My list of must-have Android apps

Ever since I ordered and got my Android Dev Phone 1 (a.k.a. ADP1), I have been taking it through various updates. The phone shipped with Android version 1.0 and upgraded to version 1.6. After 1.6, I opted to go for ROMs from CynaogenMod.

Each time, I upgrade my phone, I wipe off its data. This is because I took the upgrades as an opportunity to wipe off applications which I install, but do not use or use occasionally. But, following is the list of Android applications which I crave to install after each wipe off. These applications are my must-haves on my Android phone. Read the rest of this entry »

Twitter Updates for 2010-01-01

• #My2010Resolution Quit smoking, quit drinking (C2H5OH) except on occassions, 2 blog posts/week, 9-5 official working hrs #
• @sharat_j thank u sirji, a very happy new year to u too! in reply to sharat_j #
• This can be a great day to do something special for yourself t… More for Leo http://twittascope.com/twittascope/?sign=5 #
• RT @bineshkutty All SMS on my Reliance CDMA phone, since midnight has the date stamp 01-Jan-2016 :-S @relianceworld FYI #

Twitter Updates for 2010-01-01

• #My2010Resolution Quit smoking, quit drinking (C2H5OH) except on occassions, 2 blog posts/week, 9-5 official working hrs #
• @sharat_j thank u sirji, a very happy new year to u too! in reply to sharat_j #
• This can be a great day to do something special for yourself t… More for Leo http://twittascope.com/twittascope/?sign=5 #
• RT @bineshkutty All SMS on my Reliance CDMA phone, since midnight has the date stamp 01-Jan-2016 :-S @relianceworld FYI #

Twitter Updates for 2009-08-27

• Scheduled a SMS @ 8 a.m.(my bed time) 2 stop my carpenter frm proceeding. Some new ideas 4 new house. 'SMS Wishes' app 4 #Android rocks #
• @Saurangshuk yep had been a month. A huge venture in itself, phew. Now trying to get some furnishing done. Phew, phew, phew in reply to Saurangshuk #
• @Saurangshuk yep ggn. sohna road. party for sure in reply to Saurangshuk #
• @Saurangshuk howz work? missing labs? in reply to Saurangshuk #
• Installed #WpTouch plugin http://tinyurl.com/68z8og on my #WordPress blog. Point your #Android / #iPhone to http://tinyurl.com/cfnjxc #
• @robertnlee for other phones I'm using #Wordpress Mobile Edition http://short.to/o81j Yet to check if Wptouch conflicts with it. in reply to robertnlee #

Twitter Updates for 2009-08-21

• Quick Gun Murugun releasing on 28th August. "MIND IT !!!" #quickgunmurugan #movies @quickgunmurugan #
• Free podcast app called Listen, by #Google, available for #Android through the Android Market #
• RT @vinodunny #Gurgaon roads are really bad for someone coming out of surgery. stitches can come off automatically. #
• @vinodunny I had hashed Fedora in a SMS to a client in reply to vinodunny #
• Got teased by a simple, one line, board in front of an office. – "Graduates Required" #
• RT @aseemsood Jaunty 64 bit. First hurdle: Tweaking required to get AdobeAir to work.. http://short.to/nhup #
• It was a stupid typo that was stopping #OTRS http://otrs.org/ to authenticate against a #Windows 2003 #AD (Active Directory). It works now! #
• @vinodunny twitpic in reply to vinodunny #
• @kbhargava home directory was on ext3. Now, after the disaster, its reformatted to ext4. Over to @aseemsood for more … in reply to kbhargava #

