So, I’ve upgraded my phone to Android 2.2 and noticed that my Say Time application stopped working. So I did some research into why. Apparently the old system of MEDIA_BUTTON intent priorities wasn’t good enough for Google and they decided to change it to another, very different, method. Here’s how it works: Any Android application [...]
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SayTime v1.2.0
Today I worked on SayTime for a little while and added a Settings menu item so that you can set which trigger(s) you want to use, how long the application will ignore triggers, and whether to pass the button broadcasts on to other applications in the phone or to cancel the broadcasts while the application [...]
SMS To Twitter Gateway Source Code
I’ve created a GitHub page with the SmsTweeter application, and so you can dig into the source code of it, if you like. I’ll be using GitHub as the place where the code for this application is maintained. I expect I won’t have a lot of time to maintain this, but it does work, and [...]
Android SMS to Twitter Gateway
Recently, when my wife and I went on a trip to New York, we wanted our son to be able to SMS us without incurring the extra high costs associated with international SMS messages. I looked around for solutions to the problem and found nothing that did what I was looking for. Here’s what I [...]
SayTime 1.1.0
A small update to the SayTime application to allow it to be run on Android 2.1 based phones. I have recently updated my phone to 2.1, and have been missing the ability to ask what time it is without taking my phone out of my pocket all the time. Other than the update to the [...]
SayTime for Android
I’ve been developing a small Android application for my own personal use for the last few months. The recent release of the paid market applications has recently got me interested in writing code for Android again, so I thought I’d spend the day to simplify the application, and make it available for free. This application [...]
Rogers and the Squashing of Personal Freedom
Rogers Completely Screws Canadians, leaving them out in the cold without their data plans in one of the worst public relations moves in recent recorded Canadian history.
Voxilla Not Fraudulent
Internet commerce is going gangbusters these days, more people are trying it out and getting good results. I, however have made two internet purchases this month and both of them have met with something akin to fraud. The largest of these purchases was a new IP telephony ATA device that would allow me to have [...]
IP over Avian Carriers
A friend of mine at work just posted these two links: RFC 1149: A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers RFC 2549: IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service Sorry to those who can’t make heads or tails of these. It’s only funny if you haven’t had enough sleep.
Synaesthesia
I think I’m a bit of a synaesthete, or at least I’ve recently become increasingly aware that when I see things, I feel the textures in my mind. It’s very strong when looking at photographs. Photographs of skin, wallpaper, peeling paint and so on really work for me. It’s because I can feel those textures [...]
