Crikey, I've not posted here for a while.
Since the last post 6 months ago here's what I've been up to, in no particular order:
For the same price (1€ per month) I got a pre-paid data plan on Simyo here in Spain, and with internet-based messaging apps I can send all the messages I wanted at no additional cost. I had to pay about 10€ up front for a new micro SIM, but it came with 10€ of pre-paidness anyway. The only bummer is that I could have achieved the same 100Mb deal for free from our ISP, but they only give out a 2nd mobile line to new customers. Apparently if you're an old-time customer and threaten to cancel they'll give you the 2nd line, but I'm worried they'll call my bluff!
The reason I mention all this is that having now used an Android device as a phone daily, rather than just having it at home in WiFi-only mode (I'm looking at you HTC Magic and your 4-hour battery life), has made me think of a couple of things that I could code up.
The first is a native Android application, a boring one with nothing to do with games. There are enough games on Android already, right? The second thing is a tiny Firefox-for-Android addon to disable Javascript, which I think should have been in this mobile Firefox by default anyway. The former needs a bit of polishing still, while the latter is in the queue at Mozilla Towers awaiting review.
Since the last post 6 months ago here's what I've been up to, in no particular order:
- Several releases of Chaos to fix a slew of bugs (other versions)
- A couple of releases of Lords of Midnight 8-bit version to remove an Android permission
- A new release of the Android NDK Profiler with contributions from Sjoerd Meijer to fix some major bugs and add executable support
- Patches for folders2flickr, which is a handy command line tool to backup photos to flickr
- Updates to my Thunderbird "Smiley Fixer" plugin for a new type of mess-up I came across in Outlook-generated emails.
For the same price (1€ per month) I got a pre-paid data plan on Simyo here in Spain, and with internet-based messaging apps I can send all the messages I wanted at no additional cost. I had to pay about 10€ up front for a new micro SIM, but it came with 10€ of pre-paidness anyway. The only bummer is that I could have achieved the same 100Mb deal for free from our ISP, but they only give out a 2nd mobile line to new customers. Apparently if you're an old-time customer and threaten to cancel they'll give you the 2nd line, but I'm worried they'll call my bluff!
The reason I mention all this is that having now used an Android device as a phone daily, rather than just having it at home in WiFi-only mode (I'm looking at you HTC Magic and your 4-hour battery life), has made me think of a couple of things that I could code up.
The first is a native Android application, a boring one with nothing to do with games. There are enough games on Android already, right? The second thing is a tiny Firefox-for-Android addon to disable Javascript, which I think should have been in this mobile Firefox by default anyway. The former needs a bit of polishing still, while the latter is in the queue at Mozilla Towers awaiting review.
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