Archive for the ‘Cool’ Category

The Alchemist

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

From the BBCPaulo Coelho's best-selling novel The Alchemist is to be brought to the big screen, it has been announced. Producer Harvey Weinstein confirmed at the Cannes Film Festival that The Matrix star Laurence Fishburne would star in, direct and produce the film. The Weinstein Company will also co-produce the adaptation. Coelho's 1988 ...

Bits and pieces…

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Alexia writes: "So, Flickr extends it’s programme to give Pro accounts away to charities. Forgive me for being a cynic, how are charities really going to benefit from unlimited Flickr space? I’m fairly cynical about charities at the best of times, but the idea seems a bit hollow." Geez, Alexia, cut them ...

Jordan on C.I.M.G.

Monday, April 21st, 2008

The blog "Cocoa Is My Girlfriend" includes a shout-out to Jordan Languille who did the graphics for Rickshaw and web imagery for Infurious recently. "You can see Jordan’s portfolio at his site. I’m quite pleased with the results and highly recommend his work. This is not a paid endorsement. I just ...

Twinkle: a location-aware Twitter client.

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Twinkle is the first iPhone product I'm looking forward to. Though it's Twitter-based and could be opened to being a blogging client, it has the essentials - support for the camera support for conversations support for locations! Looking forward to June!

Wii Karting…

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

I spent a couple of hours last night playing Mario Kart Wii against a few friends - one in Mallusk and two in London. I've written it up here on Lategaming. It's a good game. You should try it.

Lunch

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Considerably better than the school canteen out at $BIG_COMPANY is pretty much everything else. Even McDonalds (because they at least give you WiFi). Today I had lunch at Kainan Cafe, at the end of Royal Avenue. They have a blog as well which impresses me no end. What you can see there ...

Who wouldn’t want to get started in movies?

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Look at this. "...four guys, a car full of props and gear, and a boatload of post-production time, can recreate the Normandy Invasion of WWII. All it takes is a lot of creativity, patience, and running. Lots of running, climbing, and, well, falling down. Mike Cane on modern film-making: "I bring up ...

Streaming Video: who pays the cost?

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

From the BBC: "A row about who should pay for extra network costs incurred by the iPlayer has broken out between internet service providers (ISPs) and the BBC. ISPs say the on-demand TV service is putting strain on their networks, which need to be upgraded to cope." So, Mr Whiny ISP guy, ...

Run Windows games under Mac OS X

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Codeweavers writes: " Today we shipped CrossOver Games. I am very excited by this change; I have enjoyed computer games all of my life, and I like the idea that we can help others enjoy their new computers fully." Oh noes! I need more free time!

Dicing with the iPhone

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

In an odd combination of non-day-job-work and play, I found this: "I started working with the audio toolbox on the iPhone today. This morning, I added sounds to the little dice rolling application I've been writing. I recorded a total of fifteen sounds, five of a single die being rolled, five ...