最受欢迎的10大android应用程序

根据medialets的最新统计结果，android最受欢迎的10大程序是

• Pac-Man by Namco
• MySpace Mobile
• The Weather Channel
• ShopSavvy
• Ringdroid
• imeem Mobile
• Shazam
• Rings Extended
• Bonsai Blast
• Brain Genius Deluxe

游戏程序里面Bonsai和Brain Genius Deluxe上榜我一点也不奇怪，他们本身不是试玩版，而且质量很不错。特别是Bonsai，我是爱不释手。完了一会Pac-Man，没搞清楚操控，就pass了。改天再试试。

我更加关注android市场上的读书软件，尤其是pdf读书软件。关于文本书，我觉得熊猫读书不错，但是有的时候触摸操控经常会不小心导致进度条大幅度跳进，有点不爽，只好每次使用跟踪球。不过我看好熊猫读书，放到android市场上应该会有很好评价。

另外我还关注的软件是跟桌面同步的软件。市场上有一个和outlook 2007同步的软件，但是和其他版本的outlook同步有问题，很遗憾。
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如何在G1上安装非Android Market应用程序

首先你必须有adb.exe工具（android SDK包中自带）。adb是android device bridge的缩写，可以将电脑上的android程序通过USB接口安装到手机上。我已经安装了整个SDK，所以我不知道是否单单提供adb工具就可以完成。你可以试试，这边是下载adb工具的链接。

第二部是通过该链接获得G1手机的USB驱动。将它解压到任何目录下，比方说C盘根目录下（C:\android_usb_windows)。

在连接G1和你的电脑之前，你还要修改一些设置
选中

Application setting -> Development -> USB debugging

和

Application setting -> Unkown sources

然后取消

SD card & phone storage -> Use for USB stroage

修改完之后，你就可以通过USB将G1连接到你的电脑上。连上之后，会出现“发现新硬件"的对话框，你只要指定USB驱动程序的位置即可（C:\android_usb_windows)。这个过程可能会花一点时间...

当你看到成功安装HTC G1硬件对话框后，你就可以通过以下命令安装

adb install c:\com.netdragon.pandareader_signed_1.apk

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盟盟之辅食进阶

从上个星期我们开始给盟盟喂辅食了，给他的母乳和奶粉里我们加了点gerber的含铁米粉，但是加了以后奶开始变稠，原先的奶嘴眼太小，出不来了...然后发现还有大号奶嘴（同样大的奶嘴，只不过眼大一点）。gerber奶瓶有自带的中号奶嘴，不用我们去买了。doctor brown的奶瓶我们买了3号奶嘴，到目前为止盟盟吃的还好，大便还算正常。昨天喂了一点香蕉，发现盟盟暂时还不会吃用勺喂的，先前喂的米汤不用舌头舔就可以喂下去，稍微固体一点，他就不知道怎么吃了。但是可以明显的感觉到盟盟很想吃，手抓住小勺不放，而且下意识的抿嘴吃。明天再试试...

ps: 这个周末盟盟要去做4个月的well check up了，时间挺快，盟盟已经四个月了，再过一个月，外公外婆就要回国了，盟盟也要去日托了，希望他能乖乖的，不然妈妈又要心疼了。妈妈已经约了12月的头一周去一家家庭日托试一个星期。 再上几张盟盟照片：





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Oracle JDBC Driver IO Exception

I am working on an internal tool that uses the ORACLE JDBC driver to access the database. In my testing environment, everything is fine, but my colleague got an SQL exception after running the tool.

java.sql.SQLException: Io exception:
The Network Adapter could not establish connection

First, I search the internet and all results roots from this solution. But it doesn't apply to my case.

So I return to the starting point, and think if the database connection is available to my colleague. He doesn't have ORACLE installed, so there is no tnsping.exe tool and tnsnames. But there is telnet, and you can type this command to see if the database instance at the port on the host is available to you

telnet host port

If it is available, you will be led to a clean dos window; otherwise, there will be message saying "Could not open connection to the host...".

It turns out that our network engineer has put some restrictions on the IPs that are allowed to access the database, and that is the cause for the IO exception.
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Track the Location of an IP Address

I found two free online tools for tracking the location of an IP address, which are pretty useful.
IP2Location
and
GeoBytes IP Locator
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Another Syntax Highlighter for Online Code Posting

Today, I found another code prettify plugin for my blog today through Google Code: SyntaxHighlighter. There is an online tutorial for how to use it in Blogger. But I did have some issues with line breaks, and Blogger add <br> to replace line breaks, which it should skip instead.

So I switch to Blog In Draft and check the option "Make Blogger in Draft my default dashboard". It solved the line break issues.


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Another Mobile Browser - Mozilla Fennec - under Alpha Testing

After Opera, Safari, IE Mobile, Chrome Mobile, we are welcoming another mobile browsers: Mozilla Fennec. Currently, it is still under alpha testing. Anyone are welcome to alpha test it. If you don't own a N810 Internet Tablets, you can still try it out on your desktop.

• Windows
  
• Mac OS X
  
• Linux
  

I am more intested when this will go to Android OS powered phones like G1 and PSP, but there is no luck in the near future, because Fennec is not written in Java and Android does not support applications that run directly on the operating system itself without the need to be written in Java. I am hoping that Google will do the right thing and make a deal with Mozilla so that we can have Fennec soon on G1.

Here is the brief feature list and working UI for Fennec.
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