For competion (in czech) on http://soutez-fujitsu.cz dealing with all things Fujitsu containing category “web apps” w/ possibility to create e.g. “iphone app” I decided to think about it and came with the idea of having quick access to technical support from your phone – when you really need it, it may help. And yes, you can scan barcodes and query webserver with your device serialnr./idnr. This is just a concept app for competion – I think it would need more work server side. But hey, it’s free and looks good w/ Fujitsu logo with some little functionality.
Here comes FUJITSU TECHNICAL SUPPORT TOOL
How it looks:
Fujitsu Technical Support Tool for Android
How it works:
Download:
Not sure if I have all rights to publish it via Android Market (when I will know, I will release it there) I am releasing it here for you to download it and see for yourself. Just download it in your android device / emulator. It’s optimized for small/normal/large (all) display screens!
Recently I ran into little problem. When you upload images, wordpress offers you possibility to insert image into your post/page – very convenient. BUT! While you can choose size of image, which will be show on your post/page (usually thumbnail, but you can also select medium,large and full (original size)) – you cannot choose size of target image linking from that image (usually thumbnail image linking to large version of that image). You have only options of linking none, file or page/file… – this is probably because this is generic selection for all different file types. So the only way is to manually find out link to that required version of image you want to link to, which is revealed if you insert that size into post and then edit the link – very cumbersome and you cannot require this from avarage Joe – client.
Why all this? Usually in these times all cameras has a lot megapixels and uploaded image is something like 4000×3000 (12mpx) so when you opet this image you see only fraction, because it doesn’t fit the screen. Yes – some browsers does downscaling, but you waste bandwidth…and when you use something like slimbox/lightbox extension for showing your images – it’s unusable. It’s difficult to explain to client – “you have to downscale your images before uploading it” – why? when wordpress does this for itself (but doesn’t give you a choice to link to).
So I solved it my way – dirty wordpress hack. First, this is how it looks:
Solution below inside this article! (even for galleries!)
I am obsessed with LED displays. Every time I see some large LED display I see blocks falling, snakes, pac-mans…different things. But those are not accessible even when I ask to…too bad – but I won’t give up that easily!
So I got that Roku Soundbridge europe version branded as Pinnacle Soundbridge HomeMusic, which is stripped down original Roku Soundbridge, but with sd card flash memory support. But it’s nearly the same. It has wi-fi, supports radio, streaming from your sound server either on PC or router. Lately I was using it only for radio streams, its display is often not used, but the device is in stand-by all the time. I asked myself:
Wouldn’t it be cool to display TWITTER feed on this display?
YES, it would be…so here it is how it looks:
I began googling around and found that Soundbridge has telnet interface on port 4444, which allows you to control via command sketch write messages on display. So – there is a way.
Other was just some dirty hacking using php for xml/rss retrieval/processing and then command line CURL for telneting it to your Roku.
It’s very dirty hack, I see numerous ways how to improve it, but it is enough for my purposes – feel free to hack it or just inspire yourself for your own solution.
You can e.g. get rid of PHP altogether and/or the most great thing would be able to run it independently on the device itself and not pushing it via another device, but that is too difficult for me, eventhough I know there are some ways to hack it and I saw some interesting hack which allows to display weather and other stuff on your Roku… (but I don’t want to brick it myself…)
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