===偶素混个先===

Outlook几乎是事实上的邮件、日程、联系人标准集成应用了。我们公司已经令人瞠乎其后的用上了Outlook 2010。公司邮件理所当然的是在Outlook里进行整理。我们公司还有一个Enterprise Vault 服务，用来将超过一定时间（默认一周）的邮件进行自动的服务器端归档。但是这个功能被我“关闭”了。我将Outlook的邮件都手工的归档到我的另一个位于当地的PST文件中，同时每周会主动将所有我发出的邮件也转移到同一个PST文件里。邮件的搜索我是采用Copernic Desktop Search。

我的日程安排比较紧，而且大都是公司的会议、培训安排，所以我自然必须将我的日程创建在Outlook的Calendar里。同时，由于用手机或者WEB登录的方式创建Google上的私人事项比较麻烦，我也渐渐习惯在Outlook里放入我个人的日程安排。

同时，我必须在家中的电脑里也能通过Thunderbird的日历插件来显示我的日程安排，但是这个日历插件只能看Google Calendar的日程。所以，我又装了一个Google Calendar的同步插件。这个插件用来同步我的Outlook日程和Google日程。

我的Nexus One手机上，我可以同步显示两个日程表里的日程安排。

So far so good.

我还有一个iPad 2。

在iPad 2上我可以很轻松的浏览我的邮件（当然被我转移到笔记本当地PST中的邮件是看不到的），日程也可以轻松浏览。

iOS升级到5之后，我也尝试在我的Outlook中安装iCloud同步。我本来的想法很简单：也许我可以通过iCloud.com，用另一种装B的方式来浏览我的日程、联系人。

访问iCloud的速度我们先放在一边。

问题在于，苹果在iCloud的设计初衷上，完全不是作为一个“同步”插件出现的。暗转iCloud插件后，它先创建了一个属于iCloud的Outlook日程文件夹，我所有的日程如果不是创建在这个文件夹中，是根本无法被同步到iCloud中的。这个文件夹中的日程是和我公司其它日程安排完全处于两个不同、不通的文件夹中的！

这是一个多么脑残而霸道的决定啊！

测试到这个时候，我就毅然放弃了进一步的测试和试用，因为这完全和我公司的行为准则背道而驰。我是根本不可能去维护两个日程表的！

iCloud既然是云端服务，理应给予用户充分的自由度，选择同步哪个日程啊！这样才有“云”的好处啊！

The most application that I use on N1 is Email. Android 2.X supports Exchange accounts. This is really a must have for my office emails. How can I access my office mails without a handy client, using web access? Come on, buddy, you must be kidding me.

The N1 Email client is just good enough for me: synchronization with my office email account, compose a quick reply on the fly. All are done transparently with some settings that are not those that can only be done by a veteran geek. This is good.

Also, it synchronizes my contacts, both in gmail.com and in my Exchange directory. This saves me a lot of time wondering where I should put my new contacts.

Of course, it has some fallbacks. First of all, it does not support a customized signature saying “Sent from my N1″. You know how much I envy when I read a message with a “Sent from my iPhone” or “Sent from my Blackberry” signature? I wish I could do that on my N1 and I am willing to pay for this simple feature! (p.s. I had done a search in Android Market and find this application which seems to fit my requirement: Touchdown. It will cost me $20 so I will keep on evaluating for another 29 days!)

Another frequently used application is my Twidroid (an Tweet-like client but connected to BT group’s own chat server running Status.net). With this application, I can stay tuned and online chatting with my buddies and get a catch on what is going on and share my findings.

There are also some other applications that I use almost equally often: Gmail, GTalk, Maps, Handcent SMS, 3banana, Camera.

These applications themselves are fully functional but the best part of it is that they are fully integated.

When I was in Zhangjiajie joining the company’s vacation, I opened 3banana and created a note and quickly wrote down my comments, opened up the camera to take a shot of the scenes that I would like to share, and then sync to my 3banana server, and finally, share it with my BT friends with Twidroid! If I were not not using an N1, I could only have done this many, many hours later and will be much more troublesome.

