Just installed WordPress for Android while sitting in Pronto cafe in Shinjuku. It gives you of course only a subset of what you can do on your PC. But its good for a quick check on posts and comments. Writing quick posts like this is possible as well. You can add pics, select the category and add tags.
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Japan is imho the country with the most advanced public transportation system based on trains, subways and bus. I live here now for more than 3 years, and I did never have the need to buy a car. Going to the customer – by train and taxi. Visiting Hiroshima, Nagoya or Osaka for sightseeing – the fastest way (beside taking the plane) is taking the Shinkansen. But it can be confusing. Some train stations here in Tokyo have 14 or
Read moreYou want to write in Japanese on your HTC Desire, but you do not want to flash to original Softbank X06HT ROM? There are several solutions on the market for Japanese keyboards, but I prefer the original HTC one from the Softbank ROM. So I got my hands on a Softbank ROM with the update to Android 2.2 and extracted everything needed for the keyboard. There is a step-by-step instruction for the installation somewhere on the internet, but I wanted
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Samsung Galaxy S4 Weather Station This app uses the build in temperature, air pressure and humidity sensors of the Galaxy S4 to show the current environment status and record data up to 31 days. IMPORTANT: THIS APPLICATION WORKS ONLY IF YOUR PHONE/TABLET HAS THE NECESSARY SENSORS. IF YOU SEE “SENSOR NOT AVAILABLE” ON THE SCREEN THEN YOUR DEVICE DOESN’T HAVE THE SENSOR. PLEASE DO NOT DOWN RATE THIS APPLICATION JUST BECAUSE YOUR PHONE DOESN’T HAVE THE NECESSARY SENSORS. 3 different
Read moreOk, here we go with the another secret of Softbank. On their “stupid” Japanese phones they have what Japanese people like most. The S!Mail. Comparable with the SMS or MMS technology that we know from Europe, this is used to communicate to other mobile phones. But it is more like email and MMS, as you send your message to a kind of email address and can add files or photos. The great thing on this is that it works like
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Recently I got my hands on a ROM coming from the Toshiba Folio Android tablet. Of course I wanted to checkout the applications that are coming with the device. Only impressive thing I found is the Toshiba Media Player. It provides access to music, videos, photos, podcasts on your SD-card and as well access to your media home server (if you know how to set it up. Music player The integrated music player updates your songs automatically with the album
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The Android 2.2 keyboard sucks on a high resolution screen as you can find on the newer Android tablets. On my HTC Desire I always kept the HTC IME keyboard, as IMHO it is much better than the Android keyboard. Even the new Gingerbread keyboard is not good for me. Unfortunately the HTC IME keyboard does not work on my Xvision, so I had to search for an alternative. I found the Notion Ink keyboard ported from gojimi on XDA-Developers.
Read moreThis is the most disgusting and useless app I have on my phone. But still it is funny to see the faces of my friends when I use it. 1) mix your drink. choose ice, lemon and size of cockroaches. 2) watch the preparation of the drink 3) enjoy the drink and give a big burb when you finished.
Read moreCamera Pro – Quite good, but doesn’t give me 5MPx on my HTC Desire. There are only 3 image sizes to select, but no hint which size means how many pixels. Swiss Codemonkeys can do better, as they show with their other applications. http://bit.ly/bQGzuG #android @TheAppBrain
Read moreGroupy / contact by group – Nice extension to standard contacts app. But needs GAL access in addition to make it perfect. http://bit.ly/ao0FAb
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