Haven't posted on here in a while... been a little busy as of late, and I'll talk about why below.
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Video from Friday Night Hangout #8
Android Enthusiasts: Friday Night Hangout #8 (Dec 14, 2012)
Please add topics during the week and not just during the hangout :)
Main topics
✓ Galaxy Camera
✓ New features for S3 (and hopefully the N2 in Canada) - Multi-Window
✓ Nexus 4 shipments? (stripped of LTE?)
✓ Free SIM unlock trick for S3/N2 on 4.1.1?
✓ Official CM10.1 Nightlies are Live! - More phones being added in the coming weeks/days
Reviews
✓ Windows Phone (how good we have it on Android)
✓ G+ communities (how are you using them? app?)
Updates of the week
✓ YouTube: revamped UI for 10" tablets✓ Currents (what happened to READER)
✓ S2 / Note1 updates should be soon
✓ Drive: Again no changelog. Seems to be the norm for Google.
✓ Facebook: native code now
✓ Google Calendar: Call and go to map directly from notification
✓ G+
What's new:
✓ New feature: Google+ Communities
✓ Support for full resolution photo uploads via Instant Upload
✓ Subscribe to any circle for notifications
✓ Support for time zones in Events
✓ Basic profile editing
✓ Integration with Google Now to send birthday wishes to friends
✓ Support for animated GIFs
✓ Express your mood via animated images in posts
✓ View and explore Photo Sphere images (Android 4.2+)
✓ Add the Google+ widget to your device’s lock screen (Android 4.2+)
For Android:
✓ easier way to author content,
✓ subtle notice when there's new stuff to read.
Events:
✓ send messages to specific guests and see who’s opened your invitation.
✓ guests can RSVP with the number of people they’re bringing
Hangouts:
✓ extremely low bandwidth Hangouts. (150 KB of bandwidth)
✓ expanded video for single participants
#AppColiseum (leave blank until we show - then post links)
✓ Ryan - Angry Birds Seasons - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rovio.angrybirdsseasons
✓ Tom - Remote for iTunes - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=hyperfine.hftunes.release
✓ Mark - Moon+ Reader - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flyersoft.moonreader
✓ Brian - AutomateIT - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=AutomateIt.mainPackage
✓ Sivan - justWink - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.justwink
XCass (at work Christmas party)
X Sylvain (Still at Farm Sanctuary in New York)
Perfect timing from Google for releasing an update for G+. Most developers never release updates on Fridays so they don't have to deal with fixing bugs on the first weekend of the update. Google surely surprised me today!
They went from changing the icon, again!, to adding some moods à la Facebook it seems, to moving the icons to the bottom of the page, weird. It sure looks good, although not too hyper about having the icons at the bottom now that they're bigger.
This is a big update with a lot of new features, but the biggest one to me has been the integration of the Communities into the app. I am so happy they didn't make us wait as long as they did for pages and also that they actually made a good job with it. I still don't use my phone to update my pages since I find the "log out/log in" a real pain. The communities are accessible right from the menu, as it should be, and that is just perfect.
Overall, awesome job on this update. Love it!
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Sunday, December 9, 2012
My Biking Record for 2012
Now that I'm thinking about it... my Endomondo app should have some better stats than what I just hacked together
Hmm, where's that data...
Here's 2 graphs I put in from going through old blog posts with the records I kept
I imported the graph points into a Google Doc...
My goal was maintain 70%.
Trying to find the chart data from last year... grr...
Hmm, where's that data...
Here's 2 graphs I put in from going through old blog posts with the records I kept
I imported the graph points into a Google Doc...
My goal was maintain 70%.
Trying to find the chart data from last year... grr...
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
I miss biking to work :( ... but I ingress
I do, really... it's funny, how it would make me tired, and everything, yet, now that I'm driving in the comfort of my own vehicle, I miss it.
Especially as the last few days have been exceptionally warm (like +1°C... not really warm, but warmer).
That, and the whole, I didn't get to call when the last day would be. I still have to do a chart up for the summer's biking.
Especially as the last few days have been exceptionally warm (like +1°C... not really warm, but warmer).
