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Kartverket frigir mer kartdata

Kartverket legger nå ut en ny pakke kartdata til fri bruk. Denne gangen er det en pakke med illustrasjonskart og kartdata til bruk i målestokkområdet 1:500 000 til 1:3 000 000, som stilles gratis til disposisjon for allmennheten. De frigitte dataene kan brukes til å lage blant annet temakart, interaktive kart og som datagrunnlag for kartløsninger på nett. [kilde:Kartverket]

emtacl12 Call for Papers available!

emtacl12 – emerging technologies in academic libraries

International conference on emerging technologies in academic libraries 2012

1-3 October 2012, Trondheim, Norway

Call for papers

Emerging technologies and evolving user behaviour keeps changing the rules of the game for academic libraries. Emerging technologies include new ways of using existing technologies and totally new, disruptive technologies. Examples include:

Semantic web / linked open data
Social media
Augmented reality
Mobile technologies
Visualisation
etc

emtacl12 is an international conference for academic librarians, information professionals, academic staff, students, library system developers and suppliers, among others. The aim is to provide answers to the following questions: What can academic libraries do to address change? How can we adapt? Which technologies can/should/must we use/create? The conference is hosted by NTNU University Library, the Library of the Norwegian university of science and technology in Trondheim, Norway.

The programme committee invites original presentations and posters taking one or more of the following perspectives as a point of departure:

Linked open data and other semantic web applications in the library
New literacies
Supporting research
Organizational change within the library
Analysis of user behaviour and use of statistics
New services/old services in new clothes
Other relevant perspectives on emerging technologies

We invite submission of abstracts or posters presenting:

Theoretical solutions, but with a clear illustration on how these solutions can be applied in libraries
Opinions on some aspect of practice, or descriptions of work that is still in progress, but sufficiently mature to warrant attention
Experiences and case studies specifying requirements, challenges, or opportunities of applying emerging technologies in libraries
Comparisons with alternative or competing approaches using conventional technologies
Best practices for implementing emerging technologies in libraries
Assessments of cost and benefits from the application of emerging technologies, e.g. time and cost of implementation and deployment, integration with legacy IT systems, user acceptance, returns on investment

We will also open for live demos of emerging technologies, and invite submission of abstracts or videos describing such demos.

Abstract submission instructions:

Please use the submission form at

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=emtacl12

to submit an abstract describing your contribution, including:

personal details
additional presenter details
presentation title and abstract.

Abstract length should not exceed 2500 characters. Please note that the language of the conference will be English, and therefore the committee will only accept submissions in this language.

All submitted abstracts will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers.

Contributions will be made public through the NTNU e-publishing service, and accepted authors will be invited to supply full papers for this purpose. Papers are primarily requested in pdf format, conforming to further formatting details at the submission website. We do however welcome suggestions for alternative formats in cases where pdf is unsuitable, e.g. for non-textual contributions.

Important dates:

Abstract submission: 15 April 2012
Notification of acceptance/rejection: 25 May 2012
Authors should confirm their participation: 8 June 2012
Conference dates: 1-3 October 2012

For additional information, please visit the conference website:
http://www.emtacl.com or email us at emtacl@ub.ntnu.no

Karen Johanne Buset (program committee chair)

Xbmcbuntu and launching internet browsers

Have you ever need a internet browser to be launched inside Xbmcbuntu? Well Xbmcbuntu is launching directly into Xbmc without being in touch with the linux distro laying behind, how could you launch a browser? Well the answer is using the advanced launcher app inside Xbmc together with linuxportableapps self-executable bin files on a memory stick. Not all of the linuxportableapps is working but I have managed to get Firefox, Chromium and Opera to work on Xbmc Eden beta 2.

Some more Boxee repositories

Gofind repository
add:boxee.gofind.dk
apps: DR Bonanza, DR Nu and DR Pirat TV

DR Pirat TV was not functioning when I tried it, but the rest was functioning good.

Lock Fuglsang Boxee Repository
add:http://lockfuglsang.dk/boxee
apps:Filebrowser,IceFilms4Boxee, Voddler

The Sam's Repository for Boxee Apps
add:http://ex-ua-boxee-tv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/boxee
app:EX.UA TV

Razorax' Boxee Repository
add:http://razorax-repo-googlecode.com/svn/trunk/boxee
apps:Filebrowser,Ice4Boxee

Mano Repository
add:http://moprea.ro/repository
app:VPlay

vCard Generator, QR Code Generator, Data Matrix generator

Finally found an online vCard generator!
This is an online generator for vCard files, and QR Code and Data Matrix images. These are digital business card formats, typically used to simplify contact information retrieval for mobile devices.

