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I was reading a tweet by @ haacked and came to a realization, not sure if he has realized it but using twitter as your text messaging is br...

In an effort to keep old hardware running trying to build Android Apps, I was really looking for a way to speed up eclipse. The best improve...

It took me a little while to figure it out, but these are the steps I use to setup a fresh install of Ubuntu with the necessary software to ...

I tried using the SSDP to find the roku ip address using ncat as recommended by Roku , but using wireshark to moitor it just didn't see...

I realize (thanks to a twitter follower) that I never really explained how my music glove actually works. ( Introducing Proof of Concept Mu...

Creating a Simple Fileserver. Tip #2 I wanted a simple fileserver, I tried looking for a variety of search terms, but finally came upon s...

I was looking up how to create an ebook, now according to this website: How to Format Childrens Ebook  it's a matter of creating a htm...

I'll be posting tips as I come across them of using NodeJS as an intranet webserver. Long story short, I want to build a Roku app th...

Mobile I was attempting to build an amazon affiliate link on my phone for a pogoplug I bought the other day. I found it to be quite cu...

Anyone here have a Google Picasa account? How about 2? (I'm thinking families here) More? Sure someone can share an album with you, bu...

If you know me personally you probably have heard of "Geek Book Club", basically we are a group of people interested in learning m...

I don't love spending time testing, so I try to make the best use of my time. I write Unit Tests when I can, and automate any other tes...

Description I finally got fed up. We bought a Christmas light "timer". This thing would do essentially 3 functions, the first w...

I was hoping to sync my ZSNES game saves across all my pc's. It turns out it take very little work. First I made a folder in dropbox f...

This tip comes from Phil otherwise known as @civissmith on the interwebs. Often times you have to swap between screens, I usually use alt/...

There is a link in the "issues" section of the github site for energia. https://github.com/energia/Energia/issues/77 Setup ...

Well I finally released an update, and IAMHERE has been improved. I added categories of texts, as well as a share button. There are a few ...

Well the day I never thought would come has arrived. I have finished a proof of concept of my android music control using an external (in th...

With the android music player you can change songs using the following broadcast. It's not guaranteed to work with any other music playe...

I started out trying to pull the android bluetooth chat application from the developer website....BAD IDEA. I spent quite a bit of time comm...