Aardvark is website/service that allows you to ask and answer questions. Aardvark forwards the question and tries to find person that can answer to your question.

The idea is that you send a question to aardvark and then aardvark sends the question to all people that it thinks that they may be able to answer. Aardvark knows who is the right person using tags, friends, location and good recommendation engine.

You can use Aardvark from many different applications. One way is to use Aardvark’s official website, Twitter, email, IM or iPhone app. Every of these ways to use Aardvark are nice, but the iPhone version is almost perfect.

The reason why the iPhone application is awesome, is that it uses Push feature. And that is so far the best push application that I have seen. It also makes it very easy to ask and answer questions. It is even better than the official website.

There may be some problems at first with IM client, because you are talking to the Aardvark bot, not the actually persons. But with good in-chat documentation. It is quite fast to learn.

Does it really work? Yes, if you are not going to ask anything stupid/incredible difficult, you have good changes that you get multiple good answers/opinions. Aardvark is not going to replace google as my primary information source, but in some cases I can’t live without Aardvark.

So, I recommend to at least try it

Awesome note is beautiful note taking application for iPod touch/iPhone. It is one of the coolest app I have seen. At home page of the application, there is nice list of folders where notes can be inserted. Appearance of folders and notes can be easily changed. Font size and family can also be modified.

Home screen of Awesome note

Quick memo button allows you to create notes with just tap of one button. This is very handy feature if you are in hurry and need to just type your note to something. Later you can move the quick memo to normal notes or clear it.

The reason why I bought this app was Google Docs integration. There is two options for Google Docs. First is backup/restore of all notes another is for moving documents from/to Awesome note/Google docs. And it really works! It is fast, easy and clean. Documents with formation will be automatically cleaned for Awesome note, so easy to download document from Google Docs. Making changes isn’t so easy, because the formation lost. But for uploading documents to Google Docs, this is the best app that I have seen.

There is only two  minor problems that I would like to get fixed. First is way to change background of single note, there is only one button and it will only change to next theme, so if you want that last theme on the list, you need to click the same button many times, and if you accidentally go over the background you wanted, you have to start the changing again.

Another problem is the “secure” folder. The problem with it is that it isn’t secure. If you delete folder with password and choose that you want keep the notes, you can access them without the password!

It costs 2.99e. If you need Google docs integration or just Awesome app for notes, buy it.

Check Awesome note at it website at: http://www.bridworks.com/

Ohcount and Count Lines of Code (CLOC) counts size of code project. Mostly these aren’t very useful applications, but it is fun to see that I have written 300 lines of code in couple of days.

Ohcount is used Ohloh to generate source code reports. I was disappointed to found that i can’t use Ohcount to scan whole history of my repository, it only scans current status of code.

CLOC is written in Perl and Ohcount in Ruby. It maybe little annoying to compile Ohcount from source, but it is much faster than CLOC. If you want something that is easy to install, take CLOC. But if you are going to analysis more often than once, try Ohcount.

Here is example output from CLOC:


96 text files.
83 unique files.
33 files ignored.
http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.08 T=7.0 s (8.9 files/s, 547.4 lines/s)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Language files blank comment code scale 3rd gen. equiv
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PHP      49    588   172     1950 x 3.50    = 6825.00
SQL      1     58    87      277  x 2.29     = 634.33
BASH     10    54    133     261  x 3.81     = 994.41
CSS      1     46    5       192  x 1.00     = 192.00
Python   1     2     1       6    x 4.20       = 25.20
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SUM: 62 748 398 2686 x 3.23 = 8670.94
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

And here is Ohcounts output from same file:

Examining 555 file(s)......

Ohloh Line Count Summary

Language Files Code Comment Comment % Blank Total
---------------- ----- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------
php      58    2146 219     9.3%      716  3081
sql      1     277  87      23.9%     58   422
html     60    242  1       0.4%      38   281
css      1     192  5       2.5%      46   243
python   1     6    1       14.3%     2    9
---------------- ----- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------
Total 121      2863 313     9.9%      860  4036

- Gestalts -------------------------------------------------------------------
Platforms: PHP, SQL, Scripting

Yep. There is some difference on results. I don’t know which one is more accurate.

I haven’t posted for a while because I have coded my main project. It isn’t public, but I will blog about it when it is ready. I try to blog more often.

My last post about world war made up big flood of code spammers, but there were some people that wanted to cheat. That’s evil and should not be done. But some peoples wants to play World War on computer. I think that isn’t evil, but storm8 (creator of this game) may not like…

So this may get you banned. You have been warned.

There is a fully working application for playing this game (and others) on computer. It is easy to set up and works very well. There is also some kind of trigger systems that helps playing and automates boring stuff.

http://forums.lavarsicious.com

This site requires registration, if you are not able to register to their site, you are noob and you should not try to use this app.

And here is screenshot of the ToolSuite application:

Ye. My nickname is on the screenshot, but so what? I am not addicted to this game anymore.

Big thanks to Flush for sending me the link to this app.

Istat is a iPod touch/iPhone app developed by bjango. With istat you can remotely monitor ram/mem/disk usage of your home computers or remote servers.

Istat server is available for mac and Linux. Linux version must be compiled manually, but it isn’t very difficult task if you have compiled stuff before. One difference on Linux version is that you can’t track temperatures. There is no support for windows.

You can track:

• Mem usage
• CPU usage
• Disk usage
• Net usage
• Uptime
• Load
• Temperatures

You can also view information from your iPod/iPhone. One cool feature is “free memory”. With free memory command you can clear iPods/iPhones memory and make it run faster. (?) You also find id number and mac address.

There is also good traceroute and ping tools. Only thing I would like to have is pinging range of ip:s.

This app is now on sale 1.5e and it is worth of that 1.5e