I have a bunch of app suggestions for all the Tmobile G1/Android users out there, check it out. I will be linking them all to Cyrket which is a site that mirrors the Android Market and that way you have a browser friendly representation of the application description and comments. If by chance Cyrket goes down just do a search in the market place for the apps. My linking is just to help you have a better view of things.

Barcode Scanner
This Application is a must for all types of users. The barcode scanner does exactly what the title of the application is. It will scan almost any type of barcode. A great example and a perfect first time use for it is on Cyrket.com which right next the the icon of the app has a QR Code(3d bar scan code). Download the Barcode Scanner from the market and whenever you see a barcode just point your G1’s�camera�to it and watch what happens .

Where
Ever out and have no clue what you want to eat or maybe you’re running low on gas and need to find the closest gas station or maybe your are in the mood for a movie and would like to find the nearest theater to you? Well this is the app that does it all and more! Where is the swiss army knife of location based searches for your G1. You will be sure to use it @ least once a week if not more.

Power Manager
Another app that is a must! Everyone knows that the battery on the Tmobile G1 just sucks! If you didn’t know now you know but this app helps extend the battery greatly. Hard to believe an app would to the trick but it does. It has extend my battery time from half a day to over a day� and that with active use of the phone. So this is for sure a must and make sure that “monitoring” is switch on when you open the app. This would most likely be your first pay app but trust me it is worth the $1.00.

My Account by T-Mobile
This is a T-mobile made app which gives you direct access to your tmobile account. This is totally useful if you are using this phone on the Tmobile network. Gives you minute totals, Text msgs used, and what your bill currently due is. Even gives you the option to pay for it thru the phone.

Phonalyzr
I have MyFavs on Tmobile and this app has helped me figure out who I talk to the most amoung other things. Phonalyzr has managed to save me a great deal of money and if you have MyFavs on T-Mobile and can’t figure out who you talk to the most this app should help you figure that out! Also it’s cool to see some stats on your phone usage … I am a statistics nut

Linda File Manager

Sometimes you have to access your SD Card Memory card but how can you if you don’t have a file manager? Well Linda File Manager is pretty straight forward and does the job great.

Twitter Applications
I got two of these and I like them both but it all depends on the person so I recommend you try both and see which one fits your needs.

Twidroid
A beautiful twitter client for the G1, well designed and pretty feature reach. The application is not as snappy as others but your sacrificing the speed for a good looking UI. It allows you to shorten URLs, post an image, and even look at what the latest buzz on twitter is.

Twit2go
This twitter client looks like a basic client but really has some comparable features to twidroid just not as pretty. It is my current twitter client of choice because it is slightly more battery friendly and has a simple layout. God choice for people that want to get right to the point.

Astrid
An open source task list app … this is one of my all time favorite apps on the G1. It is a pleasure to use, both simple and feature rich. It has the ability to sync your tasks with RemeberTheMilk.com and this is a major plus for me just because this allows me to review my tasks on my computer and make an altercations if necessary or even add some more tasks while I am using RemeberTheMilk.com after that I open Astrid and sync the changes from the website.

Alarming!
Simple and great add-on to the default alarm clock that is on the G1. Worth the $1!

Ringdroid
Do you hate paying for Ringtones? Have you ever downloaded a ringtone off the internet and find out it sounds like crap? Yeah I know your pain why deal with all that when you have perfect mp3s on your computer that can easily be a ringtone. Well Ringdroid assists you in cutting that mp3 down to the clip that you want as a ringtone. In simple words its a audio editor on the G1. So if you want custom ringtones then you have to download this

Rings Extended
This replaces the normal ringtone picker and allows you to branch off to other methods of picking ringtones for you phone. This is great with Ringdroid in fact it is a must! If you don’t like the idea of Ringdroid this is still a perfect replacement for the default ringtone picker on the G1.

PixelPipe
Taken a bunch of pictures with your G1? Don’t know what to do with them? Well do what I have done and upload it to Flickr or any other image hosting service with PixelPipe. PixelPipe is the middleman that will allow you to send any of your photos to any of the services they support. You do have to sign up online to use it but if you end up taking a lot of photos it could be worth it for you.

SMS PopUp
This is one feature that you would hhave thought would have been included within G1 but it wasn’t and thank goodness the developer of SMS Popup created this. All it does is pops up a little window on your screen when you get a TXT, it’s really nice and again something you would have thought it would have been in Android.

