Mostly Insane Ramblings

 

Missing Google Features on Android

 It kind of bugs me that I don't have amazing access to all Google products on Android. I want my Android phone and tablets to be extentions of each other and all of my other computing environments. That does not happen though, mostly because of missing apps an mobile websites. A few notable tools that are missing: Google Bookmarks: I read a lot of stuff on my Android devices, and Android has amazing send to capabilities. I cannot easily save things to Google Bookmarks though. There is a third party app, but it does not work with the way security is setup on my account. Google should really have a built in way for me to send links into Google Boomarks. Google Docs: not much to say here that has not been said. Google needed apps for working with Google Docs 18 months ago. No that Docs has expanded to offer far more flexible file storage that lack of a tightly integrated file management application is very disappointing. I have hundreds of files in have uploaded for bob the go access. Blogger: I am writing this via my account on Posterous. Google does not offer a dedicated client for Blogger, and the web UI does no work either. There are many options for posting to Blogger, but I have lost too much work due to untimely app crashes. Posterous is nice and stable, though it lacks some nicer formatting options. I really hope we see improvements in Google service access on Android soon. Hopefully developers on the Docs, Bookmarks, and Blogger teams are working on Apps now.
Filed under: android gadgets google
 

Facebook v Google

 http://bit.ly/13bsnF Some interesting history here I was not aware of. I still use Google for almost everything, but I can see a day them I will turn to Facebook for more. I certainly turn to FB for more personal interactions.
 

My Firefox Collection
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I am not using Firefox to much recently as Chrome has become my default browser, but I do still like to use some extensions which keeps Firefox installed on most of my computers.  I don't use too many, and they typically are installed to help me either collect or consume information better.  I put together my current set of extensions using the new Firefox Collections tool.  Noting terribly shocking in the collection, but I think this is a good set if you want to keep your extensions to a minimum.  I supplement these extensions with a few bookmarklets.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/editors_picks

Bit.ly Sidebar - Which makes it easy to send links to Twitter, Facebook or via Gmail.
Note in Reader - This is mostly replaced by Feedly, but sometimes I use it when I am having issues with the Feedly minibar.
Amazon Wish List - I use Amazon to track the things I want to buy for myself and others.
Facebook - Sometimes I post directly to Facebook.
Posterous - I am playing with Posterous to make posting to my blogs and various services easier.


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Music Downloads

 New music time, and this month I kept to my usual grabbing more downtempo music, and keeping to female fronted bands.  I am sure I am missing out on some amazing stuff...

I finished off Elsiane's Hybrid album, I had three tracks left on the album after last month.  By the way, I REALLY like this album  It is one of the best I have downloaded in recent months.  I also grabbed Akasha by Isobella and Different Shade of Beauty by Tearwave.

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I have been slowly collecting links to some of my favorite female front bands.  Most of these fall into the downtempo/electronica genre.

 

4E from One Year In | A Butterfly Dreaming
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100% agree on this whole article. Especially where it discusses the accessibility to new GM's. I remember trying to customize things in 3.5, and I was very put off of DM'ing. I have no such troubles in 4e. I modify almost every enemy I use, and I have been changing rules and some of the pre-published modules for every session. The best thing I can say is that from an accessibility standpoint the rules in the DM Guide just work.

This is a great write up.

Filed under: 4e dungeons & dragons game roleplaying
 

Remembering the King of Pop (via feedly)
One of the things that struck me today as I read through many tweets ob Michael Jackson's death was how many musician's credit him with being a major influence on their careers (@collidemusic and @wyclef to name two). Obviously this Zune Insider post shows that their are many more artists who feel the same way. No matter what you might think of Michael or the decisions he made in his life there can be no denying his influence or talent. His talent will be missed.

Remembering the King of Pop

We here at Zune are saddened by the news of the passing of pop legend Michael Jackson.  At this time of shock and grief we would like to point our Zune users to some of his groundbreaking chart-topping hits and tribute audio podcast called “Thrillercast” in our Zune Marketplace software, published by Sony BMG. 

The “Thrillercast” podcast is made up of 28 episodes and in each episode celebrities like will.i.am, LL Cool J, Herbie Hancock, Imogen Heap, Adam Curry, Quincy Jones and many others tell stories of how Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” album changed their lives and impacted music for generations to come.  Thriller was the world’s biggest selling album of all time.

You can listen to the podcast right from our Zune.net website or download our Zune software to find his great music.

 


[link to original | source: Official Zune Insider Blog | published: 4 hours ago | shared via feedly]
 

Iain and the Bun
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Iain gets attacked by his hamburger bun, and then gets even.

 

Trying out Posterous

 This is my first post to Posterous.  I figure I will include a few different things here to see how they turn out.

For example I have this great picture of Iain from dinner the other night.

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I also have a video of him from the same dinner, it is in the 3gp format, wonder how Posterous wil handle the video from my BB Storm.

It was really this article by Steve Rubel that got me looking at Posterous today.

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