Tom Mollerus' Weblog

If you own an Android phone and haven't heard of DoubleTwist, you owe it to yourself to give it a try. For a while it's been the best (and best-looking) way to transfer your phone's music, ringtones, and photos with a computer. But up until now, the only way to browser through all available apps was through your phone's small screen. DoubleTwist has changed all that-- with its latest update, it's the best way for you to browse the Android Market, too. They've added a searchable interface to the Market which works a lot like iTunes' Store does (though, oddly, they don't yet support app categories). It would be nice if they supported direct downloading to your USB-mounted phone, but for now you'll have to scan an app's QR code to get it to your phone.

You can download DoubleTwist at http://www.doubletwist.com/ and use the online Android Market browser at http://apps.doubletwist.com/.

For those of you who have Android phones, I wanted to share a link to a great SSH client I've found, Connectbot. It can handle ssh or telnet connections, and lets you customize screen colors and sizes. You can even switch between multiple active sessions by flicking left or right with your finger. Very cool. (Check out this demo video from the developer.)

Read more on Connectbot's homepage at
http://code.google.com/p/connectbot/

Now only if I could figure out how to log onto the Cisco VPN at work with my phone...

Nothing is as much of a pain as having two colors divs sitting side by side that look great in one browser but have different heights in another browser. This can happen with callout boxes in the content of a page, or more commonly with a left- or right-hand sidebar that isn't the same height as the content column. Luckily, with jQuery fixing that kind of problem is easy.