Author Archives: Dan

Apple recently announced the latest ( and smallest ) in their line of desktop PCs, the Mac Mini This sweet little thing is just what you need in the Kitchen/Family room to Check email Write up your shopping list Look … Continue reading →

You’re not going to believe this one…. I got a call from a long-time customer of my employer ( it was my turn with the pager 🙁 ) at approx 3:00am on Monday 20/12/2004 reporting that a SCO machine on … Continue reading →

Why is it so hard to find a half-way decent personal finance app, that works on your platform of choice and doesn’t cost the earth?? If you’re a windows user then no-probs, Quicken have a nice product for the home … Continue reading →

There is an interesting interview Ten Questions with TiVo’s Director of User Experience, Margret Schmidt that talks about how TiVo designed what I consider one of the best and most intuitive UIs ever. I have looked at the interfaces on … Continue reading →

The problem with the test program turned out to be a lot more mundane then I thought. The serial port on the Topfield defaults to 115200 baud, the IceLink dongle runs at 9600 baud. My terminal program is set to … Continue reading →

Last night Rick ( a colleague of mine from IceTV ) and I were working on adding the Topfield TF5000PVRt Terestrial Digital PVR to our unified development environment. After much stuffing around due to some serious oddities in the libraries … Continue reading →