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Interesting Links for 17-6-2011

• Some answers to just about any bike forum post I’ve ever read (applies elsewhere too)
  (tags: cycling advice)
• Android Public Service Announcement: Stop Using Task Killer Apps – NOW
  (tags: android mobile_phones)
• UK welfare fraud is at 0.8%. Remind me why it's a big deal?
  (tags: welfare fraud uk)
• Scientists record and replay memories in rats.
  (tags: memory technology cybernetics TheFuture)
• A new process for cement that is carbon-negative (unlike most cement, which produces oodles of CO2)
  (tags: cement technology construction cartoon)
• An amazing dance pose. Damned impressive.
  (tags: dance art photos)
• More details on the Apple Patent for passing info through infra-red signals. Has some fascinating uses.
  (tags: apple patents mobile)
• Edinburgh is in the middle of nowhere. Click. Then zoom out. And again. And again...
  (tags: edinburgh google maps funny)
• Heart With No Beat Offers Hope Of New Lease On Life
  (tags: health heart technology)
• Duke Nukem Forever Castrates the Male Ideal
  (tags: dukenukem funny feminism)
• Republican New York Senator Comes Out For Gay Marriage With Awesome Quote. More like this please.
  (tags: usa lgbt politics marriage)
• Kinect for Windows SDK released. Shame about the license.
  (tags: kinect microsoft sdk)
• Rob Zombie Has Made an advert for laundry detergent. It looks exactly how you'd think it would.
  (tags: RobZombie advert horror)
• Apple to ban iPhone gig filming
  (tags: apple iphone censorship music concerts EpicFail HopefullyUntrue)
• Alex Salmond’s silence on banking is “elephant in room” for Scottish independence
  (tags: banking scotland independence)
• New Statesman interview Alan Moore: "I've disproved the existence of death"
  (tags: alanmoore writing books)
• Reduced solar output will not cause a little ice age.
  (tags: solar sun climate)
• Woman tries to hire hitman via Facebook. About as successful as you'd expect.
  (tags: EpicFail facebook crime)
• MP demands government rethink on Digital Economy Act
  (tags: internet uk politics)

How to find out which apps are using your network on Android

Dial *#*#4636#*#*

When you enter that last * it should automatically switch to a view used for testing/debugging.

Go to "Battery History"

Change the top menu to "Network usage".

There ya go!

Took me ages to track that down. It was very frustrating, as no applications seem to actually display this info in a useful manner. And even this view doesn't give you numbers of bytes, just a graph with no numbers on it.

Anyone got a way of tracking down better information?