Mobile on Michael Doornbos

Jumping in with both feet: An Open Source NASA Android app

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:50:29 +0000

I’ve long been a lover of Open Source. Both from a philosophical point of view, and a quality of software point of view. When I got serious about Linux in the 1990’s, I spent a lot of time contributing back to the community. As time has gone by, I’ve been giving back less and less. In 2010, I’ve been working almost entirely commercially. Sure I do Evadot for free and give all of my content there away as Creative Commons, but it’s really not enough. I’ve been working on some Android apps for a while and as of today, there are few Space related apps in the Android ethos. I’ve been following the excellent work of people like Rob Schingler at NASA, and been reading the Oreilly book “Open Government”. It seems like a good fit to launch an Open Source Android project around the “new” NASA.

The must have Winter Olympics phone app

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:43:54 +0000

Handmark has an excellent (and free) app for tracking the winter olympics called Winter Sports Live.

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Get it while it’s hot!

Another great looking electronic paper device

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:58:53 +0000

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Sprint goes unlimited too...

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:29:06 +0000

Sprint just jumped on the unlimited cell plan bandwagon. Since I’m already on a $99 plan, makes sense for me to switch. My favorite part: “Current Sprint customers will be able to switch to the Simply Everything plan without extending their contracts, according to Sprint.”

Finally, open phones

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:32:31 +0000

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