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.