Pocket Sudoku mentioned on Japanese site

The great Japanese, creators of the Sudoku game, have finally noticed my Sudoku Game, Pocket Sudoku.

It has been mentioned on this site: http://notavailable.seesaa.net/article/17529791.html, but since I don't know Japanese, I have no idea what the article is about. However, the headline indicates that it's not very complaining...

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Mathschallenge.net

Are you a mathematician? Or a coder? Or perhaps both?

http://mathschallenge.net and its Project Euler is a wonderful challenge for those of you who want to solve mathematical problems using your favorite programming language.

Kill Bill's Browser

13 funny reasons to use Firefox (or Flock) instead of IE.

Kill Bill's Browser - Switch to Firefox

technorati tags: Firefox

The minesweeper phenomenon

Minesweeper
Originally uploaded by Emil Andersson.

Is there anything more annoying than this?

Get Flocked

Already in my first testing post, I mentioned the great web browser Flock. But I forgot to tell you the history behind why I've suddenly changed browser from Mozilla Firefox to Flock.

It all started when I some days ago was searching for extensions for Mozilla Firefox, since I felt it had many parts missing. And when I came across the excellent extension Web Developer by Chris Pederick, it said it was "designed for Firefox, Flock, Mozilla and Seamonkey". Seamonkey was yet another Mozilla project, but the Flock one was maintained by another organization and seemed interesting.

Flock turned out to be based on Firefox (both being open source) but included tons of wonderful new features, like the web snippets bar, a great feed reader, the favorites manager, the differrent topbars that are integrated with social web services like blogging and photo sharing, etc...

All these astonishing new features in combination that I felt nothing was happening with Firefox, in fact less than with Micro$oft Internet Explorer, made me take the step. Firefox is a great browser, but Flock is better and is being updated almost every day.

If you are reading this, please download the latest testing build (yes, there are no public betas or final versions yet, simply testing builds, but since it's based on Firefox 1.5.0.3, it's at least as usable). Join me and many others: Get Flocked!

Tango Desktop Project

I have to say it, I'm terrible at art. And things are not better when designing icons for my computer programs...

Therefore, I'm glad to announce that I've found a wonderful project called the Tango Desktop Project. It includes style guidelines as well as a huge amount of ready icons, free for anyone to use.

• Tango Desktop Project
• Their Base Icon Library
• Download the icon theme (version 0.72) - tango-icon-theme-0.7.2.tar.gz
  

Things are going well for Pocket Sudoku

Pocket Sudoku, the project I started back in October last year, has had a huge up-turn lately.

With some hundred downloads each day, users contributing with ideas, posting bug reports and translating the application into their language and a new release just some day(s) or week(s) after the previous one, things are going quite well!

This shows in the SF (SourceForge) statistics system, and the project's rank has during the last two months climbed from 1,620 in the beginning of March up to 33 yesterday. The rank is a way to measure how active a project is, compared to other projects. And being the thirty-third most active project out of 118,620 is quite astonishing, at least the way I see it.

The project has also been mentioned on a number of sites and over at www.pocketgamer.org, they are happy to some times each month announce the release of a new Pocket Sudoku - the free open-source Sudoku game.

At last, I want to thank all the users who have contributed with bug reports, ideas and translations. Without your support, Pocket Sudoku would still be the same as in the 0.1 release:

At the beginning of time...

This entry is my very first blog post, and therefore the beginning of a new time for me. This very entry has been posted from flock - the social web browser (http://www.flock.com). In my opinion, it is a great browser based on the Mozilla Firefox project, but with tons of new features. Thank you, Flock!

My name is, as you ought to have guessed by now, Emil Andersson, and I'm interested in music and computers. I've currently got three different open source projects up and running, all hosted at sourceforge:

• Pocket Sudoku - http://pocketsudoku.sf.net
• HideThatWindow! - http://hidethatwindow.sf.net
• Resolution - http://resolution.sf.net