Author Archives: Scott Gruby

Review: Syma S107 RC Helicopter

As a child, I had RC (radio controlled) cars a few times and enjoyed playing with them. However, they ate batteries like no tomorrow and since they weren’t rechargeable, play time was quite short. Years later, the battery technology has … Continue reading

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Developing iPhone applications with teams

In my last post, I identified a number of areas that make developing iPhone applications with teams problematic and sometimes difficult. In this post, I’m going to present some of my ideas on how to make it easier. Use source … Continue reading

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iPhone Development and teams

Since I’ve been self employed again, I’ve been working on 3 iPhone development projects. On 2 of the projects, I’m the lone developer (at the moment), with a QA resource and a project manager. On the 3rd project, at its … Continue reading

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Abstract Photo

My son loves playing with our camera and takes lots of pictures. Most of the pictures are blurry and we delete them. However, sometimes he takes a picture that looks pretty good. He was playing in my office a few … Continue reading

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Open source is not always the answer

I’ve been a huge fan of open source software for years and have contributed back to a few projects including the Palm OS Emulator and pilot-link. I’ve used a number of open source projects in my own applications and, of … Continue reading

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XPAL Power and the MacBook Pro

Last year I wrote about hooking up my XPAL Power XP 18000 to my MacBook Pro. My method was a bit wacky, but worked fine. As I was surfing the web the other day, I found that XPAL now offered … Continue reading

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Rollover minutes – great gimmick

When I signed up with AT&T for my iPhone, I got the lowest number of minutes I could get, 450 per month as I don’t talk on the phone much. AT&T has rollover minutes which will let me rollover the … Continue reading

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iPhone 4 Antenna bar fiasco

I’ve been listening to the MacBreak Weekly podcast and the biggest topic lately is the iPhone 4 antenna mess. It seems that there are 2 technical problems with the iPhone 4 related to this. The first affects all iPhones going … Continue reading

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Jesus Phone in hand

As I indicated in a previous post, I planned to get an iPhone 4. I pre-ordered it, but since I was late to the party, it wasn’t going to arrive until July 15th or so. I had wanted it sooner … Continue reading

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The future of TV

A few weeks before Google announced Google TV, I experienced the future of TV, at least as I see it. We normally record our programs with the EyeTV hooked to a Mac Mini. However, sometimes the EyeTV has a fit … Continue reading

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