EP Mobile has surpassed 10,000 downloads, and has matured to version 1.0. It is time to start porting it from Android to Apple iOS. This is a non-trivial task. I wish there was a conversion program that could take the Android Java program code and, with a click of the mouse, automagically transform it into… Continue reading From Android to iOS, First Steps
Category: Computers & Software
About EP Mobile
There has been somewhat of a deafening silence here at EP Studios with regard to blog posts. While my friend Dr. John M continues his torrential flow of bloggery, I have been more subdued than I usually am (which is already pretty subdued) and have left some tempting blog topics untouched because I’ve been preoccupied. … Continue reading About EP Mobile
Adventures In Computing: From OpenSuse To Ubuntu
New releases of Linux distributions tend to occur more rapidly than new releases of Windows or Mac OS X. New Linux distro releases have the latest versions of the Linux kernel, as well as the most up-to-date versions of useful open-source software programs. In other words, cool stuff. Nevertheless, upgrading is always fraught with a… Continue reading Adventures In Computing: From OpenSuse To Ubuntu
A Microsoft Morning
I try to avoid The Vole, as Microsoft is referred to by one of my favorite tech sites, The Inquirer, but, much like Chun The Unavoidable in Jack Vance’s The Dying Earth, it sometimes is, well, unavoidable. One reason I can’t completely cut the tie to Bill Gates et al. is the electronic medical records… Continue reading A Microsoft Morning
Moving a WordPress Blog to a New Server
Time doesn’t stand still, even at EP Studios. Sluggo the original $100 eBay-purchased Pentium III computer was showing signs of age. Nevertheless, sitting in my closet, hooked to an ethernet cable, exposed to wilds of the Internet on ports 80, 22, 26 and 110, it was an adequate web server for my website/blog for 5… Continue reading Moving a WordPress Blog to a New Server
The End of Books
Borders is gone. Barnes and Noble stock has fallen 80% over the last 5 years. Amazon now sells more eBooks than print books. Public libraries close on Sundays and have turned into internet cafes where the books are ignored and noise levels are too high to concentrate. There is no doubt that print books are… Continue reading The End of Books
Free Software That's Not Free
Facebook has some ads off to the side, and one of them aroused my curiosity — an ad for the ProFlight Simulator. I have used flight simulators since the very first version of what was to become Microsoft Flight Simulator, subLOGIC’s FS1 which ran on my Apple II+ back in the 1980s. I have… Continue reading Free Software That's Not Free
New Laptop at EP Studios: Lenovo X220 (aka SuperKrell)
Old Krell (a Panasonic Pentium-III Toughbook laptop circa 2002) having served its various purposes but getting somewhat hoary with age, I decided to invest in a new laptop. My criteria for selecting the new laptop included: relatively lightweight, good battery life, and Linux compatibility. I was sorely tempted to buy one of the new MacBook… Continue reading New Laptop at EP Studios: Lenovo X220 (aka SuperKrell)
Backup Solutions, 2011 Style
Over the years I struggled to find reliable and realistic backup solutions for my computer data. Originally (back in the early 90s) I used a tape drive, which took forever to back anything up. Right from the start of my backup attempts vexing questions arose. Should I do full backups or incremental backups? Incremental backups… Continue reading Backup Solutions, 2011 Style
Converting EP Studios Website to a WordPress Site
For quite some time I have been bothered by the EP Studios website. Although created in 2004, it had an amateurish, out-dated, 90s-website appearance from the get-go. I was initially proud of it anyway, because I had to learn on my own how to set up an Apache server, write the HTML, set the file… Continue reading Converting EP Studios Website to a WordPress Site