AlaskaLinuxUser's Scratchpad

Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established. - Proverbs 16:3

Updating UT apps: More to do lists and some errors

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Now that I am done with updating the 199 Ubuntu Touch apps from Xenial to Focal, I am waiting 7 days for a response from each developer, and then releasing the clicks on the open-store. You can check out the progress table below, but I'm really close to closing out …

Updating UT apps: Blackjack and more

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I am nearing the end of my journey to update about 200 Ubuntu Touch apps from Xenial to Focal. All of the apps have been updated that I can update. However, to clarify, that means I have updated them, not that they are released on the open-store yet. You can …

Updating UT apps: uHome and Lomiri action

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As I continue on my journey to update about 200 Ubuntu Touch apps from Xenial to Focal, I once again released more apps on the open-store. One of those updates was for an app called uHome, which is sort of like an old school Android launcher application, making your screen …

Updating UT apps: GearSystem and other apps

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Continuing on my journey to update about 200 Ubuntu Touch apps from Xenial to Focal, I once again released more apps on the open-store. Among them was a personal favorite, which is GearSystem. GearSystem is a Sega Game Gear and Sega Master System emulator, so you can play all your …

Trading in WordPress for Pelican

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Since 2018, I've been using WordPress as my CMS, Content Management System, for my blog. WP is a really handy program for writing blogs, it comes with tons of features, and great add ons, as well as a lot of documented support. It also comes with PHP requirements, JavaScript, and …

Ubuntu Touch: Are Clicks Secure

I've been spending a lot of time working on Ubuntu Touch clicks lately. For those who don't know, a click is the UT name for an app. If you've been reading my blog, then you'll notice that I'm on a mission to update about 200 apps from the old UT …

Updating UT apps: OhSteem and a dozen other apps!

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Continuing on my journey to update about 200 Ubuntu Touch apps from Xenial to Focal, I have released a dozen apps on the open-store. Of course, I didn't build these apps, I'm just updating them, so I make sure to write in the description of the apps that all the …

Updating UT apps: PopThatWrap! and Pulse-app

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Continuing on my journey to update about 200 Ubuntu Touch apps from Xenial to Focal, I once again released two more apps on the open-store. Pulse-app is an application for tracking your pulse over time, and PopThatWrap! is an entertaining application where you simply pop fake bubble wrap... it even …

Updating UT apps: Chess Clock and SimplePrint

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Continuing on my journey to update about 200 Ubuntu Touch apps from Xenial to Focal, I recently released two more apps on the open-store. Both of these apps were useful for me, and that is why I decided to do them next.

Of course, I forked the repositories, updated them …

Updating UT apps: Ambient and Sudoku

In my continuing quest to be useful to the Ubuntu Touch community, I recently found that there were about 300 apps made for Xenial, the 16.04 version of UT, that didn't get updated for the current version of UT, which is Focal (20.04). Of these apps, I went …