Andreas Raab has announced a new home for some work he’s been doing recently to port Squeak to the Android platform:

http://code.google.com/p/squeak-android-vm/

Compaq Airlife 100 smartbook runs Android

Recently I saw this new Smartbook on Engadget.  Its really nice except the fact that it is Compaq.  But then I realized.  There is a whole market for Android Tablets and Smartbooks.  These large screen devices are running android and can run Android’s apps.

When Songbird Mobile is made, how would it adapt to this screen size?  Would there have to be a new app?  If we make a built in ability to change to the screen size of a laptop or large tablet would the app’s performance drop or the size of the app increase due to compatibility with these large screens?

What do you think? (Multiple Choice)

This weekend is the New Year, so get ready to clean house, stash red pockets, and have random white people scream “Gung Hay Fat Choy!” at you. Kinda like Gwenyth Paltrow here. You may have heard of GOOP, her pretentious lifestyle newsletter that is choc full o’ helpful tips on the best $5000 spas, organic flax seed salads, and how to maintain a skeletor figure.

In GOOP’s latest “Year of the Tiger” issue — Gwinnie, with the help of some fancy New York White lady who is an “expert” and “scholar” in Chinese herbal medicine, acupuncture and “ancient texts”– offers sage advice on the meaning behind Chinese New Year and some other mystic Chinky stuff for your harmony and chi and blah blah New Age blah (Lainey Gossip also has a great commentary here).

It seems that certain convoluted solutions that I prepare are actually not that convoluted after all. They actually provide some help to the people (The evidence is my poorly written Sony Ericsson HowTos which are still way popular than they should be). I therefore will now make an attempt to bestow some of my other technological messes.

‘Bits of Blender’ is a series of mini-videotutorials by John R. Nyquist. After a break, he’s back now with three new episodes.
John R. Nyquist wrote:
My boy, Richard, and I have come out of a long hiatus. We just made two new
episodes of Bits of Blender. We’re getting back into
the swing of things so pardon any [...]

Hmm.. Bingung deh mau bikin judul postingannya. Intinya, begini: Pada saat mengedit file dengan menggunakan vim, bila mengetik angka menggunakan numpad keluarnya malah huruf2 ga jelas. Begitu juga bila menggunakan text editor lain. Setelah diusut punya usut, ternyata Putty by default mengenable fungsi keypad application untuk navigasi seperti naik, turun atas bawah pada numpad tersebut. Jadi solusi numpad error pada saat ingin mengetik angka pada text editor adalah tinggal mendisable fitur ini pada putty. Caranya tinggal centang Disable application keypad mode pada menu Configuration > Terminal pada Putty. Berikut gambarnya:

This weeks FTA show (12FEB10) is updated on the following Satellite and Internet links;

1. Internet Streaming

• Direct to browser stream (make sure you have your browser configured correctly)
• Flash Player (click on the Flash Player to stream direct)
• Our Archive site

2. PODcast

• Register here & download zip file from here

http://gdgt.com/google/chrome-os/download/

• Unzip file which have extension ‘.vmdk’
• Download Virtual Box from here http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
• Install & Open image from VirtualBox (You have to set image to new virtual machine first)
• Go for it.
• If any problem I am always there for you

The OpenOffice.org Community this morning announced the release of the latest version (3.2) of its personal productivity suite, and simultaneously announced that the software has been downloaded an impressive 300 million times in total since its public debut in April 2002.

According to the statement, OpenOffice.org 3 recorded over half of that number from the central download site alone.

(Note: title and first para initially mentioned 200 million downloads, which was 100 million short of the claimed total number of downloads)

Hinedo 0.4 預設使用 MPlayer 播放串流媒體，而 MPlayer 提供的 slave mode protocol 可以控制隱藏在背景執行的程序，本教學就是使用這個東東來控制音量。

只適用 UBUNTU 用戶

教學開始：
到 Hinedo 專案 的下載區，下載 0.4 Linux 版本 並解壓縮出來。
需要修改兩個檔案：
hinedo.c（在 hinedo-0.4.tar.bz2 解壓縮出來的資料夾裡）
play（在執行 Hinedo 後自動建立的 ~/.config/hinedo/ 裡）

1. 使用編輯器開啟 hinedo.c
2. 找到
   static GPid pid = 0;

   變成

Wow, today came early. When Abby’s alarm went off at 5:45 in the morning, it felt like I had just laid down. We both laid there for a little bit while she debated not going. It’s always an option, yet never an option at the same time. Does that make sense? She’ll talk about not going, but as soon as I seriously say, “well, why don’t you just skip today?” she’ll say “I can’t,” then get up and start getting ready. I don’t know a lot of people who have that kind of determination once they’ve committed to something.

So after I dropped her off, I came home and immediately went back into bed. It was cold outside. I had to leave to catch the train at about 7:40, and I got back at about 6:50, so I set my alarm for 7… then 7:10… then 7:20 before I finally convinced myself that was the latest I could go to where I had enough time to shower, get dressed, pack my stuff for today, then make the train. I made it, of course.