No I’m not talking about your penis. This is strictly electronic devices.
While I have yet to see the ultimate handheld device, we are about to reach an important milestone. This year will be the first year to see a cell phone, GPS, decent touchscreen interface running something sensible like iOS or Android, and a camera …
August 17, 2010 – 7:43 pm
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By admin
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Posted in Computology, Neat Stuff
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Tagged Android, Camera, Handheld, iOS, Motorola XT720, Nokia, Phone, Symbian, Xenon
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I have blogged before about the ultimate handheld device. Today I want to expand that to the ultimate electronic device, period.
I want my computer to eventually be handheld. Obviously that is not a comfortable form factor for long term use, so a wireless keyboard and probably external display (or projector, or fold-out display) would be …
I am underwhelmed. I’ve come across three irritants already. First, even when I build my application and go to run it, I still get prompted that it has not been built. Second, when I right-click an identifier and choose ‘Go To Definition’ it often goes to the declaration (or vice versa). Third, when I ‘Find …
I just bought Need for Speed: Shift for PC. Or should I say Need for Speed: Shit? No, I shouldn’t. Cause while it has loads of problems, it has some very cool features. It’s quickly become the game I love to hate.
The ugly:
You cannot exit the test lap. That wouldn’t be so bad, except this …
Yesterday, I disconnected my Commodore 64. It is now sitting in pieces on the floor of my ‘office’, and I don’t think I’m even going to try to eBay any of it. It’s bound for the garbage. I am also tossing my Super Nintendo, although if my sister doesn’t take it, it will go on …
It’s 2009 and when I save a file in Windows, all previous history and revisions of the file are lost. That was acceptable in 1982. Some applications do it, and of course you can easily setup and use your own revision control system, but that’s a lot of overhead for what really should be built …
I finally tried this week to log into Windows as a standard user instead of as an administrator, which has been my default account type for as long as I’ve been using Windows - 16 years. I wanted to see how productive I could be without administrative privileges. I figured, worst case, I’d have to …
Here’s a little algorithm I’ve been using to generate names for fake nations. I wouldn’t normally have put the randomness method directly into the factory class, and in my implementation I am using log4j, but for the purpose of this post, I decided it would be easy to put everything into one class with no …
I found this little gotcha in WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 6.1 for Windows. I don’t know if it’s documented, but it’s certainly something to be aware of, as I don’t believe the behaviour is what most users might expect.
Normally if you start WAS from a console window using the startServer.bat script, WebSphere will set its …
Recently, for a project at work I needed a 64-bit Windows version of Perl Compatible Regular Expressions. I didn’t want to use a binary built by a third party, so I chose to build it from the latest sources myself, mainly for reproducibility. Also, I don’t know if a 64-bit Windows binary of PCRE even …