Twitter Updates for 2009-07-04

• Came back from New York #
• Checkout the new #google #blog search page http://blogsearch.google.com with "Hot Queries" and "Latest Posts" on the right #
• What's that one thing that India TV does better than #Microsoft #Bing ? The answer is "Breaking News" http://short.to/hpw7 #
• RT @ServerBeach customers are entitled to receive up to 12% off the list price of any Dell product? http://bit.ly/18yPxW #
• #Google #Gmail. "Drag-n-drop mails onto lables" feature is now showing up in Google #Apps Standard Edition #
• Non-Lalu, Indian #Railway #Budget 2009 airing live at news channels, brought to us by Mamta Banerjee #
• @vinodunny why for #Windows only? I downloaded one from http://tinyurl.com/n4txkz and played it on #Totem player on #Fedora 11 in reply to vinodunny #
• @vinodunny u got emotional and said "for windows" instead of "from windows or microsoft" in reply to vinodunny #
• @vinodunny YES. emotional atyachaar from the DevD for Microsoft (Paro) in reply to vinodunny #
• RT @sparxnet: The box said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So, I installed #Linux. #
• @vinodunny have you tried Mundu SMS http://whois.domainlabs.eu/mundusms.com ? #
• @bineshkutty thats right in reply to bineshkutty #
• @bineshkutty lost his wisdom in reply to bineshkutty #
• @vinodunny absolutely right, but only upto the hyphen. Linux is also better than 98 and ME. Do u agree, so far? in reply to vinodunny #
• @vinodunny is Linux better than plain Win98 ? in reply to vinodunny #
• Mundu SMS is a product of a company called Geodesic whose claim to fame is http://atulchitnis.net/diary/showentry/385 #
• Seems the Mundu SMS service was launched March this year. This may mean that the ASP .Net site was prepared under @achitnis 's nose #
• @achitnis jaani, jinke ghar sheeshay kay hote hain, woh dusroon (esp. @vinodunny) ke ghar pay pathar nahi maarte #
• @vinodunny let's not be ignorant. Maybe IIS got open sourced at some point and @achitnis ported it to Linux and running Mono. Not far fe … #
• @vinodunny Blast from past: Or perhaps he was used. @achitnis said: Windows is NOT something you can use – it uses you #

Twitter Updates for 2009-06-29

• worked out after atleast 3 yrs. aim isto be regular. Day 1: 10 pushups: 4 sets. 20 dumbbel concentration curls: 3 sets each arm (biceps) #
• Plus lifted (not alone , with labourers) an old, legacy and heavy weight almirah while helping a friend to shift in some furnitures. pheww #
• Now watching "The Chronicles of Narnia – 2 (Price Caspian)" which i recorded earlier in the eve on my #TataSky Plus #PVR #
• #Transformers – Revenge of The Fallen: July 3 release http://tinyurl.com/ko2rmn in India/Delhi/Gurgaon @bookmyshow #
• #Airtel DOS attacked my phone with 7 continuous and same SMSes on the due date of payment for my #broadband. my phone survived #
• @juhib The challenge is to make the bleeding edge work on and for the old. I take it up in reply to juhib #
• @rakeshs not an attack. a pathetic, misconfigured, buggy system. #airtel multi sms spam for billing reminder #

Twitter Updates for 2009-06-05

• Decided to blindly follow my new GPS app’s instructions. Result? Stuck in traffic jam which I knew how to avoid, after all im heading ho … #
• .. home #
• Took a U turn. Thank you technology. Thank you GPS #
• Its apparant that I did not Tweet much yesterday #
• @hoshieg thanks in reply to hoshieg #
• @achitnis vinod is asking about E-mail, not abut Tweets in reply to achitnis #
• @vinodunny sending Outlook/MS word formatted HTML mai to Thunderbird/Evolution users is very rude. in reply to vinodunny #
• @vinodunny perhaps u shudnt reply in plain text to html (esp. with tables). Without email client with threaded msgs, the context may be lost in reply to vinodunny #
• @vinodunny sure. Port it to Linux. in reply to vinodunny #
• @vinodunny I was going to predict this reply in the earlier tweet itself in reply to vinodunny #
• @vinodunny web mail does not mean HTML mails (unless hotmail mandates it). All standard based webmails give the option to send PT mails in reply to vinodunny #
• @achitnis actually its not about colors and font but data (in tables) and emphasis (in bold). Useful to have it inline for a quick glance. in reply to achitnis #
• @vinodunny gurgaon is fine in reply to vinodunny #
• @achitnis if u dont disagree that means u agree and agreements cannot be followed by buts Pushpa, I hate tears in reply to achitnis #
• @achitnis ok then coming to gurgaon tomorrow for 2230 hrs show of star trek with @vinodunny @bineshkutty @shekharg to celebrate ur agreement in reply to achitnis #
• @achitnis thats the fun, only 1 MS evangelist will be trapped between us, while expecting that he has come to enjoy StarTrek – the movie in reply to achitnis #
• @vinodunny @bineshkutty 2300 hrs, DT Mega Mall, Gurgaon. I didnt get the SMS/Email from bookmyshow. Took a printout in reply to vinodunny #
• @vinodunny @bineshkutty got the SMS. Jet set go #
• @rahulsah #PHP SDK for Windows #Azure http://phpazure.codeplex.com/ #
• RT @kkumarkg I am working #
• @kkumarkg still, wasn’t it funny that I retweeted it ? in reply to kkumarkg #
• @kkumarkg reg. Open source comp costlier: because seldom they get a piece of the pie and tend to make most out of it @vinodunny in reply to kkumarkg #
• @kkumarkg did u laugh ? Or did u smile ? in reply to kkumarkg #
• @kkumarkg better luck next time @shekharg in reply to kkumarkg #

