This week…

This week has been another long week – but quite a productive one… or at least I would like to think so!

• Carrying on with my URL shortener and vanity ‘via’ links on Twitter, I downloaded the Adium source code and started tinkering with adding a few more custom features to it. My aim is to allow anyone to use the 1.4.x version of Adium to manage their own vanity applications. I’ll post a proper summary of URL shortening and business uses (still writing it!) very soon.
• I got to do some C++ work for a client this week. It was fun to open the bonnet on some code I wrote a few years ago to tweak/fix it.
• I popped a Three SIM card into a spare iPhone. Discovered it’s just Vodafone and O2 that can’t penetrate my apartment. The downside of Three is their customer support not being in the UK – something that is very important to me. So I’ll have to think long and hard about that one. Vodafone’s reception and service in central London has been awful of late… hence the consideration of leaving.
• Upgraded the version of Cyanogen on my mobile to 6.0.0 RC2 and then promptly hacked up the build.prop file to enable HSUPA – result… around 3-4Mbps downlink connection on my mobile phone. That’s quite nice.
• Picked up one of the new Magic Trackpads from Apple. They are fairly cool. Overall I’m not that sure about it if I am honest. I find myself reaching for my mouse still and that sort of sucks.
• Fixed up my Android development environment again. It’s quite hard to keep that all in order if I’m honest.
• Had a look at the new Android Market Licensing that Google have release for Android. It’s about time they did something about .apk file piracy… so many sites are out there offering subscriptions to effectively pirate games and utilities. Amusingly, this new library makes piracy harder on Android than it is on iPhone/iPad (where it is insanely easy) – let’s hope it attracts more developers.

And that’s it! Yay! Another weekly update post done and dusted.