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I am new to the Android world and would like to fill my #nexus7 with apps :)
What are you favorite apps for Android?
Looking for video player , fun for kids , productivity apps , entertainment , news .. everything/anything :) I have nothing else than Google+ apps and my own test apps + Kindle installed currently.
Topic which I have been discussing lately with my wife :)
"Men have wider shoulders, which translates to higher velocity at ball release. They’re bigger and stronger, and you could argue they can rotate their body faster, but the women have less mass to rotate,” Thomas says. The difference, he suspects, isn’t in the arm or the torso or the shoulder. “I’d bet my bottom dollar there’s something neurological. It’s the nervous system.”
I love reading about other people’s work setups, I really do. It’s one of my guilty pleasures.
I’ll read about another blogger’s computer setup, or what kind of notebook and pen he uses, or how he works standing up or on a treadmill or while doing handstand pushups and growing a vegetable garden.
And when I read about some cool setup someone else has, some cool new way of working, I inevitably want to try it. I’m only human.
You’ve done this too, probably. You might read a review of some new software that will help you create, or a new fashion style or some cool shoes or beautiful furniture or the newest iPad, or the latest iPhone app. Or maybe you’re a minimalist and read someone’s barefoot running article, or how they’re living out of a backpack, and want to try that.
It’s a trap.
We’re endlessly looking at how others do things, for inspiration and ideas … but we end up wanting to try those things too. That sounds harmless until you realize that you’ll buy almost anything because someone wrote about it and made it sound amazing. You’ll live a life of an endless series of purchases because of what other people are doing. And it never ends.
Even if you don’t buy stuff, you’ll change your life endlessly, based on what others are doing. You’ll give up your couch, you’ll stop buying Ikea furniture, then give up your cell phone, then give up your computer, then start doing yoga, then become a Zen monk, then create a tech startup. Those things are amazing, sure … but when does it ever end?
When do we ever feel content with the life we’re living?
If you look to the lives of others, you’ll always find yourself lacking.
Look instead at what you have, and be grateful.
Reduce your needs, and be content.
And your life of striving for perfection, for the future, will become a life of balance, of the moment, of inner peace.
"The thing to understand about the kind of hate Apple inspires, both in favor and against Apple, is that it’s not unique. The exact same phenomenon occurs in politics, religion and many other areas of human culture.
First and foremost, it’s about identity. Our computers, tablets and phones literally become part of us — our minds use them as peripheral memory, and we off-load processing to them from our brains. They see things, hear things and find things for us. They give us super-human powers of awareness, knowledge, communication and more.
Because we identify with these products, an attack on them can feel like an attack on us.
And as with politics or religion, one’s opinions are often inescapable within the context in which one views the world.
So where does the hate really come from? Ultimately, it comes from love. Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love and hate is indifference.
You don’t see serious flame wars and hate around, say, the Symbian platform, or around companies like HP or Oracle. And that’s because nobody loves them. And if nobody loves them, nobody is going to hate them.
People love Apple products. People love Google products. And, yes, people even love Microsoft products. People also love Linux and open systems. And all this love engenders passion. And passion drives hate. And that’s why Apple inspires so much hate."
"...and so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you fail by default."
Once upon a time, in the West Lake village, a servant lived with his master. After service of about 30 years, his master became ill and was going to die.
One day, the master called his servant and asked him for a wish. It could be any wish but just one. The master gave him one day to think about it. The servant became very happy and went to his mother for discussion about the wish.
His mother was blind and she asked her son for making a wish for her eye-sight to come back. Then the servant went to his wife. She became very excited and asked for a son as they were childless for many years.
After that, the servant went to his father who wanted to be rich and so he asked his son to wish for a lot of money. The next day he went to his master and made one wish through which all the three (mother, father, wife) got what they wanted.
You have to tell what the servant asked the master.
Uusi versio nyt ladattavissa lapsille, ken tahtoo ilmaiseksi niin kysyköön ilmaiskoodia :)
Uutta: Tekstin korostus ääninäyttelijän puheen edetessä! Paljon uusia äänitehosteita ja uutta kosketeltavaa. Entistä enemmän lentäviä höyheniä. Nappuloiden kosketusalaa kasvatettu jotta pienet sormet niihin paremmin osuisivat.
