Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)

I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) today. The whole process, including downloading about 1 GB worth of packages, took little more than an hour. And so far it's flawless. I wonder if the upgrade to Windows 7 is similar?

Droid compared to iPhone

TechCrunch has an excellent comparison of the iPhone and the Motorola Droid (coming very soon).

http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009/10/30/smartphone-showdown-iphone-3gs-vs-motorola-droid/

New AppEngine Features

The latest version of Google's AppEngine (1.2.6) contains two nifty new features: the ability to receive incoming email (which is turned into an HTTP request) and the ability to delete an app.

http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2009/10/app-engine-sdk-126-released-with.html

Django and OpenID

I finally got Django + OpenID working (quite easily in the end) using django_openid_auth (after some struggles with some of the older Django + OpenID packages).

django_openid_auth is actually made by the developers of LaunchPad, who help out quite a bit on Ubuntu.

New Redbird Logo

New Redbird logo... excellent work Brett...

Some Android Sites

A list of some of my favorite Android sites:

• http://www.androidsnippets.org/
• http://phandroid.com/
• http://androidandme.com/
• http://androidcommunity.com/
• http://www.talkandroid.com/
  

Android Phone: T-Mobile myTouch 3G

I got a T-Mobile myTouch 3G phone today. So far it's awesome.

The new phone required signing up for a new T-Mobile account, in addition to my Verizon account. Now I wish Verizon would hurry up and start offering Android phones. It looks like the first will be the Motorola Sholes.