James Howard: The Official Web Page

Projects
• Excition, Inc.
A graduation announcement business that I run with two of my friends.

• Place Lab at Intel Research Seattle.
A research project to develop a location toolkit for mobile phones, laptops, and pdas as well as a collection of demo and research applications using the toolkit.

Software

• Cool Stuff
  • MacLive: view your Xbox Live friends list on your mac.
  • DreamCatcher: an application to spell check web sites.
  • WiFiLocate: a demo app that requires zero configuration and offers localization using wifi integrated with google maps
  • Mpire Plugin: an extension for Firefox and IE 7 that tells you if the item you're about to buy is a good deal
  • CallMap (coming soon): an application for Windows Mobile phones to send your location to people you call and to see the location on a map of people who call you. The idea is to spend more time with friends and less time giving directions.
• Less cool stuff, but still potentially useful
  • Recorder: a simple application to record audio for Mac OS X.
  • Sortosaurus: a small command line utility to sort bookmarks for the Safari web browser.
  • DirectSync: a (now discontinued) application for synchronizing Macintosh computers.
  • Floaters: enables window pinning (option click green window widget) and full screen maximization (shift click green window widget) on Mac OS X. Requires Unsanity APE.
  • SSHAction: a perl script that bans brute force ssh attackers using ipfw. Growl integration alerts you when users connect via ssh. A startup item for SSHAction is available here.
  • Wheel: a small utility to calculate spoke lengths for building bicycle wheels.
  • QTSuperImageSequencer: command line qtjava utility to make quicktime movies out of a series of still images.

Photo Galleries
• San Juan Islands.

• False Cycle Oregon.

• Yosemite.

• New York.