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Well, I've just been timing how long it takes me to add a new piece of art to my Redbubble shop and update the relevant Social Media: a bit over 50 minutes. (First test, 56 minutes; second test, 52 minutes). Why so much time, you ask? Well, it all adds up. It all adds up despite all the scripts I've written to assist me. God only knows how long it would take me without that assistance. This isn't the time it takes to make the art, that varies a lot. This is the time taken from when I have a named, print-ready image available to upload.

So, if you're curious, here is the process: ( Read more... )

Whew! That's it.

And that's just pinning to Pinterest. I haven't figured out if/when/how to involve other Social Media as well. Would any of you be interested if I posted here (or on my arty blog, because pictures are easier there) about my most recently uploaded works? I know I've been neglecting y'all with what I've been doing artwise. If I do post, I'll try to say a bit more behind-the-scenes stuff on any given piece, stuff that is too wordy/rambly to put on a shop page. Interested? Probably not for every piece, because, well, writing a blog post would take another hour on top of the 50+ minutes I would have just spent adding it to my shop... darn I wish the Dreamwidth interface for images was better. Oh well.

Current Mood: accomplished

App folders are a way of de-cluttering your Android home page, and organising your apps into categories to make them easier to find. Now, some people prefer organising their app-drawer (the thing that comes up when you click on the Apps button) but I prefer to access my apps from the home page, because there are a lot of (pre-installed) apps in the app drawer that I'm just not interested in using; I just consider the app-drawer as a drawer that I only occasionally rummage in. Now, initially when I was organising my Droid, I would just put all the app-icons on different pages, loosely clustered by type. And while that has worked for some apps (the music, audiobook and verse-of-the-day widgets are all together on one page), usually the groups are either too small or too big to all fit together on one page, and there would end up being too many pages to easily navigate. So, app folders.

There are two styles of app folder: the single-icon type, and the scrolling type. The single-icon type takes up a 1x1 space on the page, and you click on it, and a window pops up which contains the icons in that folder. Then you can click on the desired icon to start that app. The scrolling type of folder takes up a larger amount of space -- anything from 2x1 to 4x4 -- and it becomes a scrollable window with the icons in it; to access the desired icon, you scroll up and down (or left to right, depending on the implementation, but it's usually up-and-down) until you find the icon and then click on it. There are advantages and disadvantages to both styles, and there are different implementations which have their own quirks. And I'm trying to decide which one(s) to use.

( cut for lots of comparisons )

And after all that, I still can't decide which I prefer. It isn't that none of them do exactly what I want... it's that I can't figure out exactly what I do want! Well, guess I'll just have to play around some more...

Current Mood: tired
Crossposts: http://kerravonsen.livejournal.com/1079412.html

Launchers are basically the Android equivalent to a "desktop environment" on a PC. The stock launcher on my device is TouchWiz. I've been switching between it and the Nova Launcher, which is a popular launcher. I tried out Nova not because I really want all the fancy fancy features of it, but because there are a couple of the features I like, which are lacking in TouchWiz. Unfortunately, there are a couple of features that I like which TouchWiz has, which Nova does not. So both of them irritate me a little.

( cut for long length )

Since finding how much worse all the other launchers are, I may go back to Nova. Or TouchWiz. Which leaves me in the same position that I started in! Except that now at least I know that everything else is worse.

Crossposts: http://kerravonsen.livejournal.com/1079143.html

Hello everyone!

So now I'm back from holidays and my family have scattered. I did stuff... played games - must get hold of a copy of Splendor, great game, simple rules but somehow rather addictive. Made things with resin - I have a rather large backlog of items I need to photograph.

( And I got myself a smartphone. )

So there you have it.

Who of you has an Android smartphone, and what do you use it for? What are your favourite apps?

Current Mood: busy
Crossposts: http://kerravonsen.livejournal.com/1078489.html

If you've been trying to email me, or access my website (http://www.katspace.org) don't be surprised if it bounced or vanished... because I recently changed plans with my ISP, but they didn't inform me that changing plans meant that I lost my static IP... which meant that my mailserver and webserver could no longer be found.

I've now changed to a different plan, with a new static IP, so I have to (a) wait until the change of IP goes through (b) update all my DNS records to the new IP and (c) wait until that change percolates through the internet.

In the meantime, my LJ, DW and twitter are still working fine, I'm just not getting any notifications.

Current Mood: frustrated
Crossposts: http://kerravonsen.livejournal.com/860948.html

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