Another example. I used to keep two calendars: one for my office and another for my personal activities. This approach is not so good. Why should I keep two calendars when I am only available for one thing at one particular time slot?

With N1, I can seamlessly synchronize my calendar events with my Google Calendar (on web) and with the help of a simple standalone program running on my notebook, I can synchronize my calendar with my Outlook too! This has removed my last headache in combing two calendars.

Now I can accpet an appointment initiated from my colleagues in Outlook and after synchronization, within a few minutes, my N1 will show this event too; or I can create my home/personal events at home in my desktop’s Thunderbird application and after a few minutes, this entry will show up in my N1 and later (after synchronization) in my Outlook Calendar as well.

This is really fitting my needs.

Mobile phones was considered to be a tool only. But this tool is now getting stronger and changing my life style.

Before N1, I can hardly imagine that an old man as I am, an absolute non Gen-Y people, could adopt to these new stuffs so quickly and readily. I mean, I know these applications exist but I am not using them because a simple task is very much torn apart and will take my much intervene to make it happen.

N1 makes it cooler.

1. First of all, get an Android Map API Key from Google.

This actually involves two steps.

Firstly, you will have to create a key store to sign your Android application. This is quite easy and straightforward.

Secondly, apply an Android Map Key from Google: http://code.google.com/intl/zh-CN/android/maps-api-signup.html. To make this work, you have to know where is your key store file is located (as created in the above step) and also have the JDK tool named keytool. From the command line, type:

   keytool -list -keystore the-path-to-your-key-store-file

It will prompt you to enter the password to the key store and will generate a MD5 finger print for this particular key store file. Copy this MD5 finger print to the above URI and Google will give you the Android Map API Key immediately. It is strongly suggested to save this Key information.

2. Create an Android application.

Note: It must be created with target set to: “Google APIs”. You should not set the application target to “Android x.x” or it will not be running properly.

Note: The target of the AVD that runs the map application must also be set to “Google APIs”.

The coding of the application is actually quite simple. There are only two points to be highlighted:

1. The application must be granted ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION and ACCESS_INTERNET permissions;

2. The mapview controll used in the view must be provided with the API key generated in Step 1. It will look something like this:

<com.google.android.maps.MapView
   android:id="@+id/myMapView"
   android:layout_width="fill_parent"
   android:layout_height="fill_parent"
   android:enabled="true"
   android:clickable="true"
   android:apiKey="your api key here"
/>

With these settings, the map application can eventually run successfully. However, in my implementation, the map shown in my AVD is only grids, no actuall maps at all. But in real machine (mine is Nexus One), the application is running correctly.

On January 12, we announced on this blog that Google and more than twenty other U.S. companies had been the victims of a sophisticated cyber attack originating from China, and that during our investigation into these attacks we had uncovered evidence to suggest that the Gmail accounts of dozens of human rights activists connected with China were being routinely accessed by third parties, most likely via phishing scams or malware placed on their computers. We also made clear that these attacks and the surveillance they uncovered—combined with attempts over the last year to further limit free speech on the web in China including the persistent blocking of websites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google Docs and Blogger—had led us to conclude that we could no longer continue censoring our results on Google.cn.

…

Figuring out how to make good on our promise to stop censoring search on Google.cn has been hard. We want as many people in the world as possible to have access to our services, including users in mainland China, yet the Chinese government has been crystal clear throughout our discussions that self-censorship is a non-negotiable legal requirement.

–Source: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-approach-to-china-update.html

The motivation for this move is straightforward:

The cyber attacks from China on those Gmail accounts, and the non-negotiable legal requirement for self-censorship to operate in China.

The result is also clear:

We believe this new approach of providing uncensored search in simplified Chinese from Google.com.hk is a sensible solution to the challenges we’ve faced—it’s entirely legal and will meaningfully increase access to information for people in China.

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Well, there are still certain logic inferences I have to make myself clear.

The simplest fact that can be established is that: there WAS censorship in Google.cn search results in the past. Google is fully aware of this. I am also not THAT naive to believe that the cracking on Gmail accounts just occurred this once in last December.

