Archive for the ‘Cool’ Category

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 ...

1000 fans

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Mike Cane 2008 provided the following interesting link: A creator, such as an artist, musician, photographer, craftsperson, performer, animator, designer, videomaker, or author - in other words, anyone producing works of art - needs to acquire only 1,000 True Fans to make a living. Assume conservatively that your True Fans will each ...

nerdz

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

PeeJ noted this link to The Nerd Handbook: Really it's a couple of pages describing how to meaninfully interact with a nerd who is painted for the most part as being a borderline Autistic with directional (and somewhat immutable) focus. ...control issues mean your nerd is sensitive to drastic changes in his ...

SkyHook: WiFi geo-location

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

I got this link initially from MacRumors A new knowledgebase page from Apple: If you are using Wi-Fi on iPhone or iPod touch and you experience unexpected results when tapping the Location button in Maps, you can refer the respective wireless router administrator to the following URL to update information that Skyhook ...