Wednesday, July 1, 2009

CheckSplit — iPhone App

After a long time of not moving ahead with this project I was persuaded by those around me to publish an app that I wrote and we were successfully using for months now.

So I added the final polishes to the application, created a mini-site for it with all the information about it, with the help of my wife put together a good screencast that demos the application and its functionality. And then it was uploaded to Apple for a review.

I’m happy to say that CheckSplit was approved by Apple and is up in the AppStore as of yesterday. I would appreciate any feedback and reviews.

In: Software Tags: app, Apple, AppStore, CheckSplit, iPhone, SDK
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Beejive IM 3.0

Apple has finally approved the newest version of Beejive, the one that supports new push notifications. In essence that makes IM as effective as SMS with a key difference of IM being completely free.

Feel free to contact me through AIM or ICQ on iDR2000 or 424614398 respectively. I will get your messages instantly on my phone.

In: Gadgets & Gear, Software Tags: Apple, Beejive, IM, iPhone, push
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Home Infrastructure Updates

Office desk — Windows XP, Mac OS X 10.5, Ubuntu 9.04.

A haven’t done anything with our home network infrastructure in quite some time. Yesterday I decided to improve and utilize some of the resources.

Namely I updated our Linksys WRT54G router with new 3rd party firmware — Tomato to be exact. A vast improvement over the factory firmware — support for static DHCP, automatics dynamic DNS updates are among the new things.

I also installed Ubuntu 9.04 onto our old WoW box that hasn’t been turned on in over a year. Nice to finally have a local Linux box again after all these years.

I also plan to do something about internet line redundancy in a near future and setup some security equipment around the house, but I’m guessing I will not going be posting about that.

In: Software Tags: Linux, router, Ubuntu
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Themes in Google Apps Mail

Gmail themes finally appeared in the Google Apps today. It took Google awhile to roll these out, but it’s nice to finally have them.

A small tip for those whose logo started looking ugly with different background colors — you can upload a PNG file as your logo and PNG files support alpha-channel transparencies and all modern browsers support PNG files. If your browser does not — it really is time to update!

In: Software Tags: Gmail, Google, PNG
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Friday, February 20, 2009

Which Arrow?

There is a bit of dilemma now — too many ideas from Geoff, Alex and myself resulted in a humongous number of “Photo Post” arrows. Seven to be exact.

Question is — which one do I pick? Click on the image to see a full list and leave your vote in the comment. Please do it before reading what I like myself in the last paragraph. Your input is much appreciated.

I myself seem to be leaning towards number 4 the most. And maybe 5 and 6 after that.

In: Software Tags: arrow, blog, design, poll
Time: 17:26 Comments: 10 Comments Post a Comment

Friday, February 20, 2009

Photo Library

Photo library is a feature that I have been meaning to add to the blog for quite some time now. It required a bit of a format change the would be labor intensive, so I never got around to doing it. Until now that is.

The purpose of this is for me to have a way to publish some of my best (in my opinion) photographs. Majority of them have already been posted on this blog, but there will be new ones as well.

I’ll start with 2 previously seen HDRs of mine. Move your mouse over the image itself once you’re on the photo page to navigate the library.

In: Photography, Software Tags: blog, design, library, photo
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Friday, January 16, 2009

Photo Post-Processing

Photoshop postprocessing of an old shot of Grand Canyon from our 2005 trip.

Stumbled upon a couple of really old shots of mine (way back from 2005) that show a dramatic difference between the image that came out from the camera and the final version.

Original shot, fresh out of camera. Grand Canyon.

Granted the final image is not all that stellar, yet the difference is striking. And then again, it’s not often that 2 shots differ so much, but it shows what a little tweaking in Photoshop can do. Adjust the levels, increase the contrast, some sharpening. There’s nothing more to it.

In: Photography, Software Tags: Photoshop, post-processing
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Thursday, November 6, 2008

Blog Header

The header that our blog sported during the election season.

Now that the election is over the header of our blog is going back to its original form. I changed it on January 10th, 2008.

In: Software Tags: blog, election, header, Obama
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There is a bunch of cool little apps that developers are putting out. I think iLightr is one of them. What I don’t get is why some people keep whining about that fact that it’s useless and demand that Apple doesn’t approve those. Don’t like it — don’t fucking buy it, assholes! It’s that simple. 1

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Split Check: Entering Info

I still have a lot of development to do to finish this app up, but here’s a short update on progress.

The check creation (list display + price entering) screens are ready, so is the screen to set up tip and tax values with persistent data storage. The split itself is the last thing that needs implementation, but it’s probably going to be the easiest step now.

On Saturday we gave it a real life test on entering information only to find out that the original idea was flawed. Read more…

In: Software Tags: app, iPhone, SDK, Split Check
Time: 12:57 Comments: 4 Comments Post a Comment

We haven’t posted in the longest time now. There is really not much happening. Work, work, work. For both of us now. I also have been reading a lot about iPhone SDK and Objective-C. Actually making good headway and building my first app. 4

Monday, July 21, 2008

iPhone Theme

I installed an iPhone specific theme for the blog. Developers at Content Robot provided a good starting point. I made several modification to it to work better with our particular blog. Now everyone opening the blog with an iPhone will automatically get this theme. It’s much more lightweight compared to our regular one, so that should make for faster loading times.

I guess it’s basically for Alena, Maruk and myself at the moment.

In: Software Tags: blog, iPhone, theme
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