Re: [FRIAM] [SUSPICIOUS EMAIL] Re: Android Choice
Hi Owen, Glad to help. Short answer: Buy an iPhone. Longer answer: When people ask me what phone to buy, I ask one simple question: Are you married to iTunes? Do you have a playlist for every mood? Have you spent years getting it to work just right? If so, buy an iPhone. You will be massively unhappy otherwise. To a lesser extent, if you are married to the Apple ecosystem -- iCal and such -- this also applies. Modern smartphones are becoming the sharp point of your digital life; one that doesn't fit will drive you mad. If you are not married to the Apple ecosystem, then try out a few phones side by side and see what you like. Frankly, they are all good enough. I find the current real differentiator to be the screens. Here, Android has the lead, and it is widening. (Sorry for the pun!) State of the art here is the new -- and for the moment, insane appearing -- Galaxy Nexus Prime, with a full HD 720 screen -- !! -- that's just over 4.6 inches. What appears to be happening here, btb, is that Apple is betting heavily on larger tablets, and Google is trying to find out if a phone can have a screen big enough -- while the device remains small enough -- that you don't want a tablet. So, specific advice. It sounds like you are in the Apple eco-system. If so, buy an iPhone. If your 2 is dead dead, buy a 4s; its a very nice device. If your 2 can be coaxed through another year, wait for the iPhone 5. Rumor has it that this will be the last Jobs designed phone, and that it will finally have a bigger screen. If you are not married into the Apple eco-system, I would definitely give the dual core Android phones a look. My advice is to focus on either the HTC phones, or the Google Nexus line. The Nexus line are Google Experience phones; they get every Android release first. HTC is also good about this, and makes solid equipment. Take a look at the Sensation if for nothing else than the manufacturing: instead of a battery cover, the entire back is a single milled piece -- aluminum, IIRC -- that pops off the screen. You could drive nails with the thing, and its beautiful. (To be clear, Do Not Drive Nails With Your Phone.) Carriers: Verizon-Stupid expensive. Good service and coverage. ATT-Stupid expensive. Bad service and coverage Sprint-They suck so bad we won't use them T-Mobile-Great plans! We have multi-line T-Mobile plans that cost less than single lines on ATT and Verizon. Good data tiers. Great Android phone selection. Pretty easy to get the phones unlocked to swap out SIMs for international roaming. Alas, no iPhone. Hope I haven't overexplained as usual... cjf From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [friam-boun...@redfish.com] on behalf of Owen Densmore [o...@backspaces.net] Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 7:18 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [SUSPICIOUS EMAIL] Re: Android Choice Please keep firing questions as you think of them! God, what an offer! Thanks! History: I bought the initial iPhone 2G, first by trying ATT, which failed due to lack of coverage (and poor service reports) so I bought one on-line and use pwnage tool to jailbreak/unlock for TMo and european travel. It just died (after 4 years!). I rather like the iDevice ecology, having macbooks, macmini, ipad, ipod etc, and have an app that is not yet on android but has a poor replacement on android. I like that the apps span ipad/pod/phone too. I'm not a power user, but use phone, web, mail, music, apps, maps, angry birds, ... at least once a day, no more than an hour, I'd say. I like TMo quite a bit, but am willing to try Vzn, less so ATT .. they still have poor coverage where I live (Santa Fe). I find that the plans my friends have are impossibly expensive, $90/mo, .. while I pay $58/mo. There are some interesting alternatives such as buy unlocked and use prepaid plans, but this mainly makes sense on GSM, which here means TMo. Even with Vzn, I would prefer a world phone, thus GSM (Italy 1-2 months/yr). Main negative for TMo is AWS rather than the more standard 3G etc, and would eliminate iPhone unless Edge was good enough, which I haven't found to be the case. I've looked at a lot of alternatives: MVNOs, WiFi carriers, prepaid, Senior plans (I'm 69) and even cheaper phones + iPod. If I had my choice, I'd buy an unlocked iPhone, 4 or 4s, and use it on ... hmm, ATT, no, lousy coverage, TMo, no, uses non-compatible broadband. Well what's left? 1 - See if the Vzn iPhone 4s is OK, get the european SIM unlock, and see if I can avoid $90/mo bills. 2 - Suck it up, embrace android, and go with TMo. They seem to have OK phones. They have brilliant plans, both contract and pre-payed. And are way less than $90/mo. They've saved my skin more than once with problems traveling. 3 - Buy a prepaid GoPhone ATT SIM and try it on unlocked phone to see if coverage has improved. Then try ATT + iPhone and see if I can
