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How to create your own Roku Channel–Part2: Icons and Images

First off, there are really 3 sets of images: Images distributed with your application in its package Images posted in the Roku Channel Store when uploading the package Category and item images referenced by the xml files and stored on your web server Here is the somewhat ambiguous description from the Artwork guide included in [...]

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How to create you own Roku Channel

I recently got a Roku box, and while there is an impressive list of available channels, I wanted to create my own.  I searched around for a way to do this on the net, but there really is very little in the way of a good how-to for windows.  I found THIS link but its [...]

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National Bill of Rights Today!

Let us all observe a moment of silence for all those liberties who have bravely died while trying to provide for Citizens of the United States of America.  This serves as a time where we can reflect on the hideous behemoth our Federal Government has become at the expense of individual liberty and freedom.  It [...]

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iPhone 4S Battery life

My Runtime = 157.69 HOURS or 6.57 DAYS Ok, so I wanted to see how long my iPhone 4S would operate with minimal usage, for backcountry use with my offline Topographic Mapping application.  I made the following setting changes: Turned off Wi-Fi, Cellular Data (3G etc) and Bluetooth Decreased screen brightness to about 30% Turned [...]

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