Eat this iPhoners, Android 2.2 (Froyo) is getting Flash support!!! See Tweakers.NET (Dutch).

I have my Motorola Milestone for just over a month now. It’s my main addiction now, so I guess that sums things up quite nicely.

Here’s some (free) software I would like to recommend to you.

1) K-9 Mail. This is how a mailclient should work.

2) Dolphin Browser. The best browser. Period. Forget Opera Mini. Don’t even think about Fennec. Install Dolphin and be happy. It has tabs and gestures. It knows RSS. It has theme-support (but there are none yet). It can switch User Agent to fool those braindead IE-only websites. And most of all: its cache is stored on SD (configurable, but why would anyone not want that?).

3) Jorte. Great calendar app. Has widget support.

4) Air Horn. Just for fun. Download and annoy the others!

I also have paid software. One is Navigon (navigation software). The other is PDANet to tether to my laptop. I could have choosen for the non-paid version, but that doesn’t support secure-connections, so I paid for it.

What I don’t like about Android, is that silent-mode also disables the vibration-mode. You have to enable it by hand. How annoying. Other than that it nothing but gooooood! Buy Android, forget about the rest. No, you don’t need Outlook.

When using an x64 OS, like Windows 7 x64, you undoubtedly found that most software is still 32-bits. If your computer has a lot of memory, you will find that you run out of memory quickly, since 32-bits software only uses the first 4GBytes. For some reason x64 binaries are still hard to find.
Today I stumbled upon this weblog. It’s a great source for x64 software and info, so check it out.

Because I had some proxy-problems with Firefox on my laptop (the new one) I decided to install Google’s Chrome (I had it on my old laptop). To my surprise Chrome now has extensions, like the add-ons in FireFox. So I immediately installed adblock-plus, a gesture extension, and some other usefull stuff. Chrome ROCKS! I love it.

When I stopped being a freelancer, my salary dropped dramatically (to about 25%). We (back then I was part of a “we”) coped, but we needed to cut back some expenses. One of the things were my contacts. I bought them at a very good, but expensive specialist, so I switched to the so called LTP (Lens Totaal Plan) from Hans Anders. You save some money each month and after six months this money is enough for 6 pairs of contacts. And so it goes on and on. It was said, that whenever you would stop the program, the money you had save up until then, would be refunded.
Last week I sent in the form to stop the LTP. Today I got the confirmation letter. Along with a coupon for the money saved so far. To find that this money can only be spend on……contacts in a Hans Anders shop. Not even glasses, or sunglasses, no…just contacts.

What a big ugly fuck-up company Hans Anders is!

Period.

Completely forgot about this occassion to party: RaRe IT Services became 10 this year!

You know that you really left a company when you try to log in to the system and you get an “auth_fail_exception”. Buh-bye Transfer. Hello Merkator!

My new boss called me today, saying he has a job for me. Start: a.s.a.p., but only when I have my own hardware. So he “ordered” me to buy a laptop. One could get worse instructions from upperhand. So I bought a HP Pavilion dv7-3030ed. It’s not the Elitebook I got from my current employer, but the Pavilion is about 1000 euros cheaper.
It’s a great machine, with Win7 x64 on it, very nice wide 17″ LED-screen, 4 GByte of memory and a 640500GByte harddisk. Notefully, the keyboard is better than on the Elitebook, the mousepad is not. Definitely not. So I’ll buy a lasermouse to go with the laptop.

The new phone is not going to be the Nexus One, but the Motorola Milestone (Droid in other countries).

Open Source benefits the customers. Google recognizes this, as you can read in their press release of the new Google Android (2.1) phone. Let’s see when I can import one, or whether I’ll have to wait for the Dutch (read: expensive) release.

Update: no, it’s not gonna be cheap, $530 + $150 = $680 ~ €475.