Re: [FRIAM] [SUSPICIOUS EMAIL] Re: Android Choice
Brilliant! Just what I needed, thanks! If I'm wedded to anything in the apple world, its unix and programming and command line. iTunes is just a fairly reasonable interface to manage phone/pad/pod. I don't need it for music/video/books etc, there are fine alternatives. Quite willing to give it up and start really using my google ecology: calendar, mail, contacts etc. We have Vzn TMo near to each other so I'm going to eliminate ATT, and focus my Android attention on TMo as a carrier, and iPhone via Vzn with their world-phone iPhone. I'd like to wait for a larger screen iPhone but as for my 2G, Its Dead Jim! No worries. Glad to see we agree on TMo. Damn I wish they had not gone the AWS route. -- Owen On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Chris Feola ch...@nextpression.com wrote: Hi Owen, Glad to help. Short answer: Buy an iPhone. Longer answer: When people ask me what phone to buy, I ask one simple question: Are you married to iTunes? Do you have a playlist for every mood? Have you spent years getting it to work just right? If so, buy an iPhone. You will be massively unhappy otherwise. To a lesser extent, if you are married to the Apple ecosystem -- iCal and such -- this also applies. Modern smartphones are becoming the sharp point of your digital life; one that doesn't fit will drive you mad. If you are not married to the Apple ecosystem, then try out a few phones side by side and see what you like. Frankly, they are all good enough. I find the current real differentiator to be the screens. Here, Android has the lead, and it is widening. (Sorry for the pun!) State of the art here is the new -- and for the moment, insane appearing -- Galaxy Nexus Prime, with a full HD 720 screen -- !! -- that's just over 4.6 inches. What appears to be happening here, btb, is that Apple is betting heavily on larger tablets, and Google is trying to find out if a phone can have a screen big enough -- while the device remains small enough -- that you don't want a tablet. So, specific advice. It sounds like you are in the Apple eco-system. If so, buy an iPhone. If your 2 is dead dead, buy a 4s; its a very nice device. If your 2 can be coaxed through another year, wait for the iPhone 5. Rumor has it that this will be the last Jobs designed phone, and that it will finally have a bigger screen. If you are not married into the Apple eco-system, I would definitely give the dual core Android phones a look. My advice is to focus on either the HTC phones, or the Google Nexus line. The Nexus line are Google Experience phones; they get every Android release first. HTC is also good about this, and makes solid equipment. Take a look at the Sensation if for nothing else than the manufacturing: instead of a battery cover, the entire back is a single milled piece -- aluminum, IIRC -- that pops off the screen. You could drive nails with the thing, and its beautiful. (To be clear, Do Not Drive Nails With Your Phone.) Carriers: Verizon-Stupid expensive. Good service and coverage. ATT-Stupid expensive. Bad service and coverage Sprint-They suck so bad we won't use them T-Mobile-Great plans! We have multi-line T-Mobile plans that cost less than single lines on ATT and Verizon. Good data tiers. Great Android phone selection. Pretty easy to get the phones unlocked to swap out SIMs for international roaming. Alas, no iPhone. Hope I haven't overexplained as usual... cjf -- *From:* friam-boun...@redfish.com [friam-boun...@redfish.com] on behalf of Owen Densmore [o...@backspaces.net] *Sent:* Monday, October 31, 2011 7:18 PM *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] [SUSPICIOUS EMAIL] Re: Android Choice Please keep firing questions as you think of them! God, what an offer! Thanks! History: I bought the initial iPhone 2G, first by trying ATT, which failed due to lack of coverage (and poor service reports) so I bought one on-line and use pwnage tool to jailbreak/unlock for TMo and european travel. It just died (after 4 years!). I rather like the iDevice ecology, having macbooks, macmini, ipad, ipod etc, and have an app that is not yet on android but has a poor replacement on android. I like that the apps span ipad/pod/phone too. I'm not a power user, but use phone, web, mail, music, apps, maps, angry birds, ... at least once a day, no more than an hour, I'd say. I like TMo quite a bit, but am willing to try Vzn, less so ATT .. they still have poor coverage where I live (Santa Fe). I find that the plans my friends have are impossibly expensive, $90/mo, .. while I pay $58/mo. There are some interesting alternatives such as buy unlocked and use prepaid plans, but this mainly makes sense on GSM, which here means TMo. Even with Vzn, I would prefer a world phone, thus GSM (Italy 1-2 months/yr). Main negative for TMo is AWS rather than the more standard 3G etc, and would
Re: [FRIAM] [SUSPICIOUS EMAIL] Re: Android Choice
In that case, one more word in praise of the Google ecosystem, which people don't tend to think of as such. Until iOS 5, iPhones were largely ancillaries to your desktop -- you needed to cable up regularly to synch with iTunes to do stuff. For better or for worse, Google is pushing deep into the cloud space. Go to the Android Market; pick an app. The Market knows which of my devices are compatible and cloud installs; the next time I use that device its just there. The phone backup is seamless and wireless; when I upgrade my games are not only installed, I'm on the same levels! But, as Apple has proved, its the little things that often count most. If you use Chrome, you have The. Same. Bookmarks. Everywhere. Yes, I realize there are bookmark sync tools/social tools/etc. This, however, is seamless. If I'm working on something like the BlackBerry SDK -- don't ask -- and find a good reference, I drag it to my toolbar, and that's exactly where it is every time. On my desktop. On my laptop. On my tablet. (Honeycomb or better.) On my phone. (Ice Cream Sandwich.) When I'm done with it, delete it/file it/what ever. Changes how you use things, for sure. cjf From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [friam-boun...@redfish.com] on behalf of Owen Densmore [o...@backspaces.net] Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 11:43 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [SUSPICIOUS EMAIL] Re: Android Choice Brilliant! Just what I needed, thanks! If I'm wedded to anything in the apple world, its unix and programming and command line. iTunes is just a fairly reasonable interface to manage phone/pad/pod. I don't need it for music/video/books etc, there are fine alternatives. Quite willing to give it up and start really using my google ecology: calendar, mail, contacts etc. We have Vzn TMo near to each other so I'm going to eliminate ATT, and focus my Android attention on TMo as a carrier, and iPhone via Vzn with their world-phone iPhone. I'd like to wait for a larger screen iPhone but as for my 2G, Its Dead Jim! No worries. Glad to see we agree on TMo. Damn I wish they had not gone the AWS route. -- Owen On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Chris Feola ch...@nextpression.commailto:ch...@nextpression.com wrote: Hi Owen, Glad to help. Short answer: Buy an iPhone. Longer answer: When people ask me what phone to buy, I ask one simple question: Are you married to iTunes? Do you have a playlist for every mood? Have you spent years getting it to work just right? If so, buy an iPhone. You will be massively unhappy otherwise. To a lesser extent, if you are married to the Apple ecosystem -- iCal and such -- this also applies. Modern smartphones are becoming the sharp point of your digital life; one that doesn't fit will drive you mad. If you are not married to the Apple ecosystem, then try out a few phones side by side and see what you like. Frankly, they are all good enough. I find the current real differentiator to be the screens. Here, Android has the lead, and it is widening. (Sorry for the pun!) State of the art here is the new -- and for the moment, insane appearing -- Galaxy Nexus Prime, with a full HD 720 screen -- !! -- that's just over 4.6 inches. What appears to be happening here, btb, is that Apple is betting heavily on larger tablets, and Google is trying to find out if a phone can have a screen big enough -- while the device remains small enough -- that you don't want a tablet. So, specific advice. It sounds like you are in the Apple eco-system. If so, buy an iPhone. If your 2 is dead dead, buy a 4s; its a very nice device. If your 2 can be coaxed through another year, wait for the iPhone 5. Rumor has it that this will be the last Jobs designed phone, and that it will finally have a bigger screen. If you are not married into the Apple eco-system, I would definitely give the dual core Android phones a look. My advice is to focus on either the HTC phones, or the Google Nexus line. The Nexus line are Google Experience phones; they get every Android release first. HTC is also good about this, and makes solid equipment. Take a look at the Sensation if for nothing else than the manufacturing: instead of a battery cover, the entire back is a single milled piece -- aluminum, IIRC -- that pops off the screen. You could drive nails with the thing, and its beautiful. (To be clear, Do Not Drive Nails With Your Phone.) Carriers: Verizon-Stupid expensive. Good service and coverage. ATT-Stupid expensive. Bad service and coverage Sprint-They suck so bad we won't use them T-Mobile-Great plans! We have multi-line T-Mobile plans that cost less than single lines on ATT and Verizon. Good data tiers. Great Android phone selection. Pretty easy to get the phones unlocked to swap out SIMs for international roaming. Alas, no iPhone. Hope I haven't overexplained as usual... cjf From:
[FRIAM] Mendeley
I just posted this to my Google+ stream. I don't want to be a shill for a private service (but I guess I'm going to be anyway), but this system [Mendeley http://www.mendeley.com/] seems quite impressive. It parses PDFs (and other documents) you drop into it and builds a bibliography for you. It provides a way to annotate the bibliography. I think it also lets you annotate pdf files. It doesn't get them all right, but what it does looks very useful. Besides, it's free. It claims to synchronize across computers besides making your papers accessible through any browser. I don't know if that means downloading to all the synched computers as Dropbox does. It apparently has investors (see their about us page: http://www.mendeley.com/about-us/) but it's not clear what their business model is. So far, I haven't seen any ads except for themselves. They do apparently sell a pro version. The free version has 1GB of storage. Anyone know any more about it? *-- Russ Abbott* *_* *** Professor, Computer Science* * California State University, Los Angeles* * Google voice: 747-*999-5105 Google+: https://plus.google.com/114865618166480775623/ * vita: *http://sites.google.com/site/russabbott/ *_* FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
[FRIAM] Syncing between devices...why? [was Android Choice]
To deviate a touch, and head a bit back towards a past thread... how many of us are there left who use their different devices for different purposes? I like that my computer at work has totally different bookmarks than my laptop, which has totally different bookmarks than my cell phone... because I use them for different things. Sometimes I even have my laptop sitting out next to my desktop at work so that I can do different tasks on a computer that I have set up to do those tasks. I would think having all my digital devices that much alike (the same programs, the same features, the same settings, etc., etc., etc.) would make you wonder why you have so many devices. Any thoughts from the other side of the (digital) ecological divide? Eric On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 01:26 PM, Chris Feola ch...@nextpression.com wrote: In that case, one more word in praise of the Google ecosystem, which people don't tend to think of as such. Until iOS 5, iPhones were largely ancillaries to your desktop -- you needed to cable up regularly to synch with iTunes to do stuff. For better or for worse, Google is pushing deep into the cloud space. Go to the Android Market; pick an app. The Market knows which of my devices are compatible and cloud installs; the next time I use that device its just there. The phone backup is seamless and wireless; when I upgrade my games are not only installed, I'm on the same levels! But, as Apple has proved, its the little things that often count most. If you use Chrome, you have The. Same. Bookmarks. Everywhere. Yes, I realize there are bookmark sync tools/social tools/etc. This, however, is seamless. If I'm working on something like the BlackBerry SDK -- don't ask -- and find a good reference, I drag it to my toolbar, and that's exactly where it is every time. On my desktop. On my laptop. On my tablet. (Honeycomb or better.) On my phone. (Ice Cream Sandwich.) When I'm done with it, delete it/file it/what ever. Changes how you use things, for sure. cjf From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [friam-boun...@redfish.com] on behalf of Owen Densmore [o...@backspaces.net] Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 11:43 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [SUSPICIOUS EMAIL] Re: Android Choice Brilliant! Just what I needed, thanks! If I'm wedded to anything in the apple world, its unix and programming and command line. iTunes is just a fairly reasonable interface to manage phone/pad/pod. I don't need it for music/video/books etc, there are fine alternatives. Quite willing to give it up and start really using my google ecology: calendar, mail, contacts etc. We have Vzn TMo near to each other so I'm going to eliminate ATT, and focus my Android attention on TMo as a carrier, and iPhone via Vzn with their world-phone iPhone. I'd like to wait for a larger screen iPhone but as for my 2G, Its Dead Jim! No worries. Glad to see we agree on TMo. Damn I wish they had not gone the AWS route. -- Owen On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Chris Feola # wrote: Hi Owen, Glad to help. Short answer: Buy an iPhone. Longer answer: When people ask me what phone to buy, I ask one simple question: Are you married to iTunes? Do you have a playlist for every mood? Have you spent years getting it to work just right? If so, buy an iPhone. You will be massively unhappy otherwise. To a lesser extent, if you are married to the Apple ecosystem -- iCal and such -- this also applies. Modern smartphones are becoming the sharp point of your digital life; one that doesn't fit will drive you mad. If you are not married to the Apple ecosystem, then try out a few phones side by side and see what you like. Frankly, they are all good enough. I find the current real differentiator to be the screens. Here, Android has the lead, and it is widening. (Sorry for the pun!) State of the art here is the new -- and for the moment, insane appearing -- Galaxy Nexus Prime, with a full HD 720 screen -- !! -- that's just over 4.6 inches. What appears to be happening here, btb, is that Apple is betting heavily on larger tablets, and Google is trying to find out if a phone can have a screen big enough -- while the device remains small enough -- that you don't want a tablet. So, specific advice. It sounds like you are in the Apple eco-system. If so, buy an iPhone. If your 2 is dead dead, buy a 4s; its a very nice device. If your 2 can be coaxed through another year, wait for the iPhone 5. Rumor has it that this will be the last Jobs designed phone, and that it will finally have a bigger screen. If you are not married into the Apple eco-system, I would definitely give the dual core Android phones a look. My advice is to focus on either the HTC phones, or the Google Nexus line. The Nexus line are Google Experience phones; they get every Android release first. HTC is also good about this, and makes solid equipment. Take a look at the Sensation if for nothing else than the
Re: [FRIAM] Syncing between devices...why? [was Android Choice]
Not only do I have different uses for different devices, like you I also have different uses for multiple instances of the same device, and multiple uses for the same instance of a device! My current experiment consists of 3 Google+ identities: 1) work, 2) personal, 3) brewing. Google's stupid real name policy makes it interesting because I get people who intend to follow my work personality will put my brewing personality in their circles. Then I'll follow them back with my work personality. The experiment is a partial success. I'm getting better at switching my phone's personality to match what I'm doing at the time. It's long baffled me why people use their personal e-mails for business comm (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_White_House_e-mail_controversy) or work e-mails for personal business. I screw up once in awhile and do that by accident, but by and large, my person is split. I'm thinking about trying to get 3 Google Voice numbers for my 3 personalities, though I don't know if they'd like that. Having said all that, I do find it very tempting to treat the phone the same way I treat my computers. Namely, it would be nice to have different logins for different purposes on the phone just like I do for my computers. But I'm certainly _not_ tempted to use my AppleTV like my Mini, my phone like my playstation, or my server like my laptop. [grin] ERIC P. CHARLES wrote circa 11-11-01 11:05 AM: To deviate a touch, and head a bit back towards a past thread... how many of us are there left who use their different devices for different purposes? I like that my computer at work has totally different bookmarks than my laptop, which has totally different bookmarks than my cell phone... because I use them for different things. Sometimes I even have my laptop sitting out next to my desktop at work so that I can do different tasks on a computer that I have set up to do those tasks. I would think having all my digital devices that much alike (the same programs, the same features, the same settings, etc., etc., etc.) would make you wonder why you have so many devices. Any thoughts from the other side of the (digital) ecological divide? -- glen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] Syncing between devices...why? [was Android Choice]
