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Small follow-up on “Android help needed: App that cleans up the Contacts mess that the LinkedIn app left behind”

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/07/24

a quick follow up:

  • the Contacts database is more than half a gigabyte, with about 3500 contacts
  • even though I had no running apps, data storage space was steadily decreasing till less than half a megabyte
  • I have disabled all of  the accounts sync features
  • I have uninstalled the LinkedIn and FaceBook apps
  • I have turned off WiFi, Bluetooth and Data connection (so it cannot sync, unless over USB)
  • I have moved a couple of application from memory to SD card
  • I am trying to export the various portions of the contacts DB to VCF on the SD card like described here
  • a few people have contacted me to assist. Thanks!

Boy I wish I had shell access to this device.

Being able to do simple things like “du / -s | less” or “df” would be soo nice.

Will follow up with more results when I have them.

–jeroen

via: Android help needed: App that cleans up the Contacts mess that the LinkedIn app left behind « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of Wiert stuff.

Posted in About, Android Devices, Personal, Power User | 1 Comment »

Android help needed: App that cleans up the Contacts mess that the LinkedIn app left behind

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/07/23

It seems LinkedIn doesn’t react to my tweet for help, so maybe you can provide me (paid) with a custom build of Contact Remover Plus.

This is my problem: https://twitter.com/jpluimers/status/225625536976793600

The LinkedIn Android app has created dozens of LinkedIn links and photo links to many of my contacts.
This renders many functions on my phone unusable:

  • loading the native People app takes minutes
  • Contacs cannot be synced my Google account any more
  • making  a backup fails
  • I cannot edit contacts in the Android People app any more
  • calling a phone number usually takes more than 30 seconds, often more than a minute
  • etc.

I tried to count this for one particular contact with the “Contact Remover” App: His contact has so many pages of photos and LinkedIn links that I cannot count them any more. They are at least dozens, probably more than 100 of each.

I’m using an HTC Sensation phone with a regular Android 4 firmware.

With Android development, I haven’t don’t anything yet with the Contacts API yet, and don’t have the time to do so in short term.

I’m willing to pay for an App that:

  • removes all LinkedIn links for all contacts
  • removes all LinkedIn photos for all contacts

Anyone?

–jeroen

Posted in About, Android Devices, Development, LinkedIn, Personal, Power User, SocialMedia, Software Development | 6 Comments »

Beveilings issue site die persoonsgegevens bewaart; gaarne input op dit concept van melding (site slaat wachtwoorden onversleuteld op)

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/07/16

Gaarne ontvang ik input op dit concept dat ik in de loop van de dag via een webform (andere manier van melden kent de site niet) wil gaan sturen naar een site die wel op heel bizarre manier met privacy om gaat:

Als curator van iemand met een verstandelijke beperking in uw regio is het ondermeer mijn taak om te waken over zijn privacy.

Ik wilde zijn gegevens controleren die bij jullie geregistreerd staan en heb daarvoor een nieuw wachtwoord aangevraagd via de optie “Wachtwoord vergeten” op jullie site. Ik was geschokt toen ik merkte dat u het oorspronkelijke wachtwoord terugmailde.

Dit betekent dat u de wachtwoorden van uw klanten opslaat op een manier die te herleiden is tot het oorspronkelijke wachtwoord, een prio 1-security-issue!

Dat is een schending van de beginselen van beveiliging: zodra er op uw server wordt ingebroken, liggen eenvoudig alle persoonlijke gegevens in 1x op straat, zoals
– volledige adresgegevens;
– geboortedatum;
– BSN;
– inkomengegevens van het huidige jaar;
– bankrekeningnummer.

Dit zijn voldoende gegevens om een zeer geslaagde identiteitsfraude te kunnen uitvoeren, en naar mijn idee veel meer gegevens dan u in uw persoonsregister zou moeten bijhouden.

In de pers zijn afgelopen tijd voldoende van deze gevallen verschenen. Ze staan bekend als “plain text offenders” een vorm van publiciteit die als zeer onprettig wordt ervaren.

Ik geef u tot en met maandag 23 juli 18:00 West-Europese zomertijd de tijd om telefonisch en per email aan mij te melden dat en hoe u dit heeft opgelost en instaat voor de veiligheid van de gegevens van inschrijvers op uw site.

Onder oplossen versta ik dat u:
– geen wachtwoorden bewaart op een manier waarmee de oorspronkelijke wachtwoorden kunnen worden gegenereerd;
– in plaats daarvan op een deugdelijke manier – met juiste salting – een hash van de wachtwoorden opslaat;
– bij “vergeten wachtwoord” een éénmalig tijdelijk wachtwoord afgeeft dat voor een beperkte duur gebruikt kan worden om een veilig wachtwoord te kiezen

Mocht het daarna niet zijn opgelost, dan meld ik dit bij de autoriteiten die gaan over privacy en persoonsgegevens.
Die zullen ongetwijfeld in hun onderzoek mee laten wegen dat u geen verplichte wettelijke informatie (zoals KvK en telefoonnummer) op uw website voert (waarmee nu dus niet te herleiden is wie eindverantwoordelijk is voor deze site).

Met vriendelijke groet,

Jeroen Pluimers

Bij voorbaat dank!

De site schaart zich met bijvoorbeeld MyVodafone tot de Plain Text Offenders, niet echt handig met persoonlijke informatie.

