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Logitech Harmony and the Apple TV

Thursday, 10 September 2009 00:26

When I first added our Apple TV to our Logitech Harmony remote, I included our LCD TV in the device list for the Apple TV activity. Most of the time, we use the Apple TV for music, not for video, and we often use the Remote application on ipod and iphone. So we don't really need the TV on -- but sometimes we do. How could we get "TV On" and "TV Off" buttons added to the soft buttons on the remote?

Announcement: Hot Death 1.0.0

Wednesday, 18 May 2011 16:36

I'm happy to report that after about 4 months of spare-time development, Hot Death for Android is in good enough shape to release. Hot Death is a port of my Pocket PC Hot Death Uno that was in turn an update of a Windows version I encountered in the mid-90s.

I overhauled the art (the original bitmaps were too low-res for modern mobile devices), and I tried to give it a look that was distinct from the commercial Uno card game. As fun as it would be to have "real" Uno cards in the game, I don't want to invite a lawsuit.

Anyway, check it out in the Android store, and view my Hot Death page for more about the game and the different cards used in the game.

Backing up USB-connected drives on an Airport Extreme

Sunday, 17 January 2010 00:00

I love the fact that my Airport Extreme can serve as a "poor-man's NAS" by making USB drives available as Samba shares. But when I wanted to back up one drive to another, I ran into terrible problems. Here's how I solved these problems.

Samsung Epic and slow launcher with Froyo

Tuesday, 12 April 2011 20:00

After using Froyo on the Epic 4G for a few weeks, I came to the conclusion that something was very wrong with the launcher. Often, I would return to the homescreen after using an application, and I would have to wait several seconds for the icons to redraw. This happened most frequently if I changed orientation while in the application, so that when I came back to the launcher, it needed to lay itself out in the new orientation.

I didn't see this happen on my wife's Epic (at least not as bad as on mine). I have no idea what's different between them. But fear not, if you're seeing this problem, too -- there is hope.

Announcement: cookingwithgas 1.0

Wednesday, 04 May 2011 17:24

I'm pleased to announce the GPL-ed release of cookingwithgas, a mobile web-based recipe organizing application. This was my own personal experiment with jquery mobile -- I wanted to move my ancient MS Access recipe database into the 21st century. I figured that a mobile-friendly UI was vital. It is great to be able to check the ingredients on any of our familiy recipes while I'm at the grocery store! Anyway, the application is PHP/MySQL based, and it requires Zend Framework. http://smorgasbork.com/cookingwithgas/

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