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  1. Re:I'd rather see.. by ConfusedVorlon · · Score: 2 · on VLC Running Kickstarter Campaign To Fund Native Windows 8 App

    how about VLC Streamer ?

    It's an app I wrote...

    http://hobbyistsoftware.com/vlcstreamer

  2. all because Google's market is crap by ConfusedVorlon · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Android Gets Carrier-Operated European App Store

    I'm sure the carriers would attempt to muscle in anyway, but there would be less room for them to make this move if Google did a better job with the market.

    Here are just a handful of ways the market is crap

    1) No way to browse on the web and download to your phone. I can't even post an http link to my app that will work on the desktop and on the device*.
    -Apple does it through iTunes
    -Palm does it by sending you an sms link to your phone

    2) Actually, you can't even browse the appstore on your desktop without going to some third party scraped site. I challenge you to find VLC Remote on the android.com/market

    3) Developers have to price apps in the currency they live. Seriously - I live in the UK, so you have to buy my app for £x. It's insane. And particularly after apple have demonstrated a simple tier-based model that is simple for consumers

    4) Loads of countries just can't buy stuff. If this is hard for you google - just talk to Mobihand or one of the many mobile app-store companies who have figured out how to take international payments

    5) Even if your country does support sales, the international billing means that credit cards keep getting declined (us credit cards don't want to authorise $1 for an international sale via google checkout).

    This would be excusable for a few months as the store rolled out.
    It is long past a joke now.

    *I built a site that at least lets you create an http link for your android app which will work on the device and on the web.
    http://and-download.hobbyistsoftware.com/

  3. Re:I don't get it? by ConfusedVorlon · · Score: 1 · on Android's "Flea Market" Needs Urgent Attention

    I just built a site to handle the integration.
    You can now at least post a link on your site that will link to the market if clicked from an android device, and do something useful (send a link by email) if clicked on the desktop

    http://and-download.hobbyistsoftware.com/

  4. Apple approved my browser in about 24 hrs by ConfusedVorlon · · Score: 1 · on Opera Mini For iPhone Submitted To App Store Today

    It is similar to opera in many ways;

    It has a turbo mode that loads pages faster (reroutes the urls via google's compression service)

    displays tabs graphically (though I use a coverflow-style interface)

    and the key part: the actual pages are rendered by apple's UIWebView

    it went live this morning...

    http://hobbyistsoftware.com/eyebrowse

  5. Re:Lying with numbers by ConfusedVorlon · · Score: 2, Informative · on Why Palm Still Covets Palm OS

    random crashes are probably related to old applications that don't handle the way the new Treos use cache memory.

    read about how to track down the problems here:
    http://www.hobbyistsoftware.com/InsideYourTreo/cac he-crash.php