By Brian Lane, on August 15th, 2010%
No, not on the lam. On the LAN. I have a fairly large collection of music. Years ago I used iTunes to rip the CD’s to AAC format. Recently I’ve been using Amazon.com for more of my downloads so I have converted the library to high quality VBR mp3 files instead. I like being able to . . . → Read More: Sharing Music on the LAN
By Brian Lane, on February 2nd, 2010%
Much to my surprise my 2 new iPhone apps were approved today. This must be a new record for the App Revew process — according to the history the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) Countdown app started review at 11:26 AM and was approved at 15:08 (3h42m), the NASCAR Countdown version took slightly longer, from 9:23 . . . → Read More: ALMS Countdown Approved in Record Time
By Brian Lane, on January 31st, 2010%
I have made an iPhone version of my NASCAR Countdown Widget and sumbitted it to the App Store.
The NASCAR Countdown app displays a countdown to the next race, the name of the race and the television network carrying the race. On the flip side all of the races for the 2010 season are listed, and tapping . . . → Read More: Submitted NASCAR Countdown app to App Store
By Brian Lane, on January 19th, 2010%
I have just updated my NASCAR Dashboard Widget for the 2010 season. All race time and channels should now . . . → Read More: NASCAR Countdown Widget Updated for 2010
By Brian Lane, on December 20th, 2009%
Ever since I switched from Dish Network to a Roku player a few months ago I have had a couple of things I wanted my player to be able to do. The ability to categorize my Netflix queue is at the top of my list and it would be very cool to be able to play . . . → Read More: Streaming Local Video With Your Roku
By Brian Lane, on December 17th, 2009%
After many hoursminutes of redesign the new look of SharePics was ready to go. I re-packaged the app, captured new screenshots, and re-submitted it to the AppStore. 9 days later I received an email notifying me that my app was now available for sale in the App Store!
Thanks to everyone who offered advice and design ideas . . . → Read More: SharePics Accepted by Apple!
By Brian Lane, on December 3rd, 2009%
So I got my first rejection from the App Store today. According to their email it was rejected because -
we cannot post your application because it appears to include features that resemble Polariod photographs. Polaroid has previously objected to other applications that include features that resemble Polaroid photographs, and believes that such features infringe its rights.
Say . . . → Read More: SharePics Rejected by Apple!
By Brian Lane, on November 10th, 2009%
A few (ahum) years ago I wrote an article for Linux Journal on building a RAID system. While that exact system no longer exists, I do still have a RAID5 setup that I use with BackupPC to backup all the systems on my LAN. As I wrote about in my KVM article, I have updated my . . . → Read More: Backups, Archives and Overheating Processors
By Brian Lane, on November 7th, 2009%
I’ve been a VMWare Workstation user for years and have generally been pretty happy with it; but it is significantly slower than bare metal, especially when it comes to disk i/o. One of my responsibilities for work is creating and maintaining a custom fedora distribution. This requires building new rpm packages and then creating a livecd . . . → Read More: KVM on Fedora11
By Brian Lane, on November 2nd, 2009%
Today is the Seattle iPhone developer talk event. I’m headed for the ferry in a few minutes and figured I would give the WordPress iPhone app a try. I’ll update this post as I have time today.
Well, it was a long day! I used twitter a bit, but didn’t have a chance for any longer updates . . . → Read More: iPhone Tech Talk Seattle