Tom Dignan

I have been using x-tile by Giuseppe Penone and Chris Camacho for a few weeks and really like it so I have started to write my own features. This one lets you toggle decor on all active x windows with x-tile –toggle-decor Here’s my patch

So I’ve taken up studying mathematics in my spare time, and I do my note taking in HTML, occasionally supplementing it with a screen shot. In my pursuits, I realized that I needed a good reference for the mathematical html entities, as well as greek letters, so I generated one using vim from the W3C [...]

Not too long ago someone corrected me for saying “URL”, stating that URI would have been the correct term. I was skeptical, but didn’t dig much deeper into it. After looking on the web I found a few confused people, but I just found a great article that explains this without requiring one to wade [...]

After Google restored the “malicious wallpaper” apps to the Android market, VentureBeat apologized for their bad reporting. VentureBeat now reports that: “The developer of the wallpaper apps goes by the names Jackeey Wallpaper and Iceskysl. He confirmed via email that his apps had been restored. He said Google told him, ‘Our investigation has concluded that [...]

Beverly High School, in Massachusetts, will require all students to have MacBooks in 2011, said an article in Salem News. Initially, I reacted the same way as parent Jenn Parisella. “You’re kidding me, She has a laptop. Why would I buy her another laptop?” Beverly parents should think about the big picture, rather than their [...]

In the past few days and in the wake of the DEF CON security conference, there has been a lot of hype surrounding the security of Android devices. What you need to know about the said hype, is that it is hype. That is all it is, and that is all it ever will be, [...]

I wrote a class to allow for rapid development of tabbed UI in android using Java’s reflection features. While you can develop tabs rapidly this way, you must make sure you enter the names of your classes correctly. If you don’t, the app can crash at runtime (hopefully something you’ll realize when testing it) Regardless, [...]

I wish I had 6 fingers on each hand. asdfg hjkl; ?