the comfort of your computer

Bar Control app for Android

One of the most useful android apps recently being downloaded.

PlayonLinux

PlayOnLinux is a piece of sofware which allows you to easily install and use numerous games and softwares designed to run with Microsoft®'s Windows®.
Few games are compatible with GNU/Linux at the moment and it certainly is a factor preventing the migration to this system. PlayOnLinux brings an accessible and efficient solution to this problem, cost-free and rescpetful of the free softwares.
What are PlayOnLinux's features?

Here is a non-exhaustive list of the interesting points to know:

* You don't have to own a Windows® license to use PlayOnLinux.
* PlayOnLinux is based on Wine, and so profits from all its possibilities yet it keeps the user away from its complexity while exploiting some of its advanced functions.
* PlayOnLinux is a free software.
* PlayOnLinux uses Bash and Python
[all text directly copied and pasted from http://www.playonlinux.com/en/ . No permission asked but I guess it's Ok given the fact that it attracts more people to their site]

some anthropology lectures and iTunes U

Berkeley university of California anthropology courses.

A series of University of Oxford anthropology lectures organised by Linacre College.

Guns Germs and Steel by National Geographic

Based on the book by Jared Diamond "Guns Germs and Steel" by National Geographic.
"Jared Diamond’s journey of discovery began on the island of Papua New Guinea. There, in 1974, a local named Yali asked Diamond a deceptively simple question: “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo, but we black people had little cargo of our own?”

Browsing iTunes U without intalling iTunes

For those of use using another operating system than Windows, or not having iTunes, it's a real pain in the a**, not being able to follow courses that more and more universities prefer to publish on iTunes U. The solution is emulation,by emulating the iTunes client we fool the system.
Better explained on the TechnoBabel site.

The solution

Emulating the iTunes client: the script can be tested at

http://www2.unil.ch/itunesu/index.groovy?handle=[itunesU url]

It only needs the url which would open in iTunes and converts it to a displayable webpage.

For example for mit.edu: http://deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browsev2/mit.edu

http://www2.unil.ch/itunesu/index.groovy?handle=http://deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browsev2/mit.edu

Let's try it on a couple of NTNU podcasts:

http://www2.unil.ch/itunesu/index.groovy?handle=http://deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/ntnu.no

Strange it don't seem to work on NTNU iTunes U podcasts but on all other major international universities using iTunes U. Should I be surprised?

Well give it a try on MIT and Standford and you will see that it works.

local iTunes U urls:
MIT
http://deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/mit.edu
Standford
http://deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browsev2/itunes.stanford.edu


iTunes U bookmarklet, just fill in your local iTunes U url and you get access to iTunes U content.

Running apps from SD card on android

Let's hope Google soon realize that they have to offer the possibility to run and save applications from your SD card. For those of use loving applications the internal memory storage is far too limited. Running big programs will be impossible on the android unless you open the possibility to save and run applications from your SD card.
I have read/followed threads from numerous forums and the only solution to the problem at the present stage is to root your phone, but I don't want to do that.
If rooting my phone it will definitely be a high security risk.

Barcode scanning

ReadWriteWeb is in a new series called "Mobile Web Meets Internet of Things" focusing on how the biggest trends tracked last year, Mobile Web and Internet of Things are converging, the first focus is on barcode scanning.

Libraries, eBooks, and the Mobile Web: A Long Way to Go

"According to a new report from Cambridge University (PDF), students aren't interested in being able to read eBooks and eJournals on their mobile phones. Instead, users are far more interested in opening hours, location maps, contact info, and access to the library catalog".
[source:ReadWriteWeb]

Jolicloud for netbooks

Jolicloud is a new operating system for netbooks.I installed it on my ASUS EEE PC 900 yesterday. You could either download jolicloud-usb-creator-installer or use the good "old" unetbootin to create a bootable usb memory stick. I used unetbootin and the whole OS was up and running in just 15 minutes. The speed is the fastest I have experienced so far with my EEE PC 900, and I also like the one-click install from the jolicloud application directory. The look is also great. For those of you wanting the iso to install to do the above mentioned install here it is.

