I don’t know if other people’s basement walls leak so graphically, but mine shoots a steady stream after a good rainfall.
Category: Uncategorized
Android UI Fail
Below is a set of screens that occur often on the Android phone. Entitled “Complete action using”, their purpose is to have the user select a program for opening a link or file.
For a new user, this screen is unexpected, thus it deserves a basic explanation and there is plenty of room for one. The screen is followed by the following screen, which is also unexpected. I think its purpose is to inform the user of where they can clear the preference that they just set. Not sure about that though.
Switching from iPhone 4 to Android
My iPhone 4 was running out of space and was starting to feel older. I read that Apple discontinued support for the iPhone 4. The T-Mobile $30/month/line deal was a good deal, so I went with it and acquired the Samsung Galaxy Avant phone for around $90.
My initial feeling is that I like the hardware, but the Android OS is a lot more difficult to configure than iOS. There are lots more options and the MetroPCS phone comes with bloated software and a MetroPCS wallpaper.
A real difficulty came when I expected the phone to sync music and pictures with my Mac. It seems you need software for it. I tried Samsung Kies, but it doesn’t help you sync playlists – it seems to only sync all songs from your library. So, a lifehacker article recommended iSync Pro for $4.99. I got that and it works much better than Kies.
Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass Quote 1
“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”
– Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass