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Not really, I have this: http://endlesswhileloop.com/apps/ but it's more of just a web page that lists everything.

It's pretty cool that vim has had the same lead developer running the project for nearly 20 years.

It's also pretty cool how he asks for donations to be sent to nonprofits instead of himself.

I know this is irrelevant to the new release, but I think it's great that he still keeps it going after 20 years without any monetary gain (at least directly from the project).

Whoops, disregard my comment, thanks for point that out.

I agree with your tethering comment, but FWIW there are a handful of tethering apps you can get without rooting Android that allow any user to tether for free.

Oh wow, thanks. It's definitely not as good as the Instapaper iPhone app, but I've been tweaking it over time and it's slowly getting better and better :-).

The sad thing about task killers is how many "normal" people will end up using them because some salesperson for carrier X has told them to do so.

Go to a Verizon store and look at their Android phones, I bet most of them have a task killer running.

It's just one app, it's a third party Instapaper client (there's no official Instapaper app for Android [yet])

http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.tonycosentini.hardcopypro

FWIW, I went from making $20 a month on Android apps to $100 a month in the past two months or so.

I wonder if developers that actually sell mass amounts of apps are noticing this too?

Some other funny quotes from the article:

"It is optimized to run smoothly over 14.4 kilobit/second modems as well as higher bandwidth lines, delivering performance at least ten times that of other network browsers."

"Native support for the JPEG image format."

"Multiple, simultaneous network accesses, allowing several documents or images to be downloaded simultaneously."

Anything on 5by5: http://5by5.tv/

Ah, I didn't know this! I guess the files aren't technically looked down, but that's technically DRM.

I don't have a problem with it, but I wish they let users know the first time they download something off of iTunes or something.

You think the record companies would want iTunes users to know that their name is tied to their music as a scare tactic or something.

Other then the fact that he says iTunes music is DRM'd (I don't think it is any more), I'd say this is a pretty fair review of the Android ecosystem.

Edit: This is completely irrelevant, but Chad Fowler looks way different with shorter hair.

Thanks for the clarification, I should have been a little more specific.

I meant to say that I wish there was a way to get a listing of all my public posts without having to log in. Kind of like going to someone's Twitter profile if you aren't logged in.

Just a very minor nitpick, it seems like you have a great community so far which far more valuable than features that can easily be added, keep up the good work!

Steam is awesome.

I used to never play PC games, and when I did I usually pirated them for convenience and simply because I couldn't legitimately purchasing the PC games I play (many of them are older and no longer in stores).

However, since this Steam sale came around I've been addicted. I ended up buying like 6 games with an average price of about $5 a game. It's just easier than pirating and it's cheap very easy just to click the buy button and charge my credit card.

Overall it's a great way to distribute new PC games and it definitely keeps the income coming in (although it might not be as much) for older games that no longer get shelf space in brick and mortar retail stores.

I love Forrst, but I wish my public posts could be seen anyone even if they don't have an account.

That's true.

If anything, although the Droid might not get an official 3.0 release I'm sure someone will release an unofficial rom or something.

Uh oh, I hope they lower that memory requirement a little bit. Isn't the Motorola Droid the number one selling Android phone? Looks like it's not going to make the cut.

Not necessarily related to this article, but doesn't Finland also require every citizen to enlist in their military for a few years?

I remember reading about it in some Linus Torvalds interview, seems like an interesting policy.

The Market itself is open to lots of countries, but many of these countries don't have support for paid apps yet (only free) which is very frustrating.

I love Android and use a Droid as my phone but I totally agree with you, theu really need to step up with their UI.

It seems that they know this. They hired the lead designer for WebOS a while back and according to TechCrunch the next release after Froyo is all UI stuff: http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/16/android-team-laser-focused-...

If you want to see more of North Korea from the inside (and from a tourist perspective), I highly recommend the Vice Guide to North Korea: http://www.vbs.tv/newsroom/vice-guide-to-north-korea-1-of-14

The author's website is incredibly clever: http://cb.vu/

It's a fake terminal but it's surprisingly fully functional (lots of commands work, tab autocompletion, etc.)

If it makes you feel any better you're beating me :-)

I'm pulling in about $22/month...

There's no way a typical end user is going to know how to deploy an open-source Ruby on Rails application.

Although I really dislike PHP, I feel like it would be more appropriate because at least some technology enthusiasts are comfortable with uploading some PHP files and running a web based installer even though they aren't programmers.

Edit: It's also using MongoDB, interesting.

He's probably referring to Apple's WebObjects framework for making web applications - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webobjects

I don't think it's widely used at all these days although I believe Apple web apps like the iTunes store and their online store use it.

Not much to my comment, but I saw him speak in 2009 at Temple University and I was left feeling the exact same way.

FWIW, I have an unofficial third-party Instapaper client for Android on the Android Market, still needs a bit of polish though, nowhere near the user experience of the iPhone client.

This is based on a sample of 1,588 users. Keep in mind that Facebook as a whole has 400,000,000 users.

I'm guessing application developers could pick because many of them are paranoid with piracy.

Since Android is much more open than Android once you have an application file you can easily share it.

Is it me or do they have a lot of employees for what they are doing? Especially when all the work is outsourced.