If you are a returning visitor to this site, you may have noticed that I am doing a bit of rearranging in the sidebar, inserting a few ads, removing some obsolete widgets, etc. In the process of evaluating things to delete, I clicked on the Alltop link, and proceeded to get lost in reading some [...]
Entries Categorized as 'Programming'
Android on VirtualBox
June 13, 2010
Down with Flash
April 23, 2010
If you pay attention to the widgets in the right column of this blog, and if you’ve visited this site in the past few days, you might have noticed I’ve replaced a cute, star-spangled “countdown” widget with one that is less glitzy, but more accurate. Another positive aspect of the new “iPad Delivery Countdown” timer [...]
iPad Eve
April 2, 2010
Tomorrow people who preordered the WiFi-only version of iPad will be lining up at their local Apple stores, or waiting impatiently for FedEx to deliver their new Unicorn. As I’ve said before, I opted to wait for the WiFi + 3G version, so it will be a few more weeks before that happy day for [...]
iPhone Activation, part 2.2
June 25, 2009
See update at the end of this post. A mentioned here earlier, my new iPhone 3GS was activated with only minor problems. Now we have another data point to add to the history. My husband’s new iPhone arrived yesterday, days earlier than promised by AT&T, thank you very much! So, I set about putting to [...]
Reinventing the (Color) Wheel
June 24, 2009
Some things have been remade frequently because they are fill a useful niche, and someone thinks they can either do them better, or because they want to see them in a new form, or perhaps they perceive a potential money-maker. This seems to be the case with color wheel applications. A quick Google search turned [...]
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