Apple – About Things | A Hans Scharler Blog https://nothans.com Life, Comedy, Games, Tech, Marketing, and Community Fri, 16 Sep 2022 13:04:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/nothans.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-settings.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Apple – About Things | A Hans Scharler Blog https://nothans.com 32 32 114568856 Thank You, Steve Jobs https://nothans.com/thank-you-steve-jobs https://nothans.com/thank-you-steve-jobs#respond Thu, 06 Oct 2011 03:49:00 +0000 http://nothans.com/thank-you-steve-jobs My parents saved up Campbell’s Soup labels and gave them to my school. For whatever rationale, the school would get computers from Apple based on the number of soup labels collected. We got a lab of Apple II’s, then came along the IIe, IIgs, and finally the Macintosh. I spent most of my early time on the Apple IIe learning how to program. This was a very significant time for me and planted the seeds for my future career in software and tech. I was inspired to create and can’t think of an existence without his influence.

While we collectively mourn the loss of a great one, I wanted to say, “Thank you, Steve Jobs.”

“…the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. Think Different.”

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]]> https://nothans.com/thank-you-steve-jobs/feed 0 670 Send Push Updates using Prowl and ThingHTTP https://nothans.com/thingspeak-tutorials/prowl/send-push-updates-using-prowl-and-thinghttp https://nothans.com/thingspeak-tutorials/prowl/send-push-updates-using-prowl-and-thinghttp#comments Fri, 25 Feb 2011 03:34:15 +0000 http://community.thingspeak.com/ Prowl is the perfect service for real-time PUSH messaging to many mobile devices and apps. You can now interface with Prowl from a microcontroller by sending a simple API call to the ThingHTTP App from ThingSpeak. ThingHTTP will securely relay the request to Prowl over SSL.

Prowl requires the purchase of an app for iOS devices such as the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.

Setup Prowl

  • Register for an account at Prowl.com
  • Login and click the API Keys tab
  • Generate an API Key with the note “ThingSpeak”‘
  • Download and install the Prowl App from the App Store
  • Sign into the Prowl App

Setup ThingHTTP Request

  • Sign into ThingSpeak
  • Click Apps
  • Select  ThingHTTP
  • Click Create New Request
  • Enter a Name for your new request: Prowl
  • Enter the Prowl API URL: https://api.prowlapp.com/publicapi/add
  • Select POST method
  • Enter Content Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
  • Under Body, enter the required parameters of apikey, application, and event: apikey={Prowl API Key}&application=ThingHTTP&event=%%message%%
  • Click Save ThingHTTP

Send Request to ThingHTTP

POST /apps/thinghttp/send_request HTTP/1.1
Host: api.thingspeak.com
Connection: close
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: (number of characters in message)
api_key=(thinghttp_api_key)&message=message_to_send
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