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After two weeks since the Firefox 4 (FF4) release, I decided to switch back again to Firefox from Google’s Chrome. But I miss Chrome a lot, so I configured FF4 almost like a Chrome… ¿how? using those themes and plugins: FXChrome Theme: this theme claims to work only on Windows, but I’m using it . . . → Read More: My Firefox 4 setup At Mobialia the lasts weeks I was involved on the development of a social app using, among other social networks APIs, the facebook API. For me it was easier to implement Twitter API access using only the signpost library, for facebook they recommend to download their Android SDK, and I did so. First we . . . → Read More: A small problem with the facebook Android SDK This week I was speaking at LabAndroid, a spanish initiative about Android devices, apps and development. I developed a special app for this event called “Wikiplaces” and I made the code avaiable as open source on Google Code. This app shows on a map or on a list places from Wikipedia near your location. . . . → Read More: Mobialia at LabAndroid One of the most common errors that I found developing Android Apps is the “java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Bitmap Size Exceeds VM Budget” error. I found this error frecuently on activities using lots of bitmaps after changing orientation: the Activity is destroyed, created again and the layouts are “inflated” from the XML consuming the VM memory avaiable . . . → Read More: Dealing with the “Bitmap Size Exceeds VM Budget” error As many of you know, this year I’m involved on Android with my project Mobialia. On February I was on the Android Developer Lab at Madrid and today I returned for the Google DevFest. The event started with Dave Burke presenting Google Technologies in general. Many jokes about the iPhone (to show the Chrome2Phone . . . → Read More: Google DevFest 2010 The new version 2.0 adds the support to play online on freechess.org (FICS). You can play against people all around the world and compare your chess knowledge. Thousands of hours of entertainment with this new version. Also has many improvements on the interface and gameplay, which makes Mobialia Chess 2.0 the best chess app . . . → Read More: Mobialia Chess for Android Ante a inclusión no anteproxecto de lei sobre a economía sostible das modificacións lexislativas que afectan o libre exercicio das liberdades de expresión, de información e o dereito de acceso á cultura a través de Internet, os xornalistas, blogueiros, usuarios, profesionais e creadores de Internet manifestamos a nosa firme oposición ao proxecto, e declaramos . . . → Read More: Manifesto: Na defensa dos dereitos fundamentais en Internet At last, the first “stable” release of my chess engine. The main new features are: Static Exchange Evaluator (SEE): the biggest change, affects move ordering introducing more move generation phases, also affects LMR, etc. New “experimental” evaluation function, with King Safety, X-Ray attacks and improved mobility Recapture extension, also changed a lot the extension . . . → Read More: Carballo Chess Engine 0.3 I’ve been using Opera Mini 4 for 1 year and I prefer it over the Symbian integrated browser because is faster, simpler and smaller. Now Opera announced the avaiability of an Opera Mini 5 Beta. The main new features are: - Speed Dial with captures of the pages, like in the desktop version. I . . . → Read More: Opera Mini 5 Two months ago I read a post about Toledo Nanochess in Microsiervos, and remembered my failed attemps to make a chess program in Pascal/Assembler when I was younger. So 13 years later I wrote my chess program from scratch in Java. I did it in two months at after-hours, reading a lot at the . . . → Read More: Carballo Chess Engine |
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