That, and the whole, I didn't get to call when the last day would be. I still have to do a chart up for the summer's biking.
Monday, December 3, 2012
App Updates [December 2, 2012] | Android in Canada Blog
App Updates [December 2, 2012] | Android in Canada Blog:
"Angry Birds Seasons | Facebook | AnTuTu Benchmark | Ingress | Box | Movember | Angry Birds Star Wars | Chrome | Google Drive | NFC Task Launcher | Netflix"
'via Blog this'
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Apps updated last week [Nov 19 - 23 '12] | Android in Canada Blog
Apps updated last week [Nov 19 - 23 '12] | Android in Canada Blog:
"Perfect Viewer | Adobe Reader | µTorrent | NFC Task Launcher | Skype | Flipboard | Angry Birds Star Wars"
'via Blog this'
Monday, November 26, 2012
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Lots of kids + party + McDonald's = loud [101/145]
So, yeah, I'm writing this article while at a McDonald's. Dean was invited to a birthday party and kits the one with the playground equipment... So it's quite loud. Hardly the place I'd expect to get caught up in my personal blog.
But here I am. And in some way, it's fine. I'm testing out the new blogger app. It's good practice for the new project in the new year.
So, what have I been up to? But much. Business as usual really. Work should quiet down soon, I'll get a little reprieve during December.
Speaking of work, it looks like I'm done biking to work now. I now have a spot... it's in the parkade, but at least it's a spot, plus it just snowed. A lot.
With the snow I got to practice the whole snowblowing of the the back lane. Brutal. And it went from 0 to 20cm over night. No in between.
And like that... I blink and the weekend's over (I'm now writing as of Monday).
Sucky thing about the snow is that it looks like that means that's it as for the biking. Lots of snow on the ground. Oh, well.
What else happened? Well I was feeling pretty under the weather on Sunday. Mandy's house sitting as of last night (her parents are going to Minni). Dean's getting used to our new Christmas tradition with the "Elf on the Shelf". I'll put a post up about that soon.
Oh... and tell me what you think... what colour is this?
But here I am. And in some way, it's fine. I'm testing out the new blogger app. It's good practice for the new project in the new year.
So, what have I been up to? But much. Business as usual really. Work should quiet down soon, I'll get a little reprieve during December.
Speaking of work, it looks like I'm done biking to work now. I now have a spot... it's in the parkade, but at least it's a spot, plus it just snowed. A lot.
With the snow I got to practice the whole snowblowing of the the back lane. Brutal. And it went from 0 to 20cm over night. No in between.
And like that... I blink and the weekend's over (I'm now writing as of Monday).
Sucky thing about the snow is that it looks like that means that's it as for the biking. Lots of snow on the ground. Oh, well.
What else happened? Well I was feeling pretty under the weather on Sunday. Mandy's house sitting as of last night (her parents are going to Minni). Dean's getting used to our new Christmas tradition with the "Elf on the Shelf". I'll put a post up about that soon.
Oh... and tell me what you think... what colour is this?
Thursday, November 22, 2012
App updates this past week [November 18, 2012] - | Android in Canada Blog
App updates this past week [November 18, 2012] - | Android in Canada Blog:
"Solid Explorer Beta2 | Astro File Manager | Facebook | Twitter | SkyDrive | Box | Analytics | Movember | Google+ | Blogger | Nova Launcher | YouTube | Play Music | Office Suite Pro"
'via Blog this'
Friday, November 16, 2012
1 more year [98/140]
So we held our band's AGM last week... well, a week and a day ago now.
I'm still not quite up to date on getting out my updates on this blog in a timely fashion. But I'm getting there... isn't trying enough?
I'm still not quite up to date on getting out my updates on this blog in a timely fashion. But I'm getting there... isn't trying enough?
Monday, November 12, 2012
What's the best time to go into the Emergency? [96/136]
5am... really.
Maybe it's just 'cuz it was a weekday. I can't imagine it'd be as quiet on a weekend.
Maybe it's just 'cuz it was a weekday. I can't imagine it'd be as quiet on a weekend.
