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August 22, 2009
I've managed to drag myself away from the G1 for a bit here and there, but excuse me if I bang on about it a bit for a while. I know loads of folk have had one of these for a while now but I just want to say what my favourite apps at the moment are...I've started re-using Brightkite now I have an app for it and a very good one at that. You'll see why further down the page. Twitdroid appears to be the best Android Twitter app and also has geo-locative features.
Astrid synchs with my Remember The Milk tasks. Although I'm torn between using RTM or the GTDInbox for GMail Firefox add-on at the moment.
I've been usng the Barcode Scanner for QR codes quite a bit already, and I didn't think I'd find too many sites to try that on yet. That's prompted me to start using Delivr again for URL shortening; for tweets and for generating matching QR codes. Delivr has mobile features in the US that are not yet available here, but I had a very prompt response from them when I queried the availability of this in the UK. It'll come when they get out of beta and get the funding. Check them out.
My Tracks is very efficient but the GPS really does take it out of the battery, hence me ordering a spare and charger for it. Being able to plan trips using My Maps and being able to view and/or edit them on your phone is great too. And recording tracks and placing markers along the way is a boon as well. But, other than Budget Droid and the Shopping List tool the thing I've been obsessed with this week is Layar.
Bloody amazing! Fire it up and select either a Tweetmondo, Brightkite or Wikipedia layer [there are more but these are the busiest in the UK]. Move your phone's camera lens around until you see things starting to be picked up on the radar and before long you can see who else is tweeting in the vicinity, as long as they are signed up to Tweetmondo. Or you can see where people have checked In or left notes on Brightkite. Or you can see which buildings/places of interest have Wikipedia entries and jump to them. I can see a lot of potential for this tool and I really didn't think this sort of thing was anywhere near being commerically available. So I'm on a mission to get some useful info into Brightkite now that will show up on that layer.
So what has kept me from the phone? Well, apart from trying out the video and the camera's geo-tagging abilities I managed to "keep it in my pocket" for the duration of the Gaitzerdi Teatro performance of Otsoko last night. Another of the National Theatre's Square 2 productions. Check out the NT's video on that link as it is a lot better than the bits I shot. You have to see the muzzled, wolves with the illuminated spines to appreciate how creepy there were prowling through the audience on their crutches and growling as the made their way to the stage.
The only dialogue is a bit of recorded narration [they are a Basque company] and the rest is choregraphed and pretty physical. In crude terms it's a pole-dancing version of Little Red Riding Hood! But, think Angela Carter's Bloody Chamber in particular the Company Of Wolves and you'll be nearer the mark. Plenty of smoke and fire and moody lighting and a brilliant soundtrack culminating in Propellerheads Bang On all added to a great performance.
As with the previous performace we saw of Macbeth there were free drinks to be had afterwards in the "Green Room" and being in the know we were first up the stairs for our free bottles of West Eleven Cocktails. The Blueberry Bramble and Passion Fruit Mai Tai were nice but maybe a little too wholesome for 8.5% beverages. Not sure I could have stomached more than two however tasty they are. Still, can't knock a freebie and I'd still try the other three flavours should I find myself offered them. I assume they have something to do with W11, Notting Hill/Holland Park, with a name like that but the contact address is East Barnet!
Today we ventured out hoping for some blazing sunshine but it all clouded over before we got out the door. It was warm enough and heaving in Borough Market and Bankside, so we decided to look in at the Per Kirkeby and Futurism exhibits at Tate Modern. Per Kirkeby I knew nothing about prior to today which is a bit remiss of me! It's a big exhibition with a lot of samey works from certain points in his career. Maybe if the exhibition was a third of the size it wouldn't come across as so much overkill. I preferred the bigger, later works. From pieces that appear to be random daubs of drab paint emerge forms picked out by vivid pigments. Whereas The Futurism collection seemed to be trying too hard and padded out.
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