CampusGuiden NTNU- Gløshaugen

Problems finding your way to the right location at NTNU Gløshaugen campus?
Well than maybe the CampusGuide is the answer?

The plan is that the rest of NTNU campus will be covered in 2012.

Today's book recommondation

You will find it on dewey number 394.12 in the shelf's at NTNU Dragvoll Library, Trondheim, Norway.

BartsideeTv in the Bartsidee Repository-Boxee

For those of you experiencing problems when loading the module icons, here is the answer:

I experienced some problems with the module icons in BartsideeTV recently, they all had the same color,white without the previous Tv logo so I sent the question directly to Bart and got an answer back 6 minutes later solving my problem.

Grooveshark on Boxee

One of the best free music streaming services on the web is now available through the fantastic Bartsidee Repository, it's a ported version of the xbmc Grooveshark app. You already had a very simple Groooveshark interface avaiable through the Navi-x app, but this version has much more functionality and is what I will call a proper app.

Great work again Bart!

Add Boxee repo: boxee.bartsidee.nl

Boxee Box update follow-up

AMAZING YEEEAAAAAHHHH!!!

4 hours and 30 minutes ago I received upgrade v.1.1.1.19092 and everything is working again!!!!

Thank you Thank you.

Boxee Box don't update to latest firmware

Did the manual update v.1.1.0.19053 Now everything is terribly slow. No streams
are working proper (not working at all), so I suppose I just have to
play local files. This is crap! I want to go back to the previous
version. Not recommending anyone to upgrade.

After upgrading to v.1.1.0.19053 Boxee Box is just nothing but a average capable
browser and a local media player. Terribly disappointed about the new
upgrade, never should have upgraded. I also had a really hard time
getting the audio to work,it worked after deselecting everything under
the specified audio channels. THIS IS TOTAL CRAP! I liked my previous
Boxee Box version much better. The Boxee Box team really has to do
something about the awful streaming speed, no my Boxee Box is unuseable.

The new layout and functions is looking great but who cares when nothing
else is functioning, almost impossible to stream, no pictures, drop out
audio.

Have tried several different apps and repositories that used to function
great with the previous version, Navi-X, Bartsidee Repository
(Bartisidee TV), etc.

This is just terribly disappointing. I am now stuck with a Boxee Box
that's unusable, what is Boxee Box without streaming possibilities? A
local media player.

Boxee Repositories-Big list

The official Boxee repository listing is terribly out of date, here comes a list of repositories with apps listing that I have installed myself, I am not sureall of the repositories is working:

Abadi boxee
MIVO TV, ORB TV, ONLINE TV
Repository:http://boxee-orb.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/

apptree
KIDCASTS, THE UNOFFICIAL MORMON CHANNEL,MOXNEWS.COM,NEWS ADDICT,NO AGENDA TV,SHAYCARL AND THE SHAYTARDS,THE STATION
Repository:http://apptree.me/dir

Bartsidee Repository
GAMEJOURNAAL,NEDERLAND 24, NU.NL,ONLINE RADIO,RTL GEMIST,SBS GEMIST,SOUTHPARK,TMF,BARTSIDEE TV,UITZENDING GEMIST
Repository:boxee.bartsidee.nl

Bovine
DIYNETWORK
Repository:http://boxee.bovine.net/

BOX.streamfree.tv
Only "signed" 3rd party boxee apps are included in this repo
Repository:box.streamfree.tv

Boxeebuilder
LINKTV,NBC
Repository:http://dir.boxeebuilder.com

dc2447's Repository
40DRSS,STUFFTV
Repository:dl.getdropbox.com/u/1134165/boxee

Defector's Boxee Repository
ARTE+7,ZDF MEDIATHEK
Repository:http://boxee.defector.de

DIR:streamFree.TV
BARTSIDEE TV,ESPN3,AMBIENCE,NAVI-X,SOMA FM 2,LIVETV
Repository:DIR.streamfree.tv

Es Boxee
ANTENA3,BUENAFUENTE,ITV PLAYER,RTVE,SALVADOS
Repository:esboxee.cdm.com.mx/apps

