Category: Computers

Leonard Nimoy on Twitter

Leonard Nimoy recently joined Twitter and geeks around the world have rejoiced at the wonderful Twitter exchange with his old friend William Shatner.

DVD Copy protection, how easy it\’s to bypass…

Now, I have a 5 year old….  And that means, I really need to ensure that the DVD\’s she can use are backed up…  But many discs are starting to use a relatively annoying but easily defeated copy protection… This can be identified since the DVD\’s are reporting that they have 99+ tracks…  So Handbrake […]

Apple Announcing WebKit2

This is a heads-up that we will shortly start landing patches for a new WebKit framework that we at Apple have been working on for a while. We currently call this new framework ‘WebKit2’. WebKit2 is designed from the ground up to support a split process model, where the web content (JavaScript, HTML, layout, etc) […]

Ars Technica reviews the iPad

Reviewing is too polite of an word….  Ars Technica dissects the iPad, and covers the majority of the software, changes, improvements…  You name it, and it\’s covered in this review… Heck, they even attempted to use it to write the review on…. If you have any questions, take a look at the Ars Technica review.

Control / Dim all lights….

I\’m trying to create a Trigger that will dim all the lights that are currently ON. Anyone have any ideas how I can implement this? Home Automation is more than just wanting things to happen, sometimes it takes some work, to get it to work the way you expect.  After all, computers are just really […]

Almost done with the Historical HVac plugin….

Here\’s a hint of what is coming shortly…  An Indigo plugin to allow you to compare your Heating / Cooling vs. your Temperature set points. The graphing component requires the browser to be able to reach Google.  I am currently using the Google Charts API to generate the chart…  But all the data is stored […]