And good luck +Carlos Icaza for your latest startup :)
"Lanica’s Platino™, a cross-platform (iOS and Android) native game engine built for Appcelerator Titanium.
Platino allows Titanium users to build casual to high-end games in JavaScript using a carefully optimized, C++ native-built, cross-platform game engine."
If there is some hashtag you would like to mute , for example #caturday , I highly recommend to try G+ hashtags extension for Chrome made by +Siegfried Hirsch
"Is it possible to increase your intelligence? Absolutely. Do you need technology or cognitive enhancers to accomplish this? Absolutely not. Science shows us that the key to cognitive improvement is keeping your brain active and challenged, while making learning intrinsically rewarding"
I am SUPER excited to announce the release of my brand-new eBook Light Stories. This eBook is in PDF format … and it's free! Yep, that's right :) Just head over to my website to download it … and please spread the word!
I've been working very hard on a new project to start publishing my own eBooks, this eBook being just the beginning, and I thought that there was no better day than my birthday (yes, it's today!) to kick things off. And … why not do it with a gift I can give to everyone?! Don't worry, though, you'll still be seeing me publish through +Peachpit, +Craft & Vision & +Flatbooks … I'm not jumping ship on anyone, just starting an adventure of my very own. :)
First time I was reading a book about ultramarathon runners , I had to stop reading and open Google to check are stories really true! +Dean Karnazes for example ran 350 miles (560 km) in 80 hours and 44 minutes without stopping 2005!
2) Wait , wait , wait ... first load ever is slow. Refresh the page and you should see your 100 most active Google+ friends . It is again using my super secret algorithms , meaning my codes gives little higher value for comments and shares than +1's .
And as always, it will work as long as my daily API limit is used :)
Things learned: Tripod and wireless remote control are my friends. Time to stop using auto focus & learn to use manual focus. Light! How to get quality light for my targets?
Funny photos , inspirational , geek stuff , entrepreneurial posts and Google+ tips. And since it is a book filtered video posts & circle shares & posts with less than 25 words :)
2) Wait , wait , wait ... first load ever is slow. Refresh the page and you should see your 100 most active Google+ friends . It is again using my super secret algorithms , meaning my codes gives little higher value for comments and shares than +1's .
And as always, it will work as long as my daily API limit is used :)
Why Programming is fun - The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering - Fred Brooks - Published 1975
First is the sheer joy of making things. As the child delights in his mud pie, so the adult enjoys building things, especially things of his own design. I think this delight must be an image of God's delight in making things, a delight shown in the distinctiveness of each leaf and each snowflake.
Second is the pleasure of making things that are useful to other people. Deep within, we want others to use our work and to find it helpful. In this respect the programming system is not essentially different from the child's first clay pencil holder "for Daddy's office."
Third is the fascination of fashioning complex puzzle-like objects of interlocking moving parts and watching them work in subtle cycles, playing out the consequences of principles built in from the beginning. The programmed computer has all the fascination of the pinball machine or the jukebox mechanism, carried to the ultimate.
Fourth is the joy of always learning, which springs from the nonrepeating nature of the task. In one way or another the problem is ever new, and its solver learns something: sometimes practical, sometimes theoretical, and sometimes both.
Finally, there is the delight of working in such a tractable medium. The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures. Yet the program construct, unlike the poet's words, is real in the sense that it moves and works, producing visible outputs separately from the construct itself. It prints results, draws pictures, produces sounds, moves arms. The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life, showing things that never were nor could be.
Programming then is fun because it gratifies creative longings built deep within us and delights sensibilities we have in common with all men.
"People ask how I got started, when my previous career had nothing to do with web development. I always answer the same. "Google knows everything. You just have to take the time and ask it questions." Soon you can be an expert on things too. So start now. Most won't bother, but that won't be you will it... ;)" -- +Amanda Blain (https://plus.google.com/107982618909749811163/posts/9t2QRyap4qd)
Would you like to integrate Google+ with an existing website, or build your own social application on the platform? Developing with Google+ takes you on a tour of the Google+ APIs, with lots of concrete examples and hands-on projects. You’ll learn how to take advantage of Google+ social plug-ins, communicate programmatically with Google+ over REST APIs, and author real-time Hangout Apps.
