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M-5: Hardline water cooled gaming PC - Intro
M-5 The name M-5 comes from an episode of the original Star Trek series titled "The Ultimate Computer". Admittedly, I've never actually seen the episode, but I felt the title of the episode was quite...
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An engineering project with a difference
Usually most of my projects involve many long days in front of a computer screen. Actually, this one was no exception! I was becoming increasing frustrated with my 6 year old Kona Coilair for both...
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View source of any JAR in Android Studio
Although most of the good Android libraries are open source, occasionally you get stuck with a third party JAR or two that doesn't have source available, or good documentation, or both. Music streaming...
View ArticleUpdating Android apps to use the material theme
With the release of the Android Lollypop SDK, Google have also updated the support libraries. The good news is that the AppCompat library already contains support for the new material theme so you can...
View ArticleUpdating navigation drawer icon to the material theme
Over the last couple of weeks many of the Google Android apps have been updated to support the Lollypop material theme. One of the noticeable changes is the new spinning hamburger for apps that use a...
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Android PIN entry widget
In a number of Android projects I've worked on we've had a requirement for a PIN code entry screen, something which is sadly lacking from the Android SDK. I started working on this a while ago but when...
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Moto X
Finally, after a 20,000 km trip starting in China and stopping of in Hong Kong and the USA, my Moto X has arrived! This is the walnut back with silver trim.
View ArticleStyling the SearchView with AppCompat v21 (material theme)
Earlier versions of the AppCompat-v7 library conveniently exposed a huge number of styling attributes that were hidden in the standard holo themes. A number of these attributes allowed customisation of...
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Offline editing app for Ghost gets some material sweetness
I started work on this back in September but it stalled due to other commitments and sat on the hard drive of my Mac for a few weeks. The release of Android 5.0 came and went which left my code...
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Fixing Google Drive (and other app) icons in OS X Yosemite
I much prefer the look of OS X Yosemite over Mavericks and earlier versions, but unfortunately it's taking some apps a while to catch up, Google Drive is a prime example: In some cases it might be...
View ArticleAndroid Data Binding with Robolectric 3
Just over a week ago at Google I/O Google announced the new Data Binding library. If, like me, you were keen to give it a try and dropped it into an existing project with Robolectric, upon runing your...
View ArticleBootstrap Default theme released for Piwigo
After a long time in the making and a number of public preview releases, the first official release of my Bootstrap Default theme for Piwigo is available for download. It can be downloaded from the...
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O2 Wifi app sends authentication and personal data over insecure connections
Background I recently purchased a Nexus 6P and being on O2 it's a requirement to download the O2 Wifi app and register it to get access to the London Underground wifi. I downloaded the app on my new...
View ArticleSetting up DKIM with Sendmail on Ubuntu 14.04
What is DKIM? DKIM or DomainKeys Identified Mail is an email authentication system that can help prevent spoofing by signing outgoing mail. More information can be found on Wikipedia or Google. DKIM...
View ArticleUsing Android Data Binding adapters with Dagger 2
Updated 22/04/19 to include Kotlin code samples and use latest version of Dagger Android. The typical method of implementing a binding adapter using the Android Data Binding Library is to create a...
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