http://www.whizzosoftware.com/forums/index.php?app=blog Community Blog List Syndication Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:32:49 +0000 dan@whizzosoftware.com (Whizzo Software Forums) IP.Blog 60 http://www.whizzosoftware.com/forums/blog/1/entry-49-sio2arduino/ SIO2Arduino. Yes, I'm a geek :-)]]> Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:29:00 +0000 http://www.whizzosoftware.com/forums/blog/1/entry-49-sio2arduino/ http://www.whizzosoftware.com/forums/blog/1/entry-48-bluesmirf-silver-bluetooth-modem-and-mac-os-x/ Servus PagerLink device, I decided to use an Arduino Uno and Sparkfun's BlueSMiRF Silver bluetooth modem. The process of setting...]]> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:11:00 +0000 http://www.whizzosoftware.com/forums/blog/1/entry-48-bluesmirf-silver-bluetooth-modem-and-mac-os-x/ http://www.whizzosoftware.com/forums/blog/1/entry-47-tablets-and-the-android-open-accessory-development-kit-adk/ Servus, has a requirement to control hardware pager systems via RS-232. Since Servus is Android tablet-based, it made perfect sense to use the recently introduced Android Open Accessory Development Kit (ADK) to implement this...]]> Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:05:00 +0000 http://www.whizzosoftware.com/forums/blog/1/entry-47-tablets-and-the-android-open-accessory-development-kit-adk/ http://www.whizzosoftware.com/forums/blog/1/entry-46-android-32-bugginess-and-update-woes/
However, my testing has revealed what appears to be a significant bug in Android 3.2 itself. This bug prevents the default application selection dialog from...]]> Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:04:00 +0000 http://www.whizzosoftware.com/forums/blog/1/entry-46-android-32-bugginess-and-update-woes/ http://www.whizzosoftware.com/forums/blog/1/entry-45-servus-restaurant-guest-management-system-now-available/ Servus, is available. It is intuitive, powerful and can accommodate both large and small establishments. More details are available at our sister site...]]> Wed, 20 Jul 2011 02:47:00 +0000 http://www.whizzosoftware.com/forums/blog/1/entry-45-servus-restaurant-guest-management-system-now-available/ http://www.whizzosoftware.com/forums/blog/1/entry-44-arduino-arrives/
]]> Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:52:00 +0000 http://www.whizzosoftware.com/forums/blog/1/entry-44-arduino-arrives/ http://www.whizzosoftware.com/forums/blog/1/entry-43-free-android-apps-outnumber-free-ios-apps/ Distimo, the number of free Android apps outnumber free iOS apps 134,342 to 121,845. However, I think that statistic is misleading.

A quick search of the term "hello world" on the iOS App Store returns 4 free results, most of which seem to have a useful purpose. A similar...]]> Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:12:00 +0000 http://www.whizzosoftware.com/forums/blog/1/entry-43-free-android-apps-outnumber-free-ios-apps/ http://www.whizzosoftware.com/forums/blog/1/entry-42-honeycomb-and-the-case-of-the-missing-android-tablet-apps/ This article on Ars Technica ponders the mystery of why there are so few Honeycomb-specific applications on Google's marketplace. They are comparing the situation with the iPad which had almost 1000 apps on launch day. I can...]]> Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:35:00 +0000 http://www.whizzosoftware.com/forums/blog/1/entry-42-honeycomb-and-the-case-of-the-missing-android-tablet-apps/ http://www.whizzosoftware.com/forums/blog/1/entry-41-mayan-madness-for-android-now-available/ Mayan Madness for Android. It was submitted back in mid-December so it trails behind it's iOS counterpart which made the jump to 2.0 about a month ago. I'm hoping Android sales will...]]> Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:39:00 +0000 http://www.whizzosoftware.com/forums/blog/1/entry-41-mayan-madness-for-android-now-available/ http://www.whizzosoftware.com/forums/blog/1/entry-40-android-jmdns-and-wifi-multicast-packets/ JmDNS library to facilitate Android device service discovery on the local Wifi network. Just be sure to use version 3.4.0 or greater since it fixes some issues with using JDK methods that don't exist on Android (e.g....]]> Tue, 01 Mar 2011 21:22:00 +0000 http://www.whizzosoftware.com/forums/blog/1/entry-40-android-jmdns-and-wifi-multicast-packets/