Over the course of this book, you’ll follow the progress of a fictional company, Baking Disasters, as it incorporates all the features of the Google+ platform.
- Make the most of social widgets such as the +1 button, Badge, and the Share button - Use performance tuning techniques to speed up social plugins on your site - Create your own plugins by accessing public data APIs with RESTful web services - Transform an blog into a social web application through server-side processing - Use OAuth to authenticate users and authorize your access to their private data - Extend Google+ Hangouts programmatically and create your own application
The thing I like least in iOS 6 is the new App Store search , it makes finding new apps much harder and slower.
"Just as app discovery is getting harder than ever with the sheer number of apps on the store, Apple’s new App Store layout on iOS 6 makes it worse. Developers everywhere should be up in arms about this. Here’s why.
Although Apple doesn’t make these numbers public, I bet most people search instead of browse through the App Store categories to find the apps they’re looking for. In iOS 5, if you do a search, you’ll see five apps and you can scroll down effortlessly to see the first 25. I timed it – it takes one swipe and less than one second to get all the way down the list. Most importantly, people can see the price, stars, and number of ratings, which in my opinion are key factors for purchasing an app, for a bunch of apps very quickly."
This remake of Paradise by Coldplay is stunningly beautiful I have listened it about a hundred times this week as a background music while working.
The story behind the song:
Each time we write/arrange a tune we take a journey. We have to admit—this journey took us a lot further than we expected. Retracing our steps reveals several factors that made this a reality. As we started arranging it we had serious writer’s block. Perhaps some of the worst we’ve ever had. In fact, one day instead of writing we went around the entire studio with a can of WD-40 and coated every piece of metal to ensure that we were a squeak-free studio. Then on a whim we decided to back away and take an entirely new approach to the song—an African approach. It may seem random in retrospect, but at the time it was an exciting way to restart the arrangement. It was working, but our journey still was on foot until we called in Alex Boye, one of the most talented people we’ve ever met. Alex has this contagious energy that gave new life to the song and to us. He sings the tune in 4 different languages: Swahili, English, Yoruba (his mother’s native language), and Alex’s own African “scat” (we’ll call it…Scafrican) Most of the words you hear are translated from the lyrics in the original Coldplay Tune. We’re huge fans of Alex — We bet you are now too!
When we had finished the arrangement we all agreed that listening to it was like taking a journey to somewhere remote and ruggedly beautiful. How were we to depict this with a cello, African percussion and, most difficult of all, a grand piano? We took a risky, but oh-so-valuable turn when we called in helicopters to air-lift us and our instruments where none had gone before! (Please excuse the Trek reference). Since no one had ever done this before where were we to go for advice? Well, we can tell you that Home Depot didn’t have a lot of answers (how disappointing) but we did clean them out of their strongest cable they had. We don’t mind telling you that when that helicopter began lifting our brand new-never-before-played grand piano into the air we couldn’t help close our eyes and cross our fingers. We consider a blessing of Heaven that it worked. I guess we figured that if it didn’t, maybe it could still be a viral video — “PIANO MOVE FAIL”
We’d like to thank from the bottom of our hearts, Duane Fielding who offered the helicopters and SkyHawk for not dropping the piano… Half-way through the first day of shooting we discovered that, as typical guys, we had forgotten to bring ANY food or water to this remote location. We had two options: one, wrestle a mountain rodent and harvest cacti or two, starve. Duane, our head pilot, took pity on us. He took off (literally) and moments later landed in a Wendy’s parking lot, ordered 5 of everything (sadly, he couldn’t use the drive through)…took off again and brought us chicken sandwiches and hamburgers via airmail. Thank you Duane! Flying in your helicopter was a dream come true for us despite the lack of doors.
StayFocusd increases your productivity by limiting the amount of time that you can spend on time-wasting websites.
