January 4th, 2010
If so, then you *need* to get a Droid.
I think of the Motorola Droid as an “always on portable computer with G3, WiFi, GPS, Blutetooth, audio in/out, microSD, compass, accelerometer, keyboard and a reasonable size touch screen.” Oh, and you can make phone call with it too.
The open source dev tools for Linux/Windows/Mac integrate with eclipse and includes the can’t-say-Java-but-that-is-what-it-is compiler & runtime. Nice desktop phone emulator for debugging and on the phone there is a reasonable USB-based debugging tool. It was straight forward to compile some of the sample projects and put it on my phone.
Tags: droid, Java, linux
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December 29th, 2009
Everyone seems to have a top 10 list of Droid apps, so here is what is currently installed on mine:
Useful, go get:
- Advanced Task Killer Free — very simple way to kill of apps that are left hanging around
- AppManager — nice way to manage your apps includes info on space used and can uninstall apps
- Barcode Scanner — used by other scanning apps
- Battery Graph — track battery level
- Book Mobile — scan ISBN from a book and have it added to your google book list. Sometimes it can’t add to the list on google.
- Color Blindness Test — I’m red/green deficient
- ConnectBot — ssh client
- Divide and Conquer! — fun game
- DroidLight — handy flashlight replacement, turns on camera flash
- Foursquare — silly GPS location ‘game’
- GDocs Notepad with Sync — little note taker that stores up on google docs
- GDocs — not written by Google, but lets you get to your google docs
- GeoBeagle — Excellent geocaching app, highly recommended,
- Goggles — Take a picture of something and google will try to identify it, works best with books, logos, etc. By Google.
- Google Sky Map — Very cool reality enhancement. Go out at night and hold the droid up to the sky to see names and info about stars, planets, etc. By Google.
- Hypnotic Spiral — silly toy
- Maps (Google) — Excellent interface. By Google.
- Moon Phases — handy
- My Tracks — Notes GPS tracks and uploads to both Google Docs and Google Maps, very handy for tramping around in the woods
- NetCounter — track network traffic on 3G network vs WiFi network
- Network Discovery — Sort of a nmap port to the android that lets you find out what else is on your network. Integrates with ConnectBot to ssh to servers.
- Oblique Strategies — a Classic.
- Places Directory (Google) — Show lists of what is nearby you. By Google.
- Ringdroid — create ringtones from any mp3
- Sand Blaster — physics simulation game similar to Powder
- Seesmic — Nice twitter client
- Show Accelerometer — toy to show off the accelerometer
- Spark — toy
- The Weather Channel — nice weather app with widget interface too.
- ThinkFree Mobile
- tickr — surprising handy Flickr slideshow app that needs a bit more polish
- Voice Recorder — Excellent free voice recorder, integrates into email to send or upload audio recordings
- Waze — fun mapping/directions tool that also has a game element (munch dots on untraveled roads)
- WiFi OnOff — widget to turn on/off the Wifi from the homepage
Handy, will likely stay on the phone
- androidVNC — VNC to linux boxes. Servicable, but tricky connecting to a 2 monitor system.
- AK Notepad
- Banshee Remote — requires downloading and running a little python server on the Linux box running Banshee. Could be handy, but may not fit how I listen to music.
- Bluetooth File Transfer
- Documents To Go
- Dolphin Browser
- Evernote
- Favorite Recipes
- iSilo — I use this on my palm pilot, may be useful.
- NPR News
- Photoshop.com Mobile
- Pandora
- Qik
- SAT Vocabulary
Not fully evaluated
- Aldiko
- Amazed
- Androbex
- Android Network RSS
- Beelicious
- CompassNavi
- Contact Owner
- Craigslist
- Flickr Photo Frame
- Gmote
- GPS Status
- Hyperspace LITE
- Layar
- Listen
- MeteorLiteWVGA
- NewRob
- On Air
- OpenLoopz for Android
- Opera Mini
- Owner
- PalmBookReader
- Plasma Puddle
- RaySpy
- Reader
- ScoreNinja
- Shot
- Simple GPS
- Slacker
- SmartTraining
- SnapPhoto
- StreamFurious
- SwiftTweets
- SystemMonitor
- Trap!
- Ustream Broadcaster
- Ustream Viewer Beta
- Where
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December 1st, 2009
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December 1st, 2009
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September 29th, 2009
This photo was created from three RAW files using qtpfsgui.
Tags: Autumn, HDR, Merrimack, Wildcat Falls
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September 6th, 2009
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August 30th, 2009
Spencer and I got there too late to get into the Carol Shea-Porter Townhall meeting in Manchester yesterday.
Here are some photos of the pro/anti protesters outside: Protesters at Rep. Carol Shea-Porter’s Townhall meeting

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June 26th, 2009
I’m finally at the point where the little SheevaPlug can replace the aging Compaq DeskPro EN that has been our main home server.
Functions:
- mail hub
- network print server
- scan server
- mp3 file server
- system monitor
- proxy server
Here are the detailed steps needed to convert this $99 low power server into something useful:
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Tags: debian, homeserver, howto, lenny, lordshiva, sheevaplug
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June 20th, 2009
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcn/sets/72157620002788046/
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May 29th, 2009
Thanks to Susan Skonetski for setting it all up!
More photos here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcn/sets/72157618959630572/
Tags: hp, OpenVMS, photos, reunion, VMS
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