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Simon Tatham's Puzzles on Android

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

This is a port of Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection, a collection of 40 single-player logic games. It’s free, with no ads, and is playable offline. All games are generated on demand with adjustable size and difficulty, so you’ll never run out of puzzles.

The puzzle of the cancel button

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Regular readers will know I’m responsible for the Android port of Simon Tatham’s Puzzles, and that it’s been a few years since I updated it. I’ve just discovered a dilemma that will unfortunately complicate the process further.

ScanSnap iX100 + Android hotspot

Sat, 01 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Here’s a quick tip to make this mobile scanner more conveniently mobile.

How to open Tumblr links in their app

Sun, 13 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Do you have Tumblr’s Android app? Are you annoyed that links to Tumblr posts nevertheless open in a browser, whereupon they nag you to use their app? UPDATE: Some time in March(?) 2016, the Tumblr app itself started offering to handle URLs of Tumblr posts. Unfortunately it seems to only open the relevant blog showing most recent posts, not the post that was linked to. The same problem now manifests when I open a post via my redirector.

Supercalifragilistic-social-aggregation

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Back in March, I complained about a crowded notification drawer, and hey, look, they fixed it. (Even if any given app isn’t on board with this yet, hello apktool/baksmali, bye bye notification icon.) So, clearly I should complain more often. :-)

Android "foreground service" notifications

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000

So, hands up if your notification bar looks like this…