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September 2011

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“Working” Animation in Status Bar

I thought that the “working” animation, like seen on smart phones and other similar devices, was neat showing up in the middle of my auto email program window but it didn’t look so good when the window is huge and when the window is full of status text….

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Multithreading SMTP Handling

SMTP seems very slow. Each time someone sends a message to my auto email program, I need to send out two emails and maybe more. One email is to the sender to give them whatever response is appropriate. The other that is always sent is the log email…

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Animated “Waiting” Symbol

It is interesting how the world has changed. For decades, the symbol that tells you to wait has been an hourglass. Sometimes a crazy person would use some sort of pocket watch symbol. Now, all of the sudden, a swirling thingy is it. It’s the thing to use…

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Computers & Programming

TextFree SMS Messaging App

I’m on a roll with blog posts today. I just downloaded the TextFree SMS messaging app from the iTunes app store. I have an iPod Touch (or iTouch for short) and I wanted to get text messages on it to test a messaging system I’m building for the…

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Test of Windows Live Writer

I’m testing Windows Live Writer to see how it works with my blog. The preview that looks like my Blog is very cool although the real test will be using it for writing a real blog entry. Oh, wait, I’m writing a real blog entry now. Testing in…

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Auto Email Responder 2

Update I worked on the auto email program a bit at lunch. I cleaned up my code by moving specific operations that take more than two or three lines of code into functions. This makes the main loop easier to read since the function names are a bit…

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Auto Email Responder

I have started writing an email program that is fully automated. The intent is to let people send emails and text messages to any email address at my domain and get a reply that is appropriate to their message. For instance, if you were to send “hidden” (not…

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Taking a breaker

This is a copy of a post I made on paddling.net. This is a not-too-short trip report. It is about paddling along the coast and then watching as my inexperienced friend decide to catch a wave or two. We started at Mission Bay in San Diego. We paddled…

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