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We don't normally announce our new hires on the Mint blog but then it's not every day we get job applications quite like the one we got from Shoshi Roberts.

(This is the second post in a series documenting the making of our Android concepts. The first is over here. Look out for the third instalment tomorrow.)

Hold That Sound started out from my laziness and frustration with downloading conference talks. My morning commute was the perfect time to catch up on them but the problem was getting the audio from the web onto my phone. It was annoying to have to deal with downloading the files, importing everything to iTunes then searching for the cable to sync the lot. I wanted to make this process as seamless as bookmarking a page.

This led my to my first sketch of how an app to solve this might work. I wanted to bypass any need for downloading to my desktop and simply pass the http:// link for the audio file from the website to the phone in one step.

We don't want to get involved in Steve Jobs' war on Flash. But just in case he wins (and on current form, who'd bet against him?), we have re-engineered Hemlock, our open source framework for real-time web apps, to work in 100% Javascript environments.