Today, Google has unveiled Android Wear, it’s take on the smartwatch concept. With Android Wear and like Google Glass, Google brings the Android infrastructure to the smartwatch form factor. Google is also making the Android Wear SDK available today to developers, making it possible to add Android Wear support to
Google Launches Android Wear
Picasso: Square’s Image Library for Android
For those that are developing Android applications and are dealing with image loading and optimization issues, you may want to look into Square’s open-source image library, Picasso. Picasso is a powerful open-source image library for the Android platform. It provides a way for Android developers to load images into their
Project Geo Unveiled! Introducing Dragon Geo
Project Geo, now unveiled as DRAGON GEO today, is an interactive map app akin to Google Maps, but displays maps from Square-Enix’s lesser known RPG series, Dragon Quest. Those of you that have been playing RPGs since the early days of the original NES will better recognize this series as
Animal Crossing: The Uncensored Edition
Chewbot over at Let’s Play Archive wrote about his experience with Animal Crossing, documenting the woeful adventures of Billy. Let’s Play Archive – Animal Crossing By Chewbot Although I have never played Animal Crossing, I found Chewbot’s commentary and experience to be quite amusing. Be warned, there is much profanity
Happy New Year and the Latest Updates
Happy New Year! Hope everyone had a great holiday season! Although it’s been quite some time since my last post, I wanted to let everyone know that I didn’t pass away or abandon the blog. Ever since I returned from California in October (great trip BTW), I’ve been quite busy,
Twin Cities Code Camp 15 Sessions Posted
After an eventful two weeks in the Bay Area, I’m back in Minnesota. It was great to meet and interact with a lot of the professional developers out there, as well as going to awesome seminars and workshops over at Twitter HQ and Kabam Games. Now that I’m back, it’s
Super Smash Bros. Brawl 3D Model Viewer
I just uploaded (on GitHub) the source code for the Super Smash Bros. Brawl 3D Model Viewer XNA 4.0 Game Studio that I worked on with a friend a few years ago. You can find the source code under my GitHub account (huhx015). The program requires 3D models and audio
Unblocking a User from Office 365: The Manual Way
I recently assisted a client that was having logon issues with their Office 365 services. The particular problem that the client was encountering was that their account was completely locked out, due to too many failed logon attempts. Usually, the fix for this issue is to issue a password reset
AMD Unveils the Radeon R9/R7 Radeon Series
At the GPU 14 Tech Day Event in Hawaii, AMD officially unveiled the their next generation Radeon GPU series, the Radeon R9 2xx and R7 2xx series, codenamed “Volcanic Islands.” The new Radeon R9/R7 GPU family uses an enhanced GCN architecture (initially introduced in the Radeon HD 7000 series), is
Gradle for Android at Twitter HQ
It’s been a great time being here in the Bay Area, as the weather here has been nothing but stellar. Earlier this evening, I had the opportunity to attend a Gradle for Android event over at Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco. It was quite the attendance, as 300 developers were
The Weekend Tidbits (September 20, 2013)
Well, I’m off to the Bay Area in California for the next two weeks. It feels strange leaving for another trip so soon, as I only returned from Atlanta last weekend. Anyhow, I’ll continue to be posting from California with interesting tech tips and news. Have a great weekend everyone!
Fake Death of a Crucial M4 SSD
While making some Hyper-V configuration changes on my home server, my Windows Server 2012-based server suddenly went BSOD and immediately restarted. On reboot, I found that the motherboard could no longer detect the boot drive (a Crucial M4 512 GB SSD) BIOS. The M4 contained the OS partition for Server 2012,
A Tribute to Hiroshi Yamauchi
Today is a sad day, as Hiroshi Yamauchi, the man who led Nintendo from 1949 to 2002 and transformed Nintendo from a small card company into a mega videogame giant, has passed away from Pneumonia at the age of 85. During his time at Nintendo, popular gaming consoles such as the
Disaster Strikes! A Sad Galaxy Note II :(
Over the weekend, I went Atlanta for a friend’s wedding. (Congrats Jared & Robynn!) On the last day of the trip, my trusty Galaxy Note II met with disaster, as it fell face flat onto the pavement when I tripped over a parking block. The aftermath of the disaster: While
Gigabyte BRIX: A Miniscule Gaming PC
The Engadget staff recently had the opportunity to check out one of Gigabyte’s newest product at the Intel Developer’s Conference, the BRIX, a mini-form factor PC. Similar in size to the NUC units that Intel introduced last year, Gigabyte is introducing both AMD Kabini and Intel Haswell based solutions with
Storage Spaces on Windows Server 2012: Great in Theory, Terrible in Practice
Recently, I had the opportunity to test out the new Storage Spaces feature on Windows Server 2012. With a bunch of spare hard drives and parts sitting around, I figure I’d put them to some use by testing out the functionality of Windows Server 2012. Storage Spaces (also available on
Registrations for Twin Cities Code Camp 15 Now Open!
With the fall season now upon us, the time for the next Twin Cities Code Camp event is coming up pretty soon. Registrations for TCCC15 is now open and like with previous TCCC events, the event is completely free. TCCC15 will be held on October 19, 2013 from 8 AM
Have a Crucial M4 SSD and Seeing the 0x000000F4 Bug? Update the Firmware!
Recently, one of my clients were reporting that they were suddenly getting frequent BSODs on one of their laptops, with the error code 0x000000F4. The client’s laptop would run normally, but suddenly would BSOD and reboot after about an hour or so of use.The laptop in question was upgraded with
Android 4.4 Now “KitKat” Instead of Key Lime Pie
Although it has only been a short time since Google released Android 4.3 and has yet to be released for most Android devices, Google today has released some minor details about Android 4.4, specifically in that it will be called “KitKat” instead of “Key Lime Pie.” Apparently, Nestle has given
Nintendo Introduces the Nintendo 2DS
Nintendo unveiled the Nintendo 2DS this week, a new addition to the Nintendo DS handheld family. Unlike previous Nintendo DS devices, the new Nintendo 2DS is more tablet-like in nature, abandoning the flip-screen design present in previous Nintendo DS devices. In terms of hardware, the new Nintendo 2DS boasts the