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Share your iOS Device camera on your local network as a webcam viewable on other iOS devices or on your mac. Great for pulling off pranks or checking on who is raiding the cookie jar. Could even be used to keep an eye on your baby in another room.

Current weather at Mt. Baker. Data is retrieved from the Northwest Avalanche Center snotel. Data is updated hourly and taken from 4200'. The application provides graphs for time periods of the last 24hrs and last 10 days.

Current weather in Bellingham Bay. Good wind data for sailors and boaters. Data is gathered from the roof of Bellingham Cold Storage. There is also a webcam looking out over the bay. This app is in need of updating and I hope to get to it this year.

Encode text and symbols to their correct html entity representation. Decode html entities into their plain text representation. Encode large body's of text in preparation for pasting into HTML documents. Encode HTML for web tutorials. This app also implements a number of services so that you can convert text on the fly in other applications. Support for Lion full screen. Convert new lines to BR tags for quick web conversion of text. Works with all HTML entity tags.

Utility for generating hex color value for KML files. If you have built custom KML files before you know that the values are different than used in css/html files and it can be a pain to convert the R,G,B and alpha values to hex by hand. This KML color picker does all the work for you and gives you a nice preview of how the color will look on a map.

Great loan calculator that has been available for years on the Mac. It is helpful in calculating payments on home mortgages, auto loans, student loans, and more. Version 2 added an updated interface and the ability to export and print calculations.

Easy to use loan calculator with built-in amortization table for iPhone. This was my first iOS project years ago and was recently merged with the desktop version of Loan Calculator. It has a new interface and icon.

Live results for the Mountains to Sound Relay Race. Keep up with your teams place while waiting for your event. Excellent tool to support an ironman in the event. Currently this app only supports iPhone and iPod touch natively. Hopefully for this years upcoming race I can add an iPad interface.

Application provides text and spatial search for Seattle building permit data. Search by address, name, permit number. Change to map view and zoom on a neighborhood to see the active building permits.

Elegant Mac interface to the goo.gl url shortner service. You can view analytics, shorten URL's, and shorten and replace URL's in any OS X app that supports services by right clicking the URL. This is the best URL Shortner for the Mac and an awesome desktop experience for the Google URL Shortner service.

The most intuitive digital flash card app. Works exactly like you would expect a stack of flash cards to work. Ability to create numerous stacks of notecards, shuffle, edit, and blur the content to test your knowledge.

App for the annual Ski to Sea Race in Whatcom County(Northwest Washington). Access live results from each leg on your favorite Apple device. Results are available for teams and individuals. Save your favorite teams to quickly keep up with them during the race.

Utility to create stunning time lapse movies from any webcam connected to your computer or webcam that serves up static images (jpeg,tiff,gif,png). Simply put in the url to a webcam image or select a local webcam. Select the rate to download images, set the frames per second on the output, and click record. After a couple of hours you will have a time lapse of the webcam.