Errr yes, that is a *really* good question. Why *do* you have so many devices? Why do any of us? Do they make us happier? —R On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 12:05 PM, ERIC P. CHARLES e...@psu.edu wrote: To deviate a touch, and head a bit back towards a past thread... how many of us are there left who use their different devices for different purposes? I like that my computer at work has totally different bookmarks than my laptop, which has totally different bookmarks than my cell phone... because I use them for different things. Sometimes I even have my laptop sitting out next to my desktop at work so that I can do different tasks on a computer that I have set up to do those tasks. I would think having all my digital devices that much alike (the same programs, the same features, the same settings, etc., etc., etc.) would make you wonder why you have so many devices. Any thoughts from the other side of the (digital) ecological divide? Eric On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 01:26 PM, *Chris Feola ch...@nextpression.com*wrote: In that case, one more word in praise of the Google ecosystem, which people don't tend to think of as such. Until iOS 5, iPhones were largely ancillaries to your desktop -- you needed to cable up regularly to synch with iTunes to do stuff. For better or for worse, Google is pushing deep into the cloud space. Go to the Android Market; pick an app. The Market knows which of my devices are compatible and cloud installs; the next time I use that device its just there. The phone backup is seamless and wireless; when I upgrade my games are not only installed, I'm on the same levels! But, as Apple has proved, its the little things that often count most. If you use Chrome, you have The. Same. Bookmarks. Everywhere. Yes, I realize there are bookmark sync tools/social tools/etc. This, however, is seamless. If I'm working on something like the BlackBerry SDK -- don't ask -- and find a good reference, I drag it to my toolbar, and that's exactly where it is every time. On my desktop. On my laptop. On my tablet. (Honeycomb or better.) On my phone. (Ice Cream Sandwich.) When I'm done with it, delete it/file it/what ever. Changes how you use things, for sure. cjf -- *From:* friam-boun...@redfish.com [friam-boun...@redfish.com] on behalf of Owen Densmore [o...@backspaces.net] *Sent:* Tuesday, November 01, 2011 11:43 AM *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] [SUSPICIOUS EMAIL] Re: Android Choice Brilliant! Just what I needed, thanks! If I'm wedded to anything in the apple world, its unix and programming and command line. iTunes is just a fairly reasonable interface to manage phone/pad/pod. I don't need it for music/video/books etc, there are fine alternatives. Quite willing to give it up and start really using my google ecology: calendar, mail, contacts etc. We have Vzn TMo near to each other so I'm going to eliminate ATT, and focus my Android attention on TMo as a carrier, and iPhone via Vzn with their world-phone iPhone. I'd like to wait for a larger screen iPhone but as for my 2G, Its Dead Jim! No worries. Glad to see we agree on TMo. Damn I wish they had not gone the AWS route. -- Owen On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Chris Feola ch...@nextpression.com#133604f316893c23_ wrote: Hi Owen, Glad to help. Short answer: Buy an iPhone. Longer answer: When people ask me what phone to buy, I ask one simple question: Are you married to iTunes? Do you have a playlist for every mood? Have you spent years getting it to work just right? If so, buy an iPhone. You will be massively unhappy otherwise. To a lesser extent, if you are married to the Apple ecosystem -- iCal and such -- this also applies. Modern smartphones are becoming the sharp point of your digital life; one that doesn't fit will drive you mad. If you are not married to the Apple ecosystem, then try out a few phones side by side and see what you like. Frankly, they are all good enough. I find the current real differentiator to be the screens. Here, Android has the lead, and it is widening. (Sorry for the pun!) State of the art here is the new -- and for the moment, insane appearing -- Galaxy Nexus Prime, with a full HD 720 screen -- !! -- that's just over 4.6 inches. What appears to be happening here, btb, is that Apple is betting heavily on larger tablets, and Google is trying to find out if a phone can have a screen big enough -- while the device remains small enough -- that you don't want a tablet. So, specific advice. It sounds like you are in the Apple eco-system. If so, buy an iPhone. If your 2 is dead dead, buy a 4s; its a very nice device. If your 2 can be coaxed through another year, wait for the iPhone 5. Rumor has it that this will be the last Jobs designed phone, and that it will finally have a bigger screen. If you are not married into the Apple eco-system, I would
