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Posted in Main on Aug 29th, 2008
After our disaster with a smartphone based GPS yesterday, I was given another phone to try, this time not a smartphone, but a Sanyo Pro-200. We used the Sprint Navigation service and we were quite pleased with it. It gave us directions and spoke the turns. I took another look at the Treo 800w and [...]
Posted in Main on Aug 29th, 2008
My dad has some random HP Photosmart scanner and keeps running into problems with it and ReceiptWallet. His messages imply that it is an issue with ReceiptWallet and that very well may be the case. I looked at his ReceiptWallet log today and saw:
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Posted in Main on Aug 28th, 2008
This week I’m in Minneapolis for a client and I had requested a GPS unit for the rental car as I have no idea where I am and don’t like being lost. Unfortunately Enterprise didn’t have any units, so we were stuck with paper (I say we because my wife and son came along for [...]
Posted in Main on Aug 25th, 2008
In my line of work of being a contracting software engineer, I have to take on many different types of projects, some in fields that are foreign to me or touching parts of the operating system that I have never used before. I’ve had to learn a lot to get things going. For example, I [...]
Posted in Main on Aug 22nd, 2008
One of the things that has bugged me about our backyard was that the grass was always dead. Now that Aiden, our son, is walking, I wanted him to people able to play on the grass. My parents had EasyTurf installed, and I was pretty impressed with it. So, we had it installed on our [...]
Posted in Main on Aug 22nd, 2008
Yesterday and today I decided to tackle an issue in some of my code that I wrote for a client. This wasn’t a huge chunk of code, but how it worked bugged me and was actually going to affect my current project. This chunk of code, unfortunately was in a kernel extension (KEXT) and is [...]
Posted in Main on Aug 12th, 2008
Last year we bought my wife a new Honda CR-V as her Honda Accord wasn’t going to cut it when our son was born. I stared driving her car a bit and really enjoyed driving it. I started looking the Acura RDX as it was a step up in terms of options from the CR-V [...]
Posted in Main on Aug 9th, 2008
I’ve been working from home for almost 9 years (9 years this month) and have been self-employed for more than 5.5 years. Things have been pretty good for me, and I’ve been reasonably happy. Recently I had the opportunity to change the status quo in terms of my work. After a lot of thinking, I [...]
Posted in Main on Aug 9th, 2008
My first iPhone application, GrandDialer has been downloaded more than 9000 times! I thought that it wouldn’t be that popular because people can’t get GrandCentral accounts. Boy, was I wrong! The reviews are pretty good, but some people expect way more than I can do with the application. As far as I can tell, the [...]
Posted in Main on Aug 9th, 2008
When I look for software, I like to try it out before I buy it. However, with the AppStore for the iPhone/iPod Touch, you can’t so you have to rely on reviews and the product description. Even for free apps, some people find reviews important. The review mechanism on the AppStore has a lot to [...]