Fuzzthed's Third-Party Repository (Collection 3rd part repositories).
Repository:dir.fuzzthed.com

Gilliard Media Boxee Repository
BIGTEN NETWORK,FOOTYTUBE SOCCER HIGHTLIGHTS,GOLTV NETWORK SOCCER HIGHLIGHTS,SKYSPORTS,UEFA CHAMPION LEAGUE HIGHTLIGHTS

gonzee.tv
CLIQSET,FUNNY OR DIE,LIVE TV NEWS,MARCH MADNESS,OBLIVION,PENNY ARCADE TV,VUDU H4XOR3D,WOLFGANG'S VAULT
Repository:http://dir.boxee.tv/apps/

Google TV Showcase for Boxee (Google TV apps)
Repository:http://thenewtvrepublic.com/gtv

Great Boxee
DIMECASTS,XKCD
Repository:dir.greatboxee.com

Greg MS
CRANKY GEEKS,FROSTBITE FILM FEST,LEGEND OF NEIL
Repository:http://dir.gregms.com/

headweb
HEADWEB
Repository:http://sc.headweb.com/boxee

Helixent
PITCHFORK
Repository:boxee.helixent.com

home.nacor.de/fzittlau/boxee
ARTE,NDR EXTRA 3,GOLEM.DE,RTLFREE,VOXFREE
Repository:home.arcor.de/fzittlau/boxee

http://boxee.futurepush.com
ARD MEDIATHEK,N-TV,SPIEGEL,ZDF
Repository:http://boxee.futurepush.com

http://noisymime.org/boxee
IVIEW,SBS
Repository:http://noisymime.org/boxee

http://www.davecomeau.net/boxee/repo
THESKATEBOARDMAG,VBS.TV
Repository:davecomeau.net/boxee/repo/

Hypernode AB
PLAYKANALARNA,SVTPLAY,TV3PLAY,TV4PLAY
Repository:boxee.hypernode.se

imgilbert
[ADULT SWIM],CARTOON NETWORK,DEMOCRAZY NOW.COM
Repository:imgilbert.com/repository

Jake Marsh
TV LIBRARY
Repository:dir.thejakemarsh.com

Junda Boxee
FACEBOOK PHOTOS
Repositories:http://boxeefb.googlecode.com/svn/repo

Ksie Repository
FRANCE24,RTE PLAYER
Repository:http://www.kitesurfing.ie/boxeerepo

Mediafly
FOCUS RALLY AMERICA,MEDIAFLY,EMARKETINGVIDS,MEDIAFLY NATURE,MEDIAFLY TECH
Repository:http://boxee.mediafly.com/

Mi mediacenter
GOEAR,KIDEOS,MYWEBTV,PELISALACARTA,TOTLOL
Repository:http://www.mimediacenter.info/boxee

Mike's Boxee Repo
40D
Repository:http://boxee.donotremove.co.uk/

Mister Anonymus Online TV
NRJ,UK-TV
Repository:http://members.chello.at/misteranonymus/onlinetv

Mister Anonymus Repository
WDR MEDIATHEK,UEFA VIDEOS,SWR MEDIATHEK,SCHWEIZER SPORT FERNSEHEN,PRO 7 STARS,PC WELT,OTTIS SCHLACHTHOF,ORF TV-THEK,ON3 SUEDWILD,
NOE-LIGA,MDR-MEDIATHEK,SENDUNG MIT DER MAUS,LINDENSTRASSE,LIGA GIRLS,MEDIATHEK VON WWW.LAOLA1.TV,LIVESTREAM VON LAOLA1.TV,3SAT-MEDIATHEK, DEUTSCHE WELLE,CENTER TV,BR MEDIATHEK,KAEPTN BLAUBAER
Repository: members.chello.at/misteranonymus/repository/

Nerdlinger's Repository
CBC TELEVISION
Repository:dir.mattvanstone.com

Nexthop DEV Repository
RTE LIVE, RTE PLAYER
Repository:http://www.dir.nexthop.ie/testing/

Nexthop Repository
BALCONY TV,IRISH MUSIC TELEVISON,LEAGUE OF IRLAND,MOVIE.IE,PARTY POLITICAL BROADCAST,RTE RADIO PODCASTS,SILICON REPUBLIC,SKY NEW LIVE,
UNIVERSAL SPORTS,ZOZZY TV
Repository:http://dir.nexthop.ie/

nvaleo
NVALEO BOXEE APP
Repository:http://nvaleo.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/

