Category Archives: Technology

Ripple

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Andrew

Here’s my experience using the Ripple emulator for BlackBerry WebWorks. There’s a bunch of awesome BlackBerry developers at the hackathon, but I’m determined to work this out without them walking me through it. After all, developers don’t normally have the … Continue reading →

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Creating a BlackBerry WebWorks app

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Andrew

Some notes on building my first WebWorks app. I figured the quickest way to get an app up and running would be to take the examples from BlackBerry. Working from https://github.com/blackberry/WebWorks-Samples/tree/master/UIExamples I first did a git clone, but then reading the … Continue reading →

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Predictive Text, part 2

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Andrew

Not even a month after my predictions for the year, and the first of them has failed. I said: No IPO for Facebook: This could go either way. My bet is it will be very late 2012 or early 2013 … Continue reading →

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Backlight

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Andrew

If you use a computer for any amount of time, you may find some backlighting for your computer screen is beneficial. I couldn’t find any medical research that says one way or another whether it’s a good thing or not, … Continue reading →

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Predictive Text

Posted on January 7, 2012 by Andrew

Cringely has a bunch of predictions for 2012. They all feel wrong, for one reason or another. Let’s run through them. A new CEO for Apple: No. Amazon and Bezos supplant Apple and Jobs: No. Shareholders don’t understand Amazon and will … Continue reading →

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Humax PVRs

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Andrew

I have a rather lovely Humax PVR9300T, a digital video recorder that I bought a year or so back. Or, it was lovely, I should say. Just before Christmas, the box started to freeze. Rebooting it didn’t make a difference; … Continue reading →

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