Awesome note is beautiful note taking application for iPod touch/iPhone. It is one of the coolest app I have seen. At home page of the application, there is nice list of folders where notes can be inserted. Appearance of folders and notes can be easily changed. Font size and family can also be modified.

Home screen of Awesome note

Quick memo button allows you to create notes with just tap of one button. This is very handy feature if you are in hurry and need to just type your note to something. Later you can move the quick memo to normal notes or clear it.

The reason why I bought this app was Google Docs integration. There is two options for Google Docs. First is backup/restore of all notes another is for moving documents from/to Awesome note/Google docs. And it really works! It is fast, easy and clean. Documents with formation will be automatically cleaned for Awesome note, so easy to download document from Google Docs. Making changes isn’t so easy, because the formation lost. But for uploading documents to Google Docs, this is the best app that I have seen.

There is only two  minor problems that I would like to get fixed. First is way to change background of single note, there is only one button and it will only change to next theme, so if you want that last theme on the list, you need to click the same button many times, and if you accidentally go over the background you wanted, you have to start the changing again.

Another problem is the “secure” folder. The problem with it is that it isn’t secure. If you delete folder with password and choose that you want keep the notes, you can access them without the password!

It costs 2.99e. If you need Google docs integration or just Awesome app for notes, buy it.

Check Awesome note at it website at: http://www.bridworks.com/

My last post about world war made up big flood of code spammers, but there were some people that wanted to cheat. That’s evil and should not be done. But some peoples wants to play World War on computer. I think that isn’t evil, but storm8 (creator of this game) may not like…

So this may get you banned. You have been warned.

There is a fully working application for playing this game (and others) on computer. It is easy to set up and works very well. There is also some kind of trigger systems that helps playing and automates boring stuff.

http://forums.lavarsicious.com

This site requires registration, if you are not able to register to their site, you are noob and you should not try to use this app.

And here is screenshot of the ToolSuite application:

Ye. My nickname is on the screenshot, but so what? I am not addicted to this game anymore.

Big thanks to Flush for sending me the link to this app.

If you project is bigger than 20 lines or it has over 1 user, you need source controlling system. If you are doing something very complex or you have many users it’s good to choose services like Google code or Beanstalk. (or something else)

But if you only need a source control system for your self, it’s not so clever to take remote source reporisity, because you can have your own source control system on your local machine!

Setting up svn server is much more difficult than setting up local git repository. I recommend to use git for every small local projects, because it is extremely easy to set up and it doesn’t require server to run.

So, install git (apt-get install git git-core) and then go to your projects directory and type:
Git init
Git add .


First command initializes git repository on .git folder and second command adds every file to new repository. In future when you add more files to project, just use “git add “.

Then do the first commit to get it working.

Git commit -a

Commit command opens default editor on your system. If you want to change it to another editor, add next line to your .bashrc file. (and reload bash to get it working )

export EDITOR=vim

Then just continue coding your project. When you want to commit more, just use previous command to do it. After you have done couple of commits you may want to see what you have done. Use “git log” to view latest commits.

When you type just “git” you will get list of sample commands that you will need later. More documentations can be found from gits website.

I recommend to try graphical git application: giggle. It makes it easier to understand branches.

Happy coding

Htop is similar to top, but it has much more features than top. In my opinion, htop is the best process manager software ever.

• Cool ASCII graphs
• Customizable view
• Searching of process
• Easily send kill signal, or some other signal.
• Process tree view
• Mouse support!
• Nice ncurses interface

Cool ASCII-graphs!

I just found my old et:qw stats tracking script from my horrible backups.

At official et:qw stats page there is lots of good/fun information, but not any charts about progress! But because they offer a xml api, I created my own tracker for creating charts from stats.

This is about one year old, but I removed this last time from public use because my hosting was so slower to handle updater script. But now I have moved to better hosting, so I can host it again.

The script is build from a piece of PHP that fetch data from official tracker and puts it to MySQL database, and from another piece of PHP that shows data to user in cool flash chart. (Powered by Open flash chart) At backend there is running a daily cron script that runs the PHP fetch script.

This script also offers API to further developers. Via API other developer can get all data in xml format.

So, if you play et:qw, try my tracker! If you want see example statistics, look at my stats.