It's no excuse not to install this OS. It's simply great. (I am not paid to say this).

Compatible devices

PandaHome Home replacement app for Android.

PandaHome is by far the best home replacement app for Android. Having several options to tweak settings, either by going to the Theme settings options from the menu button, or by long pressing on the screen and choose Home Assistant, or by installing the widget PandaHome Toogle.
You could change font size and color, background color, wallpapers, Multi-screen, Themes, Drawer settings, Dockbar settings, picking automatic randomized themes, etc.

Google Googles application for Android.

Google just released the Google Googles application for Android, it's available through the android market. Sadly it's only available to customers that have firmware 1.6 (Donut) or 2.0.

"Google Goggles is a visual search app. Instead of using words, take a picture of an object with your camera phone: we attempt to recognize the object, and return relevant search results. Goggles also provides information about businesses near you by displaying their names directly in the camera preview".

Google Real-Time Search Is Now Live

Google Swirl Image search

Google Swirl: A new Google image search service, yet only a demo. Check it out!

Androidian

Androidian: Welcome to Androidian – Android services and blog.
A site devoted to android and fully optimized for android.

Fb Friend Finder

Find friends from your other social networks on Facebook and send them friend requests instantly from Fb Friend Finder

Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

I just upgraded my 9.04 version of Ubuntu at work. The new version 9.10 is running smooth. At home it took really long time to upgrade, but a work the whole process went real quick.

Facebook Redesigns Mobile Touch Site

ReadWriteWeb yesterday had a story about the fact that Facebook hasn't beeen fully optimized for all touchscreen phones. Direct your touchscreen mobile to the following url:
http://touch.facebook.com/

SkreemR-The World's Greatest Mp3 Search Engine!

The World's Greatest Mp3 Search Engine!

Just give it a try!

Having mentioned SkreemR I would also have to mention Grooveshark

My favourite music related apps on Android

The amount of music apps for Android phones are increasing but a lot of them is not very good,
here is a list of those good ones that I love:

Music players:

Meridian
Rock on
MixZingLite

Streaming:

Deezer
Dizzler
Flycast
imeem mobile
iMusic
StreamFurious
TuneWiki

Music recognition:

Shazam

Video:

YouTube
vTap
TuneWiki
YouTube

Pc to mobile-wifi remote
Gmote

Sharing own Videos:
Qik

How to: Add Keyboard Navigation to Facebook

ReadWriteWeb just recently published a story about how to use Firefox to customize keyboard navigation to Facebook with a few clicks by adding a plugin.

Emtacl10: Emerging technologies in academic libraries

Deadline for submission of abstracts extended / emtacl10: Emerging technologies in academic libraries. http://tinyurl.com/yf95kuo #emtacl10 #emtacl

Yubby.com- Find video from over 30 popular video sites

Yubby.com : Find video from over 30 popular video sites and add videos to your own play channels by drag and drop. It really couldn't get easier than this. Watch demo here.

Open Home market app

A nice new alternative to Android market has recently seen the daylight, it's called Open Home.

Gerjar app problems Android.

After updating the Pandahome homescreen replacement the getjar market app has been acting mighty strange, mostly not working.

Google sites-New features

Google Sites added some new features: integration with Picasa Web Albums, feeds, custom templates.

New addition to our children books collection

New addition to our children books collection.

Android J2ME MIDP RUNNER 1.6.0.7 Released

The Android J2ME MIDP RUNNER let you convert,run and install J2me applications on your Android phone. I have tried it and I am pleased to announce that it's functioning. I tried the J2me application Snaptu and it really run smooth.

BORA-CMI Bergen Open Research Archive Chr.michelsen Institute

A great site for free online african resources is the open access repository (BORA) of Christian Michelsen Insitute situated in Bergen. Take a quick search yourself.

emtacl10-Emerging technologies in academic libraries- CFP reminder

Emtacl10
The international conference for cutting-edge technological developments in libraries within higher-education.
www.emtacl.com

Abstract submission: 15 October 2009

TweepML-Share groups of twitter users

TweepML is an extensible, open standard format that allows you to manage and share groups of Twitter users.In just a few clicks you could add several users and groups you want to follow. This is really a clever and easy way to add more tweets to follow.

