The Android project keeps moving forward. Recently, the winners of the Developer Challenge have been announced. Of these, there are a number that I think will be great to have.
Locale. Automatically changes phone settings based on triggers. What this means is that you can set your phone to automatically go to vibrate at work or [...]
I guess I’m not the only person who hates writing user interfaces.
So, the MBTA has gone to court to prevent some MIT students from presenting a talk at DefCon which reveals vulnerabilities in its RFID ticketing system. This may not have been a smart move, as now the vulnerabilities are a matter of public record.
Anyhow, Wired has a proper news report about the whole thing. The [...]
I’ve had a little utility for quite some time now that I use mainly to let the iTunes’ current song play through its end, then stop. It’s one feature from Winamp that I couldn’t deal without.
Quite recently, I upgraded to iTunes 7.7. My little utility stopped working. When I finally got around to looking into [...]
A year and a half ago I went to the International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo. I got some good pictures, and was linked to from boingboing, but online video hadn’t really taken off yet, so only I got to see the videos I took.
I’ve finally gotten around to uploading some of those videos:
Crab Walker with [...]
Subtitle: The good, the bad, and the… no, wait; this is a Google project.
XML and Java have the same sort of flavor to them: they’re reasonably good and very widely used; they’re the sort of product that design committees everywhere aspire to create. Their flaws only really become visible after something better comes along. In [...]
Here’s a presentation listing some of the apps available for phones running Android. Few people are likely to use all of those, but almost anyone will find a handful which they find awesome, which are free, and which are not available on the iPhone.
I have to run, so this post is shorter than it would [...]
It’s not very much*, but it represents my first tentative steps towards doing something visual with PyGame.
“But,” you object, “what happened to that C++ project you were working on?”
Basically, I got bored**. I have a fairly high tolerance for doing background research before jumping into a project, but the sheer volume of required reading to [...]