UX Sketching And Wireframing Templates For Mobile Projects
If you are doing a lot of user interface planning and design for mobile applications, you will probably love these templates. Â Just choose the one you need and print it out. Then pencil in your thoughts.
Different resolutions of Android devices, iOS, and Windows Mobile are all included. Â Enjoy!
Following the recommendation of my brother, I’ve installed the SwiftKey3 keyboard on my Google Nexus. Â And I have to say that it’s worth every cent of its 0.85 EUR price tag (there is a special offer currently too). Â I’ve tried a few keyboards until now and, I’ll be honest, I was skeptical of its prediction powers. Â After all, each person’s language use is different, and I mostly use English when I write, and it’s not even my native language.
But all my worries and skepticism were for nothing. Â It does work and it works wonders. Â The secret, of course, is that SwiftKey 3 learns your language from Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, SMS, and blog’s RSS feed. Â I first added Facebook and Twitter and didn’t see much of an improvement. Â But after it learned from my SMS messages and Gmail, it got much better. Â The moment I gave it this blog’s RSS feed, it became nearly perfect in predicting what I was about to say. Â So much so that it would suggest the next word I wanted to type before I would even type a single character. Â Like with visual arts, I can’t really find the words to describe how awesome that feels.
I am still getting used to it being so good – after all the other keyboards’ predictions it takes a bit of time. Â But even so it already saves me plenty of typing. Â Which is a good thing always, but on the mobile device – doubly so.
And before you ask, yes, there is something that I wish it did better. Â I wish it had a better layout for the Russian language keyboard. Â While it’s usable, the keys are smaller and harder to hit. Â However, it still compensates the inconvenience with a better Russian text prediction too.
Much recommended!
SL4A – scripting layer for Android
Scripting Layer for Android (SL4A) brings scripting languages to Android by allowing you to edit and execute scripts and interactive interpreters directly on the Android device. These scripts have access to many of the APIs available to full-fledged Android applications, but with a greatly simplified interface that makes it easy to get things done.
Scripts can be run interactively in a terminal, in the background, or via Locale. Python, Perl, JRuby, Lua, BeanShell, JavaScript, Tcl, and shell are currently supported, and we’re planning to add more.
My Galaxy Nexus now runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.  All had to do was go to Settings, About phone, Updates.  The update was there.  It was automatically downloaded and installed.  No problem what so ever.  The phone does seem to work faster afterwords.  The new Google Now service looks interesting, but I need to use it more to see if it actually works for Cyprus.  If you are interested in features and reviews, have a look this Engadget post.