After spending the majority of the weekend puttering around my working garden, I find myself wondering how many of you DIY whenever you can. I have a theory that people who like hacking around with tech and starting numerous side projects in their free time also generally like doing meat-life projects themselves too. Long ago, I was… Read More
Tag: hacking
The Oracle People iPhone App is Here
Update: There is a new version of this app, Oracle People2. It supports iOS 4 and 3.x. See the details here. As before, drop a comment here or on the newer post to get the details from me. With many thanks to Clayton Donley who built the app with help from Rich, Anthony and Noel,… Read More
Zombies Attack Austin
With SXSW looming, Austin may need to clean up its zombie problem. I’m in a local news mood for some reason, maybe because I rewatched Anchorman last night and just ran through the video from KXAN’s coverage of a roadside sign hack from last week. Here’s the video: This made the local news here last… Read More
Washing Machine Hack!
As mentioned recently, I love geeking out and have a list of projects I’d like to work on, given the time. In comments, Matt threw out a bunch of his own to-do projects, and professed his affinity for “mating the physical world with the interwebs”. You’ve probably heard about the plants that tweet by now.… Read More
kthxbai, I just deleted 99 of your twitter friends
No really, I just did it. 99 of your closest friends, if you have that many, are gone. Go ahead and check…I can wait. Well, not really, if you are logged in to your twitter account through your browser right now I could have. Ajaxian had an interesting article on everyone’s favorite microblogging site today. … Read More
Social Observations, OraTweet Edition
I’ve spent a bit of quality time with Noel’s OraTweet this week, mostly because of Ed’s OpenSocial app development adventures. Noel really has done a lot with OraTweet since June, when he first showed it to me. It’s got all the Twitter features you’d expect, and it has “groups”. Don’t get too excited, it’s more… Read More