I recently released a desktop application for Lose It! My initial version 1.0 release was fairly large, and didn’t have a proper uninstall icon. I’ve now fixed those issues, and slimmed the installer down from 35MB to only 13.5MB. I also made a few behind-the-scenes tweaks to the application, nothing…
Leave a CommentThis is something that I’ve wanted to release for quite a while, but I was always unsure about the strangeness of packaging something like this in an installer, but I had a bit of free time today, and decided to actually put my mind to it and figure it out…
4 CommentsI recently purchased the Microsoft LifeCam Studio from Amazon. I got a great deal on the product, but the price is continually fluctuating daily on Amazon. When I initially set out to buy a new camera, I wasn’t expecting to purchase from the Microsoft LifeCam product line, as I originally…
1 CommentWell, after my initial post yesterday about how Google+ is going to be some exciting competition for other social networks (Facebook) I woke up to an activated account. Google has released a statement saying that they’re currently only inviting users with a large social footprint on the Internet. I guess…
Leave a CommentGoogle+ is a HUGE product rollout from Google that is going to have Facebook shaking in it’s boots. It’s Google’s real social network that we’ve all been waiting for. Google has tried before to bring social layers to Gmail with Google Buzz, and Wave among others. Those efforts were met…
4 CommentsSpotify is a UK based music streaming service which is only available in a few countries right now, primarily the United Kingdom. I was able to score myself and a few close friends invites to the service when it was in its infancy and locked to the United Kingdom. With…
3 CommentsAt work today I was asked to take a look at a spreadsheet that need a lot of extremely repetitive data added to it. I started working on it right away, but after a hundred or so lines out of 1,700 or more, I realized that there HAD to be…
Leave a CommentA while after Google started sending out the CR-48 netbooks, it’s write-protected security system was undoubtedly compromised. Shortly after Hexxeh created a tool called Luigi, which has actually been taken down since then due to a bug he’s found which causes the system to lose its original and unique BIOS.…
94 CommentsRunning a Minecraft server isn’t that robust, it just runs the server and nothing else. If it stops while chunks are being changed you’re in for a world of pain trying to restore any sort of useable functionality to your map. This happened to me a few days after I…
18 CommentsThis is something I had, no… wanted to write for my job. We’ve had some issues with our point of sale software interfacing properly with our receipt printers and cash drawers over long periods of time, and high sales volumes. I was unsatisfied with the other ways of testing up…
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