Trading Faces v1.0 Released

After dabbling with the iPhone SDK for a few months, I’ve released my first app – Trading Faces.  It’s a simple app that lets you take two faces and mix the different features (e.g. eyes, nose, mouth) together.  Pretty silly, but I bet it’ll make you laugh!

Click this link to check it out in the App Store:

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myDesktop v1.3.0 Released

myDesktop Online v1.3.0 is available for download. Get it here! This update includes many frequently asked for features and a UI refresh.

Changelog:

  • Updated required runtime to .NET 2.0
  • Updated FTP library to v1.3
  • Many UI updates
  • Added option to keep FTP connection alive or close it after each capture
  • Added option to not upload captures (just capture locally)
  • Added option to archive captures, both locally and remotely on server
  • Added “-capture_and_quit” command line parameter, takes a single capture and then terminates program. Useful for scripting.
  • Added license

How to Find the Application Name of a PocketPC CAB Installer

A while back, I needed to write a program that could manage the installation and uninstallation of programs on the PocketPC\Windows Mobile platform. The program needed to install CAB file X from location Y, note what it had installed from location Y, and then later uninstall it. It had to do this all programatically with no user intervention.

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IE7 CSS Bug: Adding ‘padding-top’ Value Twice

I’ve spent some time at work trying to figure out why a <div> after our menu (where the menu is “float: left“) was showing up with more top padding than we were specifying. The extra padding only showed up in Internet Explorer 7:

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OS X 10.5 Display Sleeper Widget

Back when I was using Tiger (10.4), I used the Sleep Display widget by Line Street Widgetry to instantly turn off my iMac’s display, but not sleep the entire machine.  This was a necessity because the iMac doesn’t have a button to simply turn off the display, and it’s really annoying to wait for a 10 minute idle timeout when you’re trying to go to sleep.

Then, I upgraded to Leopard and found that this particular Sleep Display widget no longer worked.  This was a bummer.  I Googled around and found an application that did what I wanted, but I really wanted a dashboard widget and this was a great excuse to play with both Xcode and Dashcode and make it myself.

You can get the new widget at http://www.chriskarcher.net/software/displaysleeper.

p.s. After writing and publishing the widget, I found that you can easily sleep the display in Leopard by pressing Ctrl-Shift-Eject