Controlling the Nordic Season Smart Lights

Here are the control messages for the Nordic Season Smart Lights. Details about the lights can be found here (in Norwegian): Smart Light. The light must be connected to your WIFI […]

An Ongoing Painting

I’ve been working on the app ‘An Ongoing Painting’ for over a year now. This is a project were we are enabling artist PhilG to display his over 60ft long […]

Unable to read message in XBox App or on Xbox.com?

Since update 11.12.9011.00000 of the Xbox App I have not been able to receive or send messages. The app just crashes when I go to messages. When trying to receive or […]

Samsung ATIV S GT-i8750 Windows Phone 8.1 Update finally arrived

Today the Windows Phone 8.1 update finally arrived for my Samsung Ativ S GT-i8750. It was first updated to Windows Phone version 8.0.10532.166, then Windows Phone version 8.10.14157.200 was downloaded […]

Time-lapse from Kanadaskogen, Bergen, Hordaland, Norway

Did a quick time-lapse with my Canon Powershot and CHDK this morning.

LightFlash for Windows Phone 8

My latest app is now available in the Windows Phone Store. Read more about it at http://www.xandven.com/apps

XBOX 360 Spring update

The XBox 360 System update is now being rolled out gradually to all XBox Live users. The update will happen in the next couple of weeks according to Major Nelson. […]

Peggle Nights 750K Challenge in one shot

As Peggle Nights was on sale over Easter I decided to pick it up on XBox Live marketplace. It was cool to get some more challenges to work on as […]

Checking out and editing files during build using TeamCity and TFS 2010

If you are using TeamCity with MSBuild definition files you might be up for a challenge if you want to check out and check-in files during build. At first this […]