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ToneDef $ells Out
Release 6 of ToneDef. I lied. I admit it. I mentioned that the ad I inserted in R4/R5 was just going to be on the front page of the app. I really did intend for it to stay that way, but the reaction to the additional permissions required to do that, in addition to it’s ability [...]
ToneDef R4! (Actually R5, but that’s just a bug fix.)
I did something good, something arguably neutral, and something unforgivably bad for Release 4 of ToneDef. First, the good: I rewrote the audio routines. Again. This time, they are much more flexible, and much more importantly: stable. On top of that, it’s now rather trivial to generate whatever multi-tone sequence I want… like, for example, a busy signal. [...]
ToneDef R3
For a while now I’ve been pretty dissatisfied with how ToneDef works. I created a bank of just under 40 .ogg sounds corresponding to the DTMF, BlueBox, and various coin tones the program can make. Doing it this way is easier, sure, but it feels wrong. And the way I had it implemented meant every [...]
For Your Headache Needs
You know you’re going to lose them. Or your dog will eat them. Or an angry god will descend from the sky and burn them while they’re in your pants. That’s right, I can only be referring to those little augmented reality cards that come with the Nintendo 3DS. I knew immediately that I would [...]
ToneDef v2
Spent all night working on this new release… added extended DTMF, red box, and blue box tones! Also, you can use a ‘short pause’ in the dialer string (“555,1212″ – inserts a small pause in the dialing, at the comma). Settings can be configured in the new preferences menu. The Android Market is being very [...]
I am suddenly ToneDef, and so are you.
Long story short: random situation popped up where I needed a DTMF tone dialer. Thinking fast, I ran to the Android Market… surely there would be heaps of good tone dialers pawning at the window like puppies begging to go home. Alas, the couple puppies I played with were either limping, rather dirty, or worse: [...]
Electronica 17
Or not. [Re: previous update] So, due to some bad luck in November, and some good luck in December and January, Electronica got pushed aside. Employment stresses aside, now seems like a good a time as any to revisit the Android universe! New in this years update, is a lonely new chart for PS/2 keyboard [...]
More time…
Looks like I’ll have a lot more time to devote to these projects. More as it develops.
Teach that lazy coder a lesson he won’t soon forget!
Irritated by the lethargic pace of Electronica updates? Frustrated by that one piece of missing data that would actually make the program useful? Now you can do something about it! If you know how to edit HTML and, perhaps, work some image editing, you can create your very own reference document for inclusion into future [...]
Hey, stranger!
Been a while since I’ve updated. Electronica hasn’t been abandoned; I’ve simply had other vegetables in my garden, so I haven’t been able to tend to it. Meanwhile, a surprisingly similar app, ElectroDroid has sprung up, if your patience has run out. ;) So what sorts of foodstuffs have I been tending to, if not that? [...]
Electronica R10
Added a new subsection, Video, and it’s first resident: HDMI (Type A and B). Lost a bit of time trying to draw my own HDMI cable graphic instead of pinching the SVG off Wikipedia. It was coming along fine. Then Photoshop decided it hated what I’d drawn and promptly crashed. I was less than thrilled. [...]
Electronica r8
Quick note: just shoved another version of Electronica out the airlock. Added XLR3 and a new ‘audio’ category. UPDATE: Scratch that: v9 is out there now; I inadvertently broke the new 555 page in my attempts at reorganizing the source code. Doh. Fixed. :P
