CircleCount helps you better understand Google+

2013-05-16 09:29:44 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Oh my! Why, Google, are you publishing a unified messaging client which doesn't support SMS and no more supports XMPP either? That's ridiculous. #io13

2013-05-13 12:30:25 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Why are people actually using ActionBarSherlock if they're only using it to display an ActionBar? It unnecessarily adds up 1MB to your app's size (that's enough for most users to start complaining...)!

Use ActionBarCompat instead (located in the samples folder of the Android SDK). Took me about 15 minutes to replace ActionBarSherlock with it.

#androiddev  

2013-05-09 13:32:01 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Good to know! #androiddev

2013-05-07 16:23:46 (6 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

Good old Android 2.2. What a pleasure in terms of UI and UX!

This is a fresh CyanogenMod 6.1 install without any apps installed yet and it has a whopping 10MB free RAM. Awesome!

Oh, and all the fun you guys are missing out with your big screens and advanced keyboards!

The best thing though, is how much time you have for things that really matter while you're waiting for the phone to respond on every click. #froyorockz!

2013-05-02 21:10:10 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Maybe I was wrong when complaining about Google Apps Script a few months ago...

2013-04-30 13:36:43 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Disturbing in many ways.

2013-04-29 17:56:10 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

This might be of interest for some of you guys. AdWords training from Google!

(Putting this into the "Deals" category because... I can!)

2013-04-27 11:32:19 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Whaaaat!? You lose one reputation for every downvote you submit on StackExchange? Evil system is ingenious! No more downvotes from me.

2013-04-26 19:48:25 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

I'm not sure, but does the recent change to the Google Play policy mean EA and <insert huge publisher with crappy games> aren't allowed to use their own crappy "download additional data" systems any longer, but use APK Expansion Files instead?

http://developer.android.com/google/play/expansion-files.html

2013-04-25 19:56:07 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

That's actually pretty cool: there's a built-in theme called "@android:style/Theme.Holo.DialogWhenLarge" in Android, which... well, you can guess what it does. I haven't seen that before. #androiddev  

2013-04-25 19:03:57 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Google announcing a group chat for Google Drive. I guess this means we won't see a merge of all chats across Google services with Google Babble (or whatever it's called). Bummer! :/

2013-04-24 17:05:16 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

I'm currently working on less, but better (read, more stable) releases for OpenDocument Reader. To be honest, it's not that annoying to test code after all...

More posts on that topic to follow. Especially the next one about StrictMode might be interesting for some of you.

Any testing tools I forgot to mention #androiddev ?

http://blog.tomtasche.at/2013/04/u-no-unstable-introduction.html
http://blog.tomtasche.at/2013/04/u-no-unstable-monkey.html

2013-04-23 12:02:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Seems legit! #zombiesonlinkedin  

2013-04-22 18:56:28 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

This extension is pure gold for me. Thanks +Aidan Feldman!

2013-04-22 17:30:34 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Thinking about hiring a freelancer to work on +Announcify (for Chrome). Any experiences and suggestions where to find good freelancers? freelancer.com gives me a somewhat scammy feeling...

2013-04-20 12:37:18 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Far from perfect, but this looks really good so far! A first run resulted in a bunch of failed installs which I'm not sure who's to blame for at the moment, but also discovered one legit crash.

2013-04-19 16:03:46 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Looking at the 10 "Best" Ubuntu 13.04 Features I really wonder what the engineers working on <insert any desktop OS> are doing all day long... I haven't seen any innovations in this space for a long time.

2013-04-18 18:47:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

I've been waiting for this since the day Google+ launched!

2013-04-16 15:20:48 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

In case you're still looking for a Google Reader alternative on Android, I think Press is the way to go.

2013-03-28 15:44:54 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

What's new for OpenDocument Reader...

on Android:
- lots of updates have been released in the last weeks / months
- we now render most documents in under 30 seconds (previously 2+ minutes)
- semi-official support for tons of random file formats has been added: pdf, docx, etc! We're using docs.google.com/viewer for this feature (thanks Google!)
- I think there's no valid odt out there which we can't handle (at least partially)

on AppEngine / for Google Drive:
- we have been booted out of the Chrome Web Store for a few weeks, because we still used the name "OpenOffice Document Reader"
- we're back up as "OpenDocument Reader" - as far as I know, previous user should receive the updates automatically
- we now use docs.google.com/viewer here too, in order to display .odt files! Curiously,... more »

2013-02-24 11:07:08 (10 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Hey Pixels,

Does anyone of you actually own a Pixel already? I have a quick question for someone who is running one in Developer Mode:

How long does it take to switch between ttys? If you don't know how to switch them: press Ctrl + Alt + the key to the right at the very top row of keys on your keyboard. You should see a mostly black screen with some text now. How long does it take from pressing the key to the text being shown?

PS: Switch back to ChromeOS by pressing Ctrl + Alt + key to the left.

2013-02-24 11:03:47 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Hey Pixels,

Does anyone of you actually own a Pixel already? I have a quick question for someone who is running one in Developer Mode:

How long does it take to switch between ttys? If you don't know how to switch them: press Ctrl + Alt + the key to the right at the very top row of keys on your keyboard. You should see a mostly black screen with some text now. How long does it take from pressing the key to the text being shown?

PS: Switch back to ChromeOS by pressing Ctrl + Alt + key to the left.

