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Sony Vaio E-Series 15.5″ Laptop

Btw, my new machine is a EB2 with i5-450M 4GB RAM 320GB HD ATI HD5650 with 1GB 15.5″ FullHD screen From what i get after my install marathon: very nice! Lots of performance and features. Only the case is a bit plastiky. But not bad indeed for around EU800,-. Now i have to get a [...]


Flex Builder install under Windows 7 (64-bit)

After getting a new laptop and after upgrading to Windows7 (64-bit) i tried to migrate my current work-setup for eclipse and my workspaces to the new machine. Also upgraded to the newest eclipse version (3.6). Wasn’t really watching the install, but realized that the installer window went “black” after a while and the install went [...]


GeoFeeder now officially signed

With the new, official certificate from Chosen Security, i created a new version of GeoFeeder (with only an increased version number) with my new certificate. Then used ..\sdks\3.2.0\bin\adt -migrate -storetype pkcs12 -keystore self_signed_cert.p12 GeoFeeder_121.air GeoFeeder_121_certswitch.air to manually wrap it with the old, self-signed signature. This way an update can be verified by the installed version [...]


Realtime Traffic Messages

Update: the receiving and processing of TMC radio is currently disabled Update: constantly improving the decoder … I finally set up a small embedded linux computer (ZFx86 @ 100MHz, 32MB) with one of my mp5_redux PC104 add-on boards to receive and decode TMC (Traffic Message Channel)-messages out of RDS (Radio Data System). The system is [...]


GeoRSS Viewer/Reader in AIR

Just did a quick wrapper around the GeoRSS reader classes, got GeoFeeder; then simply couldn’t stop to improve it. Try any GeoRSS feed you know of, but be aware: every feed sucessfully parsed will be “recorded” for all other users to see. See the GeoFeeder page for details. Please upgrade your Flash Player This is [...]