Clickege Developers

Discussing Some Ideas for a Computer in a Flash Drive

2011-05-10T16:54:00.000-07:00

We have several ideas for our computer in a flash drive idea that we want to build this summer. Below we discuss some of them.

One idea is that we could put an entire operating system on the flash drive. All the files for the OS would be saved on the flash drive. This option would be the most difficult, but probably the best for actual use. We are not certain, but the OS would likely only run on non-Mac computers. We will probably try this method, becuase it would be. Pretty awesome if it worked.

Aother option is to run individual programs off of the flash drive, instead of a full OS. Tis option would require less space, and it might allow us to run a wider range of programs, ones that are compatible with all computers.

We'll probably try both of these options and see which one we like the best. If they both work famously, perhaps we'll keep going with both. Some day, these could turn into a full fledged product line. We'll just have to see.

Stick around, because this summer we will be documenting our adventures with both of these.

Some Ideas for Clickege

2011-05-04T18:48:00.000-07:00

This summer will be the first summer here at Clickege, and we're wanting to put it to good use. We have several ideas we're wanting to work on this summer, and I wanted to discuss some of them here.
We're wanting to expand our anti-boredom site directory into a full blown website. Just recently, we added the ability to submit a site and this summer we want to turn the site into a directory, were sites can submit there site for free or pay to have their site listed and get added benefits. More information on that later.
We have discussed Clickege Games earlier. If you haven't heard about it, it's basically an awesome collection of games on one site. We hope to bring the best games on the internet into one place.
We have several other ideas too, but they're a little top secret now so we can't talk about them here.

Fixing the Dinosaur Part Two: The Internet

2011-05-04T18:39:00.000-07:00

Well, as we mentioned before, we were having difficulties getting the Dinosaur to connect to the internet. At first, we worried that the wifi card in it might have been fried in an electrical storm in which it was present under its past owner.
Gladly, we found out later that this was not the case. The new operating system we had installed was having trouble accessing the wifi card was all. We just hardwired the computer into the internet with a 14 foot cord and downloaded a software modem driver that let us access the wifi card.
After about 3 hours of "patiently" waiting for the download, the wifi card was ready to use and the dinosaur was one step closer to arriving in the modern age.
Stay tuned for part three of fixing the dinosaur!

A Brand New Project!

2011-04-24T16:55:00.000-07:00

水禽WaterFowl Systems, Inc.

Over the next couple of months, we will be working with WaterFowl Systems Inc. (which is owned by the same great man who owns Clickege!) on several personal and enterprise budget systems.
The programs we develop will run on Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice, Google Docs, Microsoft Web Apps, and possibly more. WaterFowl Systems is planning on offering both paid and free, ad-powered versions of the software, which we hope to begin launching in beta (test) form this summer, slated for a stable late 2011 or early 2012 release.
We will document our adventures here, where we hope you will stick around.

Fixing the Dinosaur Part One: The OS

2011-04-23T19:11:00.000-07:00

We are (basically) done renovating the Dinosaur, and we want to discuss the process we took to renovate it. The entire story will probably take a couple of posts, so we're going to discuss it over several posts, starting with this one.

In this post, we discuss installing the OS which we chose to put on our Dinosaur, to replace the 8 year old Windows XP that was running on it before. We chose to install Ubuntu 10.10 because of its speed, lightness (the Dinosaur only has a 40 GB hard drive, so everything needs to be light,) and modern appearance. Because of a problem with a lightning storm with the previous owner, the wifi on the Dino was not working correctly, so we could not install the OS over the air. Instead, we had to order the OS on a CD from Britain (That was the "Royal Mail" we received earlier this month. When the CD finally arrived (after about 8 weeks of waiting) we installed the OS.

Once it was all up and running, we were still having problems connecting by wifi, so we ran a 14 foot cable out the back of our computer and into the wall, as can be seen in the video below. We later do solve the wifi problem, which we will discuss in a future post.

Developing Future

2011-04-14T18:57:00.001-07:00

We just got a book that will help us to develop better with HTML and CSS codes. We will also be experimenting with the Palm/HP Ares development system for mobile phones. Stay tuned for more about both of these.

Clickege Games

2011-04-12T17:31:00.000-07:00

Clickege's next big project is Clickege Games, an awesome gaming website. We're going to be launching a closed beta of Clickege Games soon. We will document our adventures of developing it on this site. Look forward to it!

Cat App Built, Not Ready for Market

2011-04-10T10:00:00.000-07:00

We built the cat app we mentioned earlier, using the Android AI.
Unfortunately, we just discovered that the AI builds the app in a way so it cannot be added to the Marketplace.
Fortunately, we found a piece of software called AppToMarket that builds the app in a way the Market will accept.
Unfortunately, AppToMarket only runs on Windows, and I will not have access to a Windows computer until later today, so I will build the app when I have that Windows computer.
After that, it shouldn't take to much longer to get it functional and into the Market.
Until then...

A Simple Android App

2011-04-09T18:54:00.000-07:00

To show you how the Clickege Development Blog will work, we're going to create a simple app for Android. It will feature a picture of a cat. When you pet this picture, the cat will meow.
We know this isn't to complicated, but over the next few days, we're going to document out journey of creating this app. Stay tuned.

Welcome to the Clickege Developer Blog!

2011-04-09T18:23:00.000-07:00

Many of you don't know it, but we here at Clickege are big developers. We love creating content and giving it to people around the world. We created this blog to document some of our journeys in developing. Along the way, you may get a sneak peek of things that will be coming to Clickege soon!