Small Town Geeks

A quick guide outlining how to create an icon for your App Inventor App. Head over to “http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/” Log-in if you haven’t already done so. You may have to select my projects from the top left menu. Now you should see a list of your projects. For this example select the “Hello Purr” app. Look [...]

This guide will assume that you are fairly comfortable with the Eclipse IDE and that you have zero experience with subversion, bit-bucket or mercurial. Enjoy. 1. Head on over to http://bit-bucket.org and click on the giant yellow “Sign up free” button. 2. Fill out the sign up form. 3. At the top of the Bit [...]

There has been many times that I would like to use a certain color on a website for a project that I am working on. My normal workflow was to take a screenshot of a sample of the website or picture and bring it into photoshop. I would than use the “Color Sampler Tool” to [...]

Has your Mac been slowing down recently? Do you have a load of programs launching when you boot your machine? Are you running out of space and you don’t know where it all went? These are all common problems for Mac as well as PC users. Today we are going to take a look at [...]

Getting started with the app inventor is pretty straight forward.  But if you lose your way follow the steps below to get started.