If you decide to purchase a single application for you Android phone, let it be Tasker. Tasker is an application for Android which performs Tasks based on Contexts (application, time, date, location, event, gesture) in user-defined Profiles, or in clickable or timer home screen widgets. This simple concept profoundly extends your control of your Android device and it's capabilities, without the need for 'root' or a special home screen. Tasker can basically do anything you can images with your phone triggered by any trigger you can imagine.Read more »»

For a long time now I've been using Biowallet and Biowallet2browser for my password storage needs. I really liked the idea of having all of my passwords, credit card information, etc. stored encrypted on my phone but still available in the browser with the click of a button (and confirming access on the phone). However, the last couple of weeks their chrome plug-in stopped working.Read more »»

I received my invitation to join the private beta of spool a while back. I didn't get around to activating it until earlier this week while I was configuring my new phone. I didn't really have high hopes for spool, but was curious enough about it to sign up for the closed beta. But after installing it and testing it, I completely changed my mind.

Spool is a free service with offering a similar function to instapaper and read it later: They offer an Android application, an iPhone application and an iPad application as well as web browser plug-ins.Read more »»

When purchased my new Samsung Galaxy S2 I naturally also ordered a new handmade custom Nutshell case for it. It's currently in production so I'm hoping it will be here within a week or two. If you need a case or pouch for your smartphone, your GPS, your handheld, or any other gadget you own, you really should look into ordering a nutshell. These guys are amazing. They produce custom handmade pouches for you out of real leather.Read more »»

Earlier this week I purchased a new Samsung Galaxy S2 to replace my HTC Desire (Though I will keep my Desire as a backup phone for geocaching, gathering GSM network information and the likes). The main reason I needed to replace the Desire was its lack of internal memory. It simply didn't have enough memory for all of the applications I need.Read more »»

I just discovered that the weblogger-mode for Emacs can be used to post content to Drupal websites. Posting new content to my sites should be a breeze from now on. This should result in much more frequent posts here as well.Read more »»

I'm busy working on a complete re-design of gsmblog.net. I really needed a break from my minecraft plugin so I decided to spend some time working on my websites instead. First out is gsmblog.net. I have really started to hate the design of this site, and I wanted to replace it with something clean, simple and nice. When google started rolling out their new design, I immediately fell in love with it. Googles new design is almost perfect, and every single webdesigner should take note.Read more »»

A few days ago I spent 48 hours creating my first ever Minecraft plug-in called WarpMarkers. This plugin outputs a JSON file containing the locations of Warppoints from the Essentials Bukkit plugin for use with various Minecraft mapping software. When clicking on a marker on the map, the following information is shown: The name of the warppoint, who created it, and when, who last used it, and when.Read more »»

Ever since I got my HTC Desire I've had trouble using it in mass storage mode on Debian. The problems occur booth on Squeeze and Lenny. Instead of showing up as /dev/sdx#, only the first partition of the memory card shows up, and it shows up as /dev/sdx. /dev/sdx can be mounted, and copying from the memory card works fine. Copying to the memory card doesn't work. It looks like everything is hunky dory, but the files are actually never saved on the memory card. Partitioning the memory card doesn't work either. Gparted shows the whole memory card as «unpartitioned».Read more »»

I just updated the ROM on my Android HTC Desire to LeeDroid 3.3.3 the other day. After upgrading, I suddenly noticed that my gmail was no longer being pushed to my phone even though I had heaps of internal memory free. I finally found out that obviously gmail push has problems when settings have been restored using Titanium Backup. I simply had to enable, and then disable the settings to get things to work.Read more »»