I’m back, and I brought a fresh new theme for the site. :)
The myTouch Slide Is Awesome
Late last year, I bought a Motorola CLIQ. The CLIQ runs Android 1.5, has a nice keyboard, and it comes built-in with neat social networking features (via MOTOBLUR). (I wish Motorola didn’t feel the need to uppercase all of their brand names. >_<) Anyway, it was a pretty decent phone, and it was a nice [...]
MSOE 2010 Senior Design Show
It’s been a while since I talked about my alma mater. The only time I made a post about MSOE’s Senior Design show was four years ago. Too bad I never wrote about my senior design project (I graduated in 2008). But then again, I was busy moving out of college and starting a job [...]
The Customer Service Hall of Shame
Every year since 2007, MSN Money has compiled a list of the top ten companies with the worst customer service. I only stumbled upon this recently, so I figured that I should share and highlight their findings. They haven’t published their 2010 results yet, however, so you’ll have to settle with just their 2007, 2008, [...]
Updating My Scheduler App with More CSS and JavaScript Goodness
Remember the scheduler app that I wrote? It’s a tiny web app that doesn’t do much: You add a bunch of entries to a time slot, and it randomly picks an entry from each time slot. Essentially, you use it when you’ve got a lot of choices (e.g., scheduling volunteers to work at an event), [...]
J-J-J-J-JR
My name’s JR. :) My name’s been unusually relevant lately. Earlier this month, I was given a free round-trip plane ticket because of my name. (AirTran was celebrating their new service to Dallas by giving free tickets to people with the same name as one of three characters from the old 80′s TV series.) Free [...]
The War on Flash
Just in case you didn’t know, there’s a war on Flash. Yup, I’m referring to that Flash: that Adobe plugin in your web browser that lets you watch YouTube videos and view flashy movie websites like Iron Man 2 and Avatar. Flash is about 10 years old, and thanks to video and music sites, it’s [...]
Cloud Services with Amazon, Google, and Microsoft
Clouds are big puffy white things that float in the sky. Some clouds look like little animal creatures. Other clouds just look like clouds. Sometimes water leaks out of them, and rain happens. No, cloud computing has nothing to do with clouds, or anything in the sky for that matter. I think we just needed [...]
Using jQuery to Make a Simple Scheduler App
Hey, check out my new app. ^_^ It’s been a while since I coded something up. I’ve been meaning to get back into doing side projects, but it’s not always easy finding free time after work. One of my friends wanted an easier way to create schedules for employees, so I decided to give this [...]
Direct-to-DVD DC Comics Animated Movie Trailers
Anyone like DC Comics? I love superheroes! I don’t read comics that much, but I love watching DC and Marvel movies and TV shows. DC’s my favorite, and while I’m sad that the string of animated television series known as the DCAU has ended, I’ve been quenching my appetite with DC’s recent string of direct-to-DVD [...]
Fun Photo Effects
Have you ever wanted to make a goofy picture of yourself or a friend? Then this post is for you! There are plenty of sites out there that do the work of Photoshopping your pic into a cool or silly effect for you. Some of them are easier to use than others, and they all [...]
Motorola Cliq will Get Android 2.1!
Remember how I said that if you wanted Google Maps Navigation on your Cliq, you’d have to wait for T-Mobile to roll out an upgrade? Well, it looks like that’s about to happen! Well, eventually.
Playing with Google App Engine
I’m playing with Google App Engine! In case you’ve been living under a rock, Google App Engine is basically free hosting for Java and Python apps. Your app is hosted on an appspot.com subdomain, and you can pay for extra resources if your app starts to get really popular. I’ll be using it to play [...]
Google Buzz
Hello, Google. I use most of your products, and I like most of them. So I hear you have this new thing out called Google Buzz. Hmm, interesting. Looks decent. But… do I really need another real-time messaging service?
Becoming Ambidextrous
Time to reveal another one of my goals for this year. Learning Latin is one of them. So, what’s next? I want to be ambidextrous. I’m left-handed, so that means I want to be right-handed, too. I think I can do it. I know I can. Besides, the odds are in my favor.
