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How to tunnel from your Android phone, to your Ubuntu Desktop, and control the Transmission BitTorrent client. Securely.

Yesterday, around midnight I drove around with Waze for the Android where all of a sudden, the program exited!
We tried to re-run it, but it persistent, and each time it re exited!

We tried to run Waze in my friend's Nokia E72, but it exited there too!

Thinking that it's weird that Waze exited on two different devices, I turned off the 3G internet connection on my Android. Suddenly, Waze didn't exit!

How to create a privacy mode in the Bash shell.

I am currently writing the Android port of ScanBizCards iPhone app.

In-order to avoid duplication of code, we rewrote the OCR stuff from Objective C, to the one language supported both by iPhone and Android - C\C++!
Java was meant to be THE Portable language, but still, C runs on much more platforms... This is especially true on phones, where C is the common denominator....

And you think that with technology today, the most portable language won't be 38 years old!

I now have a HTC Desire!
This phone is really cool.
I'll be using it to port the IPhone version of scanbizcards.com to the Android platform.

UPDATE: One thing to improve in this phone, is the low amount of internal storage. So app2sd was basically a must for me.

I haven't the time lately to develop my open-id provider, but I'll get to it sometime....

I am now developing an Android App! I like the android platform -- to bad you can't buy Nexus One anymore :-)
When I'll finish that, I'll have some more free time to finish the openid provider (which is now at pre-alpha stage!)

I just installed Freenet client. It was very easy - using the JavaWebStart installer, and the configuration wizard.

For those who do not know, Freenet is an attempt to create an anonymous Internet. This is good for some countries in the world, where people track what you think... It been around here from the year 2000. I know it for some time now, and finally decided to try it out.

I could not find a lot of interesting content on Freenet, but I'm just beginning to explore it...

On my laptop, I have both Ubuntu 10.04 and Windows 7 installed and dual-booting. I have decided to compare the boot times of both systems.

Well.. Managing your passwords is not an easy task...

The problem is, that every person has multiple web accounts, each requiring a password....
You have several options:

• Remember all your passwords. That's hard. That's why people use the same password over and over.
• Use a password Manager - A tool that saves all your passwords using a master password.
• Use OpenId.

Well, using the same password (even if it is a strong password) is not a good idea - You put your trust on to many services, that might or might not keep it to them selves.