So, I made an app. A for real, runs on things app. More accurately, I followed a little tutorial to make an app, as part of the Xamarin Challenge over at Thurrott.com. The app itself is a little weather app, it even includes location based weather and forecasting. I know this isn’t particularly impressive but … [Read more…]
I’ve been using computers and technology for a long time. The vast majority of my life in fact. I have early memories of playing games on our Commodore 64, back when I was like 4 or 5 years old. Eventually we had a DOS based system, though it didn’t have a hard drive in it. … [Read more…]
So, the title there says New 3DS, which is is the “New 3DS” but it’s also New, in the sense that I bought it at the start of January. It’s like 3 or 4 weeks old. Then I broke it on accident. It’s taken me years to get around to saving the money to buy … [Read more…]
So, I have been pretty sure for a while that the main Hard Drive in my desktop was going out. It’s probably the oldest drive I own and occasionally it got feisty during reboots. For a variety of reasons, I kept putting off replacing it. … and putting it off…. and putting it off… Then … [Read more…]
I’ve neglected posting much lately, not so much because I haven’t been doing anything but more because I’ve been busy and not really with anything deserving of it’s own post. I hope to remedy this a bit next year but for now I just wanted to run through some recent projects I’ve been working on. … [Read more…]
I’ll try to remember to do an update post if things iron out but I wanted to throw out my experience so far with Cloud At Cost, a VPS provider that charges a one time upfront fee for their VPS, as opposed to a monthly subscription or other reoccurring cost. They had a sale for … [Read more…]
I’m not sure what it is about mobile operating systems, they just don’t always clean up after themselves and seem to be awful about eating up their limited space sometimes. I can only assume that there is some sort of glitch and a large batch of updates or temporary files don’t get deleted properly. In … [Read more…]
There was a post that came across on Medium recently, How to Make a Twitter Bot in Under an Hour. It’s pretty straight forward, though it seems to be pretty geared towards non “techie” types, mostly because it’s geared towards people making the bot on a Mac and it uses something called Heroku to run … [Read more…]
It seems like there is an increasing amount of hacks and leaks lately. These also seem to be larger and higher profile targets more and more. Recently I’ve been seeing stories about Last.fm and Dropbox accounts apparently being compromised as well as a vulnerability in vBulleten, a popular Message Board hosting tool. For the most … [Read more…]
As part of the recent Windows 10 Anniversary update, Skype was updated to Skype Preview. Part of the preview is the new Skype Bots system. Bots are the new Apps, which are the new Websites, or something… Everyone is doing Bots these days. These early bots are about what you might expect, simple interactions that … [Read more…]