by Dave McKillen | Nov 12, 2015 | Gadgets 'n Gifts
How cool would it be to be able to play and control the volume of your music in just about any room in your house? Not only that but be able to dim the light and all from your phone as well? No hub, installation or hardware and the HelloTwist, being LED, lasts for 15...
by Dave McKillen | Nov 12, 2015 | Gadgets 'n Gifts
Microsoft has had it’s share of problems but what would you say if I told you the Surface Pro 4 might just be the rebirth of Microsoft? I’ve had several laptops across several platforms over the last 15 years but was never 100% satisfied with finding an...
by Dave McKillen | Nov 11, 2015 | Gadgets 'n Gifts
So just how far have 3D printers come? We hear all sort of gimics; but maybe we are further along than we realized. The Glowforge 3D printer is in essence a 3D laser cutter meaning it doesn’t actually build blocks or lay down materials so we aren’t quite...
by Dave McKillen | Oct 20, 2015 | Case Studies, Custom PHP programming
Project Summary The Western Region Education Service Alliance (WRESA) is a collaborative that was created by WNC school systems in 1996-1997. All of the 18 school systems in Western North Carolina have been members of WRESA. In 2007, Dr. Jan Webster joined WRESA as...
by Dave McKillen | Sep 21, 2015 | Case Studies, Google Maps and Charts API
Project Summary: The goal of this project was to design and build an interactive Google Maps overlay directory and search functionality that displays store information on a searchable map. The biggest challenge was how we were going to implement the dynamic display of...
by Dave McKillen | Sep 21, 2015 | Case Studies, RNS and Escapia API programming
Project Summary: We were tasked with mastering and then building a vacation rental site that utilized the RNS API data feed. RNS stands for Rental Network Services (rental-network.com). Rental Network Software is a vacation rental software for property managers around...
by Chris Walke | Sep 18, 2015 | Case Studies, Custom WordPress
Project Overview: On this project, the client was excited to implement a mobile responsive custom WordPress theme using parallax scrolling. Their primary objective was to build a site with a professional, informative, simplistic approach. They wanted to use Parallax...
by Dave McKillen | Sep 12, 2015 | Gadgets 'n Gifts
There seem to be several overly complicated solutions out there on how to use CrashPlan to backup an external drive over WIFI. So I thought I’d post a quick note on how I did it. I am using a small external RAID 1 server to backup my desktop data but wanted a...
by Dave McKillen | Sep 6, 2015 | Case Studies, RNS and Escapia API programming
An affordable Escapia/WordPress solution for your website. We have developed a solution that will allow you to connect your Escapia based properties to your current WordPress website. In fact if your website is built on ANY PHP platform, we can most likely help you...
by Dave McKillen | Aug 17, 2015 | Case Studies, WordPress plugin
Project Summary: The client requested that we build a WordPress plugin that would allow automated nightly deletion of unwanted real estate images within several different image repositories. Essentially an existing system would check for the existence of duplicate...
