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Got your own UI for Android? Add a switcher!

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A well known Acer Liquid community member piter1225 posted a short article on custom Acer UI and how they respect user choise by allowing to turn off their UI in phone settings.

Manufacturers want their devices to stand out from the crowd and it is understandable. Some of them, like HTC, did a good work on creating great UIs like HTC Sense. But some people like me prefer stock Android experience. And this is why I love my Acer device and Acer in general - they provide choise. It is VERY important in my opinion. This is what Android is all about for me. Take a note HTC, Samsung, LG and others.

By the way, Acer devices are also 100% unlocked. That means you don't need any dirty hacks to exploit ROM protection to be able to put some custom stuff inside your phone - just plug your USB cable and use standard Android tools like you do with everyone's favorite Nexus One. This is also great, because you lower risks of bricking your device and get full freedom for customization.

Way to go Acer! But please, provide us proper kernel sources (: That would make your devices even better!

Notion Ink Adam - the tablet I'm waiting for

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Tablets! This is what gadgets are all about today! iPad, Streak, Galaxy Tab and tons of Chinese clones - they are everywhere! But I'm still waiting for a very special one...

It is called Adam and is made by Indian company Notion Ink. It is not yet available (they had a lot of troubles with investors), but should be soon. No release date is set, but it will come either this December or in January 2011.

So it is not available, had troubles, what's so great about it? First of all - 10.1" 1024x600 PixelQi display. Watch this video to learn why PixelQi rocks. This video is worth thousands words (:

Next its hardware is notable: NVIDIA Tegra 2 (that's dual-core, baby!), 1GB of RAM and 1GB of ROM, HDMI, USB etc. It just has all the bells and whistles. And I do care about performance, so there's no rivals for Adam.

And the last, but not least - custom software. Adam is an Android tablet, yet they've rewritten a lot of internals to make the best UI experience. And they made custom apps for everything: calendar, mail, you name it! And they all look great!

This is a short story, so I suggest you visit their CEO blog for more details. There are loads of interesting information.

HTML5 video codec war

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HTML5 is a long awaited web upgrade, still in development, yet some parts of it are up and running and waiting for mass adoption. One of such features is inclusion of VIDEO and AUDIO tags proposed by Opera Software and supported by every major browser vendor at the time (with IE being only exception, of course smile). So it is a perfect time to declare a new war!

Ogg Theora or h.264? Which format/codec to support? That's the newest question! So, let's dive deeper into this issue and try to find pros and cons from a web developer and end-user points of view.

Read more...

Review: Seven Days in Haiku

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I would like to give a link to a post on OSNews called Review: Seven Days in Haiku. The name says it all! Enjoy the reading (:

SourceForge design change

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Just noticed that SourceForge changed their design. Very unusual, very unnatural for SF and since I just noticed it I can not tell if it is good or bad. But at least it looks much better then previous one and has proper menu and navigation. Last one was epic fail, the one before was great. So when they changed last time it was a big dissapointment for me. Hope new design will be great!

FreeDOS Turns 15

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Yesterday was a party at FreeDOS camp because this project hit 15 year margin. It is very mature now (: Here's the official announcement and here's an article at OSNews on the matter. Congratulations!

GrilledUnity 0.1b - web framework for Opera Unite

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I'm currently working on web framework for Opera Unite and beta version is ready. You can find more information on my.opera.com forum. It is free and open source, licensed under BSD terms.

Actually GrilledUnity does not yet look like a framewrok should look, but I thought that HTTP session support is vital for every web-developer, so 0.1b was released quite early. Documentation is in progress, just as the framework itself and our website where I and my friends will host open source stuff for web developers. We have a lot of cool stuff coming up soon!

Eee PC running Android on Snapdragon

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ASUS just demoed their new netbook which is ARM-based and is running Google Android. Just watch the hands-on videos! Yes, I want one!

Links: Why Linux is not (yet) Ready for the Desktop

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There are a lot of talk about Linux and its readiness for desktop usage. So much, that some people did even state, that there are no such thing as a "desktop usage" (: Anyway, a lot of silly stuff is said and written on a matter, but, thanks to OSNews I've found an article which details what is wrong with Linux on desktops without any nonsense which is a basis of most such articles. Enjoy this reading!

ReactOS 0.3.9 Released

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New ReactOS version is released! Memory requirements were lowered, memory management was made faster and efficient, overall perfrormance improved and new features added. It is good to see that these guys still doing their best to open-source Windows (:
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