Category Archives: Mac
Drawing Strings in Swing using Graphics2D
I’ve started a new project again, and this time I’m working on a speed-reader application using Java (more details on that later)
One of the problems that I’ve always had with Java Swing UIs is figuring out how to directly draw centered Strings while inside of a paintComponent(Graphics g) method of some JComponent
So let’s say you’re [...]
Problems with iTunes Genius
I recently got a 5th generation, 8gb iPod nano over the Christmas holidays, and boy is it sweet. My last iPod was a 1st generation iPod nano, and the 5G nano is definately a huge improvement over my last iPod.
One of the cooler things about the new iPods is the Genius Mixes features. From the [...]
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Unbricking Your Router
I live in a house where I’m the resident tech guru, so its pretty much my responsibility to fix any technical glitch regardless of who actually caused them.
Last Friday, one of my family members got the bright idea to do a firmware update on our router…too bad he used the wrong firmware version for our [...]
Flush Your DNS for CSLab Connections
Computer Science students at the University of Toronto are more than familiar with this problem. You want to use the cslab wifi network, but you accidental opened Firefox before you ssh-ed in to bypass the firewall. Great, now you don’t have access to you homepage (which is really inconvenient if Google is your homepage) or [...]
Speed Reader