Handcent SMS
Good alternative to the built messenger. It has a built in soft keyboard which really is handy when you typing those quick messages back and it’s just not worth it to slide the real keyboard out. It doesn’t support MMS from what I can recall. I stopped using HAndcent SMS mainly because of that but for basic txting it’s a great app.

SnapPhoto and SnapPhotoPro
The camera on the G1 sucks … really was disappointed when I got my G1 and it came with no flash and the camera was not as night friendly as I wanted it to be. Well SnapPhoto(Pro) allows you to enable the camera to go in “Night Mode” which enhanced the lighting intake for the camera allowing your picture to come out just a tad better. Also nice feature that both version of the app has is image stablization based on the accelermator built into the G1. SnapPhotoPro has one feature that I really liked … to take a photo all you have to do is point the camera and tap on the screen instead of using the camera button, personal I think this is a better methond since the camera button somethings doesn’t do the trick.

Documents to Go
I personally haven’t used it but from what I have it works as advertised with some minor bugs. Documents to Go allows you to Create, Edit, and View Word and Excel sheets supporting version up to 2007 so it’s pretty compatible. It’s not free the app costs $20 but if you are constantly reviewing docs and spreadsheets on the go this is going to have to be an app you install.

FBReaderJ
Looking for a free eBook reader that supports the epub or oeb format? The creator of FBReader has been working on porting the application over to android and has been doing a great job of it. It’s open source and avilable to download from the applications website it is not avilable from the market. epub is starting to become more widely used so this might be a good fit for your ebook readers out there!

Do you have any suggestions or maybe an app I should add here that I might have forgotten? I would love to here it please comment.

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http://github.com/search?type=Repositories&language=&q=.sugar&repo=&langOverride=&x=28&y=6&start_value=1

Super easy to add Sugars to your Espresso. Let’s take installing the Ruby on Rails.sugar as an example and just do this in Terminal:

mkdir -p ~/Library/Application\ Support/Espresso/Sugars (One time deal after this you won't have to do it again!)
cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Espresso/Sugars
git clone git://github.com/grzegorzkazulak/rails.sugar.git ./Rails.sugar

That’s it! What you just did is create the Sugars directory where your Sugars will go, next you changed into the Sugars directory, and the last step grabs the Rails.sugar files from the clone URL and places them in to the Rails.sugar folder.

Once you reload Espresso it will have the features from that Rails.sugar. Now just a heads up the Rails.sugar is just starting to be worked on and if you know what’s up you should fork it and help develop it.

About upgrading your sugars all you would have to do is this(Once again we are working with the Rails.sugar):

cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Espresso/Sugars/Rails.sugar
git pull

Yup that easy! Just going to the the Rails.sugar directory and typing in “git pull” will update all the new files. It can not be any easier.

If you run into problems like git unknown command then you need to install Git just visit http://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer/

You can also get Sugars and Themes at http://fileability.net/coffee/

I recommend checking out this for themes http://github.com/atinypixel/espresso-theme-library/tree/master

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So thanks to Macheist and all the people who paid for the Macheist bundle I got myself a copy of Espresso. I been a happy user of CSSEdit for a very long time and it’s part of my web dev tool belt. Another tool I use on a daily basis is TextMate. TextMate is the swiss army knife of text editors but that has it’s cons and pros. Quick example is there is no visual presentation for CSS which would be great when you are trying for quick constant updates … that’s where CSSEdit came in play but with Espresso now in my tool belt TextMate will be use less for web dev I am thinking.

I love both TextMate and Espresso and with Espresso being so young it is a great editor already but it is missing one of the key features that I dug about Textmate … being able to open files and folders from the terminal well I found a quick solution for that and for any of the terminal geeks out there I am sure they have already figured this out but for the one that haven’t do this and you can do the same thing with Espresso now.

In Terminal type

cd ~ (that makes sure you are in your home folder)
open -e .bash_profile (Will open TextEdit with the .bash_profile file)

With the file open add this line to it

alias esp="open -a Espresso"

Save it and quit TextEdit.

If you get a message saying “.bash_profile does not exist” then type in this command

vi ~/.bash_profile
(On your keyboard press the I key once)
(Add this line)
alias esp="open -a Espresso"
(Press the ESC key on your keyboard once and type in :wq)

Close your terminal and open it up again. You should know be able to type “esp” in terminal alone Espresso will load up and if you type something like any of these in your terminal window:

esp Filename.txt
esp ~/Sites/Folder
esp ~/.bash_profile
esp FolderName

It shall open it all within Espresso just like TextMate would. So you get the idea I hope.

Good Luck and Thanks to MacRabbit for creating such�beautiful�and useful applications!

