@tomasmcguinness

  • Windows 8 and the deathly XAML

    In Microsoft’s history, there have been few announcements that have caused more questions to be raised than Microsoft’s recent news that their new Windows 8 UI would only run application written with HTML 5 and JavaScript! The confusion in the development community was almost palpable. Almost immediately, the gossip started… Read ⇢

  • Lousy performance score for my new Lenovo

    Not a very impressive score for my brand new Lenovo Thinkpad T520 – The processor is a quad core i7 and it gets a lousy 4.7 in the performance rating… I need to play around with the power settings I think… UPDATE: Switching on the right settings and driving up… Read ⇢

  • Adding support for SVG to IIS Express

    I’m currently building a HTML 5 website, using Microsoft’s www.beautyoftheweb.com as inspiration. Taking inspiration sometimes means “borrowing” some of the graphics and styles on a site you like and incorporating them into your own work. For the purposes of education, this isn’t always a bad thing. One of the things… Read ⇢

  • Mozy Backup is just soooooo fast!

    Been using Mozy Home for a few weeks now as I slowly rebuild my PC on top of my SSD drive. I’m just blown away by the consistent high upload speeds. Makes me wish I had an SDL Read ⇢

  • A Backup! A Backup! My kingdom for a backup! Service, that is.

    With my discovery yesterday that my Carbonite backup did actually include any video, I rushed to include all my video in the backup. Carbonite the calculated I had an additional 240GB of data to backup! This was in addition to the 94GB that I have already backed up to Carbonite… Read ⇢

  • Carbonite not backing up my videos!

    I was shocked to find out this morning that the online backup service, Carbonite, doesn’t automatically backup videos anymore! According to their GetSatisfaction page, they claim that user’s requested this feature as it was the reason for huge backup files. That’s fine and given that I now have 127GB of… Read ⇢

  • More email woes!

    As some of you know, on Saturday, I accidentally deleted an email regarding a review of my iPhone app, Caffeine Club, by emptying my spam folder. I sent emails to all the review sites again, apologising for my mistake and asking that they get in touch with me again. This… Read ⇢

  • Introducing Caffeine Club video

    Today, I worked through my first little “intro” video for Caffeine Club. I did it using Apple’s Keynote and iMovie applications. Took about four hours all in all. I got the inspiration from the GiveABrief introduction video (an app that never made it to the App Store!) and some music… Read ⇢

  • Tip-o-the-day: Don’t delete spam!

    Yesterday, I submitted Caffeine Club to four app review websites yesterday morning. This morning, I logged into GMail and automatically hit the “delete all messages” in my SPAM folder and as Gmail was “working” to complete my request, I noticed an email regarding my app. Of course, a split second… Read ⇢