So, I got a Droid, which for me, meant that I had to start learning the Android SDK. In my opinion, the best way to learn something like this is to write an application. It's how Exaile and JBother came to be, and now, it's how SupaCount came to be.

I bought myself the first generation iPhone about 8 days after it came out, and have followed the upgrade path (getting the 3G and 3Gs as soon as they were available) clear up until about a week and a half ago, when I jumped ship from AT&T. I love the iPhone. Sure, there are some things that bother me about it, but it really was good to me. Especially now, that a lot of the features I was missing in a phone were suddenly there (copy & paste, MMS, etc).

Repost from exaile.org:

Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) is out today!

The Utah OpenSource Conference went underway yesterday. I thought I'd share my experiences and thoughts here as the con progresses.

For whatever reason (I can only assume it has to do with the product being released /after/ Ubuntu 9.04 came out) the Ubuntu devs have decided to call Firefox 3.5 "Shiretoko". You can install alongside your regular Firefox installation by typing @aptitude install firefox-3.5@ and you can run it by typing @firefox-3.5@. That's all well and good, except that the User-Agent string is set to:

This month is my company's national convention. This combined with a secret project I'm working on after hours means I basically have no time to work on Exaile until October. So, no thanks to me, Exaile 0.3.0.1 has been released. This one is brought to you by the other members of the team, and is a bugfix release for 0.3.0. This includes fixing the bug that was causing 0.2.14->0.3 migration problems for most people. Enjoy!

Yup, you probably heard it here last. I've been super busy irl, and just haven't had the time to throw up a blog entry just yet, but 0.3.0 final is out and you can grab it from the Exaile downloads page.

Yeah, that's right.

Check out http://www.exaile.org for more information.

I purchased an HP 1030NR, because, IMHO, they are the sexiest netbooks currently on the market. They are sleek, lightweight, and they don't have a wonkey keyboard layout like some netbooks (I'm looking at you, ASUS).

I've installed Ubuntu on my netbook twice today (don't ask). Probably like the rest of you, part of installing Ubuntu involves going through and changing all of the moronic settings that Gnome comes with as default. This includes changing the default terminal background from white to black, changing font sizes, setting toolbars to "icon only", setting up hotkeys, etc.

Xubuntu has been rethinking their default applications for their next release, Karmic. Personally, I think it's great, but not just because of the topic of this article.

Next Tuesday (July 28th) starting at 14:00 GMT (7:00 am MST) the Exaile team will be hosting the very first Exaile bugday. Our goal will be to hammer out as many bugs as we possibly can. SiDi has set up a Launchpad Group that will have it's own branch (based from the 0.3 trunk) so that people wanting to participate will be able to commit their changes.

Exaile development has been very active in the past few weeks. We are working very hard to make our August goal. As well as picking up mathbr as a developer, we've had quite a few contributors adding/fixing a lot of things. If you're like me, this screenshot makes you drool (click on it to get a larger view):

Don't worry, we're still here, and still hard at work. I thought I would give an update since it's been quite a while since the last one.

After beating Enigmo in the iPhone, I was eager for more. I'm a sucker for these type of games. I downloaded the demo of the Windows version of Enigmo 2, and, to my delight, it works great out of the box in Wine! It's got tons more doodads and etc than the iPhone version, so I'd say it's a perfect upgrade path if you like that game.

Go to "Settings", "Messages" and set "Repeat Alert" to "Off". Enough said.

So, work got me a Sony PRS-700 for being awesome, which is awesome, so here are my thoughts so far.

I got an email from Amazon today saying that they were changing some things in their API. Aside from changing the name of the services from "Amazon Web Service" to "Product Advertising API", by August 15th, they are requiring that users of the API send the previously optional HMAC signature when authenticating. What does this mean to you?

That's right, it's been one year as of today.