There are several good apps for editing text on Android, and one of them is Writer. Whereas Textwarrior (see my previous post) is a developer tool, Writer is for those of use who just want to produce well-formed texts. Yes, you can take simple notes with it, but since Writer supports the Markdown markup it’s a [...]
Archive for February, 2012
Is It A Writing Tool, Or Is It A Wiki?
Posted in Android, Content Management, Mobile Computing, Software, Wiki on 28/02/2012 |
Is It A Phone, Or Is It A Computer?
Posted in Android, Linux, Mobile Computing, Technology, Ubuntu on 23/02/2012 |
If you’re still doubting that “smartphones” are real computers, just check out this article: “Ubuntu for Android: Canonical brings Ubuntu desktop to docked smartphones“. OK, you currently need a top-end smartphone with a dual-core ARM CPU and HDMI output, but in this market today’s top-end machine is tomorrows standard. To further prove the point: TextWarrior [...]
Remembering My Early Days In Photography
Posted in Personal, Photography on 22/02/2012 |
As I have written earlier in this blog, my first camera was an Olympus OM-1. Rationally, I know I had to sell it – there’s only so much space in a house that you can fill. But I remain very fond of it: the build quality as well as the optical performance of the Zuilo [...]
“Real Work” Software
Posted in Software on 21/02/2012 |
Minimal Mac writes: Microsoft for many years had convinced the world that, in order to get “real work” done, you needed Office [...] Then, [... ] the iPhone came. There was no Office. People got things done. Then the iPad came. There was no Office. People got things done. Android came. People got things done. All [...]
The Big Picture
Posted in Design and Art, Photography on 19/02/2012 |
Great story about a great (big!) camera and big pictures: “Gear Behind the Career: Elsa Dorfman and the Giant Polaroid Camera“.
The Pain Continues (5)…
Posted in ColdFusion, Content Management, Software Development on 16/02/2012 |
You may recall that I’m still running a series of ColdFusion servers at work, running CFMX6.1 and CF8. The CFMX servers remain active as long as I haven’t got Verity working reliably in our CF8 applications. From an functional point of view, the situation is certainly workable. But the server administrators want to replace Win2000 [...]
The Return Of ex-Userland Manila Is In The Making – Or Is It?
Posted in Content Management, Software, Web Development on 15/02/2012 |
Good news for those of us who still have sites running on Manila, the Userland Frontier application for web content management: Tom Clifton, Dave Winer, Jake Savin and others are busy trying to get Manila to run in the OPML Editor. If they pull it off, it will be possible to take a .root backup [...]
Android Sound Effect?
Posted in Android, Mobile Computing on 08/02/2012 |
I’m not really a gaming app fan, but I have always admired billiard players: getting those balls to collide is pure physics – and yet very hard to do. I saw Ronny “the Rocket” O’Sullivan win the German Masters (snooker, for those not in the know) a few evenings ago, after a fantastic match against [...]
Minus Fifteen Degrees Celcius Isn’t Cold…
Posted in Personal on 06/02/2012 |
Minus fifteen degrees celcius isn’t cold? Actually, it is cold, but as long as you are appropriately dressed and keep walking it isn’t too bad. I never felt cold myself, although we were out from 19h45 until 02h45. And we had a great time trying not to get too lost: we only walked 22.5 km [...]
Snow At Last
Posted in Personal on 04/02/2012 |
Yesterday the snow came to Belgium – finally it’s really winter. Just a few hours later, we had more than 1200km of traffic jams on our highways, and that is a record! I updated the header picture with a photo from this morning, and of course there is snow to be seen. Anyway, today the [...]
Winter Sun
Posted in Personal on 02/02/2012 |
In order to celebrate the first winter cold here in Belgium I have updated the header picture again. We haven’t had real snow here in Flanders until now, but perhaps that will be coming soon ;-) In the mean time, the sun is doing its best since Jan. 30th. But all in all, last year’s [...]
