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 »»

While at the Chaos Communications Camp I purchased a SIMtrace card.

Osmocom SIMtrace is a software and hardware system for passively tracing SIM-ME communication between the SIM card and the mobile phone.

I've already got it set up and running, and played around with it a bit. Hopefully I'll have some time to do some true SIM-sniffing soon.Read more »»

I'm going to the Chaos Communications Camp in Germany August 9th - 15th. Feel free to get in touch if you want to meet up there. I'll be holding a workshop for the openLOC-project based on my master's thesis, and I'm really looking forward to getting in touch with other GSM-hackers, so don't hesitate to say hi!

If you purchase a single Android app, let it be Tasker for Android, the single most important Android app of all times.

I just released version 1.1 of FlicServ. This version fixes a race condition that could cause the linebreak to be inserted before or somewhere in the barcode itself. More here.

Today I came across a great add-on for Emacs: TwIt. TwIt is quite simply a Twitter plug-in for Emacs with an optional mode. You can post tweets, follow your friends tweets, list your friends and your followers, perform searches, retrieve @msgs and direct messages, and even use multiple accounts.

This is great news for me. Now I can, once again, sink down into the comfortable lisp environment of Emacs and continue to live my life inside of Emacs.Read more »»

I've finally got gsmblog.net up and running on a new CMF. It's really a relief to get rid of the old crappy Joomla the site was running off previously. The new site has been up and running for a bit more than a week, and so far there seems not to be any major problems. I still have to do a lot of tweaking here and there, specially on the Norwegian version of the site. Unfortunately I've been knocked out with a fever for a few days, so I'm rather back-logged at the moment.Read more »»

Some polish geek has managed to run Windows 3.11 on Nokia N95 using dosbox.