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This could come in handy for Android Developer’s. Found at The Wall Street Journal On-Line

According to the Wall Street Journal this morning Google’s preparing a service that would let users store on its computers essentially all of the files they might keep on their personal-computer hard drives - such as word-processing documents, digital music, video clips and images. Or, as CBS News says it, “Google Wants To Be Your Hard Drive.”

Here is how the Journal summarizes the imminent development:

“Google is hoping to distinguish itself from existing online storage services partly by simplifying the process for transferring and opening files. Along with a Web-based interface, Google is trying to let users upload and access files directly from their PC desktops and have the file storage behave for consumers more like another hard drive that is handy at all times, say the people familiar with the matter.”

Read the rest of the Wall Street Journal’s article, Google Plans Service to Store User’s Data.

Technorati Tags: Google, Storage, Servers, Internet, Applications

ZaTelnet makes a professional and light version of telnet/ssh clients for mobile devices.

A light protocol client, designed for network system administrators, end users and web designers, working with Unix/Linux/BSD systems. This new, operating system independent version comes with extended functionalities, including smart phone support, ability to save, restore and edit sessions, floating keyboard, different font sizes, support of all possible display sizes and orientation, any many more.

ZaTelnet Light is a Telnet client for Google Phone. It also emulates terminal VT100 (basically enough for working with Midnight Commander and others console programs).

ZaTelnet Light offers extended opportunities for interface customization, such as full screen mode, different display sizes, 240×240, 240×480, 480×480 and 480×640 screen resolutions, portrait and landscape orientation modes, screen with adjustable size and different font sizes.

ZaTelnet Light boasts a handful of improvements that make remote administration of Unix and other servers via Telnet protocol using mobile devices simpler and more efficient.

Visit ZaTelnet for more information and the source code.

Technorati Tags: Android, Applications, Telnet, SSH, Open-Source, Commercial

Posted by Dick Wall, Google Developer Programs, on the Android Developers Blog

Background: While developing my first useful (though small) application for Android, which was a port of an existing utility I use when podcasting, I needed a way of updating a clock displayed on the UI at regular intervals, but in a lightweight and CPU efficient way.

Problem: In the original application I used java.util.Timer to update the clock, but that class is not such a good choice on Android. Using a Timer introduces a new thread into the application for a relatively minor reason. Thinking in terms of mobile applications often means re-considering choices that you might make differently for a desktop application with relatively richer resources at its disposal. We would like to find a more efficient way of updating that clock.

The Application: The rest of the story of porting the application will be detailed in future blog entries, but if you are interested in the application in question and the construction of it, you can read about it in a not-so-recent Developer.com article about using Matisse (a GUI builder for Swing). The original application is a Java Swing and SE application. It is like a stopwatch with a lap timer that we use when recording podcasts; when you start the recording, you start the stopwatch. Then for every mistake that someone makes, you hit the flub button. At the end you can save out the bookmarked mistakes which can be loaded into the wonderful Audacity audio editor as a labels track. You can then see where all of the mistakes are in the recording and edit them out.

Learn how the application was built and grab the source code at, Android Developers Blog: A Stitch in Time

Technorati Tags: Android, Application, Google, SDK, example, source-code