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2013 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 12,000 times in 2013. If it were a

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Command line conversion of svg to png

Here’s a little gem when you install Inkscape: /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/bin/inkscape –export-png output.png -w 100 -h 100 noun_project_9206.svg

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Autobuild numbers in Xcode4

In Xcode 4 look in the Navigator pane, which is the pane on the left side of the Xcode screen. It has 7 icons across the top. Select the left-most icon (looks like a file folder) to get the Project

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Splitview side bar hiding

So you have this splitview but you don’t want to show it all the time in landscape, but Apple never explained how to do that. Let’s make up on that: First add some button logic in the app delegate: –

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Dagbani Proverb

I’m brushing up my dagbani, here’s what I’ve learned today:

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Vulcan child logic

This night I was putting my son (3) to bed and asked him if he was given his vitamins by his mother, he assured me that this was not the case. Knowing his appetite for the tablets I told him

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Outlook .pst to .mbox conversion

You will probably have followed a zillion links before you got to this page and the only reason I am blogging about it is because most of these links will provide you with useless information or point you to software

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Adding a jar to Eclipse for Android

Importing a jar in Eclipse for my Android project gave me a little headache so I’ll copy/paste the instructions here below so others may not have to suffer the same. Credits go to stackoverflow.

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Recorded Noa as TomTom Voice

I recently stumbled across this very interesting page. It explains in detail how to create your own TomTom voice, and so I set out for an evening with my daughter and Audacity to record our very own TomTom voice.

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SeaMap US Released for iPad and IPhone

What is Sea Map? Sea Map is a map viewer that supports NOAA (www.noaa.gov) maps for planning and light navigation purposes. The maps can be downloaded from the NOAA servers bringing you the freshest maps of the US waters to

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