"Nook Development" written by Paul on estrip.org

01/02/11 02:28 - 35.ºF - ID#53378

Nook Development

I updated my android SDK as I am now on eclipse Helios 3.6 and I wanted to make a few updates to the estrip publisher app since seeing it on the nook tablet.

I discovered they do have their own nook SDK which is nice but on the shitty side it only works with their nook emulator so far. This is cool if you don't have a nook but not so cool if you do. I remember from the estrip app. Testing on the Nexus One was so much better than on the stupid emulator. Its just not the same trying to get a feel for it. Luckily, a rooted nook will let me put apps on it for testing but its annoying and a hack.

I wish so bad that B&N would just allow the regular android store. Having it on my rooted nook is incredible. It makes the device so damn useful that I can't put it down. In fact I love typing on it with the new gingerbread keyboard I downloaded.

I mean, I get why they don't want it. I am sure they are terrified of people using the kindle app on it and buying book from amazon instead. They shouldn't have too much to worry about because the reading experience on the native nook app is so much better than with the Kindle app. For example, kindle won't let me pinch and zoom on my books. Plus the notetaking and sharing quotes, lending feature, etc.

I can't wait for them to open up whatever market they are going to open. I would love to get in on it but it seems like they are really playing up to the big company devs more than the small guy. Reading through the forum this is pissing off a lot of developers who feel they if they are going to be treated as second class devs, they might as well develop for the ipad's larger market.

Well, anyways, here is hoping that whatever it is I end up developing finds its way into the store when its done and they I stay dedicated to working on it without knowing for sure if it will. Its just so hard to be motivated for something that might just turned down at the last stage. That's exactly why I never developed the estrip app for iphone.

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Category: weather

01/01/11 06:10 - 44.ºF - ID#53375

warm weather

The. weather here has been so warm. I think it was around 50 degrees. Felt more like St Patrick's. day than New Year's day.

All of the the snow melted, not that there was much ti begin with, revealing all the cigarette butts people threw into the snow on Hertel. Why do people think it is okay to throw small peices of fiberglass everywhere? I think somehow they think that because it is wrapped in paper it is natural.

We should just illegalize filtered cigarettes. Either go hardcore and be litter free or quit. It's not like those filters really protect anyone anyways.

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Category: food

01/01/11 06:06 - 44.ºF - ID#53374

Kosta's octopus

We went to kostas for lunch today. I for the octopus as usual. It is the only place I have found it here I'm buffalo. Does anyone else know a place?

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Category: holidays

01/01/11 05:17 - 55.ºF - ID#53372

New years eve 2011

The new years party 2011 was awesome. It was the first party where I only spent lime an hour cleaning up. Some highlights:

The tabletstravaganza on the couch with (e:Heidi) and (e:Chris). I was nervous at firs that I would regret the nook when I saw the other android tablets but instead it reenforced my feelings that t was the best electronics purchase I ever made. The bigger ones were too heavy and big. The screens were also crappy for reading which is what I care about most. The windows 7 one almost seemed like a joke. The interface was lame. For example, when you pressed an input to type, instead of Beijing up the keyboard a you would expect, it brought up a keyboard icon that you! have to press to bringup the keyboard. It was so freaking frustrating. Plus just imagineho slow it would get over time running windows.
discussing enlightenment linux desktop with (e:uncutsanifkush). Too bad Tim was gone at that point.
dealing with Geoffrey's supposed Volvo car robbery this morning. Turned out it was parked a couple blocks away and he forgot, but not before an hour long freakout. I used that time to clean the kitchen.
meeting Eric's friend Lara. I wish I got to talk with her some more.
Drinking the pink nuvo stuff that (e:metalpeter) brought.
Realized that we did in fact have a snookie of our very own, she just needed a little mike plus tumeric and paprika rub skin treatment and hairspray. She accompanied ball drop.
Droping the lit up ball down the stairwell, it is my very favorite part of new years. Next year I am going to make it crazier. Maybe a countdown clock or drop it off the roof.

metalpeter writes at 06:02:25 01/03/11 - Comment #60094: If I would have Know that Efrat's dress was pet-able that might have led to some fun if she is who I think she was , HA... I have no idea who Lourdes is but this explanation is still a help.......

uncutsaniflush writes at 10:52:33 01/02/11 - Comment #60080: (e:paul) - I wish that I was able to give a geeky explanation of why the EFL (Enlightenment Foundation Libraries) rocked and why they were better than what the kids from Gnome and KDE and Xfce etc were coming up with. EFL is efficient fast and light. Compatible with gnome. Conforms to Linux Desktop standards. Hell, I can't do a good job of talking about e17 even when I'm sober.