–jeroen

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Some monospaced fonts (fixed width) to try out: M+ OUTLINE FONTS | DESIGN

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/06/18

Definitely a set of fonts that I want to try out for software development:

M+ MN is aimed at a new distinctive design for a terminal font specialized to programming

And:

M+ also has extensive international support. From its site:

All fonts were completed with Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, and IPA Extensions. And most of Greek, Cyrillic, Vietnamese, and extended glyphs and symbols were prepared too. So the fonts are in conformity with ISO-8859-1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, Windows-1252, T1, and VISCII encoding.

LICENSE

These fonts are free softwares.

Unlimited permission is granted to use, copy, and distribute it, with or without modification, either commercially and noncommercially.

THESE FONTS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY.

–jeroen

via: M+ OUTLINE FONTS | DESIGN,  M+ OUTLINE FONTS and  WordPress › HTML Editor Type « WordPress Plugins.

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On the research list: Kidi.Net: Kinderen VEILIG op het Net via Giovanni Praet (giovannipraet) on Twitter.

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/05/14

(Thanks to a “Missed Post” problem on WordPress.com, this one didn’t get posted on the scheduled date. Sorry for any inconvenience)

I must try to see if this is going to work with my mentally retarted brother: Kidi.Net: Kinderen VEILIG op het Net.

–jeroen

via: Giovanni Praet (giovannipraet) on Twitter.

Posted in About, Missed Schedule, Personal, Power User, SocialMedia, WordPress | Leave a Comment »

Ken Rockwell pages on Nikon D700, D300 and Sony PCM-M10 Review

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/04/30

If you love photography, be sure to read Ken Rockwell’s website. It is filled with useful information on photography and audio ranging from generic tips on making better pictures to specialized tips for many brands of equipment.

Since I use a Nikon D700 and D300, these are the most important for me, with a few quotes: Read the rest of this entry »

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Nog meer oude info :)

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/04/27

Dit was 1 van de dingen die ik midden jaren ’90 van de vorige eeuw voorzag: oude info blijft tot in de eeuwigheid beschikbaar.

  • Naam: PLUIMERS SOFTWARE ONTWIKKELING
  • Vestigingsadres: HOOFDSTRAAT  207  B
  • Vestigingsplaats: 2171BC  SASSENHEIM

Toen het nog een eenmanszaak was en je de 500 meter van je favoriete vereniging naar huis blind kon afleggen.

–jeroen

via: Kamer van koophandel: handelsregister : Kiezen informatieproduct.

Edit 20230701: bovenstaande informatie is inmiddels verhuisd naar een andere server:

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Wikiquote

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/04/20

Found this out 9 days before my birthday: wikiquote.org: of course with the one of the most famous quotes from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galazy:

almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea

–jeroen (who won’t be 42 forever)

via: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Wikiquote.

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Do posts coincide with real world events? (via: How does Raymond decide what to post on any particular day? – The Old New Thing – Site Home – MSDN Blogs)

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/04/09

When starting the blog, there was not very particular pattern on writing posts. I just wrote them up as something happened.

I started about a week before my 40th birthday, and sometimes tended to publish multiple posts a day. Most of them having to do with software development.

The frequency was irregular, mostly because it took a bit of time to get the hang of writing, getting in a writing flow is not always easy, and while in flow, posts could come into bursts.

I decided to become more structured, and looked at how other people were doing it.

A good example is Raymond Chen who writes The Old New Thing. I have an article queue just like him:

generally, it’s just a FIFO queue

His queue horizin of a year is way longer than mine. I try to keep a queue of around 2 months (which gives me some slack when in “crunch mode” – which I try to avoid – or holidays/marching band events) occasionally going to 3 months.

The pattern went from almost exclusively software development related to a scheme like this:

  • Software development on tuesday, wednesday and thursday
  • Power User/Lifehacker on monday and friday
  • Personal stuff at semi-random intervals
  • Only posts in weekends that are related to specific dates

A fun fact: post popularity is not in the order of the scheme (see the 2011 report). Actually I don’t write to get high page views. My main motivation is that this blog is indeed a blog: a web log where I can find back things I have done, or that interest me. I hope it benefits others too, and I do appreciate the views (thanks for reading <g>).

Most posts are posted at 0600 WordPress.com UTC+1 time (which somehow tends to vary depending on daylight savings). Occasional extra posts (usually with recent news) gets posted around noon or around 1800.

An average post takes me about 30 minutes of writing, but some takes several hours or even a day.

So: no, posts usually don’t coincide with real world events :)

–jeroen

via: How does Raymond decide what to post on any particular day? – The Old New Thing – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.

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Many people missed the 8-bit street view at Google Maps Quest on April 1st #1april #april1st

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/04/01

Many people mentioned the April 1st prank by Google: 8-bit maps, and a NES Google Maps cartridge (quote at 0:55: blow on the cartridge to fix bugs ROFL!)

Today Google Maps has a quest mode, rendering the maps in Nintendo NES “quality”.

Few people really used it, and missed the glorious 8-bit streetview, and the really nice landmarks that you see when you zoom in to a scale of 500 meter or better.

You can even link to the 8-bit maps and to the 8-bit street view!.

Click on the images for larger versions (:

--jeroen

    

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