Unbelievable. AnkiDroid update nonsense for Android smartphone app, how to import decks

Stupid retards at  AnkiDroid decided to mess with a good thing, and they FORCED me to upgrade my version of AnkiDroid on my smartphone.  I also had to sign up with them, I used my GMAIL email address for that.

The upgrading process didn’t work, I upgraded my laptop version of AnkiDroid, and I made a copy of the AnkiDroid decks on my smartphone and put the copy on my Desktop.  It seems as though I should have let this thing upload my decks onto their servers, change the “,apkg” format, then re-download back to my smartphone.  But the process got hung up, and wouldn’t let me finish upgrading AnkiDroid, so I ended up doing everything the hard way.

Anyway, it’s become freakishly impossible to import decks into my smartphone, but I finally did it.  You need AnkiDroid on your desktop, and hopefully you copied over all your decks onto your desktop before upgrading AnkiDroid on your smartphone.

You will have to import each deck in the old format into AnkiDroid on your desktop.  It will change the format to the new “.apkg” format.  You then export a copy of the new deck to your desktop.  Then you go to your smartphone and go into AnkiDroid.  Go to Settings/More/Import Cards.  It will give you the following message:

“To import cards, place the apkg file in directory /mnt/sdcard/AnkiDroid and press ok.”

Good grief!  You can’t copy the newly-minted deck into your Phone/AnkiDroid folder, you apparently need an SD card!  Whatever.  It worked, though.

On a hunch I tried copying over the original collection of decks (the “collection”) that I exported in the new format onto my Desktop, and smartphone AnkiDroid wouldn’t recognize/open it.  So this has to be done one deck at a time.

Re-cap:

(1)  Upgrade version of AnkiDroid on Desktop.

(2)  Copy all decks from smartphone onto Desktop in separate folder.  Just copy the entire AnkiDroid folder from the smartphone onto the Desktop.

(3)  Upgrade version of AnkiDroid on smartphone using Play.Google.Com app.

(4)  Have micro SD card in smartphone.

(5)  Import individual decks from Desktop folder into AnkiDroid on Desktop.

(6)  Export each deck in new .apkg format onto Desktop.

(7) Copy newly-minted deck from Desktop into smartphone AnkiDroid folder on micro SD card.

Did I forget to say GOOD GRIEF!!!!

URGENT EDIT!!!!  I couldn’t manually add more than a single deck of cards manually.  You have to have an AnkiDroid account, and AnkiDroid on your Desktop.  From AnkiDroid on your Desktop, go to Tools/Maintenance/Full Sync.  You will have a choice of uploading from AnkiDroid on your Desktop, or downloading from your AnkiDroid account on the Web.  Once you’ve synced your decks that way, THEN go to your smartphone and click on the rightmost button at the bottom, so that you sync the smartphone with your decks on your Anki account on the Web.  You will again be asked whether you want to sync up from the smartphone or down to your smartphone from the Anki account on the Web.

GOOD GRIEF!

avast! antivirus – stop or turn off software updater – very annoying – Windows 7

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=118711.0

Go to Control Panel / Programs / Uninstall a program / Uninstall Change

Click on avast!

Then de-select the Software Updater module.

 

You’ll have to re-start your computer for the changes to take place.  As always, make sure that avast! is running when you re-boot.

Absolutely positively the ABSOLUTE BEST CRACKED.com POSTING! EVER!

http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_537_if-everything-in-life-came-with-online-customer-reviews_p26/#4

The Invention of Dr. Nakamats – strange documentary

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiro_Nakamatsu

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1708535/

I find it hard to believe that this character isn’t some kind of elaborate hoax.  He claims to have been recognized as an inventor on a par with Archimedes, Edison, and Tesla, yet his “inventions” are nonsense.  When he claimed to have invented an engine that runs on water, THAT is when I knew this was nonsense.  Anyway, it’s available for free on Hulu.  Check it out.  John V. Karavitis

How to get rid of annoying ads that show up as little red stars with white outline on Samsung Galaxy II phones

I think the answer may be here:

http://www.askmefast.com/Hi_i_have_these_little_red_stars_on_my_samsung_galaxy_s3_and_cant_turn_them_off_they_seem_to_be_pop_up_advertising_how_do_i_get_rid_of_them-qna3639653.html#q2353323\

Try going to Play Store > Settings > Uncheck notifications then scroll down and uncheck the box for Google AdMob Ads.

Jesus Christ!  Can’t we ever fully get away from this worthless advertising?!?!?!?!??!

How to change your password in stupid complicated WordPress blog

Go to Dashboard

Scroll down to USERS

Click on Personal Settings

Then Account Details

Then scroll all the way down to the bottom:

New Password

Verify New Password

 

 

Then SAVE SETTINGS.

Dean Koontz

An avid reader, Mr. John V. Karavitis lists Dean Koontz among his favorite authors. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Koontz graduated from the Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania and subsequently taught English at Mechanicsburg High School. Working on his first novel, Star Quest, in his spare time, Koontz eventually secured a publisher in 1968. Koontz continued to publish a number of books throughout the 1970s, but his breakthrough novel, Whispers, did not hit shelves until 1980. Over the past four decades, Koontz has written dozens of books that have been number one bestsellers on the New York Times Bestseller list.

John V. Karavitis is especially fond of Koontz’s Frankenstein trilogy, which includes the novels Prodigal Son, City of Night, and Dead and Alive. Drawing their inspiration from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Koontz’s novels are a modernization and exploration of the basic themes found in the original work that remain applicable to today’s society. Set in New Orleans, Louisiana, the trilogy follows protagonist Victor Frankenstein as he continues to engineer new forms of life for a variety of purposes. Whereas Frankenstein once used human body parts for his creations, he now uses modern technology to create a race of androids with downloadable personalities. The books also feature the exploits of Frankenstein’s original monster and a pair of detectives. Koontz’s Frankenstein trilogy has been adapted into a film, which aired on the USA Network, and a comic book series published by Dabel Brother Productions. In May 2010, Koontz published Lost Souls, the first book of a second Frankenstein trilogy. The next two novels are due in May 2011 and May 2012.