HTC's Sense will be getting a big set of updates in the next few months, including new content partnerships, stronger integration with the HTC website and a focus on expanding Sense into the home.
Archive for December 24th, 2010
DIY Ornament Roundup: Top 5
Are the kiddos are at home and in need of entertainment? - making ornaments is a fun way to spend time together. Get involved as a family, turn on some holiday tunes and have some creative time. If your tree is getting too full of ornaments, I'm sure Grandma & Grandpa and Aunties & Uncles would love some for their tree's too!
#1: Half Eaten Gingerbread Men
I first came across this ornament design by Noodle-Head.com "Half Eaten Ornaments". I love this take on making Gingerbread Man ornaments with a laughable approach. These will definitely be on my list for next years projects. One of the simple details here is using a red button with white yarn/string to make them look like peppermint candies. Genius! Original pattern by Elsie Marley here.
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ADW Launcher Ex Finally Released, Transitions To A Whole New Dimension
Those of you acquainted with the inimitable Ander Webbs have been waiting for this one for a while. Once dubbed ADW Freak, the souped-up version of everyone’s favourite open-source launcher has arrived, and it’s now named ADW Ex.
On the surface, Ex brings … well, it brings crazy transitions and UI effects, mainly. But underneath all that is some pretty impressive performance improvements. In a launcher, the real place where performance counts is in the drawer scrolling, and if you’ve been feeling that ADW is a bit laggy lately, Ex will quell your frustration with its silky smoothness....
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Priorities
I have another 2 weeks of vacation left. As some of you might know i’m currently writting a book called “Beginning Android Games”, published by APress sometime in April 2011. While i was able to keep up with schedule up to this point (6 chapters, ~400 pages so far) i feel that i got to many projects cooking at the moment.
I therefore decided to put off any work on libgdx for the next 2 weeks and concentrate on finishing the book (another 6 chapters). I’m pretty sure i can pull that off in the given time frame but i need to focus on it for 8 hours every day for the next 2 weeks. After that i have my head mostly clear apart from some clean up work and editing of the chapters before they go to print. As soon as i enter that stage i can completely concentrate on libgdx and other projects again which should make my life less stressful.
I’ve developed an unhealthy sleeping pattern over the last couple of months, i basically turned into a vampire. While that’s awesome for keeping up with friends in other time zones it’s not so awesome if you have a life to live as well. I’ll pass by the forums every now and then but can’t promise that i can make any big contributions. The rest of the team already gives a lot of support over at the forum, probably more than me at times so i figure you can all live without me for 2 weeks.
This will of course also influence the release date of 0.9, but given that we have a pretty clear cut plan for it actually implementing all the features should be “easy”. We’ll introduce some nice new bugs as well for you to enjoy 
Back to Word 2007, ugh…
Notion Ink Adam hardware showcase video
Notion Ink is showing video playback via HDMI, using Adam as big digitizer/touchpad and connectors on both sides. As you have seen in earlier videos, you can also connect flash drives, wireless mouse and keyboards.
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