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This isn’t a great check-in, gohome has dotfiles and binary files checked in, and betterbookmarks needs the tagsoup jar but I’ll fix that tomorrow when I’m not completely exhausted.

http://gohome.googlecode.com

http://betterbookmarks.googlecode.com

Also, none of the source is commented or logical, planning to clean it up this weekend.

Another fun-with-shortcuts app, this one for creating iphone-style shortcuts.
It even tries to do some intelligent scaling of favicos.

manual UI:

Finished product (facebook and google are BetterBookmarks shortcuts):

Pro-tips:

• For google reader, use URL: http://www.google.com/reader/i/ and Icon URL: http://www.google.com/reader/ui/iphone-icon.png
• For facebook, use URL: iphone.facebook.com

I’m sad that android doesn’t have home screen widgets, but the shortcuts, as proved by anycut, can be pretty cool.

Go Home is an app that lets you add a home screen shortcut to get directions from your current location (gps or cell tower) and automatically route you to the address associated with that shortcut.

There are currently only 4 icons bundled with this (but that’s better than the web browser bookmarks support), but I think they cover work, home, significant other, and anything else. Enjoy. Also, apologies for the drop-down widget being so hideous.

I will update this app if google maps on andoird gets transit support so that you can specify the transportation mode as well.

To use, either long press on an empty part of the home screen, or, from the home screen, go to menu->add. Click “Go Home”

Fill in this screen:

Done!

I’m planning to write an app that allows you to create home screen shortcuts for “go to address X from my current location,” but for now, a partial solution is to open AnyCut, make your own shortcut, set the action to android.intent.action.VIEW and the data to http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&daddr=. You’ll still need to explicitly tell maps to start from your current location, but it’s still faster than all the clicks to open maps and open directions and pick an address.

Culled from http://androidguys.com/?p=2967 and http://www.jsharkey.org/blog/2008/08/22/driving-directions-in-android-09-sdk/

• A recent joint venture of the National Film Board of Canada determined that 1747 was the best year ever. Further findings concluded that The Best Week Ever occurred in 1911.
• Originally due to a clerical error, but later maintained through malfeasance and graft, the Guinness book of world records listed the tallest man in the world at 5′3″ for the first ten years of its publication.
• The reason there are so few vegan bookstores is because most paperback books are bound with glue made from duck bills.
• Mint flavored condoms date back to the early 1800s, when menthol was used as an solvent in the preparation of the linen prophylactics.
• Ernest Goes To Camp was based on the true story of Jim Varney’s childhood experiences at summer camp.
• 62% of presidents have stated on record that their favorite color is blue. Scholarly research has shown that at least two presidents have lied about this. Martin Van Buren’s favorite color was pink.
• Grizzly bears are unaffected by marijuana. Polar bears are highly sensitive to it.
• A common misconception is that modern rail gauge is derived from the wheel spacing of ancient roman carts, but actually, the spacing comes from the wingspan of none other than Julius Caesar.

Almost identical to add_files, but for adding to your iPod (those of you with iPhones might need to tell me what the source “kind” is — I assume it’s k.iPhone.

usage: copy_to_ipod.py /path/to/music1 /path/to/music2 …

This one is for dolapo — recursively add all the files in multiple paths specified as command line arguments to iTunes. Braindead, doesn’t check for filetype.