For downloading Lollipop, KitKat and other install images for your Nexus devices: Factory Images for Nexus Devices – Android — Google Developers.
–jeroen
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Factory Images for Nexus Devices – Android — Google Developers
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/24
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Inbox by GMail: interesting approach!
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/14
Interesting, especially after experimenting with it for a few weeks. Most of it is great, still missing a few features (like multiple labels per message, and great keyboard shortcut support: now it’s very basic).
So read this that I got via Kristian Köhntopp:
Today, we release Inbox by Gmail – It’s been my main project since I joined Google. This ends the first chapter of a longer story!http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/10/an-inbox-that-works-for-you.html
and:
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Markdown notes
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/10
Wishing an online collaboration tool that supports Markdown, especially since tools like GitHub have native support, and because of the textual nature of the file format, it plays well with version control systems. Until that, I’ll try to use editors on Mac, Windows and my blog, syncing with DropBox.
Some links that might get useful:
What is Markdown?
- [WayBack] What Is Markdown, and Why Is It Better for My To-Do Lists and Notes?.
- [WayBack] Markdown: The Ins and Outs | Nettuts+.
- [WayBack] What is Markdown?.
- [WayBack] Daring Fireball: Markdown Syntax Documentation.
- [WayBack] wordpad-xp-patched / Discussion / Markdown Syntax.
Online editors:
- [WayBack] Online Markdown Editor – Dillinger, the Last Markdown Editor ever.. Is cool: left side mark down, right side the preview.
- [WayBack] StackEdit – Welcome document. Looks promising: on-line; 2 pane (markdown/preview)
- It moved to [WayBack] StackEdit – In-browser Markdown editor Full-featured, open-source Markdown editor based on PageDown, the Markdown library used by Stack Overflow and the other Stack Exchange sites.
- [WayBack] Markable.in – A remarkable online markdown editor..
- [WayBack] Online Markdown Editor.
Windows + Mac:
- [WayBack] Texts — Markdown Editor for Windows & Mac OS X. Doesn’t do markdown + preview.
Windows only:
- [WayBack] Beautiful Markdown Editor for Windows.
- [WayBack] MarkdownPad – The Markdown Editor for Windows. MarkdownPad – News.
- [WayBack] HIBARA.org – MarkDown#Editor.
- [WayBack] wcoenen / DownMarker — Bitbucket.
Mac only:
Mobile:
Chrome plugins:
Comparison of tools and features:
Preview:
- [WayBack] Markdown Preview Application for Windows – Stack Overflow.>
- [WayBack] editor – How to visualize markdown files (.md extension) on windows? – Stack Overflow.
Conversion:
- [WayBack] How can Google Docs and markdown play nice? – Web Applications Stack Exchange.
- [WayBack] This Script Converts Google Documents to Markdown for Easy Exporting.
- MarkdownPP via [WayBack] jreese/markdown-pp (allows things like ToC – table of contents – youtube, LaTeX, and include files).
Comparison and resource overviews:
- [WayBack] Mastering Markdown: 30 Resources, Apps and Tutorials to Get You Started | Design Shack.
- [WayBack] 78 Tools for Writing and Previewing Markdown.
- [WayBack] What Markdown Editor is Best to Use?.
Markdown is very common in the scripting world.
A few examples:
On the syntax:
The Markdown syntax can be quite odd. Syntax examples are in http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax.text, which is the source code for Daring Fireball: Markdown Syntax Documentation. For instance [WayBack] when nesting ordered and unordered lists, your code needs to be indented like this:
1. Ordered item 1
- Unordered item a
- Unordered item b
1. Ordered item 2
- Unordered item c
- Unordered item d
On CommonMark and John Gruber:
Even though John Gruber – the original Markdown inventor – wasn’t involved with Markdown for like 10 years, in September 2014 he was involved in the [WayBack] “Standard” Markdown Controversy which led to the [WayBack] CommonMark project trying to set a standard for Markdown.
