I already mentioned this in siderea's post where she gave me the idea, but:

I've written an extension for Emacs that lets you highlight stretches of text, like with a highlighter pen. It should work in any major mode. Three colors of highlighter; saves and loads when you save and load the file; switch colors with meta-+; highlight the current region with meta-_; or press shift and drag the right mouse button. To erase, set a negative prefix argument; that is, meta-- meta-_ erases all highlights in the current region. For a file /foo/bar/baz.txt, highlights are saved in /foo/bar/.highlights/baz.txt.el.

One caveat: when you copy text, highlights do not go with it. This is because I didn't use the text-properties system (since it's already used by syntax highlighting, and I was concerned about interactions); I used the overlay system. Overlays do take care of moving when you insert and delete text; but you will see some odd behavior when you use transpose commands.

I released it on Github. GPLv2. Let me know if the directions aren't clear, or if it summons eldritch horrors that eat your soul, flay your marshmallows, and swap point and mark.

This morning I posted a bugfix update to Fanorona. When an Android app crashes, the user has the option of reporting the crash to the developer; it turned out Fanorona would sometimes crash if you touched the screen outside the board.

From boston.com:

New Hampshire police are investigating the discovery of a blue shark that was found in the woods in the small town of Milton.

More at the source link (not much more)...but has anyone seen ckd lately?

I added sound effects to Fanorona for Android.

I also took out the ads—they've made me less than $1 in the past 2.5 months. Better to give it up and just let people enjoy it. And maybe it'll be a career boost at some point. (Not an issue right now, but still.)

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Because LJ is under heavy attack, I'm setting up to crosspost from Dreamwidth. I'll keep trying to read LJ.

I've just published Scrapple, an Android app for uploading images to LiveJournal. Free, no ads. Works through Android's normal sharing function; works for JPEG, GIF, and PNG.

This morning I published an ad-supported version of Fanorona. I don't know yet how many people are downloading it (the Market's stats update only once per day), but so far AdMob says they've gotten 462 requests for ads. (Only 82 of them have been filled, though, which means I've earned only a penny. But hey.)

Last night I published my second Android app, called Buzzphrase. It's a random mission statement generator—trying to be a high-quality mission statement generator, with a wider variety of output than most you see. I built it around a grammar engine; that is, it knows a bunch of grammatical structures and how to glue them together and plug in individual words. It also uses random clip art and fonts—it doesn't try to match the clip art to the words, though.

It's free, but ad-supported. This turned out to be a lot easier than I'd expected; AdMob's API is pretty simple if all you want to do is stick in the ad widget and forget about it. I'll probably create an ad-supported version of Fanorona next.

Some sample output:

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The ACLU Says:

Anti-choice forces in Congress wasted no time trying to limit access to abortion. Their opening salvo: a proposal that penalizes women and businesses and would eliminate insurance coverage of abortion. It would revive the Stupak Amendment that the last Congress rejected.

Here's how the proposal breaks down:

• The bill would allow public hospitals to refuse medically necessary abortions to pregnant women who are rushed in with life-threatening emergencies.
• It would permanently deny abortion coverage to women who depend on the federal government for their health care, including Native Americans, federal employees, Peace Corps volunteers, poor women and women in federal prisons.
• The proposal would prohibit anyone who receives a federal subsidy to buy insurance in the new health care exchanges from purchasing a plan that includes abortion coverage (i.e. reinstates the Stupak abortion coverage ban).
• It would change tax laws in order to penalize businesses that offer abortion coverage and prevent women from deducting medical expenses related to abortion care.

Send a message to your representative: "Don't play politics with women's health."

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Speaker John Boehner has called this anti-choice legislation one of Congress's highest priorities. That means it's more important than ever for ACLU supporters like you to make your voice heard.