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Thursday, May 09, 2013 12:30 AM

Custom Return Labels

At seemingly random times from seemingly random companies, we’ll get return labels in the mail. It’s usually in conjunction with someone trying to guilt you in to making a donation. Sometimes the labels are decent and sometimes they’re so bad that you...
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013 12:30 AM

Featured Application

I was perusing the Windows 8 store the other day and noticed that CascadeSkier is one of the featured applications in the sports section! After spending many months in the top five apps of that section and almost a perfect 5 star rating, it’s nice to...
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Friday, April 19, 2013 10:17 PM

Facebook SDK Changes

I have a little custom C# app on my Windows phone that posts photos to Facebook and my blog at the same time. Today it seemingly randomly stopped working. The login code ended in a page that said “SECURITY WARNING: Please treat the URL above as you would...
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013 12:30 AM

GrillBuddy for Windows Phone

The combination of Tyla being pregnant and me being a geek means that when I’m grilling, I like to make sure I’m grilling meat to the appropriate temperatures. It should be safe but not charred beyond belief. There is a book in our kitchen that has a...
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Tuesday, April 02, 2013 12:30 AM

Facebook Privacy

Even though Facebook has a billion users, there are still new people joining and at least one of the people who joined recently is reading this blog post. So I thought it would be good to do a blog post about my thoughts on privacy and Facebook. First...
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013 12:30 AM

Remote Control For Church

Somehow I’ve turned into the A/V geek at church. We have a modest setup cobbled together from various donations throughout the years. The problem was that our equipment is up in the balcony so I had to go up there at various points in the service to adjust...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013 12:30 AM

Amazon Instant Video

Tyla and I dropped Netflix streaming when they split the subscription from the discs. We’re among the minority that prefers discs though that won’t be the case forever. In the mean time, I’ve been enjoying the selection of streaming videos available for...
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Tuesday, March 05, 2013 12:30 AM

Windows 8 Start Screen

Some of the buzz around Windows 8 is that Microsoft should let people go straight into the desktop mode without first landing on the new Windows 8 start screen. I can understand the desire to never ever change anything (while complaining that they’re...
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Thursday, February 28, 2013 12:30 AM

Microsoft “Data Explorer” Preview

Aside from a brief online service offered a while back and some betas for previous semi-related projects, most of the work I’ve been doing on the job has been held close to the vest. We’ve been cranking away at a new iteration of our product and it’s...
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013 12:30 AM

CascadeSkier Architecture

A lot has changed since the last article about the architecture of the CascadeSkier apps. So let’s get geeky and peek behind the scenes. The ecosystem includes a Windows 7 gadget, Windows Phone app, and a Windows 8 app. With all of these various...
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Thursday, January 31, 2013 12:30 AM

How A Watch Works

I don’t remember where I saw this video posted, but it was pretty interesting (in an incredible slow moving 1949 sort of way.) They are ingenious machines with very intricate machining, but they’re no longer a mystery to me.
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Thursday, January 24, 2013 12:30 AM

Movie Theater Technology

The Hobbit is out and is one of the first movies to offer a higher framerate than standard movies. There was a bunch of other relatively new tech in the theater. Here’s my review of each piece: Higher framerate: Almost every movie you’ve ever...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013 12:30 AM

Enable More Flash Websites On Surface RT

If you use a Surface RT, you may have noticed that Flash only works on some sites. There is a whitelist built in and Flash will only work if the website is on that list. But what about sites like studio711.com? If you want to watch the Flash that is used...
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Tuesday, January 01, 2013 12:30 AM

Facebook Ad Case Study

Facebook sent me a $50 advertising credit so I decided to use it to promote my CascadeSkier applications and see behind the scenes of a Facebook ad. Creating the ad was very simple. You set up the graphic, the text, where you want the ad to go (website...
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Friday, December 28, 2012 12:30 AM

Password Security

I’ve written a couple times about password security , and hopefully by now you are all starting to use long, unique passwords for each site. It’s a lot to remember, but there are tools like LastPass to help you along. When I was bored at home...
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