Frugle’s Blog

New CCIE Rack Rental Widget

Posted by admin on Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

I have just finished programming a new OSX Dashboard Widget.  It checks the current pricing and availability for CCIE Routing and Switching, CCIE Security, CCIE Voice and CCIE Security racks.  The process for creating a widget is pretty straight forward.  The only part that wasn’t support out of the box was making AJAX calls to [...]

continue reading

Half as many free iPhone apps hit app store as paid apps

Posted by admin on Sunday, July 20th, 2008

It seems the rush of free iPhone applications is slowing.  Today, for example there were four applications released in the free section: Clowdy Photo Blogger, Vecka, Writing Pad, and Quitter.  However, there were eight new applications for the iPhone which cost money: eWallet, Jade, Kenkou, Moo Box, Shout It, Sketches, SuperPong, and Tiny Violin.   [...]

continue reading

The Real Top 10 Free iPhone Applications

Posted by admin on Saturday, July 19th, 2008

So, you have your iPhone 3g or you are keeping it old school and decided to keep your old iPhone and upgrade to 2.0. Either way, hopefully you have visited the App Store on your iPhone or through iTunes. On either your computer or phone you have probably seen the top 25 free [...]

continue reading

New GradedLabs.com website

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 - Uncategorized

I have spent the last few months in developing a new online store based on Magento’s eCommerce Solution.  Graded Labs now offers learning capsules, online support and bulk discounts on tokens.  Developing with magento was difficult and cumbersome at first, but then after you get the hang of things, it turns out to be a [...]

continue reading

15 iPhone Apps Created by College Students

Monday, April 27th, 2009 - iPhone

Just a quick note…
Being a recent graduate from graduate school I was interested in a blog post shown to me recently.  It’s titled 15 iPhone Apps Created by College Students.  It’s a interesting article so be sure to check it out.  Some of the applications aren’t that bad.  It’s crazy how even Awesome Ball got [...]

continue reading

iPhone app review: Touchgrind

Monday, February 16th, 2009 - iPhone

So durning the Christmas holidays I went on a three week long cruise around South America. The cruise was good, but it was close to a entire month with out internet access. So before I left my good ole Charter cable modem behind I decided to download some iPhone apps for the road. [...]

continue reading

CCIE Routing & Switching Polymorphic Assessments

Friday, February 13th, 2009 - Random Thoughts

If you are in the tech world, you know that most of the traffic circulating the web goes through Cisco equipment.  I read somewhere that 90% of all trafic goes through some kind of Cisco device.  At the highest level of Cisco training is the CCIE or the Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert.  This certification is [...]

continue reading

OSX Widget Passes Inspection

100% clean

Friday, August 1st, 2008 - Free Applications, apple

So somehow my recently released widget made it over to the folks at Softpedia. Here is the email they sent me:
Hello,
Your product “CCIE Rack Availability 1.0″ has been tested by the Softpedia labs and found to be
completely clean of adware/spyware components.
We are impressed with the quality of your product and encourage you to keep
this [...]

continue reading

New CCIE Rack Rental Widget

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 - Featured, Free Services

I have just finished programming a new OSX Dashboard Widget.  It checks the current pricing and availability for CCIE Routing and Switching, CCIE Security, CCIE Voice and CCIE Security racks.  The process for creating a widget is pretty straight forward.  The only part that wasn’t support out of the box was making AJAX calls to [...]

continue reading

Half as many free iPhone apps hit app store as paid apps

VNC Lite

Sunday, July 20th, 2008 - Featured, Free Applications

It seems the rush of free iPhone applications is slowing.  Today, for example there were four applications released in the free section: Clowdy Photo Blogger, Vecka, Writing Pad, and Quitter.  However, there were eight new applications for the iPhone which cost money: eWallet, Jade, Kenkou, Moo Box, Shout It, Sketches, SuperPong, and Tiny Violin.   [...]

continue reading

The Real Top 10 Free iPhone Applications

shazam

Saturday, July 19th, 2008 - Featured, Free Applications, Free Media, Free Services, iPhone

So, you have your iPhone 3g or you are keeping it old school and decided to keep your old iPhone and upgrade to 2.0. Either way, hopefully you have visited the App Store on your iPhone or through iTunes. On either your computer or phone you have probably seen the top 25 free [...]

continue reading

#1 Leopard application of the day (Free)

Saturday, May 10th, 2008 - Featured, Free Applications, Mac top 25

#1. Synergy
Synergy is a great application and a must have for those people with more than one computer at their desk. Basically, Synergy is a KVM but done through software. This means that you can use the same mouse and keyboard across all your multiple machines, even if one is windows, one [...]

continue reading

#2 Leopard application of the day (Free)

Chicken of the VNC

Friday, May 9th, 2008 - Free Applications, Mac top 25

#2. Chicken of the VNC
At the number two spot is a great way to connect to your computer from home with out paying a dime. If you have leopard, then potentially you already have this feature, known as back to my mac. However, this requires a DotMac account. Which again is not [...]

continue reading