PrisonPlanet.tv Repository
PRISONPLANET.TV
Repository:http://tinyurl.com/prisonplanet

Rabbi Bob's Repo
ANNOYING ORANGE,DAWN AND DREW TV,HOMEMADECHICKN,JOHN GREENGO,NO AGENDA,RABBI BOB
Repository:boxee.rabbibob.com

RockBoxee
SPY-CORE SPOTIFY
Repository:http://dir.rockboxee.com

ruuk's Boxee Apps
FACEBOOK MEDIA,HOUSE OF ANUBIS,NICK PLAYLISTS,FROUM BROWSER
Repository:boxee.2ndmind.com

Sam Craig Repository
CRACKLE,FEAR.NET,NICKELODEON,SATURDAYMORNINGCARTOONS,
SPORTSNATION,SPROUT,LIFETIME,MTVSHOWS,TVLAND,VH1
Repository:samrepo.jendabom.com

SFTV-The Repo of Repos
PBS KIDS,REVISION3,SIDEREEL,TBS,THE ONION,TUNE IN,USA TODAY,VEVO,VIMEO,YOUTUBE LEANBACK,BIBLE APP,COMICS.COM,
PBS VIDEO,SESAME STREET PODCASTS,YOUTUBE MOVIES,SUB-BOX,ARTE+7,ZDF MEDIATHEK,CNN,CRACKLE,DAILYMOTION,FLIXSTER,FLYING RHINO,
GRAB GAMES,HBO GO,KQED,MEEGENIUS,MSPOT MOVIES,NET-A-PORTER.COM,NEW YORK TIMES,PARTY CENTRAL,Q WITH JIM GHOMESHI,
SHAYCARL AND THE SHAYTARDS,THE STATION,ANTENA3,
Repository:boxee.streamfree.tv

Silberfuchs Repository
ADAC TV,AUTO BILD TV,BR-ONLINE-DAS COMPUTERMAGAZINE,COMPUTER CLUB 2,
DFB TV,DIGITALUPGRADE,GOLEM,KICKER TV,RPR1 KUNZE UND NADJA,RPR1 MEIN ABENTEUER
Repository: www.foroyurinfo.de/boxee

Simon Vuille
MIRO GUIDE,PORNHUB,SCHWEIZER FERNSEHEN,TSR,ZATTOO
Repository:openix.org/simon/boxee/repository

StreamFree.TV-BETA
JUSTIN.TV PRONET2000,LIVETV
Repository:beta.streamfree.tv

The Gadget Channel
DEMAND FIVE,ITV PLAYER
Repository:dir.gadget-channel.co.uk/

The Navi-X Repository for Boxee on Google
NAVI-X
Repository:http://navi-x.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/boxee/

Think One Zero
ESPN3,RED VS.BLUE
Repository:repository.boxee.thinkonezero.com

tou-tv-for-boxee
TOU.TV
Repository:http://tou-tv-for-boxee.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/boxee/

UnBoxeed
COMICS.TV
Repository:erikkristensen.com/boxee

Viral Narrative Boxee Repo
PBS VIDEO,SESAME STREET PODCASTS,YOUTUBE MOVIES
Repository:viralnarrative.com/boxee

VRT Gemist
VRT GEMIST
Repository:vrtgemist.appspot.com/boxee

Xen's Repo
SUB-BOX
Repository:http://www.xenthony.net/boxee

Generating automatic QR codes with YOURLS

"When Goo.gl launched a few weeks ago, they included a feature where adding .qr to the end of a Goo.gl link produced a QR Code for the link. Bit.ly have started doing the same, using the same .qr extention. The idea being you can quickly generate a code, or transfer a link to your mobile device."
[Text taken from http://beta.beantin.se/how-to-yourls-auto-generate-qr-codes/]

So this blogs qr code generated by using the Google Url Shortener will be http://goo.gl/eXAVX.qr

Boxee update

The rumours is saying that the new update, version 1.5, for Boxee Box is giving some major updates and a complete facelift to the Boxee Browser, about time if you ask for my opinion. The small screen with a default Bing searchengine was crap. I am hoping for something more like the Kylo browser from Hillcrest Labs optimized for browsing on your TV screen. The rumours are saying very little about other updates, the update is expected to come at the end of March.

This is NTNU University Library on Facebook

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:

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

Abstract submission: 15 October 2009