You sit down at the computer, and you swear you'll be productive. Next thing you know, it's twelve hours later. You've checked your email, updated your Facebook status, browsed the trending topics on Twitter, read your RSS feeds, looked up your favorite band on Wikipedia, vanity googled yourself, cyber-stalked your ex, looked at all your high-school crushes' Facebook photos, watered your plants on Farmville, and lost a week's pay playing online poker. What you haven't done is WORK.
StayFocusd is a productivity extension for Google Chrome that helps you stay focused on work by restricting the amount of time you can spend on time-wasting websites. Once your allotted time has been used up, the sites you have blocked will be inaccessible for the rest of the day.
Here are things I’m trying to quit doing at my desk:
Thinking: Nobody does their best thinking sitting at their desk. When you reflect on your biggest “Ah-Ha!” moments, how many of them occurred while you were staring at a screen? If you’re like me, your best thinking happens when you’re not at your desk: taking a walk, going and asking another person for help, drinking a coffee, in the shower. Your desk is for executing; do your thinking elsewhere.
Socializing: When I sit down at my desk, I want to be in work mode. I want to prioritize my most important tasks, and then complete them with the fastest velocity possible. Socializing while I’m at my desk sullies the purity of the workstation. This is why the water cooler is actually a brilliant social construct: when you want to hang out, you can get up from your workstation and go to the socialstation. I think every office should have a socialstation, a place (or time in the morning) where team members can hang out, and talk informally.
Procrastinating: Check Facebook, check Twitter, go on YouTube, check email, mindlessly read blog posts. I think that breaks, and downtime, are important in a work day. But again: I think maintaing the purity of my desk as a place where I work is important. If I need some “mindless” time, I think it’s better to walk away from my desk and have a place and time limit where I do that. It’s also important that we catch ourselves when procrastinating and ask ourselves: “Why?” Are we procrastinating because we’re tired? Hungry? Bored? Are we stuck on a problem? Are we just feeling lethargic and need to get up and move around? Figure out what’s at the source of your mindless net browsing, and deal with the problem.
One year ago I had no knowledge about the meaning of strange words like shutter speed , aperture , depth of field , exposure or what are the strange numbers in my lens. Learning has been fun and I have taken thousands of really bad photos.
Here are some of my favorite landscape & nature photos from my photography adventure :)
You can do this too by putting your 21-digit numerical Google+ ID there in the end... I saw this tip on +Jeff Sullivan 's stream, so be sure to pop over there and thank him!
The BookBook for iPhone is a genuine leather case that not only protects your iPhone, but serves as a wallet too. With sections for credit cards, a clear window for your photo ID, and space to hold notes it has everything you need when you’re out and about.
Water is the driving force of all nature - Leonardo Da Vinci
The Dam of Imatra. Photo taken today. I really enjoyed the view .
For more realistic view try this while watching this photo in full screen: 1) Open http://www.soundsnap.com/node/96399 for water sounds 2) Spray some water to your face and enjoy :)
"The Imatrankoski Rapids are Imatra's most famous attraction, and travelers have been drawn to the rapids for hundreds of years. At the turn of the century the rapids - with Imatra's famous hotel, the Valtionhotelli, standing on its banks - was the most popular tourist attraction in Finland."
Usually rapids are allowed to run everyday at 18.00 but because of high level of water really rare thing is happening this year and rapids are running now 24/7 at least few months!
1. "Children just aren't interested in Witches and Wizards anymore." —Anonymous publishing executive to J.K. Rowling, 1996.
2. "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." —Ken Olson, Founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.
3. "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." —Decca Records executives rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
4. "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." —Western Union internal memo, 1876
5. "Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure." —Henry Morton, President of the Stevens Institute of Technology, on Edison's light bulb, 1880.
6. "You better get secretarial work or get married." —Emmeline Snively, Director – Blue Book Modelling Modelling Agency, to Marilyn Monroe in 1944.
7. "The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty, a fad." —The President of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Henry Ford's lawyer not to invest in the Ford Motor Co., 1903.
