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The Making of Talkie: Broadcasting

Part 1 Talkie is my newest product, the result of a collaboration with a good designer friend, Tim Churchward, who did the user interface. Talkie is a little different from many of the other walkie talkie applications on the App Store (aside from the fact that much of it was written by me from our motorhome in [...]
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Searching through Subversion history

Occasionally I need to search back through old versions of projects to find a piece of code I want to resurrect or just use as reference — I haven’t found any easy built-in way to do this, so I adapted this useful script to allow me to grep through all history from within a Subversion [...]
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Using custom DNS servers from the iPhone and over Internet Tethering

For those of us the roam around on network connections, OpenDNS and Google Public DNS provide public DNS servers which offer better security than using arbitrary DNS that’s assigned to us when we connect to a network. This means that rather than trusting the assigned DNS server — which could be a malicious third [...]
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Links for October 25th through January 23rd

Links for October 25th through January 23rd: GPS Visualizer: Draw a map from a GPS data file Batch map plotter using GPS co-ordinates Map multiple locations by address Very well-implemented free batch geocoder; accepts only address data, no GPS co-ordinates, but still excellent for some applications iPhone: Custom font loading Implementing Your Own Cocoa Bindings « Tom [...]
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Talkie 1.1 for iPhone

Talkie 1.1 is now available on the iPhone App Store, and it’s better than ever. The new version connects to other Talkies via Bluetooth completely automatically — start Talkie on your iPhone and within seconds you’ll be connected to anyone nearby using Talkie on the same channel. Also new are WiFi and Bluetooth connection indicators, and an [...]
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Flickrpress 1.0

I’ve just finished a new release of my Flickr plugin for Wordpress, Flickrpress. The new version features AJAX-based navigation between pages of images, and improved support for insertion within pages and posts as a shortcode. Flickrpress 1.0 can be downloaded from the Wordpress plugin repository See it an action over on my personal blog.
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Upload Janitor Wordpress Plugin

Clean up unused images and other files from your uploads folder.

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Hidden Tags Wordpress Plugin

Hide certain tags/categories from the public

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