My questions will be: why Google decided to pull out NOW? What is acutally Google trying to defend and preserve?

Well, it is obviously not the censorship thing as we all know Google.cn has been running under censorship for years. It is the cracking issue, aka, intrusion to personal privacy that Google really wants to defend. And there is no crystal clear relationship between censorship and cracking! I mean, cracking does not necessarily mean a search engine should run under censorship or un-censorship!

Will the move of Google.cn to google.com.hk help to stop the cracking? I don’t think so.

Besides, the Google mail service is all the while being served outside of China.

THE LOGIC SIMPLY DOES NOT FOLLOW.

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I can’t stop myself from imaging this scene inside of my head. It is from the famous trilogy by Italo Calvino Our Ancestors: The Baron in the Trees （I nostri antenati）, that wonderful, admirable, unique boy: Kozmo (I am not if my spelling is correct). He decided to move onto the tree and never touch the ground again after some quarrel with his family.

Well, I do believe, Kozmo’s move is more logical.

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Nevertheless, I still admire Google’s boldness in making this decision. A uncensored search engine will allow me to explore more when I want. It is definitely a right thing to do for any search engine.

We are now more and more dependent on search engines and the sites a good search engine recommends when we key in a phrase. This is remarkable. As my wife had correctly pointed out, after my purchasing of one dictionary and one encyclopedia, “Who is reading these books now?” Yes, she is absolutely right. I am depending on a good search engine, in most of the cases which is Google, to provide me the righteous results. Now I am even happier to learn that it is not censored anymore.

Being transparent is the first and perhaps the most important step to take to “Be No Evil”. Censorship is evil by itself so applying censorship is helping to do evil. And in Chinese, we have an idiom for that: 为虎作伥 , which can be translated as: “after being eaten by a tiger, you still serve the tiger to help him to hunt for more innocent people.”

Transparancy has never become so important in such a enclosed, corrupted land. It has proven itself to be a great and efficient tool.

It just reminds me another theme from another famous writer, Milan Kundera. In his novel Immortality, when at the end, he wrote about how Agnes yearned to hold a piece of Forget-Me-Not in her hand as the last, un-noticed symbol of beauty.

Transparent is beautiful.

Nevertheless, it will mark a giant milestone in China’s Internet (or, to be more precise, Intranet) history.

Well, the final result is not out yet. But I would like to make my personal statement here:

I am trying very, very hard not to trigger the G-point of the f*cking GFW and thus my blog is full of techniques, books, my lifes, movies, musics, travels, etc.

Strictly, no political stuffs.

Yet, I am still becoming the victim of this f*cking censorship: my personal server was blocked because GFW blocked access to port 80. I can try another port, say 1984 or 1989. But fewer people will be able to do that just to get access to my site.

I have to transfer all my files and web service to outside of the wall.

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Now, since the censorship is actually hurting a used-to-be “good” people. I decided to be evil.

And now, coupling with the declaration from Google, I hereby make the following statements:

1. If Google pulls out of China – you know what I mean – I will stop my blog composition in Chinese and will solely compose my blog in English;
2. As I have already been hurt by trying to be good, I will be evil in your (the GFW’s) eyes.  I am already hurt, you can’t hurt me further.

我很愿意将Google Android Phone（特别的，是指我现在所使用的Nexus One）称为“革命性”的。

如今有了N1，我的工作方式有了很大的一些不同。

每天我都要花费将近两个小时在路上去上班或者回家。这两个小时原本是我脱离网络的时刻。回到家后，我也很少打开我的笔记本。现在不一样了。

和前令狐就Android的使用进行了一番简短的讨论，得出的结论是，我和他使用Android手机的模式不完全一样，或者说完全不一样。

在我的应用模式中，一切还是以公司的Outlook为主。我通过Android收取我们公司Exchange的邮件，同步联系人，并通过一个Google官方桌面应用来同步我的Outlook日历和Google Calendar。这样一来，所谓PIM应用中的三大件：邮件、联系人、行程都可以统一了起来。这个对我是至关重要的。在我的老板、老板的老板都“以身作则”的随时随地收发邮件的前提下，我也似乎必须做到这点。当你能在晚上10点甚至11点的时候回复邮件的时候，这表明了一种姿态，一种“我随时随地都在工作”的姿态。