Eqentia- Vertical new environment

William Mougayar from Toronto, Canada has launched a semantic news/content aggregation platform called Eqentia.You could read more about the project here.

PDF search engine

Try the "first" pdf search engine searching 285.000.000 free ebooks.

Linden Lab show Second Life usage and numbers

Linden Lab's is releasing a selection of figures that give you an idea of the scale of Second Life, see here.

Leiden University open access repository

A good source for african studies is Leiden University open access repository.
Leiden University open access repository

Please use the Firefox browser if you want this bookmarklet to work!!

Missing simplify media

Missing simplify media on your android phone? Try the Gnome application. A good app for streaming music allowing several formats.

Ning Blogger MySpace

Ning Blogger MySpace Facebook and twitter added to hellotxt status updates

Emtacl10

A list of android applications installed on my HTC magic

Music/Media:

AntPlayer
Yxflash
YouTube
vTap
RockOn
vRecorder
Shazam
DroidLive
imeem Mobile
Meridian
Jamendo
StreamFurios
PlaysVideo
ACast
StumbleVideo
SnapPhoto
VoiceIt
Flycast

Tools:
alternatives
AndFtp
AnyCut
Astro Filemanager
Barcode scanner
Contacts Blast Lite
ConnectBot
Locale
OI Update
Oi File Manager
On Air
Sound Manager
AudioManager
Useful Switchers
eoeAppInstaller Pro
SlideMe (SAM 2.8)
Save MMS
Teeter
Telnet

Other:
Documents To Go
Astrid
BeyondPod
Newsapapers
Nrk Nyheter
Href.to
aCurrency
OI News Reader
Androblogger
Backgrounds
BlueBrush
Browser (alternative)
Colorful Lite
Flytider
Fox News
Google TAlk
Google Voice
Gulesider
Layar 2.0
Myspace
PicPaint
PDF Viewer
Picasa by Pixelpipe
Quickoffice
Qik
Power Manager
SnapTell
Twidroid
Wallpapers
Wallpapers world
Wallswitch
Wikidroid


Widgets:
Battery widget
Sticky note
BBC News
Bluetooth onOff
Brightness level
CNN News
GPS Toggle Widget
Interal Memory Widget
Mobile Buzz
Reuters News
SilentModeOnOff
Task Bar
TasKiller
Tech Buzz
Today Widget
Weather forecast
Wifi OnOff

Homescreen applications:
aHome Lite
Freshface
Open Home Lite
PandaHome

Layar 2.0 application for android phones.

One of the coolest new applications for android phones is Layar 2.0. The world's first mobile augmented reality browser. Giving you content layers to services like Wikipedia, Yelp, Flickr...Enable your GPS and let the browser do the rest.

Installing third party applications in android

One of the best ways to install third party applications is to use eoeAppinstaller Pro giving you a list of available downloaded apk files on your sdcard toghether with a small graphical logo of the application.

Alternatives to the default Androids homescreen application

I have installed 4 alternatives to Androids default homescreen theme with icons.

aHome Lite

Freshface

Open Home Lite

PandaHome

When pressing the homescreen button I could toggle between different homescreen apps. All with their own settings, homescreens, themes and icons.

My favourites are Freshface and PandaHome. In Freshface I have an theme allowing me 5 screens to put my apps.

Give it a try.

Android apps-Alternatives to default market

It exists alternatives to the default market for android applications. I have tried SlideMe (Sam 2.8) and Handangos InHand. SlideMe has more apps to offer than Handangos InHand and several of them are free, but Handangos InHand has applications you could buy. I found some useful applications not available in the default android market. Give it a try....

Emtacl10-Emerging technologies in academic libraries

emtacl10 — the international conference for cutting-edge technological developments in libraries within higher-education has now opened up for Call for papers

Androblogger

This blogpost is being posted with the use of the Android app Androblogger on HTC magic.