After choosing a mechatronics option in my final year of mechanical engineering, I’ve gotten more interested in electronics and computer integration. Sure, I’ve done programming in the past (and present) but there is something very satisfying about writing code on a screen and having it perform an action in the real world. With that in [...]

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The interwebs have been on fire in the last few days with talk of Google’s new project, Chrome OS. This is a Google version of the open-source project Chromium that aims to produce an operating system less dependent on local hardware and instead stores data in the “cloud”, or internet services. This has a number [...]

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Windows 7 promises to be a vast improvement over Vista. While this is most definitely a Mac-focused blog, I think it’s a good idea to compare all the next generation operating systems together — the other two being Snow Leopard and Ubuntu 9.04. Having installed the RC build 7100 and using it on and off [...]

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Earlier I wrote an Applescript that goes online to TV.com and finds the episode titles for TV show video files. While that seemed to work properly, TV.com changed their format and my Applescript went kaput. Since I really wanted to have this process automated, I wrote a bash script to do the same thing with [...]

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Since getting my PS3, then setting up my Ubuntu file server, I’ve really enjoyed watching movies on my TV. To get the media from computer to Playstation requires the use of software that employs the UPnP protocol, in the form of a DLNA server. If there are too many acronyms in there, just remember the [...]

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