July 2007
24 posts
It amazes me how little you can say in so many...
Continuing Hannspree’s unique lifestyle selections, the company brings you the best of both elegance and simplicity. The XV Series design is remarkable; the range of functions and user-friendly interface brings digital technology into your home, becoming part of your life. XV Series is not only a bold statement of style, it is a dynamic device painstakingly designed to exceed the...
Cursorcerer - Hide Your Cursor at Will →
(Via the Rogue Amoeba blog. By the way, you stole my freakin’ app idea with Airfoil 3! :( Okay, it was a pretty obvious extension, but still…)
On my C distaste
I don’t remember where I read it, but I just recalled a quote I read a long time ago. It went something like:
Say you need a status report from a fellow object. In message passing languages (all scripting languages, smalltalk, objc…), you might ask for this report from that object, equivalent to maybe making a call to it, or sending it an email. The C++ equivalent, however, would be...
Periodic Table of the Internet →
(Via Anarchaia
15 Unfortunately Placed Ads →
(via Anarchaia)
Polyphasism, Try 2, Day 11
Not a single crash, rarely miss a nap by more than five minutes, and this time I haven’t been as tired as last time (read: haven’t been tired enough to cry from exhaustion), although the morning hours after the core sleep is mostly waiting for the next nap, trying to keep my eyes open.
However, I am constantly tired, which sort of defeats the point of this polyphasism. I’ll...
The Lone Coda Disliker
Am I the only one who don’t like Coda?
I just realized why I don’t like it, too: It’s a Windows application.
You’re cornered into a single window, preferably in fullscreen, navigating your data not by wonderfully spatial windows, but by small, almost identical small evil creatures called ‘tabs’.
And instead of presenting data in separate windows,...
Implementing Silverlight in 21 Days - Miguel de... →
Post mortem of the initial for Moonlight, a Silverlight clone in Mono. From nothing to complete API compatibility in twenty (20!) days!
“You would have to fly on a commercial aircraft every day for 18,000 years before...”
– From Natalie Angier book The Canon, via The Observer (haven’t actually read the book myself)
iPhone serial hacked, full interactive shell →
We have interactive shell. I repeat, we have interactive shell. Via iPhone Dev wiki via Apple TV Hacks.
Triumphant
I just had the most amazing dream, all set to Röyksopp’s Triumphant. I don’t remember the dream at all, though, but I certainly remember the music.
Röyksopp - Triumphant
In a perfect world, ‘lowest common denominator with regards to feature set and quality’ and ‘market leader’ are mutually exclusive.
I hate you, Internet Explorer!
“This phone flies in the face of all those who think that 1.0 products must be...”
– David Weiss: The 1.0 that wasn’t