8. "Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible." —Simon Newcomb; The Wright Brothers flew at Kittyhawk 18 months later
9. "I would say that this does not belong to the art which I am in the habit of considering music." —Alexandre Oulibicheff, reviewing Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
10. "Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy." —Associates of Edwin L. Drake mocking his idea to drill for oil, 1859.
11. "How, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I pray you, excuse me, I have not the time to listen to such nonsense." —Napoleon Bonaparte, when told of Robert Fulton's steamboat plans, 1800s.
12. "I'm sorry, Mr. Kipling, but you just don't know how to use the English language." —The San Francisco Examiner, rejecting a submission by Rudyard Kipling in 1889.
13. "Very interesting Whittle, my boy, but it will never work." —Cambridge Aeronautics Professor, when shown Frank Whittle's plan for the jet engine.
14. "Television won't last. It's a flash in the pan." —Mary Somerville, pioneer of radio educational broadcasts, 1948.
15. "To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth – all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances." —Lee DeForest, Inventor of the vacuum tube, 1926.
After seeing Amazon , Nokia and Apple presentations , this is the device I am most excited!
"Don’t be fooled by your expectations for eReaders, though, because the Kindle Paperwhite brings a number of innovations to the table."
- Gorgeous “Paperwhite” display. - Patented light guide - Battery can last up to 8 weeks. That’s with the backlight kept on the entire time, which is absolutely nuts.
RESHARE: Time for a new 30 days challenge. What should I try this time?
I will surely continue this no internet activity after 21.00 as much as possible in future months too, enjoyed reading and sleeping so much :-)
Reshared text: My 30 days challenge
Is there something you've always meant to do, wanted to do, but just ... haven't? +Matt Cutts suggests: Try it for 30 days. This short, lighthearted talk offers a neat way to think about setting and achieving goals.
My next 30 days challenge starting tomorrow is no internet activity after 21.00
Why? So I would have more time for my other passions like running & music & books & photography & hopefully more time for sleeping :)
If you see me giving +´1s & comments after 9pm (GMT+2) in next 30 days post a comment #fail !
Has taken longer, than I thought, but at last a new version is uploaded.
But first of all, I was able to speed up the extension to make it more usable, especially if you have lots of posts and #hashtags in your stream. The extensions now only shows about 15 most used #hashtags in your stream, but you can show all, by clicking on the more button.
I had some conversations with users and I have tried to bring in the best of their ideas and have reworked the design a little.
I have changed the behavior of the view button to delay the popup of the listing of all postings with the shown hashtag. This way you can mouse over the hashtags and the view windows does not popup immediately. I also have changed the position of the two buttons mute and view in the row of the hashtag.
The three top buttons mute/muted, pin and reset are now flat buttons with the following behavior:
Mute/Muted Button If you have muted any hashtags, they are shown in a popup window and it is possible to unmute the hashtag in this little window by clicking on the x behind the hashtag.
Pin Button If you click on pin, the hashtags occupy the whole area between top and bottom of your screen to show more hashtags and have them always viewable, while scrolling down. This can switched off any time and the old view is restored
Reset Button Use with care, because it resets the extension and deletes all your muted hashtags.
If you have further questions, ideas or critics to this little extension, please let me know.
Kathryn Stockett book The Help has since been published in 42 languages. As of August 2012, it has sold ten million copies and spent more than 100 weeks on the The New York Times Best Seller list.
I love making apps but hopefully I do not make anything as popular as Tiny Wings ever :)
---- “The first month was really scary,” Andreas comments on what was happening after Tiny Wings had hit the first spot in the US App Store. An avalanche of interest was so unpleasant that Andreas decided to disappear from the public and get back to his passion: creating games.
It was really hard life when Tiny Wings become such a success last year. You have no clue what success means before it happens to you. Suddenly the whole world went to my room and everybody wanted something: to buy me, to buy the license, sell merchandising stuff, make cinema movie. It was totally crazy. I am a quiet guy and I like my quiet life. For me personally, nothing changed. I still live in a small flat, I don’t have a car because I don’t have a driving license, I haven’t bought anything except of a new computer. So I am still the guy I was before Tiny Wings and I just want to make cool games, that’s my passion.