Kevin Muma » Technology

New iPhone App

Kevin Muma — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:10:20 +0000

Since my last update, I’ve been busy learning the programming language and API used software development on the iPhone (Objective-C and Cocoa Touch). On July 13th I submitted my first App to the App Store and it is now available for purchase on the App Store.

My app is called Power On. It uses Wake on LAN to allow you to remotely turn on your computer from your iPhone or iPod touch. Find out more at PowerOnApp.com.

Spore Creature Creator

Kevin Muma — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:11:58 +0000

The Spore creature creator is out. There is a free version and the full version for $10.

The full game is coming out in September. In the meantime I’ve been making creatures with the free demo.

Mouse Lag Fix

Kevin Muma — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 23:17:59 +0000

Trying to draw in PhotoShop lead me to discover the reason for my mouse’s unresponsiveness of in games. While using PhotoShop I noticed my mouse wasn’t moving smoothly.

Under Windows XP’s mouse properties I disabled “Enhanced pointer precision” and my mouse started behaving properly in PhotoShop. Further testing showed that the mouse lag in games was also gone.

Access this dialog through Control Panel > Mouse > Pointer Options.

Update:
I found some more info on this problem in the Microsoft Knowledge Base unfortunatly they didn’t have a better solution.

Sorting Photos

Kevin Muma — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 01:32:12 +0000

My photos were very disorganized, especially after recovering them from my accidentally formatted hard disk.

A word of warning: SATA hard drives do not show as drive C: in the Windows XP installer, unless there are no IDE drives, so if you have more then one hard drive don’t trust the drive letters when installing Windows.

So I wrote this bash script to copy my pictures into folders by date. It uses jhead to get the date, and if that doesn’t work it uses the files modified date. So the final path ends up being something like: “/2005/01.Jan 17/10.34.23 IMG_1045.JPG”. This format is fairly easy to change by editing the script.

The script also makes sure that Picasa.ini entries stay with the photos, so if you use Picasa (like me) your edits and stars will stay with the images when they are copied.

To get the script to work on Windows you’ll need cygwin and jhead.

Cable Modem Web Interface

Kevin Muma — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 21:32:01 +0000

My internet connection stopped working today, which lead me to an interesting discovery. Generally when my internet stops working just I renew my DHCP lease and it starts working again.

But this time, when I renewed my DHCP I got a private Class C IP (192.168.100.41) and no gateway or DNS servers. This was strange, so I tried pinging 192.168.100.1, which got a response! Interesting, what else is running here? I browsed to http://192.168.100.1/ and found:

It looks like I connected to a web server in our cable modem. Mostly the site just had information about the cable modem. However, under configuration I found, a button to reset factory defaults (I didn’t touch this), and a button to restart. I tried pressing the restart button. When the modem restarted, I renewed my DHCP lease restoring my internet connection.