Here’s a picture of someone getting detention for running firefox… http://www.uploadgeek.com/uploads456/0/1197784327416.png

How about that? We all seem to love internet explorer too much ^^

LoadFoO is becoming bigger every second, just minutes ago I fixed up the xhtml 1.0, while I discovered that the sidebar was not widget-friendly (Big mistake), also, the 0.1 version contains wrong files. So, anyone (If someone) who has already downloaded 0.1 version -> dump it, and get the 0.2 version now…

At any rate, the next thing (again) would be to make it valid. I’ve currently got 8 errors on the index, all thanks to the widgets… It’s likely that I’m going to have to fix up some widgets for this, any author of that widget will be contacted if there would be any update, and the updates will be available for download here soon.

Ok, the previous post is outdated already, LoadFoO wordpress theme is now 100% valid w3c code (xhtml 1.0 transitional). I’m thinking of making it xhtml 1.1, but that’s for later. The file is still found at www.codercpf.be/dls/loadfoo-0.1.zip.

Please comment as much as possible, and use at will, it’s gpl after all.

Many thanks to the original designer again!!

I’m proud to finally announce the new design – LoadFoO.

LoadFoO was originally developed by Devit Schizoper as an open source design.

I liked what it might become here, and asked permission to create a wordpress template out of it, which permission I got if – of course – I leave the credits intact.

So, Enjoy the first template version, still not 100% valid, but it’s a start, I’m going to w3c it soon!

Also, the template is downloadable here. The template is originally based on the default template, so forgive me if not all the files render correctly. The 1.0 version will solve it all!

The creator of DroidDraw is certainly busy, for he published another tutorial concerning how-to in certain graphical aspects of Android.

This time, it’s about how Android widgets work. Be sure to read it, it’s literally a 2 minute read to knowing the deal with Android widgets, great summary.

I’ve mentioned droiddraw earlier in this blog.

Since then, the developer of the only gui building program for android at the moment has been quite busy, and been following “Release early, release often” cycles.

He’s also made a tutorial on how to use the gui builder, certainly worth your time!

I’m expecting a great deal from this gui builder in the near future, let’s all prepare ^^

The newest version of XFCE, a lightweight window manager for unix systems, was published. The version number is 4.4.2, and the main changelog contains bugfixes.

Full changelog is found here.

Downloads are available here.

Today I saw a post concerning about the seeing impaired people who could use android for the best, if only there was some sort of screen reader software running on Android. Something was said about not being able to implement that because of certain security reasons, but that probably referred to independent software reading what would be on the screen, next to that, the poster indicated that there was no speech synthesizer for Java (yet), which clearly pointed out that he was thinking of an independent program reading the content of another program.

I replied to that, and suggested festival – a text to speech framework, and that if there is some modification done to it, it would most likely be “androidified”. However, it’s high likely that software will be required to support it (The api), or another approach is to be taken (Kernel-height, which I think will prove quite difficult)

The discussion is found at google groups, more specific here.

As I was reading the digest of this point, I read there is another blog out there willing to become more into android, and putting together info about it.

The blog is found at http://www.wulf-pack.blogspot.com/ and I’m sure It’ll become really nice…

The I’m surprised actually today. To be honest I did not expect the Android OS would be this popular, certainly not this quick. I sure hoped to be amongst those who are actually writing future.

However, for those out there that can invest some time, there is a GUI design site, with the link to the source of the java applet available. It’s called DroidDraw and it’s looking pretty darn nice. It’s the only GUI design ide-like program I’ve met for the Android framework (if I may call it that way).

This GUI designer can save you a whole lot of time writing XML files to represent the GUI you want. OR it can help you understand the syntax of the used XML better. However you use it, it seems to be a very handy tool!

Be sure to check out www.droiddraw.org !!