I’m in the middle of exams season right now, so I haven’t been able to code as much as I’d like. With that said, I managed to find some time during my study week to fool around with C# again. I’ve had a few ideas floating around in my head over the semester, and I [...]
I spent a small portion of my free time this week working on a small Java application that would help me do a bit of speed reading. For those who are unfamiliar with the concept, you can read more about it on the wiki article here. The basic idea is to increase the speed at [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]