打电话也是日常最重要的事情之一。所以，我需要一个很好的Dialer（或者Contacts）程序。在前令狐的推荐下，我使用了“智能拨号”这个国产软件。虽然还不是尽如人意——甚至我开玩笑说准备自己开发一个——但是我已经满足了。迅速找到我要找的联系人，然后拨出号码，是必须的。而我的工作环境决定了我会同时有纯中文联系人和纯英文联系人这两种情形。

在别的时候，我更多的是浏览新闻和BT群聊天室。在众多程序的帮助下，我能轻易做到这点。我在这样的情形下不追求完备，只追求及时。

N1的出现，确实改变了我的工作、娱乐方式。

Google Nexus One真机

N1上我没有装太多的软件。更多的时候还是用内置的软件。以下我仅根据我的使用感受对系统软件和我安装的软件做个简单的介绍。所有的外装程序都是免费的。

Name: 1 SHOT APPLAUSE
Url: http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:com.nnsw.app.nApplause
这个是一个Widget，在桌面有一个小图标，按下它就会发出一段掌声。纯粹是娱乐用的。

Name: 3banana
Url: http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:com.threebanana.notes
这个软件值得推荐。从本质上说，它是个便条软件。它可以记录下你写这个便条的GPS位置，同时也可以让你附加一张照片。你还可以用Google帐号登录它的Snaptic服务，将你的便条和大家分享，还可以推一条信息到Twitter（或者类似的客户端）去，让你的好友第一时间浏览。

Name: Advanced Task Killer Free
Url: http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:com.rechild.advancedtaskkiller
这个强烈推荐。应该是必装的软件。顾名思义，就是用来杀掉Android进程的东西。

Name: aPlayer
Url: http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:com.android123.aPlayer
这个是我现在用的视频播放。界面比较简单，够用。

Name: App to QR
Url: http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:com.javielinux.apptoqr
这个软件用来导出你的机器上装了什么软件。用来装反d或者分享给好友是不错的。

Name: ASTRO
Url: http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:com.metago.astro
这个是Android上的文件管理器，推荐安装。

Name: BBC News
Url: http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:net.jimblackler.newswidget
我用来看BBC新闻。

Name: Bell Widget
Url: http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:com.appspot.swisscodemonkeys.bellwidget
这个也是个桌面Widget，按下后会发出清脆的“叮”的一声。纯属娱乐。

Name: Bible Verses
Url: http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:com.rm.android.bible
每次随机给出一段圣经里的内容。

Name: Bubble
Url: http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:bz.ktk.bubble
这个用来测试墙面、桌面是否水平。蛮有意思的一个小程序。

Name: Chess
Url: http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:jwtc.android.chess
Name: Chess Mate practice
Url: http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:jwtc.android.chess.matepractice
这两个程序是我用来闲着的时候下国际象棋用的。

Name: Compass
Url: http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:com.apksoftware.compass
这是个罗盘程序。用来找方向还是不错的。

Name: ConnectBot
Url: http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:org.connectbot
这个是Android上的SSH软件。不过说实话没有什么用，因为屏幕太小，也不支持屏幕转动同时需要在本程序主界面中设置一下才能支持转屏（谢谢harry的指正）。我用来测试我家里的网络是不是通而已。

Name: DailyStrip
Url: http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:com.fusetree.android.dailyStrip
我用这个看Dilbert的漫画。

Name: Dialer One
Url: http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:kz.mek.DialerOne
几乎可以用来替换内置Dialer和Contacts程序的程序。如果能加强中文的T9搜索会更了不起。

Name: Documents To Go
Url: http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:com.dataviz.docstogo
免费版可以用来看Word和Excel文件（支持Office 2007）。付费版可以看PowerPoint和PDF。

