about 1 year ago - 5 comments
This is an update to an older post: My perfect TV setup I recently upgraded the whole media consumption set-up in my apartment. This post describes all of the different aspects, hardware and software components in use. Hardware Mac Mini – this is the main hub of the whole operation. It sits in my living…
about 2 years ago - No comments
Facebook has released their new “Send” button that lets you share content all over the web with selected groups or individuals. I wrote a little plugin that will insert this button under every post in your blog including the correct permalink. This is version 0.1 and very basic. Head over to the project site to…
about 2 years ago - No comments
I’ve restructured this website a bit and gave it a brand new home page. The blog is now not the default page you reach, when you point your browser to my site. The new homepage mostly lists all the stuff that’s happening around this webpage and my life. Featured posts rotating on top Latest blog posts…
about 2 years ago - 1 comment
If your mobile strategy for 2011 is to hire someone to build an iphone app, then you are probably missing the big picture. A quote from a very interesting article over at The Next Web blog about the “Free Day of Javascipt on Mobile” Event at Google HQ. It offers some pretty good insights on…
about 2 years ago - No comments
iOS 4.2 is available, adding some impressive new features and finally getting iPad’s and iPhones up to the same OS version number. And Google releases “Cloud Connect”, a plugin that syncs Microsoft Office and Google Docs. Google Docs syncs with Microsoft Office Google Cloud Connect is an add-on for Office that syncs documents, spreadsheets and…
about 2 years ago - 13 comments
Last weekend I sat down and built a surveillance system, including an iPhone webapp, for my apartment using my old iBook, an external iSight, the Webcam Software EvoCam and a set of scripts in AppleScript, PHP and some shell scripts. The whole thing is pretty custom made but I’ll document it here anyway and with a basic…
about 2 years ago - No comments
Google released an Apache module that auto tunes performance Google has announced that they are launching a module for the Apache HTTP server called mod_pagespeed, that will automatically tune several properties to optimize page load speed. I haven’t tried it out yet, but will definitely do so. Amongst other things, mod_pagespeed will: recompress images modify…
about 2 years ago - No comments
Google to offer cloud printing for Chrome OS, web apps – predicts “cloud-aware” printers Saying, “Our goal is to build a printing experience that enables any app (web, desktop, or mobile) on any device to print to any printer anywhere in the world,” Google has published a new set of documents that outline an exciting new (and…