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I FINALLY released my Woot application for the Android OS. It monitors Woot.com, Kids.Woot.com, Shirt.Woot.com and Wine.Woot.com. I used a Service in this app to monitor these sites and several activities for the user to interact with the information downloaded. I chose not to use a DB for this app because its just a few files that are needed.

I've given the users minimal options to change, the obvious one is the time interval for updates to the app. I offer them an option to specify a shorter time interval for when Woot Offs are detected as well. I realize that some people do not want to monitor ALL the woot sites so I also gave the user the choice to choose which woot sites they would like to monitor.

Tic-Tac-Toe Update

I have just released an update to my Tic-Tac-Toe game for the Android OS. It changes the way the game preferences are stored & displayed to the user. I threw out all my custome code and fell in line with the proper way of using the android.preference classes. I also re-architected it so I can add AI and hopefully remote multiplayer capability. This version includes a very simple AI that chooses a random board location without giving any thought to it. The next version will have more complex AI's.

You can find out more about this app here: http://sites.google.com/site/androidtictactoe/

aReader Launch

I have just launched my first paid application for the android OS. It is an eBook reader titled 'aReader'. It is capable of reading books stored in the PDB, or Palm Database, format only. I created it to help a friend who had a large collection of books in the PDB format but had no way to read them on his new G1 Phone. This was a very good learning experience as it required me to dig deep into the PDB format and understand the LRE compression algorithm. You can read more about aReader at http://sites.google.com/site/androidreader/