Name: fring
Url: http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:com.fring
我用它连接我的MSN和Skype。

Name: Quickpedia
Url: http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:com.nextmobileweb.quickpedia
这个软件被downlod.com推荐。但是download.com似乎忘记了，Wikipedia大量使用SVG作为图片资源，而Android是不支持SVG的……

Name: Sokoban
Url: http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:com.google.android.sokoban
小游戏。闲的蛋疼的时候玩玩。

Name: Tulip Reader
Url: http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:com.nvp2.treader
相比iReader，它对PDB文件的支持似乎略好一些。

Name: Twidroid
Url: http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:com.twidroid
这个就不用说了，用来上Twitter或者我们的BT群聊天室。它支持所有支持Twitter API的服务器，比如基于Status.net的服务。

Name: WordPress
Url: http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:org.wordpress.android
可以用来在手机上写博客。顺便推荐一个WordPress插件WP2Laconica。在你的WP后台激活该插件后，你每次发布一个博客，就会同时推一条信息到你配置的Laconica服务中去。

Name: 南周阅读器
Url: http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:net.coollet.infzmreader
看看《南方周末》吧……

Name: 手机电视
Url: http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:dopool.player
可以看一些电视频道，而且大部分是我这里的收费以及缴费也看不到的节目！建议用Wi-Fi看，不要用GPRS……

Name: 搜狗输入法
Url: http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:com.sohu.inputmethod.sogou
装机必备。我没有用谷歌输入法，是因为我桌面机也用搜狗，这样我可以同步我的词库。

Name: 条码扫描器
Url: http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:com.google.zxing.client.android
这个可以推荐一下。它搜索书籍信息时是很准确的。

大概就是这么些了。实在惭愧……

外形

应该说，N1的外形设计比较中规中矩。也许是因为之前在网络上照片已经看多了，等我拿到手的时候，不觉得有什么出奇的地方。

使用了这些时间后，感觉如下。

Track Ball（轨迹球）：

• 那个Track Ball除了在提示有来电、有短信的时候发出的那幽幽白光还算有点作用之外，其余的绝大部分时候，它就是个摆设。
• 首先，没有什么软件被定义为“必须使用轨迹球”操作；
• 其次，这个轨迹球的操控性非常差。我只是轻轻往下一转，想看看列表中往后的内容，结果就莫名其妙的退出了界面，回到之前的界面去了。
• 这个应该不是轨迹球接触时行程太小的缘故。如果你确实非常小心的玩那个球——呃——那么你会注意到滚动和按下的这两个动作区别还是很大的，而且按下的行程相当长。

四个导航按钮：

• “返回”、“菜单”、“主界面”、“查找”这四个导航按钮一直是Android手机的一个特色。我个人认为这样的设置还是很有想法的。
• N1也承认，由于设计上的原因，那个“返回”按钮可能不怎么容易按到。不过实际应用中，问题还不止如此。几乎所有的导航按钮都很难按到，没有那种“我按下按钮，你执行命令”的感觉。
• 我使用的是搜狗中文输入。在竖屏、使用T9输入法输入汉字时——包括在输入英文时、切换中英文输入时、切换键盘以准备输入标点、纯数字时——都会很容易误触到“主界面”按钮。这个当然和我的手指比较粗大有一定的关系，不过N1的设计者确实应该仔细考虑考虑一下这个布局了。我不会设计，不过我还是画张草图示意一下。

Nexus One外形示意

从左边这张示意图，大概可以看到在输入中文时：

1. 左侧的常用标点符号的“自然”接触点和“返回”按钮的“自然”接触点几乎在同一直线上。我画的还不够好。在实际上，那个“?”和下面返回按钮的图形确实在一个垂直线上。我这里说的“自然”接触点是说你看到这个键后最自然而然会接触的那个位置。