–jeroen
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Introducing nogotofail—a network traffic security testing tool for TLS/SSL – via: Google Online Security Blog
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/07
Great! And it is open source at https://github.com/google/nogotofail:
The Android Security Team has built a tool, called nogotofail, that provides an easy way to confirm that the devices or applications you are using are safe against known TLS/SSL vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. Nogotofail works for Android, iOS, Linux, Windows, Chrome OS, OSX, in fact any device you use to connect to the Internet.
There’s an easy-to-use client to configure the settings and get notifications on Android and Linux, as well as the attack engine itself which can be deployed as a router, VPN server, or proxy.
–jeroen
via Google Online Security Blog: Introducing nogotofail—a network traffic security testing tool.
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GMail: add CC/BCC field in Compose/Reply using keyboard
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/03
Ever wondered how to add a CC or BCC address during a compose or reply using GMail without using the mouse?
Me too, and I’m glad to have found this online in the Keyboard shortcuts – Gmail Help: Read the rest of this entry »
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Switching Google Chrome back to use Google.com for searching
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/10/27
Though the Google NCR trick can be used to prevent the Google.com search site from redirecting to a localized one, you need a few extra steps for switching back Google Chrome when it has configured itself to a Google country domain you don’t understand.
Before you follow the steps below, be sure to configure Chrome to remember where it left off: “Continue where I left off” so it remembers which tabs were open.
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Some cool visual traceroute sites/mashups
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/10/02
It is always cool to see some mashups: apart from great examples, they also make for some good research material.
- Traceroute.V – CodeFromThe70s.org.
(next to JavaScript, it also requires Java. An explanation how it works reveals it is using a quite old IP->geolocation DB) - Email graphic traceroute.
(parses email headers to traceroute the SMTP route the email took) - Insert an url (example: www.parsec.it) and locate where the server is (webserver, mailserver,…) on Google Maps.
(Whereis translates an IP address or DNS address to a geolocation on Google maps) - Google Maps Hacks.
(uses the Whereis to map the output of a traceroute/tracert command into a Google map) - IP Address Lookup, Reverse IP Lookup and RBL Lookup.
(maps IP address or DNS address to Google maps) - Visual Trace Route Tool – Find, Track, and Map the Route to an IP Address.
(traces either from the server, or through a proxy)
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Android Wear Check
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/09/11
Interesting:
Android Wear is designed to work with Android phones running 4.3 or higher. Not sure what version of Android you have? Visit g.co/WearCheck on your phone to see if it’s compatible with Android Wear.
My Google Nexus 4: check!
–jeroen
via: Android Wear Check.
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Google Voice calling on Android via Google Hangouts 2.3+ APK and Hangouts Dialer
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/09/10
Google Hangouts on iOS could make Google Voice calls for a while, and it is now finally available for Android too: Official Google Blog: Call me maybe? Introducing free voice calls from Hangouts.
You need two pieces of software for this:
- Hangouts Dialer – Android Apps on Google Play.
- Hangouts – Android Apps on Google Play (2.1.2 is listed there, but you need 2.3 which is rolled out in batches).
Roderick Gadellaa published a G+ post with the link to Hangouts Dialer and the Google Hangouts 2.3 APK at Android Police.
At the thread Free voice calling finally comes to Hangouts! both Allen Edmonds and Brandon D’Souza posted the link to the Google Hangouts 2.3 APK at http://goo.gl/TbRMVE.
You can even configure Hangouts to receive incoming Google Voice calls. Quoting from the same thread:
- Go to Hangouts settings,
- select your account, and
- under Google Voice
- there’s an option to receive incoming calls.
Calling to USA and Canada is free. Other regions do cost money, but the prices are very competitive: http://www.google.com/hangouts/rates
–jeroen
via:
- Official Google Blog: Call me maybe? Introducing free voice calls from Hangouts.
- Derek Ross at G+: Free voice calling finally comes to Hangouts!.
- Google Voice – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
- Google+ Hangouts.
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[Solved] Nexus 4 won’t turn on or charge (via: Android Forums at AndroidCentral.com)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/08/20
Had this happen to me this week. Took me quite a while to figure out how to resolve it, then had to restore everything as it was wiped.
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