App updates this past week [Nov 11 '12] | Android in Canada Blog
Flipboard | Movember | Starbucks | Shopper | Pinterest | Zedge | Tumblr | Google+ | WordPress
App updates this past week [Nov 11 '12] | Android in Canada Blog:
"Flipboard | Movember | Starbucks | Shopper | Pinterest | Zedge | Tumblr | Google+ | WordPress"
'via Blog this'
GOOGLE MUSIC COMING TO CANADA NOV 13 | Android in Canada Blog
reminder - that this was also pointed out to be false... sorry.
GOOGLE MUSIC COMING TO CANADA NOV 13 | Android in Canada Blog:
'via Blog this'
Monday, November 5, 2012
App updates this past week [Nov 4 '12] | Android in Canada Blog
App updates this past week [Nov 4 '12] | Android in Canada Blog:
Perfect Viewer | Cash Droid | Chrome | Google Earth | Angry Birds Space | LinkedIn | Zedge | Starbucks | Bamboo Paper | Running Fred | Where’s My Water | Google Translate | Maps
'via Blog this'
Hallowe'en - Not for Dean [94/132]
Just a quick note, as I didn't do this last week. Dean loves costumes. He loves that Mandy made him an AWESOME costume this year.
Seriously... it was wicked cool.
Unfortunately, for some reason, Dean has become quite shy. Shyer than before... nothing alarming, but lately everything he's afraid of. Can't go upstairs alone, can't go to the washroom alone... just weird. But, he's a kid, so hopefully it's just a phase.
Well, what happened was we went out to go trick-or-treating and he wanted to go to his 'girlfriend's house first, and see her, but she wasn't there. Now, whether that set him off balance, or what, he wouldn't go to any other house after that.
We'd go to a house, and it'd be "it's too scary", or "that one doesn't have any decorations". The best was "I only want to go to houses that are a little bit scary." Hilarious. Yet, disconcerting. One lady on her porch almost 'chased' Dean as she came to the curb to give him candy, but he kept retreating and she kept trying.
Almost painful.
In the end we just went home with only 2 houses gone to. It's okay tho', on Sunday we had gone out with Dean and Eliza to a few of the relatives' house for pre-trick-or-treating. Our families spoil the kids mercilessly.
Seriously... it was wicked cool.
Unfortunately, for some reason, Dean has become quite shy. Shyer than before... nothing alarming, but lately everything he's afraid of. Can't go upstairs alone, can't go to the washroom alone... just weird. But, he's a kid, so hopefully it's just a phase.
Well, what happened was we went out to go trick-or-treating and he wanted to go to his 'girlfriend's house first, and see her, but she wasn't there. Now, whether that set him off balance, or what, he wouldn't go to any other house after that.
We'd go to a house, and it'd be "it's too scary", or "that one doesn't have any decorations". The best was "I only want to go to houses that are a little bit scary." Hilarious. Yet, disconcerting. One lady on her porch almost 'chased' Dean as she came to the curb to give him candy, but he kept retreating and she kept trying.
Almost painful.
In the end we just went home with only 2 houses gone to. It's okay tho', on Sunday we had gone out with Dean and Eliza to a few of the relatives' house for pre-trick-or-treating. Our families spoil the kids mercilessly.
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
App updates for the past week [Oct 28 '12] - Android in Canada Blog | Android in Canada Blog
App updates for the past week [Oct 28 '12] - Android in Canada Blog | Android in Canada Blog:
"Logitech Revue | Minus | Flipboard | Cut the Rope & Experiments | Crackle | Angry Birds Seasons | AndroidTO | Tumblr"
'via Blog this'
"Logitech Revue | Minus | Flipboard | Cut the Rope & Experiments | Crackle | Angry Birds Seasons | AndroidTO | Tumblr"
'via Blog this'
Monday, October 29, 2012
My AndroidTO trip [89/127]
So, this is a little late coming, and I think any of you who followed my constant tweeting for the day got a gist of what was going on that day. But let me give you my first person account. [not putting photos in here, as there's just a ton elsewhere -- and this is just pretty much the same article I put up on AiC]
Friday, October 26, 2012
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