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My New Android Application!

I created a new Android App using App Inventor.

It is a small machine screw size / information application. Unfortunately, Android Market will not allow App Inventor applications…. yet!

Anyway, if any of you are interested in this application, email me and we can arrange to buy it for my originally planned Android Market price of 99 Cents!!! ($0.99 US).

To see the screen shots & get an idea what the application looks like does, look here: https://blog.jimsjump.com/android-apps

Thanks!
Jim

My new EXI-450 Helicopter Adventure

As an accomplished RC Airplane pilot, I recently decided to try my hand at RC Helicopters, and it started at Christmas this year.

my-helis

I got an E-Flite Blade mSR micro helicopter – its a blast to fly!   But this little guy is only practical inside or on a very calm day.

blade-msr

So a friend suggested I try my hand at a bigger more challenging collective pitch chopper.

To keep costs down (as I know I’m going to crash it) I went with a 450 size clone helicopter – parts are cheap & there is a lot of information available on the net (here is a great example).

exi-450

I’m learning steady with the big one, the little one is much more forgiving but has its limitations.

Hadn’t posted in a long time so here is a brief update . . .

Enjoy,
~Jim

 

My DOS epiphany as of late . . .

Recently during a hard drive upgrade I ran across some IE temp files that got corrupted and just would not delete.  I needed them gone because IMAGEX (an article for a later post) would not work as it couldn’t see these files for the image.

Of course you can’t delete the directory they are left in as well “directory not empty” error (or so I thought).   After a little searching and some frustration, I found the following command, living just under my nose!

C:>   RMDIR  <C:\ “Directory to delete and contents”>   /S /Q

/S  – get the directory and all files
/Q – does it without approval

Yup, “bye bye” directory and “bye bye” file that won’t go away.   Just too simple.

Enjoy!
~Jim