8 Jan 2012

Frank van Eykelen's Must-Have Android Apps

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Social

  • TweetDeck (Twitter and Facebook client. Supports multiple Twitter accounts) 
  • GO SMS Pro 
  • Skype 
  • WhatsApp (instant messaging) 


Utilities 

  • ASTRO File Manager 
  • Barcode Scanner 
  • Compass 
  • Dropbox 
  • GPS Status & Toolbox 
  • Springpad (for shopping, to do, and must read/view/hear lists - also has a web app) 
  • TeamViewer (remote desktop app) 
  • Flashlight 
  • eBay 


Music

  • Shazam (or SoundHound) 
  • Spotify (requires Premium account) 
  • Winamp (best music player for Windows + Android - send music to your phone from your desktop via WiFi) 


Music Making

  • Ethereal Dialpad (synthesizer) 
  • Guitar : Solo Lite 
  • My Bass 
  • My Piano 
  • Plasma Sound 
  • RD3 Groovebox (303 + 808: the first app I ever paid for, but also has a free demo version) 
  • Solo Lite 


Photography 

  • Flickr 
  • FxCamera 
  • Retro Camera (for making faux-retro-Polaroids) 


Reference

  • IMDb Movies & TV 
  • NY Subway Map 


Reading

  • Amazon Kindle 
  • Pulse 
  • ReadItLater 


Google

  • Google Maps 
  • YouTube 
  • Gmail 
  • Voice Search 
  • Google Translate 
  • Google Sky Map 
  • Google Goggles 
  • Google Reader 
  • Navigation 
  • Talk 


Fun & Games

  • FatBooth 
  • Labyrinth Lite 
  • Robo Defence 
  • Wordfeud FREE (play against me? I'm stereoparty) 


Dutch

  • 3VOOR12 Luisterpaal 
  • Buienalarm 
  • Appie van Albert Heijn 
  • 9292ov Pro 
  • ING Bankieren 
  • Uitzending Gemist 
  • Reisplanner
23 Nov 2011

Telefoonnummers importeren van je SIM / exporteren naar je SIM op een Android

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Deze screenshots zijn gemaakt op mijn Samsung Galaxy S II met Android 2.3.3 die ingesteld is op Engels. Misschien dat het bij jou anders werkt.

Ga naar je Contacts, open Menu:

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Kies "Import/Export":

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Als je telefoonnummers van je oude SIM kaart wilt lezen dan moet je zorgen dat die in je telefoon zit, en dan in het menu "Import from SIM card" kiezen. Als je jouw telefoonnummers naar je SIM kaart wilt exporteren (bijvoorbeeld omdat je op reis een dumb-phone meeneemt) dan kies je "Export to SIM card".

In het eerste geval krijg je onderstaande menu. Ik gebruik "Save contact to ...@gmail.com" omdat ik wil dat al mijn contacts gesync't worden met mijn Google Contacts.

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Succes, Klaas!

4 Oct 2011

Why Apple is like the Soviet Union (and Windows like Europe, and Linux like the US)

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Apple = Soviet Union

  1. Apple buyers like to queue.
  2. The shelves in Apple stores are empty.
  3. Apple supporters defend Apple even in the face of all its shortcomings.
  4. Apple's communication with its constituency is so minimal that Apple Watchers are needed to predict and analyze its every statement.
  5. Parades!
  6. Everybody is happy and if not: you're extradited or ridiculed.
  7. The system is locked up, and changed drastically every five years or so.

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Windows = Europe

  1. Windows users don't like waiting.
  2. Windows stores? You can buy a PC in any small town!
  3. Windows has some shortcomings, but it's getting better all the time. And people don't care about it, just like consuming oxygen.
  4. Windows users don't watch New Stuff Presentations, they simply have free Windows Updates.
  5. Windows users are immune to propaganda. It's just an operating system, and they get to pick the hardware themselves.
  6. Most are happy, and only some are complaining.
  7. The system is continually changing, but changes should not hinder the existing constituency. Changes should empower most voters, taking a long history in account to make the right decisions.

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Linux = US

  1. There are no queues. There is no The Man! There is complete fragmentation. Just pick one of a zillion distributions!
  2. Linux stores? I'll burn your town if you don't build your hardware from scratch!
  3. We know Linux sucks, but we keep on believing The Dream!
  4. Few Linux users have time to follow the mailing lists.
  5. Penguin!
  6. No one is happy, but no one is complaining.
  7. Everything is open, and changing all the time. It's the Wild West: always watch your back in this volatile world.

"The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was held during 14– 25 February 1956. It is known especially for Nikita Khrushchev's "Secret Speech", which denounced the personality cult and dictatorship of Joseph Stalin."

quote: en.wikipedia.org

21 Jul 2011
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Taken with picplz.

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Taken with picplz.

12 Mar 2011

People and their giant zucchini / courgette

21 Feb 2011

James Blake live

16 Jan 2011

Ghosts and empty sockets

I hate Paul Simon for admitting in the Classic Album documentary on
his album Graceland that he thinks that the song Graceland is the best
thing he has ever written, but that he would rewrite the following
lines:

And my traveling companions
Are ghosts and empty sockets
I'm looking at ghosts and empties


Now I can listen never to this song again and share his frustration.

10 Jan 2011

Julian Assange's phone is an HTC Hero running Android

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Seen in the RTL Nieuws on RTL 4 (Dutch television).

I noticed because I have the same model:

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Screenshot from this webcast:
http://www.rtl.nl/xl/#/u/47e63cc1-bf24-4d00-a02d-2a36ff19ddfd/

Photos from:
http://www.htc.com/www/product/hero/gallery.html

 

21 Dec 2010

Drunk Octopus Wants To Fight You!

 "Drunk octopus wants to fight you"

via The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century by Joey deVilla on 12/19/10