2. “符号”键盘切换键和菜单按钮、“拼音/英文”切换按钮和主菜单按钮以及搜索按钮也有一点垂直线重合问题。

音量调节按钮

N1的音量调节按钮在机身左侧靠上的位置。问题来了：

在充电时，机身下方是USB充电插口，所以基本上是有个小尾巴拖在那里。我没有用过Deck，但是想来情形差不多。也就是说，在这样的情况下，要拿起手机的时候，从下往上拿、或者说拿机器的下半部是不怎么自然的。反正我的习惯是从机器的上半部去把手机拎起来。这样的话，要么我的大拇指、要么我的中指/无名指（这取决于我拎N1的时候手的方向）就会触碰到那个音量按钮中的一个——我个人的体验是那个“音量减”的按钮会被误碰的几率大一些。

我个人认为这是由于音量加减按钮过于灵敏、键程过短造成的问题。

听话话筒

这个听话话筒在机身正面几乎最顶端，只有那么华丽的一小条……在听话时，我发现总是很难把那一小条对准我的耳朵。所以常常听不见别人在说什么，要上上下下左右左右的调节一番，才会找到最合适的接听位置。

照相机

N1的照相机有500万像素。但是从实际拍摄来看，效果很一般，笑点很奇怪。我就不放样张上来了。

其它

由于N1的CPU主频高达1G，所以速度是有保证的。在播放视频、收看在线电视的时候，确实能体现出其强劲。

N1对Wi-Fi的支持应该说比较强大。不过据一位朋友反映，N1对AP的信道号有特殊的“爱好”，有可能会出现11信道下的AP无法被N1扫描到的情况。解决方法也很简单，重设AP的无线信道号为9或者其它即可。另外，N1在Wi-Fi连接时默认WEP加密使用的是26位HEX字符，可以调整，不过不怎么直观。

N1待机时间确实很短。在一般的“网络”应用下——不是那种大强度的多媒体应用——我基本上要每天充它一次。

N1来电铃声比较轻，别说在大街上，就是在稍微嘈杂一些的室内或者在衣兜里都有可能听不见铃声。强烈建议，如果你不想错过来自老板、来自MM/GG的电话，请设置响铃时同时震动。

音乐回放音质基本可以满意。用我的JBL Reference 410进行了一些试听，总体感觉失真较小，但是也谈不上有什么特别的。这当然不是耳机的问题。对于这样一个本身就不该被作为MP3的手机来说，有这样的回放效果我已经可以接受了。

屏幕效果非常好。字体选择优秀，感觉应该是微软雅黑……哈哈！触控、多点触控效果流畅。虽然有iPhone的使用者看过后说“好像亮度不够”，不过我以“我没有调到最高亮度”进行了回击——确实也是没有调到最高亮度。

今天的感受主要集中在硬件部分。下次再放软件部分的使用感受。

在中国正如火如荼开展着的反低俗活动昨日取得了重大成就。

广大中国网民积极响应政府的反低俗号召，自觉抵制含有大量低俗内容的Google搜索引擎以及其相关的服务（如Gmail，Google Reader，Google Talk）。数以亿计的网民不约而同停止使用其搜索引擎和相关服务，造成这些相关站点在21时至22时之间的访问流量急剧下降，直到为零。

中国互联网管理中心发言人说，这次的抵制活动完全是网民的自愿活动，没有任何官方组织进行策划和参与。同时他表示，有理由相信，这一流量的剧减，是网民间通过各种手段互相通知、互相自觉参与而导致的直接后果。发言人再次重申，这充分证明了中国政府的立场和中国网民的立场是一致的，其倡导的反低俗活动和广大网民的意愿是一致的。他最后严正警告Google公司，必须采取切实有力的措施，清理广大低俗的内容。他表示，只要Google公司这么做了，广大网民一定会非常乐意重新使用Google提供的服务。

本社随即在网络上随机采访了几位网民。来自广州佛山的”我不翻墙”的网友表示，是该给Google一些教训；而沈阳的”百度挺好的”网友表示：中国网民可以对Google说”不”！

截止本稿发布时，Google方面还没有做出任何官方的答复。相关联络人员的手机都处于呼叫转移或秘书台状态。

本社将继续关注此次事态发展，并将提供及时的后续报道。