I'm glad you found it interesting.

heidi writes at 12:40:34 01/02/11 - Comment #60075: Thank you, (e:PMT), for hosting a lovely party! Nerding about the tablets was a highlight for me, too. We kinda did that instead of talking to Eric & Lara :-/

(e:metalpeter) - yes, the woman with black hair and fuchsia top with great cleavage is Jolene, (e:puddlediving)'s roommate. The woman with the pet-able black velvet dress is Efrat, accent on the second syllable. The woman with the novella name is Lourdes.

metalpeter writes at 09:42:39 01/02/11 - Comment #60072: I think but not sure Lara is the blond with the Polka dots who was wearing the big Feather..... You can't tell it in the photos but she looks pretty well stacked if you know what I mean trying to keep it classy she is pretty cute... In Terms of the Person with the Novella name I don't know who you mean but the girl with the arm tattoo is pretty hot as well.... Now the Lady (again lovely and stacked) with red top on is named Joleen (not sure how it spelled) Kinda like the song, but I think I know the song from a remake and not the original artist......

I admit I may have this wrong and aren't sure who that other person you are talking about is.... Maybe someone else who was there will read this and update whom everyone is.......

tinypliny writes at 11:44:14 01/01/11 - Comment #60067: Atleast I learned that I hate hairspray. thank you, mike.

lol

tinypliny writes at 11:43:18 01/01/11 - Comment #60066: So Lara is the one with the blazer and tie?

tinypliny writes at 11:40:35 01/01/11 - Comment #60064: I LOVED the ball drop - its an awesome concept. :)

I am not so sad I missed the tabletstravaganza because really, my core interest is only in tablets with styluses and PDF markup and of course any tablet that can be loaded with software like mypaint and I can use the stylus to draw precisely.

I have been trying out your nokia a bit.. Thus far, I have just learnt to navigate because I have been running analyses in R all day...

Who is lara? The one in the black velvet dress who was with that girl who had the classic novella name (that I can't remember now!) and the gorgeous buffalo tattoo?

Geoffrey nearly matched that banned bloke (Chris?) yesterday. I wish your organ had been okay - atleast all his craziness would have been translated to good music instead of making it weird for everyone...

metalpeter writes at 07:19:57 01/01/11 - Comment #60058: glad I'm not the only one posting pictures......... That guy you mentioned is crazy or at least drunk he is.... On a side note hopefully Lara finds the pictures I posted of her on here... It was a good time

I like how you did the bulletins.................

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Category: hardware

12/31/10 05:12 - 48.ºF - ID#53366

Nexus 1 froyo 2.2 vs rooted nook with 2.1 eclair speed

The rooted nook color is so much easier to use than my phone because of the screensize that it appears to me to be faster, yet according to the quadrant benchmark it is in fact slower, although faster than a non 2.2 Nexus One.

Games like angry birds seem snappy as can be. I guess for the stuff I do with it speed doesn't matter and if I could trade some speed for battery life it seems perfectly worth it and typing on it is fantastic. This is definitely the perfect size for me.

I signed up for a dev account today. I am so curious how you are supposed to distribute apps considering there is no normal android market yet. The official specs are in this ::READ PDF::

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Category: hardware

12/31/10 03:18 - 41.ºF - ID#53363

My rooted nook

After playing around a bit I have real android running on my nook with the gingerbread keyboard that spell corrects, the marketplace and the kindle app along with the estrip app. Surprisingly most of the apps I tried work fine at tablet size. I guess it really just depends on the app developers decisions for sizing the interface. Stupidly, I have not gotten good at the screen capture app which requires you to hit volume down as part of it. I keep doing it in the wrong order.

metalpeter writes at 06:57:04 12/31/10 - Comment #60048: It Just isn't the same with out (e:tinypliny) not to put any pressure on her or anything, again Now I know how (not really) how it kinda was for (e:beast) I'm still kinda sorry for all ways saying I was going to be there. I got buzzed a few minutes ago but it is kinda gone now, at Hodge they had a tasting and 3 was enough I went with Nuvo again the pink stuff that looks like Perfume!!!!!! Well As Fun as I'm hoping it to be that (e:tinypliny) isn't the only one who amps it up .............

