I’ve been using colloquy on my Mac and iPhone for a while now but the simple fact is getting constantly disconnected because of calls, following links, or what-have-you really gets old (and annoys everyone else in the channel). When i saw that the new iPhone app supported push notifications i was excited but a little hesitant – after all i don’t exactly want to route the entirety of my IRC traffic through someone else’s server. Thankfully the guys have been working on a rather interesting approach to push notifications – you host the server yourself. With an upgrade to the colloquy client i run on my Mac at home i can how log in to one persistent connection while on the road. Pretty handy if you ask me.
Archive for August, 2009
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Just a couple of projects that have caught my eye over the past few weeks with a common theme – super-sizing toys from our childhood. The first project is Jeri Ellsworth’s 52″ net-controlled Etch-A-Sketch. It was built from an HD TV and is controllable via an IRC bot.
More recently the NYC Resistor hackers have been working on an 8′ Lite Brite. It’s not net-enabled, but that’d take the fun out of it.
Any other super-sized toys i’ve missed? Wonder what’ll be next.