25 July 2013
A while back I made a post about how I wrote an Android app to check your work schedule (For Wegmans employees). As I finished up my Internship in IT and moved back to making subs, it became more and more of a need to have something on your mobile device that would load your schedule. I ported my Java code to Objective-C and released my first iOS app onto the market!
27 June 2013
I wanted to experiment with some old routers I had sitting around. I put them in the 4 corners of my house and used my Android device to get the signal strength of each router. I can take that strength value, convert it to a measurement of distance and use trilateration algorithms to essentially give me a rough estimate of where I am in the house.
It ended up working! Well, for the most part. The experiment was to determine if the Wi-Fi strength was constant enough to actually become a method of accurately determining location. Unfortunately in the testing that I did, with the old routers that I have... it was not.
26 June 2013
The Samsung Galaxy series has an LED that flashes when it has a new notification. I was originally planning on creating a small device that would do the same thing but for my desktop computer, only I soon realized I didn't have to. I wrote a small applescript... script? that will basically snap a quick picture every 3 seconds if my monitor is asleep then all we need is to trigger that script.
17 May 2013
Today I made the switch from Spotify to Google's new "All Access". Everything is working great, except for the fact that the media buttons on my keyboard won't work with Chrome when trying to play/pause my music.
I made an app that allows you to dedicate a window to Google Play music which gives you the ability to:
06 May 2013
I've hit over 1,000 downloads from the Google Play store between all the apps I have released. It doesn't mean much right now, but I hope to look back on this post in the future and smile.
28 April 2013
Today I came up with a fantastic idea for a project. Unfortunately I will need to wait a few days for the parts to be shipped to me, so that will come at a later date; however, I can post some preliminary steps I'm taking to get ready.
The project involves a specific sound clip and the only clip that I found had someone talking over it. Be forewarned, this is not a professional tutorial due to the fact that I have little experience. I am writing this in case someone runs into the same hurdle that I did so that they can get some background on what might be involved for a solution.
25 April 2013
I performed a search of the standard emoticons throughout the various revisions of the Linux kernel source code and this is what I found.
23 April 2013
