Idea - GPS Enabled Gun Safety Lock

So I haven't posted any of my thoughts on the recent shooting at Sandy Hook or any of my thoughts on Gun Control as of yet. Mostly because I am tired of seeing rows and rows of posts on Facebook that only make a statement or complaint, no real proposed solutions that weren't going completely over...

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How-To - Using Joomla to build mobile Web Apps.

This rough How-To will go through using Joomla to build a simple mobile Web App. You will need a few things first: Joomla 2.5 or 3.0+ - http://www.joomla.org/ Add2home plugin for Joomla - http://download.waltercedric.com/downloads/joomla/917-apple.html A good responsive template. I used the YooTheme...

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Projects - Star Crane Mobile site design

Did some more work on the mobile app for Star Crane today. I was able to get it to finally show the Add to Home Screen pop up for mobile phones and tablets, and I also added a custom Icon and Start Screen for the web app too. I wasn't happy with the menu design I was using to start with on this,...

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On to other things - new site design

So I have been working on a new project recently, and this one was a two part project. The first part was making sure that their current site has a working contact form. and the second part is redesigning a new look and feel on top of a Joomla site, so that they can expand in the future with components...

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Until then, this is Untitled

I have spent the past days trying to think of a good blog post, and nothing cool came to mind at all. I went through tech projects, art projects, and even an invention or two, nothing! But then I remembered what an awesome week I have had so far, not much to complain about at all. I started work on...

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Forced downtime... again

I have been busy lately, so please forgive me for the lack of posts recently. For starters, I have almost no work on the table, three projects in limbo, just waiting for a green light, and a tiny trickle of gas and cigarette money coming from one web client. So I have a bit of downtime. This doesn't mean that I haven't been bust cold calling businesses or answering requests for websites and graphics...

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APPS: The Adventures of making a showcase app for Windows 8 UI

Yesterday, I woke up knowing I would do something I have never done before, but not quite knowing what it might be. I started off the day, took the kids to school, and came home and cleaned up a little with Willow (More like, I cleaned, and she played the defensive linebacker role), so after she...

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IDEA: Bluetooth Tape Reciever

    I have been toying with this idea for only a short period of time, the idea started with a want to get my iPhone to play music to my old school stereo, without having to leave it plugged in next to the stereo. So I thought of a unique way to make that happen using elements that already...

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Proposed solution for the FTC's latest contest.

So the FTC is now offering a reward to the person offering a way to stop telemarketing or robot calls. This may prove to be a bit difficult, but it can be done and I wish I had the funds to work on this. Since I don't though, here is what I'm thinking. What they would need is not to monitor the content of calls, but the pattern that calls are made. If calls are made in a timed pattern of more than...

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Quick and dirty UFO timeline

Here is a quick and dirty UFO sightings timeline I made for Tablets and Laptops/PC's. You can view it HERE If you are interested in making your own, Head out to joshfire ( http://factory.joshfire.co...

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Giving a webapp a try

Today I set out to make a web app. One that will pull a lot of the different media I have to offer online and present it all to the user in an easy to digest manner. Well, I have something along those lines, but not quite the experience I was rooting for at first. You can check out the latest version...

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Revamping The Resume - Part 2 - Virtual Resume

One morning I was browsing my normal news sources when I came across Lifehacker's article about making a static resume and putting it on the web. I took that and ran with it over the last month in my spare time and came out with a good representation of my coding skills so far. Mix that with my Design...

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Fun with code: GPS tracking on the cheap

I have set out to learn a bit more about the Google Maps API and how to easily impliment a custom map into Joomla. After looking around quite a bit, I was not able to find anything I could use. What the client wanted was a simple map view showing where his drivers were. The thing about this though,...

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How to avoid the iOS 6 update wiping all your contacts

I'm back again with another helpful hint for updating to iOS 6. In some cases, the iOS 6 update is erasing all the contacts off the iCloud account, and that is never a good thing to have happen, so I have a nice and simple solution for this just as a precaution. The only thing you will need for this solution is a Gmail account. Once you have that set up, we will need to get out your iOS device and...

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How to get Google Maps back on iOS 6 (sorta)

Since iOS 6 has dropped, the main complaint I am seeing so far deals with the lack of Google Maps and the replacement with Apple's own brew of maps. But the accuracy and inclusion of metro areas has been a bit buggy in some areas, so I'm going to show you how to get a form of Google Maps back on the...

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A basic iOS 6 heads up

Today is the day, and as most of us Apple users get ready for the release of iOS 6, I thought I'd take the time to cover a few basics.  It will be available OTA. Over the years, those poor Apple Tech Support people have been sent out to the slaughter on days like today, all because the...

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Alien Dubstep

Made this little cartoon a while ago, just thought I'd share...

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Animated Windows 8 RTM/PRO theme

So I upgraded to Windows 8 RTM today, and my first adventure on it was a simple theme. There is a nice feature to this theme though, it is animated, so the desktop background will change in hue slowly over time, allowing a smooth transition from blue to green, yellow, orange, etc. I did most of...

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How to do a few things that Apple won't usually do for you

As an tech geek who owns a few Apple devices, I have come across many things that Apple support will do for you, and apparently, hackers too. But here is a list of things that you can do that Apple will NOT help you with, and instructions for how to do them. Syncing apps to your iOS device without iTunes. There are a few reasons that you might want to do this one, the one we are going with is that...

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Idea of the day: Crowd funding government projects

I posted a simple question on Facebook this week, and it developed into a possible solution to the current economy in the US. I see many people expressing their opinions on taxes, and city/state projects that are only wanted by a few, and not the majority. This has always been an issue for us, for as long as I can remember at least. So why has this not been fixed yet. Yes, many of these ideas get...

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Weekend Project - Android x86 on Q550 & W500

I know that when a normal person comes up with a weekend project, it is usually just one thing, like weatherproofing the deck, or fixing the steps. Not me, I tend to do things a bit differently, no only am I only taking one day of the weekend, but I am doubling up my work, by performing similar mods...

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