Headworx

The subject of the top apps has been widely popular across the app space and is... well... very subjective of course! Considering myself now a semi advanced Android user (four months experience with two primary phones and a tablet in the car's dashboard ), I decided to offer my opinion on the apps I use most. As a foreword, I have to add, since adopting the 5.3" Samsung Galaxy Note as my primary phone, I dropped all the tablets I had been using before. As of today, the Note is my only mobile teleputer I carry and use on a daily basis. My other machine is the Lenovo X220 laptop , but nowadays this is not considered a mobile device. I have to admit this setup works excellent. Just two computing devices in total, minimal clutter, maximized mobility and productivity (at home the Lenovo is docked most of the time, connected to the 27" Apple Cinema Display). So back to the apps. 1. The app number one is Gmail. I run two private accounts and a business (powered by Googl...

The title of today's post is the name of the Android application I have been using for several weeks now and I do recommend. The principle of the Perfect AppLock! is simple. Protect access to selected phone / tablet apps with a pin code. A principle so simple and useful, one would wonder it is not included in the operating system itself. So how it works? Simple. Once installed, it lets you select any number of apps and assign a pin code to them. Now when such protected application is about to be brought to the foreground, it asks for a pin (or for an unlocking gesture). Usage scenarios? Many. Nowadays all of us have sensitive data / access apps on our phones. Even email. I remember the old jokes we were making at the office when somebody left his PC unlocked. Immediately emails were coming from his account inviting for a free beer, up to you can just imagin what kind of ideas... "Hey what a cool phone, can you show me?" - a request I get very often as I often do ha...

This was meant to be a mid-term prediction, when I first talked about it back in 2010 at TEDx Krakow . I said we will get this device, which by the way I named later the internet glasses , by the end of this decade. And now the reports are coming that Google has taken the message seriously and they are about to release the hardware implementation of Google Goggles. I was not 100% accurate with my prediction, at least not according tho the aforementioned 9to5Google blog. I have been predicting laser - based, on-retina display technology, and the report says they are using an OLED display. I have been predicting brain waves sensing as the primary user input interface,  and the report mentions head tilting / gyroscope / accelerometer - based system. I still think down the road we will get a model implementing micromirror / laser - based, on-retina display, because ultimately it offers everything better - contrast, resolution, size, power consumption. And most importantly it doe...

By opensourcing the Android OS, Google on one hand intended to free phone manufacturers from dealing withe the boring, difficult and extremely expensive operating system layer in mobile phones. I should say mobile computers, or wearable computers, not mobile phones. And on the other hand they intended to give them a way to differentiate. The common wisdom is there are differences between subsequent releases of Android. The Ice Cream Sandwich is better than the Honeycomb and the Honeycomb is better than the Gingerbread. True. Each is a successor to the previous one, so it is natural the newer versions are better. But what most consumers / users are not aware of is there are even bigger differences between, say, the Gingerbread delivered by Samsung and the Gingerbread delivered by Sony. I can compare the two, because I had been using the Sony Xperia Pro for several months and then I switched to the Samsung Galaxy Note. And in short: Samsung beats Sony hands down. Generally I hate...