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I have tried the new the new interface of twitter for a few years. I think that is too much information on a single page. I think twitter should be simple. All I need is just a feed contains all of tweets. That's it. What do you think about it?

Every times, when you upgrade your ROM, you will lost your all sms in your phone. So, we need a sms backup program. There are a number of applications which can backup sms to Gmail. They will send all of your sms as email to your Gmail. This is a workable way. But I don't like it very much. First of all Email is email, SMS is SMS. They are two different things. I don't mix those two things together. Moreover, I don't want to put everything on the cloud. I want to keep some records in my local drive. Well, I did a search in Android Market and I found an application calls "SMS Backup and Restore".This is another type of application. Simple and just did what I want. It can backup and restore SMS via xml files in your SD cards, no internet connections are required!

Just like this, you can through a simple menu like this,to backup SMS to xml files, and delete those old backup files. Nice and simple!

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There are some NHibernate add-on to do automated mapping, such as NHibenrate Attributes,Active Record and FluentHibernate. I don't really like those libraries, because that sounds adding another layer on ORM. I have some double on the speed. Moreover, if you are lazy to create xml mapping files, there are a number of code generators in the market. They can generate those xml mapping files from your database schema. I don't know why we need to introduce another layer on ORM!

When you get a file locked by a process and you need to delete it, I have tried two software.

The first one is Lock Hunter. You can find it in download.com, please click here(64-bit) to download, or here for 32-bit

The seconder is Unlocker. I am using it for years! This is also available from download.com, please click here to download.

From the information of Twitter, now you can have more words in twitter. They increased the characters limit to 140. Moreover, they got others improvements, such as new look of their site and better integration with media files. The new feature I love most is the related content. When I clicked a tweet, the details pane shows some more information related to the author or subject. That's great!

I tried Google Instant. Well, so far, that is not available on Google.com.au. So, I went to Google.com.
Now, I typed a few words in the search box. It will automatic fill the suggestions in the box. Not only that, the result page will pop up INSTANTLY. In addition, while I am typing, results in the page will be update too, like the image before:

That sounds a heavy weight action. But I test with IE8, that is not very slow.

Android got a very poor support from Skype. Skype has a Skype Lite in the Android Market, but they withdrew the application later on. Moreover, Fring used to be support Skype. Not long ago, I found Fring doesn't support Skype anymore. But I found another VOIP client, Truphone.

It is a "software phone". It can call out normal landline. Moreover, it supports a number of IM applications, such as GTalk, MSN, AIM and Skype too! But that is same as previous versions of Fring. It won't support SkypeOut. Anyway, that is a good replacement of fring.

Finally, I got an account for App Inventor. That is very easy to use. That is really a drag and drop development. Moreover, that is so great, most of interfaces are in web.

But that is a "strange" feature. All applications logics,such as Button Click, are done in something Block Logic. That looks like this:

That is the logic for a tip calculator. I am trying to make Label4 display "Text1 *(Text2/100)". As a programmer, I am prefer to do it in a way of code behind. In addition, I don't think this kind Block Logic can do some complex application. But that is good for doing some simple programs, such as display a RSS feed.

I found that is a new service in Gmail. Gmail can pick the important email for you. According to the video from Google about Priority Inbox of Gmail, the system will detect the importance of email by whether you reply the sender before. That sounds like not very "smart". But you can have fine tune the email by using plus and minus importance buttons. That is good enough. Well, I don't use my gmail account a lot, so I don't know how's good of this function yet. I think I will write another post later to follow up.