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Extracting and examining the LibrariesWest android app

27 July, 2024 - 231 words
I use my local library a lot, and use the LibrariesWest app and website to do my browsing and make reservations. While website is "ok", the app is a travesty, and has been for years (my app review in 2016 started with "Works, after a fashion, but i...

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Working with Android

24 September, 2020 - 181 words
Over the last ten years I’ve made a few toy Android apps, mainly to see if I can, but sometimes to scratch an itch. That itch has returned, and wow, the first-time experience for getting started with Android Studio really really hasn’t gotten any better. Download and install: fine The first sample I want to try: requires a Canary version of Android Studio T...

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Devices in my house running WebKit

25 March, 2012 - 61 words
Android phone Android tablet iPod touch iPhone iPad 2 x laptop (Windows Vista) desktop (Ubuntu) TV (Samsung) The browser in my Nintendo DSlite and 3DS is Opera. I don’t use the desktop version of Google Talk, nor Windows Media Player so my most frequent exposure to Trident is probably via Skype. I almost f...

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Google Currents

10 December, 2011 - 133 words
At first blush I didn’t know what to make of Google’s new iOS and Android app, Currents, other than it is an almost infinitely better way to consume The Guardian than their own Android app. After a few hours I’ve got a much better idea, and broadly, I’m not impressed. No URLs, No view-source and half the content I’ve read seems to be ...

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My next phone

01 August, 2010 - 310 words
I have a Motorola Milestone and on the whole I’ve been happy with it. There have been a few issues which affect me (all introduced by Motorola themselves) but hopefully these will get resolved with

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The new model of buying music

21 July, 2010 - 126 words
My phone runs an app that idenitifies the song that is currently playing on the radio and an app to then buy and download that song, or the album it’s from. The two are seamlessly linked. I am probably late to this, but listening to 6music whilst I have both Shazam and the

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Android apps I have paid for

03 July, 2010 - 120 words
Droidbox pro (a dropbox client that came out months before the official one, and still seems better) Jewellust (a bejeweled clone) BeyondPod (a podcatcher. I have stopped using this since I realised it was trashing filenames)...

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Online ebook catalogs in Atom

03 May, 2010 - 323 words
As I recently wrote, I have a new-found interest in ebooks (I also bought four new textbooks from O’Reilly using a BOGOF offer to pick up 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know, 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know, Beautiful Code and The Art of Agile Development). I mainly rea...

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Reading eBooks

21 March, 2010 - 601 words
I’ve now read three books on my phone (you can see which ones here). I never thought it would be possible to read on a screen that wasn’t designed for this purpose; I was sure that you’d need a Kindle or Nook-type screen to be able to read in comfort and for long periods of time.

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House, do as I command

21 March, 2010 - 63 words
How hard would it be to wire up mics and speakers in every room and have them connected to an Android device (even a phone) which is permanently looking to do a voice-driven search provided there is a three second gap before the word “house” (or, y’know, HAL, Gort ...

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