Posts tagged progress
Shady SMS – MMS Support Timeline
Aug 12th
Shady currently supports mms photo filtering. In the main settings turn on experimental filtering using the option. If your Shady contact receives an mms photo message, and the download of the photo completes, the image will be completely filtered. Give the experimental feature a try, and expect much progress in future updates.
I have an excellent timeline planned for better mms support. After the new code, that I have in mind, is implemented there will be only one hitch, mms photo download failure. If your mms photo download fails the mms message will remain in your inbox until the image is downloaded. Once the image is downloaded the mms will immediately disappear. The new code will use a content observer waiting for the image part, of the mms message, to complete downloading. Once complete the currently existing filter code will be used to extract the image, save the image to Shady, and then filter the mms from the regular inbox.
The currently existing code is quite functional and will effectively extract images from mms messages. Video is another story 
There are two things that are inhibiting Shady’s progress. The time I have available because of my 11 hour day job, and the download quantity. Shady is simply not being downloaded enough to encourage me to work overtime on the app. With only a handful of downloads a day it is not a serious income producer. Hopefully as popularity builds, downloads will increase, and I will have more encouragement to work harder on the app.
Comments are a big encourager. The better my comments, and stars the more good feelings I have about the app. You’d be surprised, when I get a 1 star comment I will leave the app for a day or longer. Negative comments really are detrimental to Shady’s progress 
The Large Hadron Collider
Nov 21st
I think this research is fascinating. Investigating the origins of the universe is paramount. Gathering scientific data about fundamental particles, and their nature will uncover new exciting technologies. The more we understand about physics the more progress we will make as a species.
GENEVA – Scientists moved Saturday to prepare the world’s largest atom smasher for exploring the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10 billion machine following more than a year of repairs.[Source]
After a year of repair, and a faulty startup the Large Hadron Collider is up and running again. With new upgrades, new software and lofty goals I forsee much progress to be made. I myself am excited. Particles will be smashed together at near the speed of light; nearer to the speed of light than ever before in history.
There are two things, that I understand, that may be investigated; or hopefully investigated. The mythological Higgs Boson, the so called force particle can be sought. The standard model, the list of the known fundamental particles that have been found in particle colliders has a few gaps. One gap is clearly gravity, but that is a whole other ballgame, and a topic for another time. The Higgs Boson is the fundamental particule that is supposed to transmitt force, which will fill a big gap on the Standard Model. They may also be able to test certain aspect of String Theory, but this is pure speculation on my part. I do not know exactly what can be tested or not, but frankly I think String theory is an exciting concept.