msgme: “Exception Error” with external app
December 18th, 2008
The other day I decided to play around with the Msgme SMS platform. My goal was to create a application that lets my wife record the number of hours she works. She just needs something very simple. So my idea was to make a little app that lets her use her cell phone or web browser to indicate start and stop times of when she is working. I was going to tie in the Msgme SMS service to allow her to text “timeStart” or “timeStop”. Msgme allows you to set up keywords that are tied to their SMS number. Then…
A similar story
December 11th, 2008
I came across a story from a fellow in Singapore who dropped his iPhone. His account of breaking the phone read nearly identical to mine. I wonder how many other people are breaking their iPhones as a result of dropping them in restaurants and having the glass hit the table leg. It seems an unlikely event.
Google Talk gets SMS… again…
December 11th, 2008
A while back Google added SMS capabilities to the Google Talk client built into Gmail, but it was a bit buggy so they took it away. Yesterday they announced they again added the feature. The Google talk client in Gmail is getting more and more robust, especially with the addition of video chat a month ago. While all of the new features are really nice, it does leave me wishing that they would add them to the dedicated desktop app or at least to the pop out Gtalk client (which I could then wrap in an Adobe Air app or…
Broke my iPhone 3g screen
November 25th, 2008
About 2 weeks ago, Brittany and I were getting some takeout at a local Chinese restaurant and I dropped my iPhone when I was taking it out of my pocket. It happened to land face down on a metal leg of a table and shattered near the home button. Having owned it for only about 3 weeks, I was pretty upset. So after trying to figure out what to do about it, I ended up buying a replacement glass display and digitizer to fix it myself. I didn’t really find a definitive source online to learn about what was covered…
Firefox 3 Download Day
June 12th, 2008
Firefox 3 Release Candidate 3 is out and the official release of the final version of Firefox 3 has been announced for June 17th. I have been running the various betas of FF3 for a while now and have been loving it. Much faster and much better memory management than FF2. I definitely recommend upgrading to FF3 when it is available. They want to set the world record for most software downloads in a 24 hour period, http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/, lets make it happen!
Manually refresh favicon.ico files in Firefox 3
June 12th, 2008 | 29 comments
Update (1/10/09): Try the new Favicon Picker 3 extension. When I originally wrote this post Favicon Picker for FF3 wasn’t available. If you need to refresh an old bookmark’s favicon, after installing the extension, try this: right click on bookmark -> properties -> Icon: “Reset”, then restart Firefox. When it restarts the new icon should appear. If that doesn’t work for you, you can try the complicated old school way below. Original (6/12/08): I have been working on some favicon.ico files for a couple different sites and I noticed that Firefox 3 has trouble refreshing the favicon image in your…
Simply find your IP address
May 19th, 2008
After needing to get my external IP address a bunch of times when setting up long distance LAN games with my brother I made a simple page for displaying it. This link simply gives you your external IP address and nothing else, no adds or other junk like every other IP address site on the net. *note that this is the external IP address of your cable modem and/or your router, not the local IP address of your computer on your personal network. Interested in the code? It’s from the getenv() man page at php.net. Get it here. Learn about…
Isometric drawings with jQuery
May 19th, 2008 | 1 comment
Here’s an interesting site I came across today, that lets you create isometric pixel images for fun. No real purpose other than just a neat JavaScript experiment. It uses jQuery for the JavaScript framework which powers the UI.
Easily display recent posts in WordPress
May 16th, 2008
Want a quick and easy way to display a list of your most recent posts in WordPress? Just add the following code wherever you want the list to appear in your sidebar. [code='php']
PicLens – Photo browser plugin for Firefox
May 16th, 2008 | 1 comment
If you’re on Flickr alot you’re familiar with what a pain it can be to browse through a photo set or stream. There is a great plugin for Firefox called PicLens which hooks into a lot of mainstream websites, such as Flickr, Google, Photobucket, Facebook etc. and makes browsing through lots of photos really easy and much quicker than the usual click and load routine. It can also handle YouTube videos as well. Video quality isn’t so hot, but its a really nice user experience. Check it out.