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Without going into details, I briefly mentioned that I added a few new functions into the class GDataService and PhotoService in order to get the interfacing between Google GData Photo API and RavenPlus working with Google OAuth2 authentication. Here are the technical details, plus the...
I have been on a lookout for a super-zoom digital camera over the last couple of months now. Choices are rather limited in the local Malaysian online market. Nevertheless, I have narrowed my choice down to either a Nikon Coolpix or a Canon Powershot within the RM 900 to RM 1,300 range with at least 40x...
Thank you KWorld for manufacturing and selling such an economical TV tuner for PC - the PCI Analog TV Card Lite PVR-TV7134SE. It may not be the best but it gets the job done with acceptable quality; better than my old VCR in my opinion. Thank you Alvery Lee for creating Virtualdub. It might not...
Measuring about a foot and a half in length (from head to the end of its tail), this juvenile Water Monitor Lizard is making itself comfortable in my backyard. It first came to my attention about 2 months ago when I saw this cold-blooded reptile basking under the morning sun, warming its body up for the...
As parents to school-going children, my wife and I are entitled to one 1BestariNet Yes ID each. Each of these Yes IDs is internet ready but data is capped at 200 MB. 400 MB from these two IDs is just about right for our needs, and I have been using these two IDs for over the last year or so, for free.
I think it was earlier this year when I tried photographing this butterfly, a Lemon Pansy. I failed despite me chasing it around the front yard from one spot to another for something like an hour under the hot and sunny 11 oclock morning sun. But taking the picture above a little over a week ago...
The yearly MY Garden Birdwatch Survey was held this year on the 4th and 5th June 2016. You will find my count results below, which I carried out on Saturday 4th June 2016, between 3:00 PM till 3:30 PM. As in previous years, my counting was done at my home. Different species of birds seems to appear...
Just outside my bedroom window, there is this more-than-50-year-old mango tree. Doves, both Zebra and Spotted, make this tree their home. Regular tenants every night, some 4 or 5 of them. Every now and then though, a White-throated Kingfisher will make this tree its dwelling too. Not permanent but...
I have spent about 4 days working on this. So, I suppose it is worthy of me writing it down somewhere so that I wont have to slog through the whole process again. Phone Not Detected Someone in my household bought a new Xiaomi Mi 4i smartphone 2 months ago. Great phone at a great price, by the...
I hope somebody will find this Python script useful. I actually used this Python script to test things out first (and make sure that everything works) before I started work on fixing RavenPlus last year. I cant remember now, but I think the gist of this script came off from b.py - a Python script...
Last Monday 18th April 2016, there was an online job posting looking for freelance software testers. This was what the ad says: Looking for someone to test my application called Crush Clean its a Simple app to clean your desktop Please just open the application test it and tell me...
I made an online purchase recently at Superbuy.my. Everything went well until the point when I wanted to make an online payment via Maybank. It failed with an error message Could not connect to remote server at URL https://netpay.my/web/Payment/GeneralEntry.aspx I tried again...
The picture on the left was taken in the morning 2 days ago (do click to enlarge). It is a Tawny Coster butterfly. Over the last couple of days I have noticed the presence of this butterfly in my front garden. Its point of interest: my Damiana plants (it appears to be in egg laying mode). To my...
Below is the code for my first Google OAuth2 Python program. The last time I had a look at it was something like 6 months ago - that long already? As I recall, the sample script file blogger.py that was bundled in google-api-python-client-samples-1.2.zip, if I am not mistaken, by Google...
Perhaps I should have waited a little longer. Perhaps I should have hung around for another 30 minutes. But I didnt. The afternoon tropical heat was just unbearable. And I do have an umbrella with me at that time, by the way. So what happened is that I missed the chance of observing this butterfly,...
My Oh My. After put in so much time and effort into integrating Picasa and OAuth2 into RavenPlus, Google has now announced that it is shutting down PicasaWeb. May 1 2016 is the date to look out for as that is when Google will start rolling out the changes. I have had a look at the PicasaWeb API...
Going through the source code of a software application that was written by someone else is never easy. One could easily get lost and confused tracking through the code. I can still remember the first time when I looked at the source code of Zoundry Raven. I couldnt make head or tail of what I...
I know some of you have been waiting for this. So here it is: RavenPlus version 1.0.507, which contains the fix for uploading pictures to PicasaWeb via the Google OAuth2 protocol. I have been testing this version out for over the last couple of weeks and I believe I have a stable version that is fit...