Twitter Updates for 2009-05-23

• T-Mobile Pushes #Android 1.5 #Cupcake Update To G1 Users: http://tinyurl.com/qwdjyt #
• @vinodunny “The Guns of Navarone showing on PIX. “Matian Child” on HBO in reply to vinodunny #
• @vinodunny saw th AD again. Its Samsung LED TV #
• @pankaj_shukla the struggle is over. Copy paste issue in reply to pankaj_shukla #
• @achitnis reg. HP printer cartridges: http://www.cartridgeworld.in/. Helps ? in reply to achitnis #
• @achitnis @bineshkutty perhaps due to me! Had tried this no. and it prompted me to leave a message for call back. On redial this msg in reply to achitnis #
• @achitnis @bineshkutty https://h30042.www3.hp.com/SureSupply/ListPrinter.do I did not go through the shopping. therefore @ ur own risk #
• This is confusing to many. #Android 1.5/Cupcake update is released about month ago for ADP1 (the dev phone). It was delayed for TMobile G1 #
• @achitnis I went upto this point http://twitpic.com/5revi (maybe this is not the product you selected). I can click on “buy all” & proceed in reply to achitnis #
• @achitnis whats the printer model no. ? in reply to achitnis #
• @achitnis okay got it. For this cartridge the site is indeed apologizing . dead end in reply to achitnis #
• @achitnis HP shud be told in a country where slum dwellers tend to win millions (ref. Slumdog Millionaire) the Urbans tend to shop online in reply to achitnis #
• @juhib and I will in turn be grateful to Tata Sky if their website works in reply to juhib #
• @aseemsood so will Palm Pre work with Reliance CDMA without the phone being offered by Reliance ? in reply to aseemsood #
• @hoshieg known fact. @juhib is cribbing about a package addition via the website in reply to hoshieg #
• @juhib okay Tosh will do it tonight and SMS you in reply to juhib #
• @hoshieg havnt even reached that step. Password unknown. Forgot password says “try again soon” in reply to hoshieg #
• @juhib was able to rest ur tata sky password via my android phone, while on the move in reply to juhib #

Twitter Updates for 2009-05-13

• @kbhargava RTFM = Refer to Truckwalas For Manual in reply to kbhargava #
• reg. auto rt tests: got a RT for “joomla/wordpress is good” from hashjoomla and hashwordpress resp. after about 10 mins #
• @bineshkutty shant, Gadhadhari Bheem, shant in reply to bineshkutty #
• @bineshkutty try Tweetdeck http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/ or Blu http://www.thirteen23.com/experiences/desktop/blu/ in reply to bineshkutty #
• @bineshkutty @juhib guys pls use Twitter for sharing knowledge. To chat use Yahoo, GoogleTalk, ICQ, Jabber, SMS, phone, telegraph/morse code in reply to bineshkutty #
• @bineshkutty so predictable. Since you did not respond instantly, I expected that you are collecting shant, Gadhadhari Bheem, shant in reply to bineshkutty #
• @bineshkutty PocketTwit Twitter client for Windows Mobile http://code.google.com/p/pocketwit/ @pankaj_shukla uses it in reply to bineshkutty #
• @bineshkutty either block or not do anything. You cant be spammed unless you follow them, rt ? in reply to bineshkutty #
• RT @bineshkutty: @htc @relianceworld PocketTwit, TinyTwitter, etc is not working for me on my Reliance CDMA Windows Mobile handset #
• @bineshkutty reg. auto-blocking in Twitter: I guess it does. This is one of my followers: http://twitter.com/djgirl669. Click on the link. in reply to bineshkutty #
• @bineshkutty Try Pockttwit. As per this url http://bit.ly/qq06Z, a guy is using CDMA phone and having some minor UI issue only. Lemme know in reply to bineshkutty #
• RT @MarkoMentor: The Twitter Friendly Links Plugin « WordPress.tv http://bit.ly/ESHHD #
• @courdek #wordpress #php you can use the Ultimate Category Excluder plugin http://bit.ly/udwGk. No coding required in reply to courdek #