I upgraded early to Ubuntu 9.10 release and have been overall very satisfied with the changes. 3d effects are back, thanks to fixed intel drivers, kernel has been upgraded and suspend + boot is faster, and Emacs has been upgraded to 23 🙂 I just had one problem when upgrading, namely that QT applications would use a non-hinted font which made Skype and Virtualbox would look like crap. It took a bit of googling to find out what the problem was. Using qtconfig-qt4 did not work for some unknown reason. I followed the guide on the link, and got fonts working again by simply copy/paste in his .fonts.conf file into my home directory.
Month: October 2009
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8 free android apps and two web
One of the more interesting aspects of the HTC Hero for me was the android market. As paid applications are not yet available in Denmark, this list only includes free (as in beer) apps:
- Locale: Brilliant and simple program to handle profiles automatically. Currently I just use it to have the phone silent when at work and with ringer on at home. But there are endless possibilities with this application. No wonder it won the Android Developer Challenge 1 competition. Highly recommended.
- Facebook: pretty decent way to read and post status updates. Mostly needed because their website sucks in the browser.
- Flickr.com: While not an app, the web site is simply a blast to use with the browser. Way to go flickr!
- Wikipedia.com: Also not an app, but I’ve tried a few different apps, and the web site beats them all hands down. Don’t bother installating any apps.
- AndNav2: I wrote a seperate post about it here. I’ll just add that I tried mapping with it yesterday and that also works perfectly. This application for me is the killer app for the android right now.
- Google sky map: Mostly a wow-factor application but to be fair this application is pretty nice.
- PMix: Application to control music player daemon (mpd) that I use at home for playing music. It’s ok, but still quite rough around the edges (=crashes).
- Skype lite: The software uses normal phone minutes for calling and thinks its a feature. Very disappointed.
- Pro football live: Just to keep up with the latest games. Works pretty well. The best NFL app I have used.
- Advanced task killer: The best I have found to keep the android running lean and clean 🙂