Hello, Introducing the smart TV from Hell… I have a Philips 32PFL4007H/12 so called “smart” TV. A year ago I had it serviced by an “authorized” Philips shop. They replaced the screen. When I got home I discovered that the little used smart TV feature was dead. Any attempt to connect to the Smart …
Update: Uploading Files from Raspberry PI to Dropbox
Hello all, A while ago I wrote about a script I used to upload files to Dropbox from my Raspberry PI. Since then Dropbox has implemented OAuth v2 and gives you the opportunity to generate a token directly from their website. With that token you can authenticate directly and run commands. You need Dropbox 2.0+ …
5 Games To Play When You need More Poetry In Your Life
Apple’s iPad comercial (http://www.apple.com/your-verse/#video-your-verse) reminded me that I need more poetry in my life. Here a few games I go to for poetry 🙂 Nihilumbra Braid Limbo Device 6 The Room(this one doesn’t really contain any poetry in motion or otherwise but it inspires me) Where do you get your poetry in this tech …
My Little Little Book Is Out
Hello, The littlest book in the world is out now on the iBooks store, for free. Written by me.
Messing Around with MiFare Classic Cards
Hello ppl, I’ve been reading some cool things in the past year about NFC/RFID tags, especially that one dude who made an NFC enabled ring. Then I read about cheap NFC readers/writers and libnfc… I am a very curious individual so eventually I started gathering the materials I needed for messing around with this sort …
Of Qubits and Transitors
Hello, Here we are, at the beginning of the 21st century, in the year twenty fourteen, taking small steps towards the science of the “future”. Recently in the news two items have been making their way into our orbits(at least for me): one is that according to leaked documents the NSA is actively working on …
Upload a File From Raspberry Pi to Your Dropbox
Updated version of this article: here. Hi, There are a couple of scripts floating around the Internets you can use to interact with Dropbox from your Raspberry PI. I find that the easiest way is to use python (the Dropbox client itself is python). You will need a Dropbox API key which you can …
Asus RT-N66U: A Nice (Already Old) Refresh
Update: I’ve installed asuswrt-rmlerin and it’s cool 🙂 I got SSHD on my router, which was what I really needed. And I got to keep all the features of the stock firmware. Pretty great. And it has package support. Not that I am looking to install anything else at the moment. Found out there is …
Why Xcode And Not Visual Studio(2012)
Hello there fellow programming enthusiast, So you’ve heard that there has been a new standard(well. not so new) called C++11(ISO blah bla.11) and you are excited to try it on. And you fire your favorite IDE (Visual Studio of course!) and type some code like this amaaaazing nugget right here: #include <vector> using namespace std; …
OS X: A Secret Love Affair
Good evening, I am somewhat of an odd person in the eyes of my peers. I someone who enjoys using OS X for daily tasks in a Windows dominated environment. Everyone I know uses Windows. Some know what Linux. Some of those know that is more than just for servers. Some also know that Linux …
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