"Tim Watts" wrote in message
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On 14/03/15 19:27, john james wrote:


"Tim Watts" wrote in message
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On 14/03/15 19:12, john james wrote:


"Tim Watts" wrote in message
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On 14/03/15 18:40, john james wrote:

It's easy enough to add that by encrypting it before Google sees it.

I would not call that "easy".

There are systems around that do that completely automatically, so very
easy.

Android, Chromebook and Linux clients?

Yes.


Could you suggest any?

https://www.boxcryptor.com/

Haven't tried it, someone suggested it recently and it looked
interesting because I had been considering doing that myself.

Not that I have anything that matters much on any cloud,
more just as something to suggest to those who refuse to
use a cloud under any circumstances because their stuff
isn't secured. Some are surprisingly paranoid about them.

I do use them myself, but just for completely automatic
availability of stuff that I do use on the phones which is
almost always prepared on the desktop systems, mostly
extracts from the databases of stuff like clothes sizes,
best prices I have seen for stuff I buy much of etc.

I am genuinely interested - I couldn't locate any with much googling...

Haven't tried looking myself, but presumably putting
that rather unique name should show some competitors.

I'm also looking for an RSS reader that can prefetch the linked story as a
web page and cache it - to deal with the spectacularly poor RSS feeds on
british media that put about 1 sentence in the RSS description!

Don’t do that myself, I use the podcast system on the phone
and our national govt radio broadcaster for stuff to listen to
when walking for exercise.

(There are quite a lot of things that I wonder "why does this not exist"?

Yeah, I just discover that the phone won't do video with no audio,
you have to post process and strip the audio, pretty crude.

I guess I should brush up on my Android programming and write one...

Trouble is that that can be a lot of work. The only game I
play is Freecell Pro and I'd love to have that on the phone,
but it’s a lot of work, particularly for the solver that that has.

I did dabble with hacking on some open source app once - an alarm clock.

I've done that with Win but a combination stop watch, count down
timer with the commonly used times as buttons. Better than anything
I can find for the phone which I do use for some stuff I do quite a bit
like the spirits distilling which has some rather complex timer ops
but haven't yet got off my arse and done it for the phone which
would be the most handy when doing the distilling.

I managed to hack on the features I wanted (and offered them back to the
author). Trouble I found, apart from having to run up that monstrosity,
eclipse, is there is a bugger of a lot of stuff in even a trvial app just
to make the very basics work.

Yeah, that's the problem with Freecell and the timer, and it irritates
the hell out of me that it shouldn’t be necessary to do all that again
particularly the basic user interface stuff that you need with the phone.