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I wrote a quick calculator to convert MS points to currency.

Link to Microsoft Points Calculator

While developing a game application in Android its nice to have the full real-estate of the screen so hiding the Status Bar and Title Bar are a couple of things you’ll want to attack early on. Unfortunately, information on trying to do this isn’t that easy to find. Sifting through the API and Googling up [...]

After working with the Android SDK  using the Eclipse plugins I started to get annoyed by the following warning when working with XML files.
No grammar constraints (DTD or XML schema) detected for the document.
Luckily there is a way to remove this warning. Simply go to Window > Preferences > XML > XML Files > Validation. [...]

Blizzard released the StarCraft 2 Beta for Mac yesterday however they probably should have taken their time with this release because the game runs really inefficiently. From personal experience I was able to run low to medium settings on my 2009 MacBook Pro 13″. Playing online versus human opponents you could really notice the slow [...]

I just got a new laptop at work and since this is the first time I’m using a ThinkPad I’ve been annoyed at the position of the Fn key. The Fn key is literally in the exact spot where I would expect the Ctrl key. After a little searching online I found this is actually [...]

This cropped screen shot was captured on my Facebook homepage. I don’t know what the girl in the picture has to do with winning an Apple iPad but it certainly got my attention. I hate ads like this because the image has nothing to do with the ad itself, its just an easy way to [...]

Twitter users at the game and watching from home and bars around the nation have overloaded the Twitter servers.

In December of 2009 Myspace bought out the popular music streaming website imeem. Since then iPhone and Android users have been left with login errors when trying to access the app. Myspace has issued the following message on their website regarding the Smart-phone applications.
The imeem mobile app for iPhone and Android was created specifically for [...]

NFL Game Rewind is available for $39.99 until September 9th 2009. This package gets you every 2009 NFL game streamed to your computer with no commercials. You get full control of each video (rewind, fast-forward, pause) and can watch them whenever you want. Each game is available at 9pm Pacific Time on the same day [...]

The first time a launched my Wordpress application on my iPhone I got the following error XML-RPC Service for you blog cannot be found. Fortunately there is an easy fix. It all has to do with your theme. Some themers forget to include the following line in the header.php file.
<link rel=”EditURI” type=”application/rsd+xml” title=”RSD” href=”http://YOURDOMAIN/xmlrpc.php?rsd” />
Place [...]