Re: [FRIAM] Syncing between devices...why? [was Android Choice]
I think it derives from extended physiology. There is a spectrum on which we all fall between internal - external. Those of us whose lives are invested externally have/make lots of stuff. Those of us invested internally have/make a minimum of stuff. Interesting orthogonal axes are make vs nomake and act vs noact. I've always been fascinated by those who make stuff then give it away or abandon it. I've tried and regretted it. I still long for my litte artbot I foolishly gave to some random bartender. Robert Holmes rob...@holmesacosta.com wrote: Errr yes, that is a *really* good question. Why *do* you have so many devices? Why do any of us? Do they make us happier? -- glen e p ropella; 971.222.9095 FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] Mendeley
Big question - does it do BibTeX? BTW - I often use Google Scholar to populate my BibTeX database. Cheers On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 10:55:26AM -0700, Russ Abbott wrote: I just posted this to my Google+ stream. I don't want to be a shill for a private service (but I guess I'm going to be anyway), but this system [Mendeley http://www.mendeley.com/] seems quite impressive. It parses PDFs (and other documents) you drop into it and builds a bibliography for you. It provides a way to annotate the bibliography. I think it also lets you annotate pdf files. It doesn't get them all right, but what it does looks very useful. Besides, it's free. It claims to synchronize across computers besides making your papers accessible through any browser. I don't know if that means downloading to all the synched computers as Dropbox does. It apparently has investors (see their about us page: http://www.mendeley.com/about-us/) but it's not clear what their business model is. So far, I haven't seen any ads except for themselves. They do apparently sell a pro version. The free version has 1GB of storage. Anyone know any more about it? *-- Russ Abbott* *_* *** Professor, Computer Science* * California State University, Los Angeles* * Google voice: 747-*999-5105 Google+: https://plus.google.com/114865618166480775623/ * vita: *http://sites.google.com/site/russabbott/ *_* FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org -- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
[FRIAM] Google+
Google finally got around to making google+ available as an app to those of us who manage our own domains, but who use google mail servers for them. Google+ may be dead or dying by now, as many trial users have migrated back to facebook. Still, I thought I'd give it a whirl, as a couple of you have probably noticed. --Doug -- Doug Roberts drobe...@rti.org d...@parrot-farm.net http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] Mendeley
Apparently not yet. See http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/80936-latex-integration-in-mendeley-desktop *-- Russ * On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Russell Standish r.stand...@unsw.edu.auwrote: Big question - does it do BibTeX? BTW - I often use Google Scholar to populate my BibTeX database. Cheers On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 10:55:26AM -0700, Russ Abbott wrote: I just posted this to my Google+ stream. I don't want to be a shill for a private service (but I guess I'm going to be anyway), but this system [Mendeley http://www.mendeley.com/] seems quite impressive. It parses PDFs (and other documents) you drop into it and builds a bibliography for you. It provides a way to annotate the bibliography. I think it also lets you annotate pdf files. It doesn't get them all right, but what it does looks very useful. Besides, it's free. It claims to synchronize across computers besides making your papers accessible through any browser. I don't know if that means downloading to all the synched computers as Dropbox does. It apparently has investors (see their about us page: http://www.mendeley.com/about-us/) but it's not clear what their business model is. So far, I haven't seen any ads except for themselves. They do apparently sell a pro version. The free version has 1GB of storage. Anyone know any more about it? *-- Russ Abbott* *_* *** Professor, Computer Science* * California State University, Los Angeles* * Google voice: 747-*999-5105 Google+: https://plus.google.com/114865618166480775623/ * vita: *http://sites.google.com/site/russabbott/ *_* FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org -- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
