A good friend of mine named JP Duplessis joined a startup named Mylio and they built some really amazing photo management software.   I've been using it for over a year now and I have to say, I really like it. I was tired of the old Windows Photo Apps that are so, well, um, boring and feature limited and I was tired of my wife losing her MacBook and...

Have you ever wanted to do something naughty from your lovely well behaved sandboxed WinRT application?  Do you need to call some Win32 API that you don’t have permission to do from WinRT? Well WinRT itself does this using a separate service called the RuntimeBroker.  Many WinRT objects use RPC to call into this broker process and do those things that...

Alex Kelly showed me this really cool project by Nathaniel Elijah where he used a software defined radio to decode the power data from an Efergy power monitor.  So I had some fun adding an AllJoyn wrapper on that so that my Raspberry Pi can act as an Alljoyn sensor which I can then easily connect to using my PC where I can grab the data and have fun...

I had some fun over the Christmas holiday playing with my new toy, Magic LED Lights.  These are controlled from your phone using Bluetooth Low Energy.  But as is often the case there was no Windows Phone app for these, so hey, it was the holidays, I had some time, so I built one.  Actually, I built a Windows Phone app and a Windows 8 app.  It is implemented...

As  XML has exploded across the planet I continue to get many requests for improvements to my XML Notepad of 2007.  The tool has been downloaded over a million times, so I figured it's time to show it some love and fix some bugs.  In the process I updated it to NET 4.0 using VS 2013.  I was amazed how everything from back then still works, including...

I built a simple app called Seismograph to visualize the accelerometer data on my phone.  The reason I built this is because I wanted a simple way to check the vibration of the motors on my quadrocopter.  I saw some really nice apps for android, but all the windows phone accelerometer apps were crap.  So I built my own :-)  I then ported this Seismograph...