rarmknecht

- Verified I already had the JDK installed
- Installed Eclipse
- Downloaded the latest SDK
- Installed it and added it's location to my $PATH via export in ~/.bashrc
- Go to: Window -> Preferences -> Install/Update -> Available Software and add the following install locations:
http://download.eclipse.org/releases/galileo and https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/

- Go to: Help -> Install New Software and select to "Work with:" the google URL.
- Select and install the Developer Tools

Next up.  Installing a custom developed "Hello, World" onto the Motorola Backflip which "doesn't allow applications from untrusted sources due to carrier restrictions"..... right ;)

First and foremost, it displays notification icons while locked to let me know if there is a new email from work or not.  Really Apple? Is that so hard?  But Android/MOTOBlur doesn't stop there; oh no, they actually display different notification icons for each email account.  Sweetness. Gtalk? Integrated and running in the background. AIM? Integrated and running in the background. Photos for contacts? Facebook. Awesome.

I was even able to create a new ringtone without hardly any effort. I connected via USB, created a folder called "music" and drop a couple of mp3 files in there. Unmounted it, and bam I can play the music from the media widget on my homescreen.  I then downloaded ringdroid from the Marketplace and selected about 30s worth of a song, saving it as a ringtone.  I connected the USB again, and what do you know: /media/audio/ringtones has been created and has a new mp3 in it. I copied that up to my linux box, connected my fiancé's phone, copied the folder structure down to her device (also a Motorola Backflip), and then assigned the ringtone to my contact.

Done. Less than 5 minutes and I've gotten a custom ringtone from my personal music collection.  Fantastic. Well played Motorola and Google!

One downside: Yahoo! search on the home screen..... Solution: delete it, and set browser homepage to google.com. Fixed. :)

Got through the rather lengthy introduction and the first two chapters.  So far, I'm intrigued! It's kept my attention and provided a ton of facts in a clear concise manner.

So tonight I tried to import my WordPress based blog, blog.rarmknecht.com, into posterous and realized that the import function is.... well, quite frankly, worthless.

All formatting is lost. Paragraphs, bold, italics.... all of it gone.  I'm at a lost for words.

If that weren't enough, the difference between " and ' when used to define a language in the code tag is the difference between functional and broken.

Perhaps I'll work on an import script..... :)