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Gaming to Grow Your Business

The Economist says "video games will be the fastest growing and most exciting form of mass media over the coming decade." But why should that excitement end there? Businesses across the board are finding they can use the same idea, and the same audience, to increase...

Html5 Audio restart playback in iOS Safari

by Guru

When using html5 audio and Apple's safari browser on iOS there is a problem that occurs when you try to set the audio's time. Html5 audio DOM object has an attribute called currentTime. This unfortunately isn't available in iOS safari. This makes it difficult if you...

New mobile app – Vinny

by Sheryl

We are excited to showcase a fantastic new mobile app we have helped develop. This app is still in beta but will be released soon! Did you ever wonder what the dealer really paid for that car on the lot? Check out Vinny, a new app that tells you the exact wholesale...

Automatic and Secure rsync over SSH

by Mike

Let's you want to set up an automatic rsync over ssh to a remote server, but you want to do it in a secure way. Using rsync over ssh is a convenient way to have all of the power of rsync for synchronizing files, comparing differences, doing backups, without having to...

Call out to Early Adapters: Could Smart Stickers Add Value to Your Business?

by Sheryl

Smart stickers, or programmable tags, are low-cost pieces of paper or plastic that can communicate with gadgets via a short-range radio technology called near field communication, or NFC. They can be customized to trigger an action on any phone with an NFC chip....

A Simple Popover Tooltip

by Mike

I like the popover tooltip that Twitter designed and I want to use it in my web applications without having to include the full bootstrap project. I included only the basics needed to give me the popover functionality. Here is what it looks like once implemented: To...

Javascript Object Switcheroo

by Guru

So I found out something interesting with javascript and objects. Let's say you have a cube object in javascript that is defined by this function. function Cube(x, y, z); Now lets say we had set the z value to be zero. Why would we want a cube object when it is really...

Better jquery each loop for coffeescript

by Guru

When writing object-oriented code in coffeescript, I've found that the jquery each method is insufficient, due to its use of "this". I am forced to use the following syntax: $('.thing').each (index, thing) => $(thing).css width: @width() I've created an...

OS X Server Lion Profile Manager

by Guru

Working on one of the projects that I am on we have an iOS app that needed to be distributed via the enterprise distribution. Finding information about this though was very difficult as apple doesn't have any information on the enterprise accounts without signing up...

AES CTR Encryption in C

by Guru

Encryption is one of the best tools at protecting data when it comes to computer security. There are many forms of encryption as well. One of the forms that I encountered recently in my work is AES CTR encryption. I am sure you have heard of AES encryption, but what...