So I have been writing this little play thing, kinda like a os in the cloud…..or not. you be the judge. Go check it out at Feekes.net/os. Be nice, its on a really slow slow connection.

Im building a new toy. An iPhone Simulator for Android. This is not just an image put on your screen, it is an html5 simulation of the iPhone home screen. Right now it does nothing, but hey, its cool. Im building some of the apps tonight, like the calculator (dumb but easy), and the phone dialer. We will see how it goes.

UPDATE:

I have the spring in the springboard home, fun to play with, and the preliminaries for the dialer. I know that the animations for launching apps is not there, but hang tight, it will be. Video Preview iPhoneSim

Update 2:

I have the calculator app finished, and have dialer functions working. Just need to find a way to dial directly instead of invoking the android dialer.

Download it here.

I currently have a netbook, Dell Mini 1010, that lives in the living room. Its a nice little machine, 1.6ghz 1gig ram 1366×768 resolution, but all it does is browse the web, and poorly. Its just bloody slow. I had originally purchased it to replace another netbook, HP Mini 2133, because of its “speed.” It is faster than that poor via C7, but its still horrible, not to mention this one has the Poulsbo chipset.

I started thinking, what do I want in a device here at the house?

• Great Web Browsing
• eBooks, including my collection of PDF’s
• Watching Videos
• Playing Games, nothing major
• Write and edit some documents
• Great Battery Life

Going through this list, the iPad is actually the device I need. Say What? Why not just get a laptop? Answer, too much, don’t need all that, besides, they are horrible for reading books. But what about the cons?

• No Camera
• No Multitasking
• No Open Development
• Can’t play my divx/xvid video collection

Well, the camera on my netbook I have used once, just to see if it worked. Never again. As for Multitasking, I have the capability to do it on my Mini, just no processor to, so I end up in single task anyway. Multitasking may come in iPhoneOS 4.0 too. As for development, I don’t write native apps, everything I do is in web languages. Im open to do whatever I want there, especially with HTML5 and webgl support in there. As for my existing video collection, took me about 10 minutes to create an html5 application that would transcode those files into mpeg4 and have them playing. Got to love the open source community there.

Android?

I have a Motorola Droid, rooted, running 2.1. While it is a nice device, the android operating system just does not scale up to this form. There are Android based tablets coming to the market, but just lack the polish for something I just want to work. Sorry Android Dev Team, your doing GREAT!, just keep going.

As much as it pains me to say, this is actually the device I need for what I want. Dang you Apple!

This is a visualization of browser usage on the web. The orange is Firefox. Wait, that looks like the Firefox logo. see for yourself HERE .

This is man made, but even still, Firefox has invaded the human mind to the extent that we will create huge artworks to its homage. Check it out HERE .

Cats seem to love Firefox also.

Guess that’s not all cats love. But it still looks like a Firefox Logo.

Even lizards in Australia get it. Firefox is just better. Here is one showing its support.

Wow, is that the Firefox logo in SPACE! Sure does look like it. I think someone bigger than us is a fan of the fox. This should be evidence for you to drop IE and move to the more divine browser.

There it is. Show some love for the fox, go get Firefox 3.6 .

BTW, Google, I would love to see you get your chrome logo in a nebula.