Welcome to my blog. I'm trying to post things whenever I get inspired to write something. Sometimes it's more often, and sometimes not so much. The subject can vary quite a lot, but it tends to be mostly about tech.
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A few days ago for some strange reason I decided to download Nokias Here Maps for Android. I really had no expectations, just did it out of curiosity. But I have given it a try.
I need to start with some of the bad things about this software. Firstly, it suffers from a bit of an obscurity problem....
For a very long time now I have been planning to update my old list webapp.
I made the original maybe 5 years ago, before I found Wunderlist and other list apps. The original app was a very simple php server/client, no ajax app. And even though I have tried other apps along the years, it has serve...
Just when I thought I would take a break in my google rants for a while, Google releases Android 4.4 KitKat and promptly announces that they will not be upgrading the Galaxy Nexus to it.
I don't know about you, but in my opinion the lifetime of any phone should be 2 years plus the active marketing...
First of all I want to mention that I use Android, I have since version 1.5. It's easily the best mobile OS on the market at the moment. Having said that, however, I have are some concerns about the whole state of Android.
It's true that android is open source, but only if...