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Android App #4 - Quick Movie Review
Sometimes I want to see quickly how good is a movie and am I just wasting my time with it when its coming on, or when renting a video (yeah from a shop). To that end I created Quick Movie Review, it is a small program that connects to RottenTomatoes....
Android App #3 - A GPS location finder now with GPS Messaging!!
Updates at the end. New Messaging system. New Weather and Search. I had fun making this app. Basically its a compass that points in the direction of a chosen latitude and longitude and gives a distance. You can save the place you are at to a database...
Google - Do a barrel Roll
Go to Google search, type in Do a barrel roll and watch the fun.
You can also click on the link https://www.google.com/search?q=do%20a%20barrel%20roll
Thats some fine coding!!!
My first Android App - Grocery Shopping App
Updates at the bottom....
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Well I have done it, created and uploaded my first android app. Its not a biggie, and it will probably get lost in a mass of other shopping lists, but its a start. Its SQLite Database driven and runs through a Scrolling...
My Android App #2 - A bike fitting calculator
When you get into cycling, even at a light recreational level, its important to get your bike fitted for your body size. Not just the \" can you stand over the top tube\" type fitting, but the length of your torso, the length of your inner leg, and.....
How to update Firefox Portable with Adobe Flash
If you have Firefox Portable, which runs off your flash drive, you will have found, as I have, that Adobe doesn\'t want to update.
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Apparently the most recent versions of Adobe flash are compiled in such a way as not to be installable on portable ...
Want to learn Android? Here are some resources
Here is an interesting video on reverse engineering Android.
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http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=25807610
Someone has set up a good little site here with Android coding snippets
http://android-coding.blogspot.com/
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Stuffucanuse has an Android App!
Recently I bought a new cell phone advancing from an ordinary brick to a nice smartphone mobile. One of the reasons for getting the machine is to learn how to program mobile apps.
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To this end I have started working on the site. There is now a de...
Google has 900,000 servers uses 0.01% of worldwide electricity use
Have Google watchers been overestimating the number of servers in the company’s data center network? Recent guesstimates have placed Google’s server count at more than 1 million. But new data on Google’s energy use suggests that the company is...
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Survey finding: People who use the Internet Explorer browser have lower IQs
A survey of 100,000 people who completed an online IQ test found people who used Internet Explorer had lower IQ\'s
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A Vancouver based Psychometric Consulting company, AptiQuant, has released a report on a trial it conducted to measure the effects ...
Backup your gmail account with this free program
In an age where you just can\'t seem to trust Google any more, after gmail account have been deleted or locked, its prudent to back up your contacts and details. This free program loads up on your machine and connects into your gmail account and...
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Annoying Windows Error Messages are used in research - one study had 1 billion computers
Windows Error Messages go into a giant database that then gets mined by some clever software, and thousands of bugs get fixed based on those reports. As well some studies are conducted on 1 billion machines and 1 million consumer machines.
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3rd p...
Google introduces the +1 button - a LIKE system for the internet - video
Google has just made live a system where people can vote up a page that they like on the internet. Its called +1, and the purpose is to create a Facebook type Like system for the net.
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Good points. Tries to get a visual ranking of good sites and ...
How We'll Layout Websites in 2016 - a guide for the future of web development
Peter (@stopsatgreen) delivered a lightning talk on the various CSS3 layout methods being developed by the W3C and his opinion on their potential future.
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=18999428
Someone steal your camera? Submit an image from it here and find it
If someone has stolen your camera and posts an image on the internet then this site can match your camera photo with the stolen one. Modern cameras have an exif code that lists the serial number of the camera in the photo.
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After extracting that s...
Get Firefox 4 web browser - it's awesome
Firefox 4 has been in development for a while yet with various betas appearing on the net. Now however its in its final stage, and is released as the newest Firefox browser.
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Its awesome.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/fx/
If you wan...
Want to buy some translucent concrete or rubber glass? - Great website
Inventables is a website that sells cutting edge technology. Interested in luminescent thread, heat sensitive fabric or many other fascinating technologies? This site is a must visit. Inventables sell materials that designers, artists, and inventors....
Symantec video showing how the Stuxnet virus works - video
Symantec show how the Stuxnet virus can take over and control another computer called a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) without the operator realizing whats happening. PLC\'s don\'t look like typical computers,they are industrial programs used to...