[FRIAM] Verizon Wireless Privacy
For those interested in Verizon Wireless: “In mid-October, Verizon Wireless changed its privacy policy to allow the company to record customers' location data and Web browsing history, combine it with other personal information like age and gender, aggregate it with millions of other customers' data, and sell it on an anonymous basis. Verizon is the first mobile provider to publicly confirm that it is actually selling information gleaned from its customers directly to businesses.” CNNMoney http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/01/technology/verizon_att_sprint_tmobile_privacy/index.htm -- Richard Lowenberg 1st-Mile Institute Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 505-989-9110 / 505-603-5200 www.1st-mile.com r...@1st-mile.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] Mendeley
I'm a fan of Mendeley. For me it solves a few problems that the other reference tools I've used don't do as well. First it reads through PDF files on my hard drive and does its best to identify the article. Given that I've got something on the order of 25,000 PDFs (yes, I do collect too much...), most of which I haven't tracked citation info for, that's a huge help. It certainly isn't perfect, and sometimes it comes up with some really screwy info, but it's still faster than me doing everything manually. Second, it stores everything both on my computer in their desktop application and on the web, so I can get to it from anywhere and add to my library from any computer. Third, it can export to basically any citation style. Fourth, it syncs with CiteULike and Zotero (two other reference tools I've used), so I can use whatever's handiest (Zotero is great for a lot of publisher sites and CiteULike works well for many of the ones Zotero doesn't). I presume it does export to BibTeX, although I haven't tried it myself. The link below actually says it's completed and the feature list says it does, but the recent comments seem to indicate that it doesn't do everything people would like. I'd recommend testing it out to see if it does what you need. It looks like they make their money through charging fees for PDF storage above 500MB/1GB, and probably some other ways. I've only uploaded a few files -- it isn't a requirement to upload files in order to use the service for tracking meta-data about references. Brent From: Russ Abbott russ.abb...@gmail.com To: russ.abb...@gmail.com; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group friam@redfish.com Sent: Tuesday, November 1, 2011 8:11 PM Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Mendeley Apparently not yet. See http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/80936-latex-integration-in-mendeley-desktop -- Russ On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Russell Standish r.stand...@unsw.edu.au wrote: Big question - does it do BibTeX? BTW - I often use Google Scholar to populate my BibTeX database. Cheers On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 10:55:26AM -0700, Russ Abbott wrote: I just posted this to my Google+ stream. I don't want to be a shill for a private service (but I guess I'm going to be anyway), but this system [Mendeley http://www.mendeley.com/] seems quite impressive. It parses PDFs (and other documents) you drop into it and builds a bibliography for you. It provides a way to annotate the bibliography. I think it also lets you annotate pdf files. It doesn't get them all right, but what it does looks very useful. Besides, it's free. It claims to synchronize across computers besides making your papers accessible through any browser. I don't know if that means downloading to all the synched computers as Dropbox does. It apparently has investors (see their about us page: http://www.mendeley.com/about-us/) but it's not clear what their business model is. So far, I haven't seen any ads except for themselves. They do apparently sell a pro version. The free version has 1GB of storage. Anyone know any more about it? *-- Russ Abbott* *_* *** Professor, Computer Science* * California State University, Los Angeles* * Google voice: 747-*999-5105 Google+: https://plus.google.com/114865618166480775623/ * vita: *http://sites.google.com/site/russabbott/ *_* FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org -- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