2013-02-11 15:03:45 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

New hobby: unfollowing all these Google+ pages I've never seen before.

2013-02-09 12:47:21 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

A better world... ;)

2012-11-21 11:46:22 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Another REALLY good game.

2012-11-11 17:42:53 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Added photos to DevFest Vienna 2012 - Happy Birthday Android Hackathon.

2012-10-27 14:15:17 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

I've been playing this game for two weeks now - every. single. day - and I still love it!

2012-10-13 17:33:49 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

The Chrome extension +Dominic Bartl and I created for the Google Chrome Privacy Hackathon a few weeks ago. It's really simplistic, and you wouldn't notice it most of the time out-of-the-box. If you activate "Safe Mode" using the extension icon in the upper right, however, you'll notice just how many websites are still using HTTP instead of HTTPS (happened to us while developing a lot!).

Have fun and safe browsing!

2012-10-09 16:53:52 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

Hi :)

2012-08-29 20:23:54 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Confirming that the President of the United States is indeed doing an AMA on +reddit right now.

http://reddit.com/askobama

2012-08-28 18:27:21 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I like the author's conclusion: " It’s time to stop paying attention to Kim Dotcom. Maybe then he’ll get some actual work done." ;)

2012-08-28 17:57:34 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Added photos to GDG meetup in August.

2012-08-26 13:59:05 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

+Mike West and friends pushed the awesomeness of this event to infinity - otherwise it was okay. Having to wait 3 hours to get in on the first day pissed me off! What's more, the acoustic was horrible across the hall.

#CPEurope

2012-08-26 04:34:21 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Not that I don't appreciate their latest move, but doesn't the FBI have something better to do than fighting Android app piracy?

2012-08-25 11:16:22 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Apple just got the most expensive court room win ever: Pyrrhic victory

 This case should never have reached a jury court, but the verdict is in. One billion dollar in damages although the jury was just sent back to recalculate it as judge Koh noticed some errors. 

By all means this is a commercial conflict with a worldwide impact, but it ended up before nine ordinary citizens, laymen, two women and seven man who were asked to answer a very long list of detailed questions on very technical stuff. They were treated to endless streams of expert witnesses and the few journalist who reported from the court room often noticed ´jury looks blank while expert goes on an on´.

Patents, an important part of this court case are extremely dull material. You need to read every sentence of dense technical and legal documents, look at that description and check if nopri... more »

2012-08-24 19:52:15 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Won the Google Chrome Incognito hackathon +Campus Party with +Thomas Taschauer 

2012-08-12 18:13:26 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

New hobby: reddit. Damn.

2012-08-10 17:04:58 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Worst ad placement ever... You have to smash those yellow buttons in order to win the game. I'm sure the ad wasn't meant to overlay one of the button so revenue quadruples.

2012-07-27 19:03:08 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

OpenOffice Document Reader is the "Top Rated" and "Top Used" business app according to Samsung's "S Suggest"! :D

2012-07-23 13:49:53 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Extremely short visit at Google Austria. :)

2012-07-22 14:15:40 (5 comments, 4 reshares, 15 +1s)

Conclusion after sniffing network traffic for an hour: all Google apps (except Translate) use HTTPS, pretty much every other app on my phone (Pocket, MightyText, StumbleUpon, ...) is secure too.

Moreover, HTTPS connections fail on a man-in-the-middle attack.

Only thing that doesn't seem to use HTTPS is Google Analytics and pretty much every ad network. That doesn't leak sensitive data, though. Only things like phone model, Android version, etc.

Happy Starbucks / McDonald's WiFi surfing! ;)

PS: Didn't try WhatsApp myself, but it's said to be unsecure, so don't use it in public WiFi.
PPS: Tested with Android 4.1 on Nexus S, with the most recent versions of apps available today.

#android

2012-07-21 15:22:49 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

What a great app: Settings Extended, by +sergej shafarenka.

The app integrates perfectly into the new notification bar of Android 4.1!

Just one thing that could make the app even better: why not make use of the new expanded notifications of Android 4.1 and display sliders for volume, brightness, etc?

2012-07-21 10:41:20 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

Geek love level: Asia.

2012-07-21 09:09:13 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

For some reason, you can't +1 or share this page: https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=xx-hacker

L00L

2012-07-20 21:33:40 (1 comments, 7 reshares, 9 +1s)

Facebook is definitely not a FactBook, dude.

+Stupid Market Comments

2012-07-17 12:20:25 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Using Chromemote to control my Google TV from Chrome. A dream came true. :)

Thanks +Robert Dale Smith!

2012-07-17 08:24:39 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Wow.  This is going to be a HUGE story:  

"Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass" 

Choice quote:  "Subsequently another person within McDonalds physically assaulted me, while I was in McDonand's, eating my McDonand's Ranch Wrap that I had just purchased at this McDonald's. He angrily grabbed my eyeglass, and tried to pull it off my head. The eyeglass is permanently attached and does not come off my skull without special tools."

http://bit.ly/OCJoVr

2012-07-16 12:40:44 (16 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I love this.

2012-07-07 20:22:24 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

I'm in the Matrix.

Blogger's new (?) 404 page.

2012-07-05 20:19:40 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

So, I guess that means no #gappschallenge  for me... :/

TL;DR I'm not happy.