Look what came in the mail today! I am in complete shock. I signed up, whew, a long time ago. I think I submitted “google is awesome” in binary as my reason for wanting to be a Chrome Netbook test-pilot. Guess that worked.
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Periodic Table of Google API & Developer Products
This is a really cool way to visualize the scope of what Google makes available to developers. Amazing.
Friday Fifteen – Android Apps
- Bible (YouVersion) – an amazing app
- Barcode Scanner – for scanning QR codes and other shopping.
- Angry Birds – I can now know why this game is so popular
- SwiftKey Keyboard ($3.99) – worth the $3.99, IMO.
- eBay
- Evernote
- Google Reader – just released this week
- DroidLight – helpful when I’m getting around in the morning
- Google Sky Map
- Yahoo Fantasy Football
- Yahoo Fantasy Basketball
- Advanced Task Killer – essential if you want your battery charge to last longer than a day
- Dropbox – allows me to download anything from my Dropbox account to my phone
- Pocket Cloud Free – Remote desktop app
- WordPress
My Twitter Peeves
- Quoting from books
- Quoting the speaker at a conference
- Tweeting the score during a sporting event as it happens
- Only re-tweeting
- Telling your friends on Twitter not to spoil the show you DVR’d
- Tweeting a whole bunch things in a short amount of time
- Automated direct messages after a follow
- Excessive self-promotion of your company/blog/product
- Receiving a direct message from someone who doesn’t follow you
- Automated follows from people with <100 tweets
What did I miss?
Sweet Linux Media Apps For Vacation
So I just got back from a nice vacation with my family. I borrowed the department Asus Eee Pc 900 for the trip. It had CrunchBang Linux on it, which wouldn’t update anymore. I reformatted it with Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook Edition in about 45 minutes. Everything worked with the base install. Sweet.
On my Dell Inspirion lappy running Ubuntu 10.04, I installed and tried several DVD ripping utilities. I settled on Thoggen which was much simpler than the others. I ripped several DVDs into .ogv format, copied them to the netbook with my 2GB USB flash drive. Boom.
Then I installed VLC on the netbook to play them. ”F” for full screen mode is your friend. Awesome.
The default screen saver and power management settings were not conducive to watching a 2 hour video. I found Caffeine, which allowed me to override the power management settings for a specific period. Perfect.
Not long after we got on the road, I noticed my wife’s iPod Nano is missing all of it’s playlists. GTKPod to the rescue. I plugged in the iPod, specified the model, mounted it, re-created a few playlists and wrote them right back to the iPod. All without iTunes. Easy-peasy.
![[what others do with talent, I do with obstinate fixation]](http://sprignaturemoves.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/sm-subtitle1.png "what others do with talent, I do with obstinate fixation")