I am not a HiFi or AV buff. I just want to be able to watch TV with a decent setup. My goals are: Must be able to watch from family room then later go and watch in bedroom Must be able to watch Foxtel (pay TV) from at least these two rooms, including changing […]
Well, I have had a Foxtel IQ box for ages, and I only just discovered that the remote can act as a universal remote! It has lots of pre-programmed settings for TVs, DVDs, and amplifiers. But its also a learning remote so you can program it up to control almost anything! I have a Samsung […]
I have been trying to work out the best way to get the TVs set up at home. New standards have come along, such as DLNA, but I still have an existing DVD library of kids DVDs that I would love to be able to get onto a hard disk so the kids cannot scratch […]
I came across Chomp, an iPhone app for reviewing apps. It’s a social networking app where you review apps, then you can recommendations for apps that may be of interest based on your likes ands dislikes. I am giving it a go with reviews for apps for young kids. See http://chompapps.com/alan.kent for my reviews to […]
RedEye and iRed2 seem to be appropriate consumer products where an iPhone can be used to control IR devices such as DVD players, Foxtel IQ, WDTV Live, etc.
I have an iPhone, not a Blackberry. I have always heard “the Blackberry is great for email” – better than the iPhone. Well, I must say if you are hooking up to an IMAP account, the iPhone kills the Blackberry in my opinion. I may be biased as I have been recently exploring various IMAP […]
Housekeeping item: I have taken down one of my most popular pages – “Links for LiveScribe Developers”. The page was getting out dated and I don’t plan to keep it up to date. I think the information there is not that useful given its age now. I suspect it was visited a lot based on […]
This post is a rework of my response to this thread in the LiveScribe forums. When developing an app, I have a frequent (maybe a little *too* frequent in some cases) edit/compile/deploy/start-app/test cycle. The nav cross can be used to start an app. You double tap on the cross, then tap the down and right […]
Unit tests are of course really useful to make sure your code works and continues to work. I use JUnit for writing unit tests, but if you throw them into your ‘src’ directory, they get bundled into the penlet itself! Not very desirable. Having a quick look at the ant script invoked to deploy a […]
A common thing for a LiveScribe pen penlet (pen application) to do is require the user to draw a button that they can later tap on. Its sort of funky in a way – making the printed page “active”. The standard “piano” application is one example of this (tap notes to play a tune) and […]
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