Last week, Jere was going to test a PGP plugin.
Show Notes
- In Other News
- Yahoo finally announces Astrid’s shutdown effective August 5th.
- Boxee bought by Samsung for reportedly 30 million and shutting down.
- Douglas Englebart, inventor of the computer mouse, video conferencing, teleconferencing, hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressing and dynamic file linking, and a collaborative real-time editor, dies at 88.
- Happy 50th Birthday, Zip Code
- Is Google Reader’s shutdown, as well as dropping XMPP in Google’s chat services, and other decisions indicating that Google is building a walled garden? What is the future of the open web?
- According to a study by the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development, it is generally cheaper to decouple your phone and contract, at least when clearly marked, then to get a discounted handset with a contract. Many carriers do not offer a lower plan without subsidy, or a lower price once your contractual obligation is up.
- Platform News
- Samsung and Jay-Z give the Internet a master’s class in how not to make an app
- Google drops Google Alerts for RSS as Reader is no longer available. Try Talkwalker.
- Major vulnerability in Android reported by news outlets. Could allow malicious code, and Play Store apps are now barred from updating outside Play Store mechanisms. Apps from the store are likely safe. But third party stores or sideloaded apps may be an issue…but this was always a risk.
- Pebble smartwatch now on sale at Best Buy for $150. Is this a worthwhile accessory for an Android user?
- Mozilla co-founder calls Android too bloated to run on cheap hardware. Will Android 5.0 offer optimizations for low-end?
- Lifehacker tries to replicate the functionality of Google Voice with other apps….no one single solution that does everything.
- Leaked build of Android 4.3 may support notification API for apps to read notifications, dismiss them, etc, replicating the notification panel. Not only could this allow for 3rd party notification panels, but external interfaces such as Google Glass, smartwatches, etc.
- App News
- PilotSSH combines an SSH terminal with dozens of commands and scripts to avoid having to enter in instructions in terminal form on your phone. (Play Link)
- Kindle app updated, improves support for PDF and digital textbooks, as well as support for magazines. (Play Link)
- The Nook tablet may be gone, but its app lives on, updated with better magazine browsing and book images. (Play Link)
- Skype updated to 4.0 with new unified look between platforms(looks like WIndows phone), hides signout option. (Play Link)
- K-9 Mail gets update, new interface and dozens of bug fixes, improvements, and new features. (Play Link)
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Hello Guru,
greetings from Germany, I still have you in my listening list to distract me from the mandatory daily cars backside watching business. 😉
Just wanted to tell you that the MP3 podcast feed is broken. It is stuck on episode 153, also the links at the bottom of the corresponding pages aren’t generated, though you can still download the files by URL manipulation. So I switched over to oggcast for the moment, but I prefer MP3 because it works slightly better with increased playback speeds.
Regarding the lazy chef show: do I understand you correctly that you don’t even have a fully functional oven? There are plenty of nice lazy recipes for those when you don’t want to fire up the hotplates (or don’t have any) but we use the microwave only to heat up leftovers.
Thanks for all the effort to keep the show running! Yours,
Stefan Eckhardt
I have noticed something unusual. Have you stopped attaching the mp3 file as an enclosure to the RSS feed? This is the first of 2 episodes (including 154) where the enclosure did not show up, and I needed to come the the site to download it.