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I have gone with a new look which I am like 99.9% that I am going to stick with and have disabled a bunch of plugins that I just know I will no longer be using.

If you haven’t made the move to version 2.7 make sure to back up EVERYTHING, because like I mentione you will either like or dislike the new interface. Word of advice give the interface some time to sink in before you make your judgement though, took me a few hours to get it to sink in and I like it.

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I got 3 books I can suggest.

Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition
This is the book I am currently� reading and it’s great. Necessary for anyone that needs that advice on helping getting a start up going. Guy Kawasaki has done a great job writing the book. He knows what he is talking about and the people he has had write guest chapters in it are just awesome.

A Technique for Producing Ideas
This book I read in a few hours, actually Denise and I were coming home from visiting her grandfather when I started the book; by the time I got home I finished it. This book is short but packs such a good amount of information that should last you for a life time. The techniques dicussed in the book come across really simple, so simple that I wouldn’t doubt that you will stop and think “hey I have used this before” when you get to a certain step in the book. The point of the book is to help you realize the full technique to producing an idea or ideas. If you are a thinker this book is HIGHLY recommended.

Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School
Very cool book! Reading this has actually helped me understand more how my brain works and what I have to do to make it work harder and more efficient. The results haven’t been instant but I have seen an improvement of how I do certain things. Hopefully by the time I complete this book, my brain will be much happier with me then it has been .

Once again I could only read all these pretty much at the same time because of the Amazon Kindle. If you don’t have one it’s on my top 5 devices to own.

If you have any books you could recommend please let me know especially if they are available in Kindle format. I am always looking for a good book to read.

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I am not sure if the look will stay … but I am just testing stuff out.

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The project is being developed on Ruby on Rails 2.1.0 and because of Ruby on Rails I have been able to develop it so quickly.

Right now I am pulling an all nighter wrapping up the design of the project. I will not sleep till it is released . I plan on running some local tests; soon after that I will be uploading it to the Phoky website. Some time next week I will upload the project to github so anyone can grab a copy.

This will be one of the many projects to be released under the NerdRocket name.

Well got to get back to the project but if you got any questions post away!

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I have been a Safari user since then, but with the latest beta of Firefox 3 … it’s a real close match.

Firefox 3 beta 4 is also supporting a whole new look on OS X … and i like it! The unfortunate thing is most of the plugins I use are not Firefox 3 ready (yet).

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I am sick of Twitter on how it has its hick ups, of course no service is perfect and nothing will be but twitters ups and downs are bit to much for me personally and well I am dropping them like a brick. I stopped using twitter back in November and switched over to Jaiku but that is another story. Last week I got back on Twitter in hopes that it would be a refresh for me and liven up my social aspect of the online life i have.

It didn’t … I found myself as annoyed as I was before so yes I am dropping it. Maybe in another 3 months I will go back on there and see if it has changed, but I don’t think it will be.

I really think Twitter is great it’s just they need to get a little more stable and I know that’s tough with so many users accessing the site so frequent.

Jaiku is a great service and it’s now owned by Google but Jaiku needs a lot of TLC. They could go places if they added more of a mobile feel to the service and added a few more features. The thing that attracted me to Jaiku was the community feel of the site. Jaiku has channels built in to the service so you can discuss things easily within the channels and keep track of it. This is something twitter is missing and needs it badly! Pownce has something like it but not exactly.

I am leaving Jaiku from a personal level where I will not be posting my day to day stuff but more of using it as a community resource when I need a question answered or I am looking for something. Jaiku will be perfect for it.

That leaves me with Pownce … I really like Pownce it has file sharing, link sharing, event sharing, and good ol’ messaging. It allows your posts to be public, private, to a group of friends, or a certain person you are friends with. Pownce is more community like then Twitter but less then Jaiku, so I can live with that. It’s mobile website works on my phone and on my Amazon Kindle, which is a major plus for me. It is missing one thing, actually it’s missing two things I would love that they had … a SMS code and a Windows Mobile application of course with a windows mobile application they can extend the delay of a SMS code but both would be ideal for mobile use. I mean not everyone has an iPhone(yet!) . Oh it’s also the only service that I know in this area that has a paid plan. The paid plan removes ads, higher uploading limit, and you can customize your profile. I am debating if i should or should not go pro.

So there you have it my random rant about status/social messaging sites well at least the top three in my book. I am sticking with Pownce and hopefully it will do.

If you’re on Pownce and want to be my friend here is my profile http://pownce.com/DigitalKNK/. I will be a regular on there trust me .

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