According to the Guinness World Records, the biggest playable chess set was made in Canada in 2009, with a king that was about 4 feet tall! Try moving that chunk […]
Updated KPPD Control app for Android Oreo!
Now that Oreo is out, I needed to go through my apps and make adjustments and updates for the new platform. One of the biggest problems I found was that […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: Identifying the board square by number.
Identification please! Did you know that there have been numerous cases of mistaken identity for the masters of chess in print? There are so many that websites have even devoted […]
Ril-daemon control app for LG G4 AOSCP Oreo!
I’m sure many of you are already using Kessaras’ great AOSCP Oreo Rom for the LG G4! One small current issue is the ril-daemon sometimes needs to be stopped and […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: JustChess, shaken, not stirred….
Well, I suppose the Bond reference does sound a bit out of place here, but perhaps if we break it down it will not seem to be so. In the […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: Touching up the User Interface….
My uncle once told me that a good paint job will sell a bad airplane. He’s right. As an airplane mechanic, he knew the value of the planes that he […]
Connecting to my Bluefruit Feather from my Android phone!
This Christmas, my brother was kind enough to get me a great new toy to play with: a Bluefruit Feather! It’s a Bluetooth capable board with input and output pins […]
Taking a screen shot of an Android phone while it is still booting.
I stumbled upon an interesting tidbit the other day. I was trying to take a screenshot of my Android phone while it was playing the boot animation. Of course I […]
Hourglass app: recurring timer option?
Last week I mentioned the changes to the Hourglass app in regards to manual time entry. As I looked over the commits, I realized that I forgot to mention the […]
Edited Hourglass app manual time entry function.
Last week GitHub user spaetz brought forward a great idea for the Hourglass Android timer app that I made a while back. He recommended that the manual time entry be […]