tinypliny writes at 05:52:48 12/31/10 - Comment #60047: But I am planning on being there...

paul writes at 05:48:52 12/31/10 - Comment #60046: You aren't going to be there,

tinypliny writes at 05:46:08 12/31/10 - Comment #60045: OMG. REALLY??? When is this (e:chris) coming in again???

heidi writes at 05:03:44 12/31/10 - Comment #60044: Okay, you just made me giggly-excited about going out tonight. :-)

paul writes at 04:50:53 12/31/10 - Comment #60043: (e:chris) is bring several other tablets to the party. You can see em there.

paul writes at 02:13:29 12/31/10 - Comment #60037: And thus was only $249 compared to like $400-600 plus Monthly fee for a galaxy tablet.

paul writes at 02:10:39 12/31/10 - Comment #60036: Omg its so freaking good. You can see it tonight. The Samsung tablet has more features like camera, GPS, its own 3g connection but my phone already has all that and its always in my pocket and more portable. The phone easily shares its internet connection with the nook so that solves the connection issue and costs me nothing more per month. In fact I typing this on the nook while walking down Cleveland toward Blue Fin for lunch.

Typing in it is the best software keyboardbtyping experience I have ever had. I mean I can do it while walking.

heidi writes at 10:30:10 12/31/10 - Comment #60035: How do the specs compare with say the Samsung Galaxy Tab?

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Category: hardware

12/29/10 06:54 - 27.ºF - ID#53351

Nook Color

What started as a $10 gift card from work that I used to purchase the "Grep pocket reference"

turned into an I need an ebook reader. While its nice that our google and iphones can read books for maximum portabilty. Sometimes it is nice to have a larger screen surface.

I didn't want an ipad because they are just too darn freakin big and heavy. For me 7 inches is enough. Plus my phone already acts as a mobile hotspot, has a GPS, camera etc ad this thing wa only $248 vs $400-$600 with the ipad. I was a little torn between the nook color and the older monochrome e-ink readers like the regular nook or the kindle that have much mire amazing battery life.

In fact I argued with (e:enknot) about this one night for a while and I still feel like e-ink is easier to read but I like that the device doubles as a larger screen web browser. It also does music, pandora etc and being that it is actually android based I should be able to get the kindle app on here as well at some point.

Supposedly it works with the epub books from the library. I found it interesting that books really get checked out from the library meaning that so ebook (e:terry) wanted was checked out by someone else therefore not available.

I wrote a whole surebert suite for publishing ebooks in epub format. That will soon allow me to release a new feature for estrip were you can download your entire journal as one big ebook for safe keeping. The format is quite interesting. It is basically a zip file with a manifest anda bunch of related media and xhtml files.

So typing on this size screen is perfect? I can almost type a fast as if this were a real keyboard.

Oh one last thing is that magazines are freakin cheap like $1-$2/month but I couldn't find the linux magazines I wanted yet.

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Category: holidays

12/25/10 08:09 - 23.ºF - ID#53337

Christmas Eve

Santa came to my uncle's house on Christmas Eve. We all took a turn sitting on his lap. He told me he had some beef to fatten me up for me because I was so light, lol.

The kids were so excited about the whole process.

My little cousin loves to dress as Batman so my mom made my dad a superhero cape outfit to surprise him.

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Category: books

12/25/10 08:02 - 23.ºF - ID#53336

kids books

What could the word going down from fishbowl be. It seems like a book teaching children about spelling should have more accurate examples.

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Category: shopping

12/25/10 07:56 - 23.ºF - ID#53335

Barnes And Nobles Continued

The other day I wrote about my bad experience having to wait 60 minutes for an online ebook to be delivered from barnes and nobles web site. I thought the point of buying eBooks online was that it was instant.

Today's experience was even worse. I wanted to get my brother an egift card but I didn't order it earlier because I didn't want it sent to his email until it was time for him to open gifts today.

So just before we opened gifts I ordered his egift online gift card on their site. It said they had instant delivery. It basically just sends an a link to the recipients email so that makes sense but right now it says it will not ship until Dec 30th. Although, it is instant delivery once it ships. That makes no freakin sense. How can it need to wait that long. I purchased it with a credit card I had on file so it really makes no sense.